Pernille Steen Pedersen
Assistant Professor
Primary research areas
Shame and Stress: Rethinking Leadership in Everyday Practice
Understanding Youth Well-Being Challenges in Times of Social Evaluation
Co-Creating Well-Being: Developing Transformative Capabilities with Students
From Research to Practice: Shame, Stress, and Community Resilience
Exploring stress and shame, shaping relational well-being
My research investigates how stress and shame affect well-being in organizations and among young people. I focus on developing relational approaches that move beyond individual coping to collective strategies for resilience and belonging.
Leadership and stress prevention: I explore how leaders can address stress prevention in everyday practice together with employees, without turning leadership into therapy.
Tools for organizations: I design dialogue-based practices that turn research on shame and stress into concrete, shared approaches for handling pressure at work.
Students and CBS Wellbeing Lab: Together with students, I co-develop tools that strengthen their transformative capabilities and foster inclusive learning communities.
Societal impact: My ambition is to normalize conversations about insecurity as a shared human condition, shifting from individualized self-care to collective resilience in schools, universities, and workplaces.