How do field experts become competent leaders?
Do you have doubts about how to step into this new manager's role? Hear what theories and experts have to say.
It's an identity process
Hear event speaker and Professor with Special Responsibilites Anne Reff Pedersen talk about the transition from field expert to manager.
*This interview is available in Danish with English subtitles.
From expert to leader
In both the public and private sector, skilled employees are often promoted to lead colleagues, teams and departments. But how do you navigate that transition? How do you step into a new hybrid role and find your own leadership identity? And how do you tackle redefined relationships and the development of management skills?
You may have already faced those challenges – or you may potentially face them. For this event, CBS Executive Education focused on the transition from field expert to competent leader. We invited a panel of researchers, coaches and current managers from CBS's Executive Master programmes Master of Public Governance and Master of Management Development, who themselves had experienced transitioning from employee to manager. We talked about transitions, motivation and new positions of authority.
Meet the experts
Johnny Due
Johnny is Head of Net Revenue Management at Orkla Denmark. He has business and management experience from, among others, COOP, Mars, Carlsberg, LEGO and has himself gone through the transition from employee to leader. He's previously studied at Master of Management Development (MMD).
Kaja Søndergaard
Kaja is a business psychologist who specialises in organisational psychology and has worked in the occupational psychology field for the past 12 years, through interventions aimed at individuals, teams, and management organisations. She is also an alumna from the CBS Master of Management Development (MMD).
Louise Lundby Christensen
Louise is Chief Physician in the Children's and Adolescent Department at Slagelse Hospital. She is a specialist in paediatrics and has a Ph.D. Louise completed her Master of Public Governance (MPG) in January 2023, and her thesis delves, among other things, into the experiences surrounding the transition from chief physician to senior physician. In the past, she also evolved from being a clinically working paediatrician to a manager.
Anne Reff Pedersen
Anne is Professor with Special Responsibilites at the Department of Organisation at CBS and researches, among other things, public organisations with a focus on professionals, routines, coordination and labor relations. She is also a lecturer on the Master of Public Governance course 'Ledelse af fagprofessionelle'.
Frans Bevort
Frans Bevort, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Department of Organisation, Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on HRM, professions and management. A particular research interest of his are the tensions between management as a professional discipline, and other disciplines. He teaches the Master of Business Development course 'Organisation og forandring' and was moderator at the event's panel debate.
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