About us
The people behind the platform
A Close Shave works with internal communication, learning and knowledge sharing. We combine our platform, Academy, with advice, content and implementation — so knowledge isn’t just collected, but actually used day to day.
How we think
Knowledge has to be used
It isn’t about collecting as much as possible, but about making the right thing available at the moment it is needed.
Simple beats more
We prioritise what genuinely moves things forward, and cut what doesn’t.
Close collaboration
We build alongside you and stay with it until it works in practice — not just at launch.
Meet us
Who are we?
We are a small team of dedicated people with very different backgrounds. What we have in common is that at some point we have all stood on the floor at a company like yours — in a store, in a restaurant, in HR, in sales or in purchasing. When a new task comes in, we put the sharpest minds for the job together and work out the best solution as a team.
Mette Skovdal
Branch Manager, UK
Marie Anne Nørregaard
Branch Manager, DE
Write to one of us if you are curious about what they do. You can also always reach us collectively at dontpanic@acloseshave.com, and we will match you with the right person.
Why us
What we are like to
work with
We are a digital Swiss army knife
We are a small team with many skills — and an obvious fondness for sharp metaphors. We pull together, and we work closely with you.
We answer quickly
Our customers have busy days, and an answer that arrives next week is no help. We usually reply within an hour, and always within a day.
We are willing to try something new
We get things moving rather than waiting for the perfect proposal — and adjust once we can see how it works in practice.
We make the complex concrete
Strategy, running internal communication or measuring whether the learning gets used — we translate it into something you can act on.
More about Academy →Advisory board
Perspective and experience from outside
Our advisory board gives us perspectives from outside and helps challenge our direction, our solutions and our business. With different experience and different fields behind them, they help make sure A Close Shave keeps developing.
Uffe Tokehøj
Developing organisations through people, leadership & operational excellence
LinkedIn — Uffe Tokehøj →The story behind it
It started with a problem
A Close Shave was founded by Robin Andersen in 2003. At the time he worked as a buyer for more than 100 bookshops, and saw first-hand how hard it could be to share knowledge, information and experience across stores and staff.
So he built a solution that could bring it all together in one place. That was the beginning of A Close Shave — and of the approach to knowledge sharing, communication and learning we still build on today.
Find us here
A Danish agency based in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Nygade 4, 1.
1164 Copenhagen K
Denmark
London
167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor
W1W 5PF London
England
Berlin
Belziger str. 69/71
DE-10823 Berlin
Germany