{"id":39247,"date":"2026-01-19T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/?post_type=consultant&#038;p=39247"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:30:43","slug":"johan-larsson","status":"publish","type":"consultant","link":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/consultant\/johan-larsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Larsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block-consultant-detail alignfull \">\n    <div class=\"consultant-hero\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n                            <div class=\"img\"\n                     style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Larsson_Johan-_web-970x700.jpg);\"><\/div>\n                        <section class=\"copy\">\n                <h1>Johan Larsson<\/h1>\n\n                                    <p class=\"title\">Partner<\/p>\n                                <ul class=\"offices\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/office\/tokyo\/\">Tokyo<\/a><\/li><\/ul>                                    <p>Johan is a Partner in the Industrial Practice Group and is based in the firm\u2019s Tokyo office. He leads executive search engagements across the automotive, energy, and manufacturing sectors, supporting clients throughout Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n                            <\/section>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"wrapper\">\n        <section class=\"contact\">\n            <h2>Johan Larsson<\/h2>\n\n                            <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:jlarsson@dhrglobal.com\">jlarsson@dhrglobal.com<\/a>\n            \n                            <a class=\"tel\" href=\"tel:+ 81 3 4563 7500\">+ 81 3 4563 7500<\/a>\n            \n                            <div class=\"social\">\n                    <p>Let&#8217;s Connect<\/p>\n\n                                            <a class=\"icon-linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jdlarsson\/\"><span\n                                    class=\"screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a>\n                    \n                    \n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n        <section class=\"main\">\n            <div class=\"copy\">\n                <h2>Experience<\/h2>\n                <p>Johan brings more than 13 years of experience in executive search, combined with hands-on operational leadership gained through founding and leading a technology startup. His background spans retained executive search, product development, fundraising, and scaling operations, giving him a practical understanding of the leadership demands that industrial organizations face while operating in complex, global environments.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining DHR, Johan was Vice President at a retained executive search firm, where he advised organizations on leadership hiring across highly specialized industrial markets. Earlier in his career, he helped build and lead an automotive-focused retirement practice within a global recruitment organization, developing one of the firm\u2019s top-performing teams worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Johan\u2019s experience working directly within industrial and technology-driven businesses, combined with his technical fluency across software, hardware, and mechanical engineering disciplines, enables him to execute complex searches for C-suite, general management, and senior functional leaders in operations, engineering, and commercial roles.<\/p>\n<p>Fluent in Japanese, English, and Swedish, Johan brings deep cultural and market insights to his work.\u00a0 He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in international management from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <aside>\n                                <h2>Expertise<\/h2>\n                <ul>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/industrial\/\">Industrial<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/industrial\/automotive-mobility\/\">Automotive and Future Mobility<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/industrial\/energy\/\">Energy &#038; Renewables<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/capability\/executive-search\/\">Executive Search<\/a><\/li>\n                                                <\/aside>\n        <\/section>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":39351,"template":"","consultant_title":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant\/39247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/consultant"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant\/39247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39419,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant\/39247\/revisions\/39419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"consultant_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant_title?post=39247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}