Jesper is an esteemed advisor, leader, and chairperson. At Idonea, he delivers keynote speeches, educational content, and is the project partner for our board services. Alongside Jim and Mikael, he follows a holistic approach for helping businesses to sustain competitiveness, growth, and development.

Jesper is a well-read, experienced, and curious leadership expert, with particular specialisation in helping boards become high-performing and truly value-adding pillars of organisational success and resilience. With his exceptional expertise in board work, he is member of the “Netværk for RESILIENT Selskabsledelse” and co-author of their “Corporate RESILIENCE Recommendations“.

He believes that one of the key ingredients to sustained competitiveness and success as a business is resilience. To accomplish that, he suggests that organisations have to focus on both, performing (in the present) and transforming (towards the future). He sees the role of boards in that process as absolutely crucial: Boards cannot only focus on compliance anymore (although it remains of course a crucial function of boards), but also have to attend to the organisation’s core, the right people, the strategy, and finally the execution.

Jesper Lok – Biography

Jesper Lok holds an MBA from Nova Southeastern University from 1995. Up to the present day, he has relentlessly continued to build a remarkable educational profile, adding courses and programmes revolving around everything from (crisis) management to leadership of people, growth, and change to high performing boards from renowned educational institutions such as Harvard, Columbia, and INSEAD.

From 1987 to 2004, Jesper has held a variety of leadership positions for Mærsk, including being manager at Maersk Line in Tokyo and Taiwan as well as country manager for Nigeria and Pakistan. Subsequently, he was CEO of the Maersk division Svitzer for eight years and CEO of DSB for almost three years.

From 2013 on, Jesper has started his journey of board work, which has by now turned into a quite unparalleled track record of board memberships and positions as chairperson. Some of the most notable organisations he’s chairing are Dagrofa, Vestergaard Company A/S, and UNICEF.

Jesper and Idonea

Jesper joined Idonea in February 2021, becoming Partner and Vice-Chair (now Chair) of the organization. The addition of his unparalleled expertise in board work enabled Idonea to expand the service offering to include boards, for a holistic approach on helping businesses transition from excelling in the present towards sustaining success in the future.

Additionally, Jesper is an indispensable lecturer at our educations, as well as he provides keynotes with a focus on organisational resilience (‘Perform & Transform’), value-adding boards, and leadership across continents, situations & levels. Meanwhile, he is working closely with Jim and Mikael to continue to develop our leadership approach.