Sonja Strömsholm
- Developer of leadership teams and managers
- Expert in change leadership and organizational culture
- Certified coach
Sonja is an experienced organizational development professional who has dedicated her career to developing leadership, organizational culture and meaningful work. Over the past 15 years, she has worked with hundreds of organizations as a coach, consultant, facilitator and change project lead, both as an external expert and internally as an expert, development manager, manager and director.
Sonja's particular strength lies in designing leadership and interaction structures and practices in a way that supports meaningful work, psychological safety and sustainable performance. The ideas underpinning her work include intrinsic motivation, a growth mindset, people-centered change leadership and coaching leadership.
As a coach, Sonja is approachable, energetic and fully present with people. She is known for her ability to put things into words plainly, quickly turn ideas into concrete action and implement change in a way that gets people on board. Sonja's emotionally powerful coaching style leaves no one cold.
Motto: Nothing improves by keeping up appearances. Development and growth happen in encounters where things are called by their real names. Without emotion, there is no change.
Education
Master of Education (adult education + psychology and leadership)
Certified Business Coach (BCI)
Certified Change Management Practitioner (Prosci)
Design Thinking training (Aalto EE)
Lean Change Management expertise
WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ certified
Areas of expertise
Coaching managers and leadership
People-centered change leadership
Developing organizational culture and culture change
Coaching and sparring leadership teams
Psychological safety and constructive interaction
Coaching leadership and a coaching mindset
Meaningful work, motivation and engagement
Experience
Over 15 years of experience developing organizations, leadership teams and managers.
Extensive experience in demanding change projects, especially in expert and IT organizations.
Experience both as a consultant and in internal leadership, managerial and HR roles.
