Mette focuses on C-level executive search as well as top-of-the-house advisory services - comprising leadership assessment, team composition and effectiveness. Further, Mette is highly experienced within NED recruiting and succession planning. She has a spike in Board Advisory and Board Evaluation, where she works across industries. Clients include both privately held, publicly listed and PE-backed businesses.

Mette has spent nearly two decades working as a trusted leadership advisor. Prior to joining Korn Ferry, she spent more than a decade working with another global executive search firm, where she led the Financial Services Practice in the Nordics and held the Managing Partner role for the Copenhagen office for a number of years. 

For the first chapter of her career, Mette worked in management consulting for a Nordic strategy consultancy across corporate strategy, M&A, business transformation, organisational design and corporate social responsibility. This included extensive international experience and stationing in both US and EMEA. 

Mette holds a MSc in Economics & Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and she was a visiting scholar at NYU Stern School of Business and McGill University in Montreal. After completing her studies, Mette has been a frequent external lecturer in Corporate Finance at CBS, where she is currently also part of faculty for the CBS Executive programme teaching modules on Board Evaluation and CEO Succession.

Mette is fluent in Danish and English and speaks basic French.