Guro A. Johnsen has worked with career- leadership- and organisation questions for most of her professional career. Her background is from the executive team of the Norwegian Olympic Committee/Olympiatoppe, later executive position in Adecco Norway, before she took a role at Adecco groups headquarters in Switzerland as global director. In this role, she established and ran a global project focusing on dual careers for elite athletes. She has a solid international cultural understanding and how to select and work with team members from different countries and cultures.

In 2007 she launched her first company, AG Johnsen, a “Recruitment and Human Capital Solution” company. Through this company, she becomes an expert on international recruitment, moving people from one country to another. In the last few years, Johnsen founded her second company, and has worked with a team of co-founders to establish a new platform, using all their experiences and competencies. This summer, they went public with SHESKILLZGLOBAL, owned by Johnsenskillz AG. A company with over 13 nationalities involved working from more than eight countries. Johnsen is from Stavanger but has lived in Switzerland for 18 years.