My academic path began in Scotland (1998), after which I continued my studies at Tampere University, graduating with a Master’s degree in social sciences with sociology and psychology as my main subjects (2003). Following my studies, I worked for many years in leadership and development roles in the public sector, particularly in the context of organizational change and collaborative development.

My doctoral research in Management and Organization Studies (2023) was an autoethnographic action research project closely connected to my professional practice. The study took place in a newly merged public social and healthcare organization, where I worked as an internal action researcher and co-facilitator of a dialogic development group.

My research explores embodied dialogue and subtle experiential awareness as conditions for humanly and ecologically sustainable forms of organizing. I am particularly interested in how connection – to self, others, the surrounding world, and a wider relational field – becomes possible in and through interaction.

I work at the intersection of regenerative organizing and the quiet dynamics of lived experience that enable collective learning and transformation. My research approach is experiential, participatory, and context-sensitive. It is grounded in presence, attuned relationality, and embodied knowing, drawing from ethnographic, autoethnographic, and action research traditions.

I currently teach interaction skills in leadership in the Open University. In addition, I provide training outside the university based on my research themes – particularly embodied dialogue, experiential learning, and humanly sustainable organizing. My training focuses on practical dialogue skills, the facilitation of dialogic processes, and the cultivation of connection in everyday interaction, combining hands-on practice with a sensitivity to subtle dynamics.