Susanna Romantsova

I left IKEA 4 years ago. Since then I’ve worked with 48 international corporations. 70% of them are my long-term clients. I’ve seen these companies through restructurings, transformations, cultural pivots. Believe me, I have zero illusions about perfect companies (except IKEA ofc 😊). And yet not...

How to spot a leader who builds psychological safety before you join their team. My biggest green flag: Behavioral consistency across audiences. When diagnosing for a project I pay attention to how they behave when there's nothing in it for them - when no one is watching, when the person in fron...

I have a major concern with corporate wellbeing, because most of such programs were designed to help people tolerate bad systems. To breathe through the bad manager or meditate past the broken process or even build resilience to absorb what should simply be changed. That’s not wellbeing, in my op...

Don't go to a meeting where you don't speak - the best advice I got early in my career. Your silence, when repeated, costs you 2 things people rarely connect: 1. Your image as someone who contributes. 2. Your own belief that you can. The first one your manager notices. The second one you stop no...

I can't believe I did it! I went onto the streets to ask complete strangers about courage and what or who helped them be brave. This is part of my field experiment, "Courage Actually" - a summer project for my upcoming book, where I'm testing the insights I've gathered from 12+ years of working on ...