Claus Elmholdt

Professional Director and Founder
Cand.psych.aut. & PhD, Associate Professor in Management and Organizational Psychology, Aalborg University

E-mail: ce@lead.eu

Phone: +45 26 14 51 57

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15 years of experience in management and organizational psychology

Claus has worked for 15 years with research and development in management and organizational psychology, partly as a university researcher and partly as an independent business psychologist, founder and partner in LEAD - enter next level. 
 
Claus researches, teaches and consults private and public leaders and organizations on topics such as leadership, leadership teams, change management, performance management, learning and organizational development. He is a popular speaker and author of numerous research articles and books, including "Emotions in Leadership" (2011), "Leadership Psychology" (2013), "Power in Organizations" (2014) and "Effective Leadership Teams" (2015).

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Selected publications

"On the art of being an expert and a novice at the same time", 2020, Business Psychology

"Agile Transformation - a new leadership model for a new organizational form", 2020, Børsen Uddannelse

"Why agile transformations fail - and how to avoid the biggest pitfalls", 2020, Børsen Uddannelse

"Femfaktorconsulting", 2018, Business Psychology

"Effective management team. Yes please - But how?", 2015, Public Management

"Effective leadership teams - the discipline of setting, running and developing effective leadership teams", 2015, Børsen

"Leader, use your power!", 2014, Lederne, no. 5, May/June 2014

"Management Psychology", 2013 , Forlaget Samfundslitteratur

"Leadership Pipeline - Transient leadership fashion or solid knowledge?", 2013, Academic Quarter

"Cross-border leadership", 2013, Lederne, no. 4, April 2013

"Cross-border innovation community - an organizational psychological view on public innovation", 2012, In: M. Bendixen & N.C. Nickelsen. Nickelsen, "Innovation Psychology", Danish Psychological Publishing House

"Flexible leadership - across theboard", 2012, Lederne, no. 9, October 2012

"Leadership Pipeline - more than just a new buzzword?", 2012, Børsens Ledelseshåndbøger

"Emotions in leadership", 2011, Forlaget Klim

"Authentic leadership in the emotional organization", 2011, In: C. Elmholdt & L. Tanggaard (ed.), "Følelser i ledelse", Forlaget Klim

"Knowledge should be managed but not overmanaged", 2009, In: "Ledelseshåndbogen Knowledge Management", Børsens ledelseshåndbøger

"Practical action knowledge and the need for control in knowledge work", 2008, Journal of Working Life, 10(1)

"Appreciative inquiry - a new form of soft disciplining", 2006, Occupational Psychology, vol. 4 no. 3, pp. 22-35

"Innovative learning is not enough", 2006, In: Antonacopolou, E., Jarvis, P., Andersen, V., Elkjaer, B., Høyrup Pedersen, S. (eds.), "Learning, Working and Living: Mapping the Terrain of Working Life Learning", 978-14-039-4767-3 edition, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 93-116

"Discursive practices at work", 2006, In: Boud, D., Cressey, P., Docherty, P. (eds.), "Productive reflection at work", 1st ed., Routledge, London, pp. 170-180

"Knowledge management and the practice of knowledge sharing and learning at work: A case study", 2004, Studies in Continuing Education, vol. 26 no. 2, pp. 327-339

References

A collaboration between collaboration between LEAD and Nykredit has meant that 400 managers have been exposed to simulation-based management training at different times. Training where you virtually manage employees and collaborate across organizations, and where the goal is to increase both turnover and employee motivation.

Work experience

Partner in LEAD - enter next level (2013 - )

Self-employed occupational psychologist (2013)

Associate Professor, Management Psychology at Aalborg University (2012 - )

Professor MSO at Aalborg University (March 2010 - 2012)

Senior Consultant, Partner at Udviklingskonsulenterne A/S (2007 - 2012)

Head of Development Consultants' Research Unit A/S (2009 - 2012)

Authorized psychologist by the Danish Board of Psychology (2009)

 

Appointed Censor, Board of Examiners in Psychology (2006 - )

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University (2004 - 2007)

PhD Fellow, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University (2000 - 2004)

Cand. Psych. Aarhus University (2000)

Visiting Professor, University of Technology, Sydney (2001 - 2002)

Certification, People Tools personal profile (2008); NEO-PI-R certification (2012)

Dynamic executive coaching training with Patricia Coughlin Delle Selva (2009-2010)

 

Specialties

Effective Leadership Teams

Leadership team development

Leadership Pipeline

Change management and organizational learning

Cross-border management and relational coordination

Motivation and self-management

Transition coaching

Innovation psychology

Emotions and authentic leadership

Developing personal leadership

Podcasts

Podcast, Distributed leadership, Kim Martin Nielsen
Leadership development

Distributed leadership

An expert panel of two consultants and a school principal delves into the importance and value of distributed leadership. What do you need to pay special attention to? When will it go wrong if you're not? What are the first steps to getting started with distributed leadership?

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