Empathy and expertise at scale

PaceLab is an assembly of thinkers and doers, empowering people, businesses and communities to accelerate positive change. Providing a space to train, iterate, and grow new mind- and skill sets with a sustainable rhythm, a happy pace. Applying the science of wellbeing and performance, we shape sustainable growth from within.

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  • PaceLab partners with 4 Day Week, a global social enterprise named one of the Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2024.

    As the Swedish National Partner, PaceLab leads the first Swedish academic research with 4 Day Week Global. The pilot study aims to enhance work effectiveness while prioritising employee wellbeing through reduced working hours.

    The Stockholm School of Economics and Karlstad University with Lena Lid Falkman will lead the research behind the pilot program, examining both short- and long-term effects on productivity and wellbeing of a 4 Day Week.

    With the common desire to shape a sustainable future of work, this partnership broadens PaceLab’s portfolio of solutions shaping great workplaces.

    Join other pioneers in the Swedish pilot study, launching the fall of 2024, to shape the future of work.

  • Anders Tjernvik

    Entrepreneur & Associate Professor in Physiological Measurement Technology Linköping University

    • Wearables

    • Preventative Health

    • Resilience Training

    Anders Tjernvik is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of Rooftop Resilience, and a former Associate Professor in Physiological Measurement Technology at Linköping University, with expertise in the nervous system, respiration, and stress measurement.

    Anders is driven to increase the understanding of the nervous system’s role in our wellbeing and stress management, as well as developing innovative tools for people in demanding environments.

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    Sara Granström Powiecki

    Yoga, Breath and Meditation Educator

    • A practitioner and teacher of yoga, breathwork and meditation

    • Enthusiastic Freediver

    • Scholar of ‘Awe’

    Sara brings a wealth of expertise as a Yoga, Breath, and Meditation Educator since 2001. She holds the esteemed designation of “Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher” (ERYT) according to Yoga Alliance standards and served as a senior teacher at Samahita Retreat, a renowned yoga school in Asia, for over a decade. Since 2012, Sara has played a pivotal role as Content Director for the Teacher Training Program at Yogayama in Stockholm, a program she co-founded, certifying numerous Yoga Teachers in- and outside of Sweden.

    With an M.A. in Psychology of Religion, Sara is also a co-author of the book “Yogahjärnan” (2022), delving into the connections between concentration practices and modern psychology. In her own research and personal pursuits, Sara has dedicated herself to the exploration of the positive emotion of ‘Awe,’ delving into methods for understanding and cultivating it.

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    Elin Pedersen

    Sports Psychology Consultant

    • Peak performance expert

    • Evidence-informed practice

    Meet Elin Pedersen, a seasoned sport psychology consultant dedicated to nurturing holistic wellbeing and unlocking peak performance. With a Master of Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology from a leading European sports university, Elin brings a wealth of expertise grounded in evidence-informed practices.

    Drawing from sports psychology research, CBT, and ACT, Elin guides athletes, coaches, teams, and organizations towards enduring success and fulfillment. Thriving in dynamic environments, Elin’s tailored support with loads of (com)passion fosters long-term, sustainable growth, enabling individuals and teams to reach their summit of achievement.

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    Anna-Carin Alderin

    Partner, Senior Advisor, Inspirational Speaker, Change Leader

    • Social sustainability

    • Business Development

    • Leadership

    Anna-Carin Alderin has recently joined PaceLab as a Partner, sharing a profound commitment to shaping a sustainable future for leaders, businesses, and the planet. With nearly two decades of experience in the retail industry, both nationally and globally, she has excelled in executive leadership roles and guided teams to remarkable success.

    Harnessing her exceptional communication skills, Anna-Carin offers strategic consultation, coaching, and training to elevate personal, professional, and business well-being and performance, all aimed at fostering sustainable growth.

    As an entrepreneur at heart, Anna-Carin embodies forward-thinking, flexibility, and a human-centered approach to change leadership. Her unwavering energy and positive can-do attitude not only make her contributions to PaceLab impactful but also transformative.

Together on a joint mission

Happy to explore how we can partner to accelerate your growth flywheel?

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Puzzled? Let's clear things up!

Coaching is a thought-provoking, creative process, working together unlocking full potential, both personally and professionally, to beware of and achieve desired outcomes.

Coaching is all about a journey and nothing about instruction or teaching. It is as much – if not more – about how things are done as about what is done.

Coaching focuses on future possibilities, not past mistakes. The coachee does acquire facts and develops new skills and behaviors, not by being told or taught but by discovering from within.

In practice a coaching process fosters evolution, emerging from within. Coaching creates conditions for learning and growing.

Ethos you might think? Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed circumstances. It is a way of thinking, a way of being, a way we relate to one another, a way of treating people, a way of leading and managing.

As with any new skill, attitude, style or belief, adopting a coaching ethos requires commitment, practice and time before it flows naturally and its effectiveness is optimised.

It is a pathway to a new breed of leaders, leader coaches, practicing a completely different type of leadership or management that takes their abilities to a whole new level, adequate to the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) businesses face in the twenty-first-century challenges.

Knowing how to lead in a coaching style to unlock potential and deliver highest level of performance is a skill that is increasingly in demand.

Employee engagement has been proven to be linked to performance, and so all the behaviors that underpin engagement – which are all coaching behaviors, such as collaborating, meaningful goal setting, delegating and accountability – have found their way into business language and, more importantly, into behavior!

Adopting a coaching ethos and a coaching leadership will impact the bottom line through sustainable change of behavior, increasing bottom line performance by up to 30 percent.

Emotional intelligence can be described as interpersonal intelligence or, even more simply, as personal and social skills, grouped into four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. (Daniel Goleman, PhD in clinical psychology and personality development, Harvard University)

Transformational coaching is the practice of emotional intelligence. It is found that emotional intelligence (EQ) is twice as important, 66% to 34%, as cognitive ability (IQ), ie. academic or technical knowledge, for success at work, for everyone, not just leaders, and in terms of both relationships and productivity.

For leadership roles, the ratio is even greater and accounts for more than 85% of star performance in top leaders.
(Coaching for Performance, Sir John Whitmore, 2017)

Some people use the term mentoring interchageably with coaching. However, mentoring is very different to coaching, because coaching is not dependent on a more experienced person passing down their knowledge – in fact, this undermines the building of self-belief which creates sustained performance.

Instead coaching requires expertise in coaching, not in the subject at hand. That is one of its great strengths.

Good coaching and leading, and good mentoring for that matter, can and should take a coachee beyond the limitations of the coach, leader or mentor’s own knowledge.

Organizational behavioral scientist Amy Edmondson, Harvard University, first introduced the construct of “team psychological safety” and defined it as “a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.”

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Ready to explore how we can partner to accelerate your positive change? Or are you an expert on a similar mission? I’d be curious to explore collaborations.