About earlier assignments

“High delivery, extremely good execution and enriching co-operation. With these words I’d like to describe Joakim as a project manager when he has driven our demanding, Swedish-Finnish project. Without his commitment and competencies I would be quite sure that a project like this won’t perhaps never ever happened, but great thanks to Joakim, the project has been executed in time and with excellent outcomes. I’d like to reformulate an old Finnish anecdote: ‘If you need an excellent project manager, hire Joakim Driving!’  I will do it again.”
Pekka Luukkanen, CEO, Nordea Life Finland 

“Joakim Driving has a fantastic ability to create structure out of chaos. I have worked with him on many occasions in my earlier roles. He builds trust everywhere and skillfully drives change efforts with high energy”
Johan Stakeberg, Head of Global Sales, Syncron

“Joakim and I worked close together in pulling out a new growth strategy for my company, Funkis Multimedia. The work has progressed really well, and the process together with Joakim has been most inspirational. Above all I have highly appreciated Joakims ability to suggest tailor made solutions, based on his deep knowledge and long experience.”
Jens Thorsen, CEO, Funkis Multimedia

”Our Core Values project was a very successful company wide effort that got all entities to work together in a common culture. It was driven with high professionalism and dedication. The project was a revitalization of the entire organisation and gave us increased strength in the market place”
Peter Gille, Country Consulting Director, Oracle, Sverige

“During the several years Joakim worked with me as a project leader in the Oracle EMEA M&A team, he successfully led the integrations in a large number of European countries and handled complex M&A-related projects that impacted across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a result, Joakim gained a great deal of knowledge and experience in leading change and integrating organisations, people and operational processes in fast-moving, complex acquisitions. He got things going, stayed on top of and saw projects and processes through to completion and was a real asset to me and our integration efforts”
Wayne Watters, VP Organisation Development, Oracle EMEA

” Joakim has with big enthusiasm and professionalism led the pilot to launch our new product on the market. A project with a large number of stake holders all through the value chain, from customers to IT. His ability to keep the cross functional team together and get everyone to pull in the same direction has created an excellent working environment. The learnings and conclusions we have come to under his leadership makes a great platform for the continued journey”
Niclas Fredrikson, Chef Affärsutveckling, Nordea Liv och Pension, Sverige

”Joakim is a very skilled facilitator with an ability to bring out the good bits from people in the room, enabling a dialogue that leads to conclusions we all agree on. He uses a multitude of methods and techniques which have made the management workshops both exciting and fun, with tangible results coming out that we are all backing and eager to move on with.”
Hans Olav Hamran, VP and Nordic Leader, Oracle