Kata Nylén
Psychology for a changing world.
Licensed psychologist and specialist in organisational psychology, author and speaker. Kata works on turning knowledge, ambition and decisions into action inside organisations.
About Kata
Kata Nylén is a licensed psychologist, a specialist in organisational psychology, an author and a speaker. She works on organisational development and change leadership, implementation, behavioural change and psychological resilience.
The thread running through it is the distance between knowing and doing. What needs to change is usually already known; what is missing is what it takes for the change to happen and to hold. Climate psychology is one of the places where that question shows itself most sharply.
She writes and speaks about what happens to people, individually and collectively, when the world around them changes faster than the mind expects.
The new book
Psychological resilience
Meeting adversity in an uncertain world
Four movements for meeting hardship without shutting down: listening, loving, collectivising and acting.
Areas of work
Six connected fields that run through Kata's work, from how organisations change to the psychology of climate.
Organisational psychology and change leadership
How organisations actually change: senior teams under pressure, the relationships that carry the work, and what holds when the load rises.
Implementation
Making evidence, methods and decisions work in daily practice, long after the decision has been taken.
Psychological resilience
What actually carries people and groups through sustained pressure, beyond individual coping.
Behavioural change
Why knowing is not doing, and what genuinely shifts behaviour in individuals and organisations.
Climate psychology
How the climate crisis registers psychologically, and what helps people stay engaged rather than shut down.
Navigating uncertainty
How people lead, decide and function inside a systemic change they did not choose.
Speaking
Kata speaks at conferences, universities, leadership events and public institutions on the psychology of climate, resilience, behaviour and change.
Organisations and programmes
Alongside her own practice, Kata works through several organisations and programmes. Each has its own focus, but the thread is the same: the psychology of making change actually happen.