The science & practice of human flourishing
Your next competitive advantage isn't "artificial."
Social and emotional intelligence isn't soft. It's your edge. We help leaders and teams build it, through keynotes and consulting that turn connection into performance. Proven across 650+ companies, schools and organisations.
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The most needed skills
World Economic Forum has been clear on what the important skills are now and for the future. "3 of the 5 most in-demand skills for 2025–2030 are human skills, not technical ones — resilience, leadership, and self-awareness.” (World Economic Forum, 2025)
Siri Abrahamsen has spent all her working years inside corporate leadership and high-performance cultures, watching capable people struggle with exactly what the skills that are mentioned: staying resilient under pressure, leading with clarity, knowing themselves well enough to lead others. These are no longer soft skills, they're the ones no machine can do for you. For the past decade, she has built her talks and practical tools that help leaders and teams develop them, at work, today.
- 4× bestselling author
- Founder: The Gleding Company & the non-profit Gleding Education
- Awarded: Top 10 public speaker in Norway
- Selected: Top 100 Global Education Innovation, Helsinki 2024 & 2025
2014
meaningful impact since
650+
companies, schools & organisations
Top 100
Global Education Innovation • Helsinki
What are the most important skills we learn early in life? I came to that question after years spent teaching leaders to listen, to trust, to stay steady under pressure. Until it struck me how backwards that was, we were retrofitting in 50-year-olds what belongs at five. The answer, belonging, kindness, joy, has reached hundreds of thousands since. Now we're ready to go further. We want to bridge leadership and childhood. We believe that our potential as human beings will be much greater if we focus on the root causes of our behaviour and dynamics. Are you ambitious about human flourishing, resilience and collaboration? If the answer is yes, you have come to the right place.
Siri Abrahamsen · Founder, Gleding
#1
driver of high-performing teams is psychological safety, not talent.
Google Project Aristotle · A. Edmondson, Harvard
~13%
annual return on high-quality early intervention for disadvantaged children — for life.
James Heckman · Nobel laureate
~90%
of a child's core brain architecture is formed before the age of five.
Harvard Center on the Developing Child