EY and FRONT Leadership:

- Taking the leadership development offering to new heights

EY is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with FRONT Leadership, a recognized provider of leadership development services.

- With this, we strengthen the leadership development offer to our customers," says Finn Holm, Partner in Workforce Advisory, EY Norway and responsible for the strategic collaboration.

- "We see that leadership development is becoming increasingly important in order to complement and strengthen our offering to our customers. Over the winter, we explored the possibility of entering into closer collaboration with players in this market, which is how we became aware of FRONT Leadership," Holm adds.

The partnership brings together EY's extensive expertise in organizational and change management with FRONT Leadership's proven approach and experience in developing great leaders. The goal is to create unique and tailored offerings that provide organizations and their leaders with the necessary support and tools to thrive and succeed.

- "We're really looking forward to this collaboration! It will be exciting to combine our experience-based approach to leadership development with EY's holistic methods across industries. EY also has a solid knowledge base," says Mats Kristensen, CEO of FRONT Leadership.

- When FRONT and EY's strengths are combined, we provide solid support to organizations that need to develop authentic and effective leaders to meet the demands of tomorrow," Kristensen continues.

Through the partnership, EY and FRONT Leadership will offer holistic leadership development programs to clients, ranging from individual coaching and strategic consulting to larger leadership and management team development programs. This will give organizations in all sectors even better opportunities to develop key competencies such as leadership, communication, change management and team development, which in turn will help our clients to create even better results.

- "The collaboration with EY gives us access to resources, tools and methods that will deliver increased value to our joint customers. The collaboration also opens up for more and more customized solutions to a larger market both nationally and internationally," says Kristensen.

- "We consider Front Leadership to be a very good partner. They have both strong professionals and references in leadership development, and in addition, we share common values and desires for how we want to add value to our customers. That's why we're excited to enter into this partnership," says Holm.

For further information, please contact us:

Andreas R. K. Jacobsen, Press Advisor, EY Norway E-mail: andreas.r.k.jacobsen@no.ey.com

Telephone: 473 49 518

Sandra Blichner, Marketing Manager, FRONT Leadership AS E-mail: sandra@frontleadership.com

Telephone: 986 78 773