About Us
Committed to Diplomacy, Prosperity, and Development
Sovern Global is a private family holding company registered in Switzerland, with the vision of playing a part in rethinking and building the future through sustainable economic development.
Our Philosophy
Progress Is Engineered, Never Awaited
Sovern's beliefs, principles, and practices guide every solution we develop. Everyone here believes in progress, and in the idea that intelligence, reason, and science can improve companies, societies, and lives.
In their business classic In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. identified a values based management philosophy grounded in respect for the individual as one of the keys to long term success. That conclusion shaped how this company was set up and how it is run today.
We are young, and we are family owned. Both facts are useful. Young enough to build the structure we actually want, and family owned enough to think in decades rather than quarters.
Core Values
Three Values, Applied Every Day
Our foundation is built on values that distinguish us and guide what we do. We hold ourselves to competent, efficient service delivered with integrity.
Sustainability
If we are to leave a healthy planet behind, we have to be more sustainable in everything we do. We work with clients and partners on solutions that do more with fewer resources, and we care about our environment, our colleagues, our business partners, and the communities we operate in. Sustainability runs through all of our values rather than sitting beside them.
Responsibility
Accountability goes further than performance. Taking responsibility for what goes right and what goes wrong is how people and companies grow. Mistakes happen. What matters is how they are handled, and whether the person closest to the problem is supported in fixing it.
Innovability
This value pushes us to find better ways to serve our employees, clients, partners, and environment. We think as though there is no box, we commit to developing solutions for complex problems, and we are not afraid of calculated risk. It is how a young company earns the right to be trusted with larger work.
re:think
Every day we practise a culture we call re:think. It takes its name from the THINK motto Thomas J. Watson made famous at IBM, and its meaning from Edgar Schein of the MIT Sloan School of Management, who described culture as the set of largely unspoken assumptions a group shares about how the world is and how it ought to be. Those assumptions shape what people notice, what they feel, and what they do. We would rather examine ours than inherit them.
Our Strategy
The UN Sustainable Development Goals at the Heart of Our Corporate Strategy
Small and medium sized enterprises carry a large share of the global economy. Understanding their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals is essential, and shaping that contribution is the purpose of our four programs.
Our People
The Expertise Behind Every Decision We Make
Each member of the team brings the insight and market expertise needed for difficult problems, and our leaders ask the best of themselves and of their teams every day.
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