Chris Sjögren

Specialty

• Conducts client-specific and open courses and training programs in leadership, personal development, and communication

• Helps build strong, confident teams and collaborations
• Leads through change
• Coaches leaders and employees

Focus

Chris is a leadership expert with extensive experience in leading managers, teams, and employees. She has held roles as a manager and project and process leader in both private and public sectors. She is an advocate for servant leadership and modern, human-centered leadership, where the mind, heart, and soul are valued. Her main focus is on smart working methods and sustainable employees, firmly believing in Walt Disney’s and Richard Branson’s famous words: “Take care of your employees, and they will take care of your customers.” How leadership functions in an organization affects how employees feel and the results achieved. This is becoming increasingly important in today’s fast-moving society, where employee engagement is declining and stress-related health issues are on the rise.

For an organization to reach and exceed its goals, a clear direction and a healthy culture are needed, where employees feel secure and collaborate within and across organizational boundaries. Clear and practical routines are also needed, along with an understanding of the richness that lies in human differences. Chris is happy to support efforts to develop a holistic perspective and, from there, create effective working methods for different parts of a development or change. She has extensive experience with various working methods. The agile philosophy of speed, creativity, and lack of prestige is close to her heart after many years in software development. As a trainer and coach at Wenell, she conducts various types of leadership training and draws on her previous experience as a manager and leader in these.

Background

Chris is a certified language consultant in Swedish and began her career in technical communication as a translator, project manager, and writer, and later as a documentation manager, where she took over the entire documentation production from subcontractors in England, recruited writers, created efficient workflows, and built a whole new department.

From there, she moved on to become head of software developers and, together with others in the development department’s management team, established effective working methods and a sustainable work environment. Simultaneously, she was also project manager with overall responsibility for all of the company’s development projects. She also coordinated skills provision and recruitment within the department.

In recent years, she has been a unit manager in the IT department of a government agency, where she had six direct-reporting managers and staff in five locations. She has also been a project manager in the Armed Forces and a project, process, and product manager in small and medium-sized product development companies. Throughout her career, she has focused on working methods, work environment, and customer interaction and has been involved in implementing systematic quality work, including the introduction of ISO9001 and ISO27001, as well as ITIL. For most of her career, she has worked in international environments and collaborated with customers, suppliers, and colleagues in other countries.