Yohanna Gustafsson

Program Manager

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Yohanna oversees and manages all program and communication activities for Founder to Leader. Having worked across startups, VCs and incubators, Yohanna is committed to supporting the people behind the companies as they scale.

Pola Weryszko

Program Administrator

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pw.cse@cbs.dk

Pola is responsible for making everything practical and backend flow seamlessly, from technical setups to communication with coaches. She has a background in research and project management, and thrives on equipping founders with tools to grow sustainably.

Mia Jung Elmertoft

Head of Leadership Development

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mj.cse@cbs.dk

Mia is in charge of methodologies, quality of leadership development and coaching activities for entrepreneurs at CBS. She collaborates with researchers and experts to bring in evidence-based knowledge and methods to develop impactful and tailored learning formats.

Nina Uller

Leadership Coach

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With over a decade of experience across tech, entrepreneurship and the military – including a leadership advisor role in Afghanistan – Nina brings a unique perspective on what it takes to lead under pressure. She helps founders create the conditions for innovation and productivity even in the midst of uncertainty.

Magnus Stawicki Blak

Leadership Coach

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A seasoned entrepreneur with more than 20 years as a founder, Magnus knows the startup leadership journey from the inside. Backed by two Masters degrees in Psychology and Organizational Psychology and training in psychodynamic coaching, he offers founders a competent and experienced sounding board for taking their leadership to the next level.

Mia Jung Elmertoft

Leadership Coach

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With a Master’s in Organizational Psychology, a certification in Leadership Coaching and a founder background of her own, Mia brings both theoretical depth and hands-on experience to the challenges founders face. She coaches founders on personal and leadership development and makes the psychology of startup organisations widely accessible.

Nana Therkildsen

Executive Coach and Psychologist

As seasoned psychologist and certified coach with more than a decade of experience working in-depth with educating and coaching on employee performance, well-being, and prevention of stress in workplaces. Having founded the Nordic Mindware Nana focuses on executive coaching, conflict resolution, stress management, and leadership development.

Dorte Sandager

Leadership & Organization Consultant

Dorte is a co-founder, senior partner and external university lecturer, possessing a professional journey spanning over two decades of consulting and leadership expertise in both the public and private sectors. With solid expertise, she offers  profound insights into organizational development, change management, strategy, team and group dynamics, and organizational psychodynamics.

Janie Ella Tange

Insights Discovery Specialist

As a certified specialist, Janie manages and leads Insights Discovery sessions for diverse teams, including the teams from the Copenhagen Business School participating in global competitions. As a Team and Case Coach, Janie has in-depth experience analysing and coaching high-performance teams, in addition leaning on 9 years of leadership experience herself.

Adjunkt, Ph.D. at Copenhagen Business School

The focus of Pernille Steen Pedersen’s research activity is the notions of shame and work-related stress, and the problem of how shame may be decisive in some situations of sick-leave due to stress. She is particularly interested in leadership and how leaders, in cooperation with employees, can work with stress-mitigation in a day-to-day practice without imposing a therapeutically task on managers. 

Troels Gottlieb

Leadership Consultant, Ph.D. and External Lecturer

Troels Gottlieb is a partner in Gottlieb & Klewe with a focus on Personal Leadership and Leadership as Stress Management. His core expertise covers change management and strategy implementation, data collection and analysis, and executive coaching. In addition to being lecturer at CBS and author, he has a Ph.D. on personality and leadership effectiveness.

Rasmus Johnsen

Leadership Consultant, Ph.D. and Vice Dean
For Lifelong Learning at CBS

Rasmus Johnsen, Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Lifelong Learning at Copenhagen Business School is an accomplished executive educator and teaches leadership, organizational understanding, and personal development within the Master of Business Development program at CBS Executive Education. Rasmus’ influential role at CBS highlights his dedication to promoting continuous learning and professional advancement. 

Michael Pedersen

Associate Professor and Ph.D. at Copenhagen Business School

Michael Pedersen, Ph.D. and Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, studies the professional as well as the personal consequences and effects of the challenges modern leadership and organizations face – including the increasing pressure to meet new demands and needs across industries.

Eric Guthey 

Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School

Eric Guthey research and teaching he leverage his multiple years of experience at business schools in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, along with his background in the humanities and cultural history, towards the development of interdisciplinary perspectives on leadership, management, and cultural dynamics in a variety of organizational and social contexts. His current research project brings these interests to bear on the ebb and flow of fashionable leadership concepts, on the delivery of leadership products and services via the leadership industries, and on the connections between these commercial/industrial/professional dynamics and prevailing conceptions of leadership itself.