Executive Safety & Leadership Coach (Freelance)
Location
Finland
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Executive Safety & Leadership Coach to support a major safety and workplace culture transformation programme within a large logistics and distribution environment.
This role is focused on coaching senior leaders, including Country CEOs, executive leadership teams, and senior operational management, helping them strengthen safety leadership, improve organisational culture, and drive sustainable behavioural change across their businesses.
Working closely with executive stakeholders, you will provide practical coaching, challenge existing behaviours and leadership approaches, and help leaders establish the conditions required for long-term improvements in safety performance, employee engagement, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Coach Country CEOs, executive leadership teams, and senior operational leaders on safety leadership and organisational culture.
- Support leaders in developing visible leadership behaviours that reinforce accountability, engagement, and operational discipline.
- Facilitate executive workshops, leadership discussions, and coaching sessions focused on safety culture and behavioural change.
- Help senior leaders identify behaviours and organisational factors that contribute to workplace incidents and operational risk.
- Provide guidance on embedding safety priorities into leadership routines, communication strategies, and decision-making processes.
- Support the development of a positive and proactive safety culture across operational environments.
- Challenge and influence leaders to drive meaningful behavioural change and sustainable performance improvement.
- Partner with operational leadership teams to strengthen workforce engagement and ownership of safety outcomes.
- Coach leaders through organisational transformation initiatives and culture-change programmes.
- Provide practical recommendations to improve leadership effectiveness, communication, and organisational alignment.
Experience & Background
- Significant experience coaching senior executives, leadership teams, or operational leaders.
- Strong background in Health, Safety & Environment (HSE), operational excellence, safety leadership, or organisational culture.
- Experience supporting behavioural safety, culture change, leadership development, or workplace transformation programmes.
- Exposure to logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, industrial, transportation, mining, energy, or other operational environments is highly desirable.
- Experience working within safety-critical environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at executive and board level.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, and communication skills.
Preferred Industry Experience
Experience in one or more of the following sectors:
- Logistics and parcel distribution
- Warehousing and supply chain operations
- Manufacturing
- Transportation
- Mining and metals
- Energy and utilities
- Heavy industry
Skills & Capabilities
- Executive coaching
- Leadership development
- Safety culture transformation
- Behavioural safety
- Organisational change
- Stakeholder engagement
- Risk awareness and operational safety
- Workforce engagement
- Facilitation and workshop delivery
- Influencing and communication
Languages
- Fluent Norwegian required.
- Additional Scandinavian languages are advantageous.
Assignment Details
- Freelance / independent consultant engagement.
- Part-time assignment.
- Initial programme expected to run from January through March.
- Potential for additional phases and wider deployment across the Nordic region.
- Travel to client locations will be required.
- Day rate dependent on experience.
Ideal Candidate
This position would suit a senior safety leader, HSE director, operational leader, executive coach, or independent consultant who has successfully coached leadership teams in complex operational environments and understands how to drive lasting behavioural and cultural change through leadership.