Helena Nilsson Friberg

Sweden; Deputy CEO of the MiL Institute, former communications and human resource executive at Electrolux and IKEA Group

Helena Nilsson Friberg is an experienced People & Culture leader passionate about developing Business & People together. She always engages in the interdependencies of business development, culture and organisational transformation and works with a Gestalt and systemic approach at the core. After 19 years at IKEA she strives to always contribute to creating a better everyday life for the many people.

Helena is currently deputy CEO of MiL Institute. Before that she headed up HR, Communication and Continuous Improvement at Electrolux, BA Europe. Prior to this Helena was head of People & Culture at Inter IKEA Group which included being the strategy owner of the IKEA People Strategy; creating, strategizing and integrating of a continued strong people focus across IKEA.

She has a BSc in Business, Marketing and Management from Växjö University/Kansai Gaidai and a MSc in Gestalt in organisations from University of Derby/Gestalt Academy in Scandinavia.