MyBEcome A TRANSFORMATIONAL POSITIVE LEADER PEOPLE WANT TO FOLLOW!
- AND TRANSFORM YOUR WORKPLACE
Merethe loves to teach scientific secrets from positive psychology, neuroscience, health sciences, behavioral, motivational, emotional and brain psychology to individuals to help them THRIVE IN LIFE.
Her 6,5 years of education in psychology and education and her 10 years of experience as a pedagogical-psychological advisor as well as her nearly 3 years of working as an associate professor in Education for master students has given her great knowledge and experience in these areas.
Merethe also holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership in Positive Psychology and Leadership from Regent University's School of Business and Leadership, USA, bachelor education in Business and Board Education from BI School of Business, Norway.
She's been a HR leader for 8 years and is now an entrepreneur, international author, international key note speaker, seminar leader and an associate professor II at School of Business and Leadership, University of Tromsø. She is also a guest associate professor teaching leadership at other universities and her book Positive Leadership is curriculum at several Norwegian Universities.
Merethe loves to combine her knowledge of the human mind with her knowledge in leadership to help leaders, businesses and organizations be successfull through their organizations greatets assets: their people!
She teaches leaders how to create organizational results, work engagement and THRIVING WORKPLACES that improves wellbeing, relationships, communication and productivity. Teaching leadership that scientifically has given results that affects the bottom-line!
LEADERSHIP BOOKS:
English: Positive Leadership (Springer International, New York, 2022)
Norwegian: Positivt Lederskap, (Gyldendal 2020)
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOKS:
PowerUP! (2013)
English and Norwegian: Amazon.com and Akademika.no
"I love to inspire and help people and organizations to THRIVE and be at their best!"
Merethe
Merethe has worked more than 20 years as a Personnel Manager, Associate Professor, Manager, Entrepreneur, Leadership Consultant and Pedagogical-Psychological advisor.
She is an international author and keynote speaker and she has presented research at numerous international conferences, for instance in Toronto, Canada; Oxford, England; Orlando, USA; Angers, France; Budapest, Hungary and more.
as seen in:
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merethe speaks on the following subjects:
merethe speaks on the following subjects:
Positive psychology, motivation, positive emotions, strengths, gratitude, resilience
Leadership, transformational leadership, positive psychology in leadership and @the workplace
Mental, social and physical wellbeing.
Emotions and health, neuroscience and brain
PowerUP! Discover your possibilities and realize your potential and dreams. Understand how limiting thought patterns can be removed so that you can go from dream to reality!
Self-leadership
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rAre you ready for some positive change?
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE A THRIVING ORGANIZATION?
Positive psychology in everyday life
Thriving workplaces, work engagement
- Norwegian Women in Finance Charter: How your company can profit by focusing on Positive Leadership.
- Confex Norway: 2 days course for Leaders in Positive Psychology used in Leadership- 4 times a year for 4 years.
- Oslo University Hospital: Job Health and Positive Psychology at the Workplace
- Smia Leadernetwork: Why Positive Leadership have impact on business results.
- Samfunnsviterne: Positive psychology in everyday life
- NITO Leader Conference: Motivational speech
- Innovation Festival Norway: How to use positive psychology in Leadership
- Ladies First: Motivational speech: How to find and use your talents to achieve success in life
- Institute for Personell Development: Positive Psychology for Leaders
- Business owners at Ålesund Storsenter: How to use positive psychology in your business
- The Woman's Dinner: Motivational speech for female students at NTNU University
- Presentation Iceland at the 10th European Conference on Positive Psychology, Reykjarvik, Iceland 2022: Positve Leadership
- Workshop at the 9th European Conference on Positive Psychology in Budapest, Hungary 2018: Win.win-win@the Workplace.
- Symposium presentation with 5 professors from USA, Denmark Poland, Iceland and Norway: How can positive emotional states trigger lasting changes in the brain structure and function, and how are these emotions related to general health, resilience against stress and disease.
- Keynote speaker at The 17th World Summit of Positive Psychology, Toronto, Canada 2017: Positive Emotions, neuroscience and bodily responses. How these three are connected. Implications for psychological, social and physical well-being.
- Presentation at the 8th European Conference of Positive Psychology, Angers, France 2016: The relationship between gender, age,
- educational level and the character strengths of honesty, bravery, persevereance and zest among Norwegian leaders.
- Presentation at the International Positive Psychology Association's
- World Congress 2015 in Orlando, Florida, USA: The Relationship Between Character Strengths, Virtues, Self-Efficacy and Transformational Leadership
- Presentation at the 7th European Conference of Positive Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014: Do the Character strengths of Hope, Spirituality, Humility, Gratitude, Humor and Prudence predict Transformational, Transactional or Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles?
- Presentation at the 9th Annual Autonomous Learning World Caucus 2012- Exeter College, University of Oxford, England 2021: Norwegian and Chinese Leadership Behavior.
EXAMPLES OF MERETHE'S SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.
He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
ronald reagan
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I heard Dr. Drønnen's keynote presentation about positive psychology and its use for people and organizations and the influence on people's health at the International Conference in Positive Psychology in Toronto, Canade in 2017.
I appreciated her presentation very much. It is so important for leaders to know the psychological processes in the employees and how they are motivated and what makes them thrive at the workplace.
This book gives the readers an insightful and very important description of positive psychology at the workplace and shows the readers ways on how to enhance performance at an organizational perspective.
Finally the book with practical implementations on how to use positive psychology on challenges at the workplace has arrived. Countless books have been written about leadership, cooperation and motivation, but firstly now there is a book that systematically and objectively uses methods and techniques from the psychological field of positive psychology in leadership. The book is a real showdown with the old-fashioned and authoritarian mindset that is the leadership legacy from older leadership theories. The book is filled with examples that gives inspiration and use for both leaders, employees and union leaders.
"PowerUP, a book bought by chance, and read to pass the time on a train ride, was never put on the bookshelf at home. This is because I always have it on hand. The book bears its title rightly, it gives Power. Here I get simple tools for both everyday challenges and heavier work tasks. It is written simply, but gives the reader great benefit".
"The book is absolutely fantastic and a book everyone should read. Thank you very much!"
"In the course "Positive psychology for leaders" I received simple tools that have been useful in my leadership role in a restructuring process. Positive feedback and a focus on the strengths of employees are the areas I have the best experience with. In the company restructuring process we have been through. I have selectively been using elements from the course in my everyday work, and I think this has helped me to cope with the process in a better way. Merethe explains research in a simple and understandable way. She links the research to many good examples of how larger companies have succeeded in introducing of positive psychology. Merethe also has good practical exercises in the course that make visible how positive psychology affects you as a person. I can absolutely recommend the course and the professional content- it is something that everyone can use in their everyday life and private life".
"The book PowerUP can be embraced everyone and is highly motivating for those who want to work on themselves. It has solid academic content, refers to research results and seemed well thought out, while it is easy to follow the thinking. MD shows that she has great professional insight and presents the material in an inspiring and easy-to-understand way. I have greatly enjoyed and benefited from the book and have used the content in several contexts, both privately and in a work context. It can really be recommended".
some testimonials of
dr. drønnen's presentations and books:
Merethe Drønnen is a knowledgeable and skilled communicator of positive psychology. I have participated in her Certificate of Executive Positive Psychology (CEPP) course and I have benefited greatly of what I learned from her in relation to practical use of positive psychology and the research in areas like learning, motivation, growth and strenght-based development in my role as career advisor and subject coordinator. I recommend everyone working with people in relation to work, change and development to set aside time for her course in positive psychology for leaders, HR, consultants and more".
