Navigating Leadership Paradox

Rikke Kristine Nielsen, PhD is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication & Psychology at Aalborg University. Her main research areas are organizational and leadership paradox, global leadership as well as academia-practitioner co-creation. Nielsen is an active research disseminator, speaker, and consultant in private, public, and civil society organizations, as well as an engaged scholar co-producing research with managers and HR professionals in practice. Frans Bévort, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. His main research focusses on HRM, professions and management. A special research interest is the tensions between management as a professional discipline and other disciplines. His work is informed by institutional theory and symbolic interactionism. Thomas Duus Henriksen, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. His main research interests are in the intersections between learning theory and technology, addressing areas like virtual human resource development, hybrid work forms, hybrid management, and learning games for organizational development, while using paradox theory and French philosophy to address the complexity of such processes. Anne-Mette Hjalager is a professor at the Department for Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management at University of Southern Denmark. She works with innovation, entrepreneurial processes, and management – particularly, but not only, in the tourism sector. Danielle Bjerre Lyndgaard holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration (MSc(Econ.)) from Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and a Master of Management Development (MMD) also from CBS. Lyndgaard is Director at the Confederation of Danish Industry, Department of Global Talent & Mobility, where she is responsible for all aspects of (global) leadership and HR processes related to global talent and mobility.