Management researcher who studies how managers carry meditation into their working lives, and designs contemplative exercises for teaching self-awareness and empathy.
4 works on the map
He is also a photographer and a contact improvisation dancer. His photo essay Points of contact (2021) uses contact improvisation, a dance two or more people improvise around a point of contact, to explore connection in the spirit of Buber’s I and Thou: embracing another person while staying in genuine contact with oneself.
Description of a practiceBachelor’s students in business and economics, in a course on global challenges
Step-by-step instructions for a contemplative exercise, inspired by mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication, that lets business students experience self-awareness, self-regulation and empathy rather than only learn about them.
Qualitative studyManagers at a medium-sized Scandinavian company
A longitudinal case study of a workplace mindfulness programme. Managers developed perspective-taking, empathy and authentic functioning, and features of the company helped them carry these into everyday work.
Conceptual work
Proposes a year-long helping group as a research method: managers bring real problems, and what they share to get help becomes the data. A strong holding environment let them speak “straight from the heart”.
Qualitative studySeven CEOs and owners of small and medium-sized companiesCautions: Self-selected participants
Seven CEOs and business owners, followed for two years, brought a meditative attitude to hard situations at work. Their focus shifted from attending to suffering, to witnessing what is, to responding with authenticity.