About Heart Management

A world free from unhealthy workplace culture

A book launch event for 'You Can Culture' with Tobias Sturesson and Andreas Almlöf in front of an audience.

Heart Management is a boutique culture agency, founded in Sweden in 2017 and serving organisations around the world. We are driven by a vision of a world free from unhealthy workplace culture.

Our mission is to help organisations uncover the root causes that undermine cultural health and to build leadership habits that strengthen trust, reduce risk, and deliver lasting results. A mission that has taken us across continents and to thousands of leaders, HR and Ethics & Compliance professionals.

Our work focuses on large multinational corporations in high-stakes industries, as well as governmental agencies and international NGOs—organisations where cultural health is mission-critical and where decisions impact people on a significant scale.

We pursue sustainable change through impactful, evidence-based methodologies that have been proven with leaders across sectors and industries.

“At Heart Management, we are deeply passionate about cultivating ethical and thriving cultures. It is the work we have dedicated our professional lives to, shaped by our own experiences with the impact of destructive ones.”

— Tobias Sturesson, Co-founder of Heart Management

  • We are passionate advocates for cultural health and refuse quick fixes or band-aid solutions. Our commitment is to deliver work that drives meaningful and sustainable change. We’ve studied for years what causes culture change to fail—and what creates lasting success.

  • Since our founding, we have been laser-focused on corporate culture, giving us a unique depth of knowledge in the field.

  • We build trust with stakeholders by leading with vulnerability and a non-threatening approach, openly sharing our own ethical and leadership challenges and failures.

  • Over many years, we have explored the leadership habits and behaviours that foster thriving and ethical cultures — through extensive research and in-depth conversations with leading experts on the Leading Transformational Change podcast — work that culminated in the book You Can Culture.

  • We believe the best insights emerge when internal and external perspectives meet through deep collaboration — recognising that you know your unique context best, while we bring the value of an outsider’s challenge. We strive to be quick to admit our mistakes and take ownership.

  • We strongly believe in equipping your internal teams to sustain culture transformation, and we intentionally build capacity-building efforts into our client engagements. We are committed to ensuring our clients never become consultant-dependent.

  • Having been managers ourselves, we deeply understand and respect the challenges and pressures they face. This allows us to communicate effectively and translate theory into practical actions that leaders can use in their daily work.

  • Recognising that we don’t have all the answers, we regularly seek insights and collaborate with leading academics and experts.

Eight reasons clients partner with us

Meet the Team

  • Tobias Sturesson in a navy suit with glasses standing outside near a brick wall, arms crossed, with glass windows reflecting an outdoor scene.

    Tobias Sturesson

    FOUNDER & CONSULTANT

    Tobias is the co-founder of Heart Management and brings extensive experience in culture assessment, consulting, and training, having worked with a wide range of large organizations and hundreds of leaders on leadership, culture change, and ethics. He spent seven years researching and writing You Can Culture and is seen as an expert on culture, known for his passion for values-based leadership and with a background as the CEO of a strategic comms agency.

    E-mail: tobias@heartmanagement.org
    Phone/Whatsapp: +46 70-190 08 07
    Connect on LinkedIn

  • Andreas Almlöf with short light brown hair, wearing a dark suit jacket and white shirt, standing against a plain light background.

    Andreas Almlöf

    CONSULTANT

    Andreas brings 20 years of experience in leadership, organisational development, and culture. He has successfully led organisational integration efforts across multiple countries and previously served as an executive at a fast-growing tech company. As a consultant at Heart Management, Andreas has led in-depth culture assessments and change processes for corporations and government agencies.

    E-mail: andreas@heartmanagement.org
    Phone/Whatsapp: +46 70-246 63 69‬
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  • Caterina Bulgarella, PhD

    BEHAVIORAL EXPERT & SOCIAL SCIENTIST

    Caterina is a research consultant and behavioral expert with over 20 years of experience in culture assessment and transformation. She holds a PhD in organizational psychology from NYU and was part of the core research team at Ethical Systems, where she co-created the Two-Factor Model of Ethical Culture. Caterina has led large-scale culture assessments and transformation initiatives for multinational corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies.

  • Lena Sturesson with long, wavy, light brown hair smiling at camera, wearing a gray blouse, with a dark background.

    Lena Sturesson

    CO-FOUNDER

    With a master’s in business linguistics and extensive international management experience across business, academia, and NGOs, Lena developed a passion for creating healthy cultures where people can thrive. She co-founded Heart Management in 2017 with Tobias and now leads business strategy and finance. As a Ukrainian native, she is also deeply engaged in connecting European and Ukrainian governmental agencies and NGOs to support the rebuilding of Ukraine.

  • Research collaborators

    We collaborate with an extensive, international network of academics and experts in culture, ethics, and management to provide our clients with the most helpful insights and solutions.