Mickey Klysner Riis

Chief Consultant
MSc in Psychology

E-mail: mr@lead.eu

Mickey Klysner Riis

Mickey supports leaders, teams, and organizations in fostering healthy development and high psychological safety within work environments. His focus areas also include ensuring effective collaboration and successful implementation. 

Through strategic initiatives, training, long-term development programs, and coaching, Mickey equips organizations and leaders to create sustainable workplaces that promote both well-being and high performance. 

He specializes in psychological work environment, well-being, cultural development, implementation, and change management, with a particular emphasis on addressing people’s needs and well-being during periods of significant change. 

With over eight years of experience in teaching, process facilitation, and leadership, Mickey has developed strong competencies that he now applies in his training. He has also further strengthened his capabilities in process facilitation and leadership. 

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References

Professional Experience

Leadership Consultant at LEAD – enter next level (2021 – Present)

Lead Psychologist at the Horizon Center in Faros (2020)

Internship as Leadership Consultant at LEAD – enter next level (2 months in 2019)

Organizational Psychology Consultant at IMPAQ (2019)

Intern as Business Psychologist at IMPAQ (2018)

Student Assistant at the Center for Family Development (2015 – 2018)

Facilitator and Host at the Global Leadership Summit (2015 – Present)

Leader and Leadership Team Member in Youth Organizations (2010 – 2018) 

Specializations

Organizational Development:

  • Psychological work environment and well-being – prevention and management related to well-being, absenteeism, conflicts, and crises 
  • Learning culture characterized by a growth mindset, psychological safety, and strong feedback and learning structures 
  • Implementation and change leadership with a particular focus on people’s needs and well-being during periods of major change 
  • Leadership talent development – identifying, developing, engaging, and retaining leadership talents 
 

Team and Leadership Team Development:

  • Psychological safety 
  • High-impact teams and leadership groups 
  • Learning culture – where learning, performance, and well-being go hand in hand 
  • Healthy conflict levels – task vs. personal conflict 
  • Effective meetings 
 
 
 

Individual Leadership Development:

  • Leadership Versatility (LVI) – including situational leadership 
  • Leadership transitions – the Leadership Pipeline 
  • Personal leadership – values, vision, and personal development 

Keynotes and Talks:

  • Well-being in times of major change 
  • Building a learning culture that fosters both well-being and performance 
  • Feedback culture and effective practices – the path to development and learning 
  • High-impact leadership teams and work teams – one of the most important communities at work 
  • Leading psychological well-being – the foundation for high performance 
  • Stress: Prevention and management 
  • Effective meetings – why waste so much time on bad ones? 
  • Implementation and change leadership 
    • Implementation from start to finish 
    • Four approaches to implementation 
    • Taking the temperature of your implementation and change process