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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
The webinar is led by Dr. Elisabet Lahti, the world’s leading researcher 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.
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.
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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 community for forward-thinking leaders and managers who want to elevate mental wellbeing and mind skills as a strategic part of their leadership approach.
In Auntie Leader Circle webinars, you 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.
Meet our speaker
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
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.
