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Leading with Grit and Grace: What Smart Sisu offers leaders navigating uncertain times

Auntie Leader Circle webinar with Dr. Elisabet Lahti

Date: 19 March 2026
Time: 14.00-15.00 (CET)/ 15.00-16.00 (EET)

Elisabet Lahti

The webinar is led by Dr. Elisabet Lahti, one of the world’s leading researchers on Sisu. Her work has been featured by The Economist, and her research offers a timely reframing of Sisu: not as mere toughness, but as the capacity to lead with clarity, steadiness, and responsibility under sustained pressure.

Uncertain times and continuous change have reshaped what leadership requires. Leading today means navigating pressure, complexity, and responsibility. In this context, sisu becomes more than perseverance. It becomes a leadership capability that combines strength and humanity.

Sisu is a uniquely Finnish concept often associated with grit and perseverance. In this webinar, we introduce Sisu as a modern leadership capability, one that responds to the realities of today’s uncertainty.
 
This webinar explores how leaders can balance the hard and soft sides of leadership, delivering results without depleting themselves or their teams. It focuses on endurance, judgment, and self-leadership in times where change is constant and the stakes are high.
 
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By signing up for this webinar, you’ll join Auntie’s Leader Circle network. Membership is free and gives you access to content on mental wellbeing, leadership, and skills to support your and your team’s wellbeing and sustainable performance. You’ll also receive invites to upcoming webinars and events designed to help you lead a healthy and successful workplace.

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You will leave this session with

● An introduction to Smart Sisu as a leadership capability  and why high-performing leaders struggle to use their strength sustainably


● Insight into the difference between over-driving performance and leading with durable, long-term strenght


● A sharper perspective on how self-leadership directly impacts decision-making, resilience, and results


● Tools for leading through prolonged uncertainty without burning out yourself or your team

 

Meet our speaker

Elisabet Lahti

Elisabet Lahti
Ph.D., MAPP, MSocSci, Founder of Sisu Lab

Dr. Elisabet Lahti is a Finnish researcher, author, and international speaker on embodied resilience, emotional intelligence, and human-centered leadership. She earned her PhD at Aalto University, where she established the scientific foundation for studying sisu, which is the Finnish construct of inner strength and determination under pressure. As part of her research on sisu, she ran and cycled 2400 km in 50 days across New Zealand.Elisabet’s work has been featured by Business Insider, CNBC, and Forbes, among others. She is the author of Gentle Power, which explores how strength, clarity, and sustainable performance emerge from alignment rather than force.
You can find more  information at www.sisulab.com

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What is Auntie’s Leader Circle?

Leadership today demands more than just managing performance — it’s about creating environments where people can truly thrive. That’s why the Auntie Leader Circle exists: a peer network for forward-thinking leaders and managers who want to elevate mental wellbeing as a strategic part of their leadership approach.

By joining our network, you’ll gain insights into how to develop essential mental skills such as stress management, resilience, and effective team cooperation, supporting sustainable performance for both leaders and their teams.

Join now by signing up for this webinar. Membership is free.

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A little about Auntie

Auntie provides preventive services that support employees’ mental wellbeing and strengthen key mind skills such as stress management, adaptability, resilience, communication skills, and self-leadership. We also support managers in developing their own leadership and in better supporting their teams.

Employees can book confidential sessions with experienced mental wellbeing professionals and make use of a wide range of exercises and materials.

For organisations, Auntie delivers concrete and measurable benefits: fewer absences, improved wellbeing, and more engaged employees. When mental wellbeing and mind skills become part of everyday life, a more sustainable workplace is built and a stronger foundation for the success of the entire organisation is created.