Mary Apostolaki Johansen
Mary is an experienced leadership and organizational developer with a strong international consulting and management background.
She has 25 years of experience in supporting global as well as public companies in their strategy and business development, innovation, leadership development and team challenges. Among others, she has worked on projects for: Coca-Cola (Nigeria), Boehringer Ingelheim, MSD, Royal Canin (Greece), Vola, DGI, Aarhus Municipality, Arla foods (Denmark and Philippines).
She has a broad expertise in leadership development and HR. Her specialty is innovation management. Here she enables organizations to create and embed a thriving innovation culture with structure, process and competence building.
She has managed 5000 employees during the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
As a serial entrepreneur and mentor, she has enabled over 300 tech start-ups to scale to growth through incubators and acceleration programs.
Mary holds an MSc in Leadership and Management and is an external lecturer at Aalborg University.
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Work experience
Associate Partner - Lead (2023-)
Founder/Management Consultant - b.nood (Qebula) (2017-)
Head of Innovation Academy - Accelerace (2019-2020)
Intrapreneur/Strategy/Management/Talent -Arla (2015-2017)
Management consultant - TEAM Management (2013-2014)
CCO - Dyrberg/Kern (southern Europe) (2005-2012)
Venue Manager - Athens 2004 Olympic Games (2003-2004)
Management Consultant - Saudi Arabia (1998-2001)
Specialties
Innovation management
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Business development
Management & team development
Change managementmanagement
Organizational development
HR development
Excerpts from reviews of Mary's book: 'the philosophy of me', 2022
Podcasts
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?
The potential of new organizational forms to promote well-being
Podcast The potential of new organizational forms to promote wellbeing. New organizational forms such as TEAL, Agile and Sociocracy are becoming more and more widespread. In this episode we zoom in
Learning culture - what do we need it for?
Podcast Learning culture - what do we need it for? What is learning culture? What can it be used for? How can you develop a learning culture? All of this
Psychological safety - what is it and how do you create it?
Podcast Psychological safety - what is it and how do you create it? Psychological safety is the shared perception among team members that interpersonal risk-taking can be done safely
