Psychologist · Author · Speaker
Katarina Blom gives your audience the most useful tools psychology has to offer for wellbeing, relationships and sustainable performance – research-based, personal and with a twinkle in her eye.
Reply within 24 hours on weekdays · English & Swedish
Every talk is tailored to your audience, your industry and what you want people to do differently afterwards.
Our brains are social at their core. Katarina shows how relationships shape health, happiness and resilience – and why teams with psychological safety collaborate better, feel better and dare more.
You take away: everyday social habits that strengthen the team, at work and beyond.
Leadership teams · Teams · Kick-offs
Ask about dates →Resilience isn’t something you’re born with – it’s a skill you can train. On mental flexibility, asking for support, and coming out stronger – and more innovative – on the other side.
You take away: concrete habits for handling uncertainty and transition.
Reorganisations · Manager days · Staff days
Ask about dates →Positive thinking isn’t enough. Katarina cuts through the happiness hype and shows what the research actually says about wellbeing – and how to move from thinking to doing.
You take away: exercises you can start using the same day.
Conferences · Inspiration days · All audiences
Ask about dates →Under pressure, the nervous system takes over. We stop listening, freeze up or go on the attack – long before we’ve had time to think. Katarina shows what happens in the body when stress, change and crisis hit, and how individuals and teams find their way back to a state where collaboration, creativity and good decisions are possible.
You take away: a shared map of stress responses, simple body-based ways to regulate – that work in the middle of a meeting – and insight into how leaders move from thermometer to thermostat: from reflecting the mood to setting it.
Built on Katarina’s specialist training in trauma psychology, including EMDR, DBR and courses in trauma, the body and emotional regulation at Karolinska Institutet.
Leadership teams · Organisations in change · After a crisis · High-pressure professions
Ask about dates →The people who care the most are often the first to run dry. Meeting other people’s worry, grief and stress every day leaves its mark, and compassion fatigue is not the same as ordinary burnout. Katarina explains what happens when empathy is running on reserve, how to spot the signs in yourself and your colleagues, and what actually helps.
You take away: early warning signs, ways to recover between heavy encounters, and how a team can carry each other.
Healthcare & social care · Schools · Social services · Managers and HR in people-facing roles
Ask about dates →Everyone brings their experiences to work. What looks like overreacting, going quiet, needing control or perfectionism is often an old survival strategy that once made complete sense. Katarina shows how past experiences shape the way we react to feedback, conflict and change, and how leaders can meet it without having to become therapists.
You take away: a new way of understanding difficult behaviour in the group, how to give feedback and handle conflict without triggering people unnecessarily, and what a trauma-informed workplace means day to day.
Built on Katarina’s further training in trauma psychology.
Managers · HR · Leadership teams · Workplaces with conflict or high turnover
Ask about dates →See her on stage
“You Don’t Find Happiness, You Create It” from TEDxGöteborg has been viewed more than six million times on TED.com by audiences around the world. Your audience gets the same presence – tailored to your reality.
Watch the talk on TED.com →Viewers recognise her. Your audience will too.
“Katarina is a brilliant speaker and attentive to the audience in front of her.”
“A really good format, combining the talk with fun exercises.”
Average rating from 22 clients – including Karolinska Institutet, Skanska, Tietoevry and IDG. Recurring themes in the reviews: well prepared, interactive and precisely tailored.
About Katarina
Katarina Blom is a licensed psychologist, organisational consultant and author specialising in positive psychology. She makes the research on wellbeing understandable – and genuinely useful – for companies, municipalities and schools.
She is the author of Lycka på fullt allvar (“Happiness, Seriously”, Natur & Kultur, with Sara Hammarkrantz) and Tillsammans-effekten (“The Together Effect”, Bonnier Fakta). She was nominated for Speaker of the Year in 2016, is one of the relationship experts on SVT’s Married at First Sight and the expert psychologist in The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. She has also appeared on shows including Carina Bergfeldt and P3 Morgonpasset.
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The fee depends on format, length and location. Send a request and you’ll receive a fixed quote within 24 hours on weekdays.
Ideally 3–6 months ahead of conference season, but get in touch even at short notice – there are sometimes openings.
Yes – it’s one of the things clients mention most. Before every engagement Katarina has a planning call with you and connects the content to your values, your strategic work and the rest of the programme.
Yes. Katarina regularly speaks online, with interactive exercises that keep people engaged even behind their screens.
Yes – in both English and Swedish, across Sweden, internationally and online.
