Curriculum Vitae

Jouko Arvonen

 

 

Personal details

Jouko Arvonen, DoB 12 August 1954

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Qualifications            

  • 1983, Bachelor of Science degree
    1983, Doctoral studies in Psychology
    2002, Public defence of thesis in Psychology, PhD
     

 

Experience

  • Sandvik AB
  • Project at Sandvik AB aimed at mapping and analysing profiles for production staff in the factory
  • Substitute Personnel Officer at Sandvik AB
  • Research Assistant at FA Council
  • 1982 -1986                 Consultant at MGruppen
  • 1987 -1988                 Independent consultancy activities in Sweden, Norway and Finland within management development and company transformation
  • Appointed as Project Manager at Department of Psychology,  Stockholm University. Substitute Lecturer at department. Course and Section Director for Personnel and Psychology Courses
  • CEO of Arvonen International AB, consultant in management and organisational development, company owner
  • CEO of Ekvall & Arvonen Ledarutveckling AB, own the company jointly with Professor Göran Ekvall
  • Chair of the Board of Arvonen Finland OY / AB
  • 2005. Establishing the Faraxgroup companies in Sweden and Finland. Chair of the Bard in both companies
  • Introducing The Farax Methods in Sweden based on The CPE Model
  • Consultancy activities within management development and training activities in order to authorise in-house and external consultants in management mapping using the 360 degree method.
  • Establishing a franchising network of external consultants who utilise the Farax method in management consultancy, The network includes abut 150 authorised consultants mainly in Sweden and Finland but even in other countries
  • 1997. Assignment in South Africa by SIPU and SIDA, Working for a large number of managers in the public sector by applying the Farax method.
  • Large scale Farax 360 degree program at Botkyrka  local communality and at Bilprovning. Development and implementing the management training programs based on Farax Method
  • Starting the in-house consultant training programs in public and private companies. Authorisation of internal consultants in Farax method
  • Assignment in Thailand. Lecturing for Thai managers at a conference, and training Thai managers at a private owned company
  • Development of a personality inventory based on the big five theory with modifications for leaderships application
  • Providing AstraZeneca a assessment toll based on the company leaderships strategy, a tailored tool
  • Assignment for Sandvik company to developed a specig 360 assessment tool based on the company's own leadership strategy.
  • Assignment for Stockholm's Town Authority to develop a specific 360 assessment tool based on the town's leadership policy

Examples of projects:

  • Management support/mentor for senior managers, support to Management Teams
  • Organisational analyses with implementation of activities (qualitative interviews and/or employee surveys)
  • Extensive management development programmes with elements of operational development
  • Analysis of company HR processes and establishment of action plans
  • Analysis of, and measures taken, in working groups with serious problems
  • Management Team development
  • Team building and "welding together' of working groups
  • Strategic support to organisations regarding management and organisational development
  • Evaluation of HR inputs

Business areas

  • Media, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, Government enterprises, Process industry, NGOs, Government agencies, Municipalities, Research

Elected positions       

  • 1998-1999. Board member of Centre for Human Resources and Development for Östra Svealand

Teaching, lecturing.

  • Lecturer in management, organisational issues and strategic human resources activities at Stockholm University for a ten year period. Lecturer at other universities in MBA courses, among others. Supervisor for students writing B.Sc. dissertations