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Karin Otterbjörk

Karin Otterbjörk

Helping you achieve great results with people at the centre

Self-leadership is a fundamental success factor for achieving great results in any organisation. Whatever your role, you need to understand yourself and lead yourself in the contexts you work within. Well-developed self-leadership creates the conditions for a sustainable working life — and if you are a leader, strong self-leadership is also a prerequisite for leading others.

Karin Otterbjörk, Development consultant and author of the book Palla Trycket

Self-leadership with Karin Otterbjörk

Drawing on knowledge of how the brain works, Karin Otterbjörk trains people in a form of self-leadership that makes the most of the brain's resources through simple tools and habits. Once you understand how your brain works — why you feel and react the way you do — you can lead yourself toward more energy and success. There are several ways to approach self-leadership: for yourself, or for your employees.

Illustration of the brain

Sustainable self-leadership

Karin helps you put sustainable self-leadership in place through:

The book

Order and read the book Palla Trycket – leading yourself and others to sustainable self-leadership. A handbook on the subject aimed at employees, leaders and HR alike.

Talks

Get inspired by a talk that kick-starts the thinking and the work of taking responsibility for your own sustainable self-leadership.

  • Palla Trycket – leading yourself to sustainable self-leadership
    Aimed at all employees, regardless of role.
  • Palla Trycket as a leader – leading yourself and others to sustainable self-leadership
    Aimed at leaders and HR.

Training

Invest in a training series where you build new habits step by step. An effective, sustainable investment in helping the whole team or organisation handle the pressure — creating the conditions for energy, engagement and motivation to be in place.

Process support

Get support on your change journey toward a culture and strategy shaped by sustainable self-leadership.

Great results are created with people at the centre

Handling the pressure means strengthening your ability to manage and juggle everything around you in today's work and personal life. You have the habits and practical tools that make your energy last, letting you easily parry whatever tries to steal your focus and engagement.

Karin Otterbjörk

Palla Trycket – leading yourself and others to a sustainable self-leadership

The book that shows how you can build sustainable self-leadership, growing your energy and stamina step by step while feeling engaged and motivated!

As a leader, you get concrete advice on how to create the right conditions for yourself and your employees to build sustainable self-leadership.

Book cover: Palla Trycket by Karin Otterbjörk

Talks, training & workshops that help you handle the pressure

To build a thriving, successful organisation that can handle today's pressures, several pieces need to be in place:

  • Employees' self-leadership
  • Sustainable, resilient leadership
  • High-performing groups and teams
  • Organisational conditions

For most organisations, self-leadership is a fundamental success factor in building the capacity of employees, leaders and groups to handle the pressure — whether that's constant change, uncertainty, a high pace, growing competition, or other factors that risk sending everything into a negative spin.

Karin has worked for many years on the areas that need to be developed so you can handle the pressure and reach your goals, short and long term.

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Karin Otterbjörk speaking on stage