Jaakko Lintunen

Jaakko Lintunen (KTM and Certified Executive Coach) has had a more than 20-year career as a business leader. He has worked e.g. as a commercial manager and CEO in various industries (e.g. marketing communications, media, health). Jaako has had time to accumulate management team experience and board work.   

Jaakko spent the first ten years of his career in marketing communication agencies, becoming the CEO of Finland's second largest media agency at the age of less than 35. At that time, the company was the fastest growing and very profitable.   

Since then, Jaakko managed the commercial operations of several major media companies. The industry's digital revolution in a difficult market situation was his central management challenge in those days. Jaakko also worked at the managing director's Mediatalo ESA.   

Jaakko gained extensive experience in the health sector when he managed Terveystalo's business in Pirkanmaa. In addition to 250 doctors, 150 employees worked in the seven units, which also included a hospital unit.      

Putting changes into practice so that the company's strategy is realized in daily management and customer meetings is crucial to the success of companies, and these have become the objects of Jaako's passion and his areas of strength. Changes are a business leader's everyday life - who would manage a company to keep it in place. The successful implementation of changes is also one of the biggest challenges for company managers and is so important that in order to cope with everyday management at the same time, it is worth using external help in managing changes. If people are not involved and thus brought along in the journey of change, the change will not go well in practical everyday life. In this case, time and money are consumed excessively and the results have to be waited for a long time. When the change is carefully planned and people are taken as early as possible to consider the meaning of the change in terms of their own work, the conditions for success grow exponentially.   

Jaakko became inspired to become a consultant after training as a Business Coach and later as an Executive Coach for top management. Coaching is a powerful tool based on being solution-oriented and being a thinking partner for people. During the last five years, Jaako has had dozens of coachees and has accumulated hundreds of hours of experience in this field. The loneliness of a leader is a situation Jaako is familiar with, so it has been very rewarding for him to be able to help many leaders clarify their thoughts.   

Jaakko is happy to help as a senior management coach in strategy work, as a developer of management team work, as a developer of front-line work and as a sales coach. As a consultant, Jaakko has helped companies sell more and manage better.