6 May 02:30PM-10:00PM CESTKusthotellet Styrsö

Welcome to the Founders Workshop & and Dinner at Kusthotellet Styrsö, Gothenburg! 

Founders Alliance invites you to the Founders Workshop and Dinner on May 6, 2026, at Kusthotellet Styrsö, where you will join large-scale founders for valuable peer-to-peer exchange in a focused Growth Workshop.

The workshop will address key themes to support your growth journey and will be followed by networking in a relaxed and inspiring setting. This gathering is reserved exclusively for Founders Alliance members and VIP invited guests.

Welcome!

Founders Alliance

    Program (UTC +01:00)

    02:30 PM

    Arrival Styrsö & Registration

    You arrive at Styrsö Skäret by boat from Saltholmen, just a short and beautiful journey from Gothenburg.

    Once ashore, it’s a brief walk to the Kusthotellet Styrsö, then step straight into a relaxed coffee mingle - the first chance to meet everyone, reconnect with familiar faces, and ease into the afternoon and evening together.

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    Boat to Styrsö Skäret and Walk to Kusthotellet Styrsö
    03:00 PM

    Coffee Networking Mingle

    Upon arrival, you are welcomed to enjoy a relaxed coffee mingle as you meet peer founders, setting the tone for an inspiring day ahead.

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    03:30 PM

    You choose between Founders Growth Workshop or Founders Workshop: Conflict Debt with Viktor Nyblom

    Option 1 – Growth Workshop: Join the Growth Workshop to explore your challenges in a group of 6–8 founders. Collaborate, share strategies, and solve challenges together to accelerate your business growth.

    Option 2 – Founders Workshop: Conflict Debt with Viktor Nyblom: The conversations you’re not having are slowing down your company. Every conversation you avoid has a cost tied to it. For a founder, this “conflict debt” the cost is loss of execution speed. It creates a shadow organization where energy is wasted on guesswork, frustration, and hidden agendas instead of product and growth.

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    Founders Workshop: Conflict Debt with Viktor Nyblom

    Conflict Debt

    The conversations you’re not having are slowing down your company

    Every conversation you avoid has a cost tied to it. For a founder, this “conflict debt” the cost is loss of execution speed. It creates a shadow organization where energy is wasted on guesswork, frustration, and hidden agendas instead of product and growth.

    During the workshop, we will:

    • Quantify the debt: Perform an audit of your delayed conversations and put a price tag on your silence.
    • Uncover internal commitments: Identify the hidden logic that has prevented you from acting on what you know is right.
    • Find your Domino: Pinpoint the one conversation that, once had, makes every other problem easier or completely irrelevant.

    You won’t leave with “inspiration.” You will leave with a measurable diagnosis of your organization’s hidden debts, a weight off your shoulders, and a sharp 10-second script for the most important conversation that you’re not having.

    The future of your company is hidden in the things you aren’t saying.

    Bio

    Viktor Nyblom, executive coach and co-founder of Galant Leadarskap.

    Viktor is a Founders Alliance Member who brings a unique perspective on entrepreneurial purpose, resilience, and the power of meaningful conversations.

    His view on Founders Alliance:

    "Founders Alliance could be the antidote to this ‘lostness’ - what would need to be true about your participation for you to feel truly found? What should happen in those rooms to make that a reality?"

    🔗 LinkedIn

    Nyblom as a Service

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    Founders Growth Workshop

    Founders Growth Workshop

    A general workshop to introduce founders to each other and dive deep into key areas of company development. The focus will be on exchange between participants' challenges and opportunities to scale and sustain businesses.Each of you will receive input and share experiences of your growth, including your operative companies and other engagements (investments, impact, and ownership) with input from others.

    Agenda

    1. Short Intro and Welcome: The workshop facilitator will welcome participants and introduce the workshop, and act as the moderator to ensure a great exchange for all participants.

    2. Participant Introductions and Input: Each participant will have time to introduce themselves and explain their number one challenge or opportunity for which they seek input from other founders.

    3. General Exchange on Key Challenges: An exchange on the key challenges identified during the introductions.

    Examples of Areas Covered in Earlier Founders Growth Workshops:

    • How to lead distributed organisations including merged/acquired companies
    • How to scale internationally and the role of the founder
    • Other ownership and engagements, such as investments in other firms
    • The business of doing good: our broader impact engagements within or outside our commercial companies
    • New innovation and what keeps me happy with entrepreneurship as a means: personal balance, health.

    Thank you, and get ready for the networking and Founders Dinner

    A few days before the workshop, you will get further details on who participate.

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    05:30 PM

    Styrsö Walk & Talk, Sauna and Spa

    Stroll the enchanting paths of Styrsö, where purpose and connection intertwine. In small groups of 3–5 peers, founders will share stories, spark ideas, and explore the challenges and opportunities that shape their journeys.

    And as the day winds down, let the world slip away in a soothing spa, before stepping straight from the warmth of the sauna into the embrace of the sea - a moment of pure serenity to end an inspiring day.

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    Explore Styrsö & the Archipelago
    07:30 PM

    Founders Dinner

    3-course dinner with options for both alcohol-free and alcohol-based drinks. Matched seating with groups of 8 founders.

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    Kusthotellet Styrsö
    10:00 PM

    Boat from Styrsö Skäret to Saltholmen

    Book a ticket for a ferry ride from Styrsö Skäret to Saltholmen. 

    Check travel Schedule here.

    You can buy ticket On Board or at the Västtrafik To Go App

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    Boat from Kusthotellet Styrsö to Saltholmen

    Overview

    Founders Workshop & Dinner As part of the Founders Conference, we invite Founders Alliance Members and select VIP guests to join us for a dedicated workshop followed by dinner.

    Exclusive Afternoon Workshop & Dinner

    • For Invited Guest Founders: 3,500 SEK (320 €), inclusive of workshop, food and drinks
    • Discounted price of 3000 SEK for Founders Friend Members
    • ✅ Included for Founders Alliance Ambassador and Entry Members

    Venue: Kusthotellet Styrsö

      Founders Alliance at a Glance

      Founders Alliance was established in 2001 by Niclas Carlsson. Today Founders Alliance is a premium collaborative business forum for founders of large-scale corporations, owners of international growth companies and engaged in multiple social impact initiatives around the globe.

      Founders Alliance facilitates a platform for collaboration for founders (members) incl. Founders Groups, one-to-one introductions, closed online communities, international business trips and events (hybrid). 

      The Founders World Summit, which is the annual culmination delivered for the 12th time, September 23-24 2026 interlinked with the 25th Founders Awards Gala September 24, 2026 at Berns Hotel in Stockholm.

      Its membership comprises over 300 high performing founders owning over 3000 companies in all parts of the world stretching across all industries and areas of expertise. 

      The core of Founders Alliance is independent from state funding, financial actors, advisory firms and academic institutions.

      Want to become a Member? Apply here!