Malin Rapp, Sweden’s Speaker of the Year 2023, inspires leaders and employees in Sweden and globally to create learning, sustainable and responsible cultures through self-leadership.
Malin helps companies and organizations create learning cultures that make people grow in a common direction. She provides thought-provoking perspectives on how we can better lead ourselves, and each other, to create thriving teams – in good times and bad. It is about the ability to handle change and uncertainty, and at the same time maintain joy, development and energy. Malin shows how we, both as individuals and as a team, can actively choose to think differently to increase our self-leadership, cooperation and well-being to create better results together.
With her background as a professional extreme athlete with a WC title in snowkite and her academic background in cognitive neuroscience and motivational research, Malin Rapp has a unique ability to bridge research to practical reality. She leads courses at the Stockholm School of Economics, has lectured at Harvard and in collaboration with researchers at the Karolinska Institutet, she has produced measurable results on methods and efforts. Malin Rapp’s ability to share concrete tools for increased commitment, cooperation levels and job satisfaction in an inspiring way makes her a constantly recurring lecturer with clients such as Spotify, Ericsson, Google, Mastercard, SIDA and Storytel. Nevertheless, expert assignments in TV4 morning sofa, SVT morning studio, SVD and DN.
Facts
- Head of the self-leadership course at Stockholm School of Economics.
- Together with Self Leaders, she has developed programs used in more than 300 companies, reaching more than 60,000 employees worldwide.
- Over 10 years of experience in school development.
- Leading the development of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy methodology, which reaches more than 1000 teachers and 10,000 students every year to strengthen motivation and inner growth.
- Co-founder of the nationwide initiative Better Schools (Bättre Skolor) where she designed programs for teachers to apply in their daily leadership.
- Co-founder of the digital platform Growing Minds, which has provided over 1.2 million adults with scientific tools to build psychological and social skills in youth.
- World Championship in snowkiting, with several years of experience as a professional extreme sports athlete in kite- and wakeboarding, for which she competed on a national team.