Speaking
Kata Nylén speaks about the psychology of climate, resilience, behaviour and change.
Selected themes
Talks are shaped around the audience rather than delivered from a fixed set. These are the themes they usually draw on.
Organisational psychology and change leadership
What happens between people at work: senior teams under pressure, the relationships that carry an organisation, and what holds when the load rises.
Implementation
How evidence, methods and policy get taken up in a service that is already full. Often drawn from the work on SNAP in social services and schools.
Psychological resilience
Sustaining people through prolonged uncertainty, without reducing resilience to individual endurance.
Behavioural change
The distance between intention and behaviour, and what closes it in practice.
Climate psychology
What the climate crisis does to how people think, feel and act, and what follows from that for organisations.
Leading through uncertainty
Decision-making and leadership when the conditions keep moving.
Formats
Sessions are adapted to the setting and the time available.
Keynote
A single talk for a larger audience.
Panel
Contribution to a moderated discussion.
Workshop
Longer, participatory work with a group.
Moderated conversation
An interview or on-stage conversation.
Examples of engagements
A selection of work across business, the public sector and civil society.
Change leadership in practice
Worked with change leaders within the Church of Sweden to put its climate roadmap into practice across dioceses and parishes, focusing on leading change and building engagement.
Leadership and change management
Delivered change management training for business leaders, including at PacsOn and AddLife, focusing on how leaders can create the conditions for change and turn ambitions into practical action.
Sustainability in customer conversations
Supported and trained sales and communications teams at SPP to bring sustainability into customer conversations and communicate the company's sustainability work. The assignment combined communication skills training with support for developing new ways of working.
Culture and sustainability
Worked with public institutions including Musikverket and Moderna Museet to develop their sustainability work and explore how art, music and the performing arts can contribute to societal change.
Social and psychosocial practice
Delivered talks for Save the Children Sweden and supported the development and implementation of programmes and models for social and psychosocial practice.
Clients also include
- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency,
- Swedish Transport Administration,
- Swedish Energy Agency,
- Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions,
- County administrative boards,
- Borlänge Municipality,
- Swedish Society for Nature Conservation,
- Live Green,
- Swedish Green Party,
- Science Park Borås
Plus talks for bodies within the EU and the UN.
Background
A selection of previous engagements. The full list is under Media.
Mention
Sweden's 52 foremost climate women · KlimatklubbenKlimatpsykologerna, the collective Kata is part of, appears on Klimatklubben's list, published on International Women's Day. Klimatklubben describes the group as licensed psychologists and Sweden's leading experts in climate psychology.
Moderator
From dissonance to resonance in the sustainability transition · A Sustainable TomorrowWorkshop
Climate workshop with Kata Nylén · 2047Interview
Climate talk with Kata Nylén · Nyhetsmorgon
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