Leadership Program

Effective leadership is critical for success in today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape.

Inspiring and motivating the people in the organization toward its strategic goals is challenging and requires ongoing development and training.

Objectives

The goal with our leadership program is to create value together with our companies. The program is designed to provide the skills and knowledge to lead a B2B SaaS company to success.

Lift talented leaders in our portfolio and develop the candidates for potential executive roles and board member roles

Create an arena to broaden their network, strengthen their confidence, build skills, and gain experience across roles and responsibilities, markets, and companies

Provide the candidates with a set of practical tools 
to leverage in their day-to-day work

The class of the Leadership Program 2025

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Leadership program in numbers

# of Leadership programs hosted

4

Participants completing the program

71

Average satisfaction (1 to 6)

5,4

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Diversity

We want to create an environment with different perspectives, backgrounds, areas of expertise, approaches, and ways of working. To create a diverse group, we ensure to have different key functions, core markets and gender balance.

Becoming a part of the Viking community gives you access to a network of skillful people, a place where peers meet to share valuable knowledge.

See our Community

"Since Viking had worked with similar companies, they understood the strategic challenges we were facing and whatever problem, idea or challenge, we always got valuable input. That kind of experience changes the quality of the conversations."

"Viking Growth came in with professionalism and a ton of experience in scaling similar companies like ours. We have been able to scale the team with Viking Growths investment, especially on sales & marketing, and in the US."

"The challenges of being a Norwegian company differed from those of becoming a European player. What was unique about Viking Growth was how they adapted alongside us. They evolved with our needs and remained part of the journey, which was impressive"

"Viking stands out through their unique combination of subject-matter strength, hands-on operational experience, and genuine human connection. They’re a partner who stands alongside you in the work and contributes where it truly matters."

"Viking are friendly, direct, transparent and competent and that creates the foundation for a very fruitful partnership. They have more experience than anyone else with building SAAS companies in the Nordics."

"Each functional area get sparring with other companies and with people in similar roles that try to achieve the same kind of growth. We all do different things, but with similar business models, and being part of that network is really valuable to us."