Josephine Edwall Björklund

Council Director, Corporate Communications Strategy Council The Conference Board

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Josephine Edwall Björklund

Josephine Edwall Björklund

Council Director, Corporate Communications Strategy Council
The Conference Board

Joséphine Edwall Björklund, is a C-level executive and Senior Advisor with decades of experience from globally listed corporations such as Essity, SCA and Ericsson, as well as smaller entrepreneurial companies. She is a former Senior Advisor, Chief Communications Officer (CCO), and member of the Executive Management Team at Essity, and previously at the forest products company SCA.

Josephine is the founder of JEBcom. Senior Advisor and expert in Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Branding, Internal and External Communications, Sustainability, Public Affairs, and Global Partnerships.

Josephine has extensive experience in M&A, Capital Markets Days, company separations and IPOs, as well as in developing equity stories, driving reorganizations, and leading transformation initiatives.

Initiator of partnerships between Essity and organizations such as UNICEF in Mexico and the United Nations Foundation. She has also spent several years educating young girls and boys, for example in Mexico, on topics such as equality and hygiene.

Joséphine is a sought-after external speaker on the above mentioned topics with a strong drive to inspire and motivate to create value for business, people and society. She is the recipient of marketing and communications awards.

She is Senior Advisor and Founder of JEBcom AB, guided by the purpose: “Loosening Knots – Connecting Dots” and the mission:
“Creating value for people, businesses and society, enabling them to thrive by simplifying complexity.”

In addition, Joséphine currently serves as:

  • Senior Advisor to listed global companies and to The Global Child Forum, founded by Their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden
  • Director of the Corporate Communications Council at the global think tank The Conference Board (headquartered in Brussels and New York)
  • Board Member of the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation
  • Member of the British-Swedish Chamber of Commerce
  • Moderator and speaker with Speakers&Friends and Di Close