ABOUT

Elizabeth Wiborg is a leadership consultant, mediator, therapist, coach, author, teambuilding trainer and one of Sweden’s most requested lecturers and educators.

Elizabeth is training leaders and coaching groups all over the country, with focus on leadership, group development and dynamics, conflict management, and communication. She works with leadership coaching for managers at different levels and within different industries.

Elizabeth is frequently booked as a lecturer, both in Sweden and abroad. She covers topics such as leadership, group development and dynamics, conflict solution, communication, relationships, different coaching approaches, team building, the process of change and culture in organizations.

Charisma, humour, seriousness, reflection, joy, inspiration, warmth and energy – these are a few words usually used to describe Elizabeth’s lectures. Her passionate commitment cannot be unnoticed, her wish to help people to improve their quality of life. She shares her experiences from many of the groups and people that she has met throughout the years.

It is obvious that Elizabeth has lectured for a range of groups and professions, as she is comfortable in most contexts. She has been nominated for Swedish Speaker of the Year several times and rewarded as Speaker of The Year 2019 and also Eminent Speaker several years.

LEADERSHIP

Leadership Training and Coaching

Everyone can benefit from being coached, not only the members of the group, but also the leader of this group. This coaching programme is about increasing one’s self-knowledge and self-awareness in regard to how you work as a leader in a team, as well as to learn more about the different types of leadership necessary for a variety of groups.

Elizabeth has worked with a vast range of managers on different levels within the private and public sectors. She dares to ask powerful questions and to push the boundaries and is devoted to help you be the best manager you can be and to make the most of your position.

Leadership coaching helps you as a manager to:

• Embrace your leader role with clarity and confidence
• Improve your inner strength and move forward in your personal development
• Strengthen your self-esteem and confidence
• Use your full capacity as a leader
• Learn more about group development
• Handle the demands from yourself and your surroundings
• Let go of unwanted behaviours, such as control needs and performance anxiety
• Learn to delegate tasks
• Become more strategic in your work, create a better structure and thereby become more efficient
• Communicate successfully with your surroundings

TEAM

Unfortunately it is not very common for people to partake in a mature, high-performing team during their careers. Many groups never get to that stage of their group process but end up at a less developed level. Some groups never get beyond the first stage, where belonging and safety is so important that the group members don’t want to stand out, don’t make their opinions heard or feel like they can show their true self, because of the fear not to be welcomed and not to belong.

On the other hand, there are many things a group can do to progress in its development! Elizabeth works with training and coaching groups who want to aim higher, or groups that are full of misunderstandings and conflicts.

INDIVIDUAL

Therapy for individuals

Do you need to have control? Do you have performance anxiety? Unfulfilled dreams and hopes, no zest for life, a lack of self-knowledge, or the feeling that life is just passing by? Does your jealousy ruin relationships? Are you limited by your fears? Do you have low self-esteem? Are you stuck in a destructive behavior but dream about daring to break free, to invest in your own personal development, to stop or begin something, change old patterns, do more and better, to prioritize, make your own choices, and more than anything else: to become the best version of you? Does this sound interesting?

Therapy or coaching begins with a first session with Elizabeth, and then the following sessions will be custom-made completely after your needs. Elizabeth is one of the most requested therapists and coaches in Sweden and has been so over the past few years. She is strongly committed and engaged in the happiness of people and wants to strengthen people on the inside and out.

Therapy or coaching for individuals will help you to:

• Make your dreams come true through setting goals and work towards achieving these
• Boosting your self-esteem and confidence, increase your self-respect and self-knowledge
• Use your full capacity as a human
• Handle the demands and expectations in your surroundings
• Balance your personal life and career
• Let go of unwanted behaviours and enjoy life to the fullest
• Create the conditions necessary to have a good relationship with your family, partner, children, colleagues, friends and others
• Communicate successfully with people in your surrounding

WORKSHOPS

The Best Manager in the World

One manager has made a habit of bringing down the team every day; another one can boost everyone’s confidence and thereby reach great results. One manager is never there; another one is controlling every step of the staff members. Managers can enthuse, motivate, inspire, and develop the group of staff, but also break down, undermine and control the group, and thus demotivate the co-workers.

You might become a manager the day you step into that office, but you are not a leader until your team is behind you. There are many kinds of leadership, no matter your title, and these will be suitable for different contexts and situations. The leader who can switch between the different styles and gain the trust from the staff, boost the confidence of the co-workers, and make the business flourish – that leader can make it far!

Elizabeth has learnt many useful lessons during her years of working with leadership for individuals and management programs, and will share her knowledge during these reflective, progressive, and challenging lectures.

BOOKS

Elizabeth has written several books that deal with a range of topics for your personal development.

Success with Feedback

Our motivation will be higher, our efficiency greater, our colleagues happier and our accomplishments better, if we receive more feedback in the workplace. Everyone is a winner when using feedback!
So, why are we so bad at giving and receiving feedback? Most people say that they don’t get enough feedback, and the feedback you get is usually received in the wrong way. “It was not my fault”, you might say if you are being critiqued and thereby try to defend yourself, and “I didn’t do anything special” when you are praised.

Elizabeth wants to show you how to give and receive constructive and confirming feedback in her book Success with Feedback. You will learn how to handle others who reject criticism, how to express compliments to a colleague, how managers can recognize everyone in a group at the same time as paying extra attention to those who may need more guidance. You will also learn how to make sure that you will get the feedback that you are missing, and to handle the feedback that scares you, in addition to know how to give feedback to those superior to you in the organization.

Success with Feedback was nominated to the Swedish Human Resources Book of the Year in 2014. The panel (Staff & Leadership) believed that the book offers a deeper understanding of a current and requested topic- They wrote that “this book gives you the full package: background, theory, models, tools, and useful advice. It is written with great commitment and is easy to read.”

Good Enough Parenting

How often do you arrange your children’s outfit to make sure they wear the right clothes to school? Do you prepare the most amazing, packed lunches to impress the teachers? Are you the extra dad who does everything to be accepted by the children of the new wife? Are you stressing to get to kindergarten early even if your child loves to stay late to play? Or are you the parent of teenagers who has a hard time to set rules as you are afraid of creating a conflict?

What are we teaching our children when we are trying to make everything perfect all the time? When we never say no, barely sit down for more than 15 minutes at a time, or prioritize a shining sink above everything else?

“I became a 1000 times better mum the day I decided to relax more, get rid of my bad conscience and trust myself as a parent instead.”

This quote is by Elizabeth, who with humor and seriousness describes her own experiences as the perfectionist mother, ambitious school parent, engaged football mum, and how she managed to change her situation.

Good Enough Parenting is her fifth book, which begins from the pregnancy and takes you a long until your child is 18 years old. It gives you inspiration, motivation, and useful advice for all parents! When you as a parent is more secure in yourself, take life with a pinch of salt and treat yourself with respect, your child will grow up in a more harmonious surrounding.

Elizabeth was involved with BRIS (Children’s Rights in Society) for almost 15 years, then Ecpat and Tjejzonen (The Girl Zone).

Let’s Talk

“You are so boring if you leave already!”

“I love spending time with you, and I will miss you when you leave.”

Can you hear the difference between these two sentences? The first one is accusing, with the purpose of making you feel guilty. The second one is expressing love and will make you feel appreciated. Let’s Talk is full of advice on how to communicate to improve your relationships.
Good relationships always top the surveys on what makes people the happiest – far ahead of trips to paradise islands, renovated kitchens, and high work bonuses. Yet we spend surprisingly little time on these relationships that mean the most for us. However, through small steps we can make a huge difference!

Our communication will show our values, what attitude we choose to wake up with each day and thereby what results we will have achieved when we go to bed in the evening. When we say what we truly mean and dare to express what our heart is telling us, then our relationships, both with others and with ourselves, will become magical. Through expressing ourselves with clarity, and improving our listening skills, we will not have to face any more misunderstandings and unnecessary conflicts and will instead gain confidence and respect.

But how does this work? Elizabeth will bring us on a journey through Let’s Talk, where we can learn how to handle those who steal our energy, respond to insulting comments, quarrel in a better way with our partners, make difficult conversations as managers or talk to our teenagers.

Let’s Talk includes exercises, new mindsets, models of expressions, as well as inspiration and communication which will improve your relationships and thereby also your quality of life – everyone will be a winner!

Let’s Talk was published in Sweden in 2011, followed by India, Germany, Russia, Estonia and Brazil.
Many companies in Sweden have bought this book for all the employers to improve their communication at the workplace.

Free from Perfectionism

Do you feel weighed down by the constant pressure of trying to make everything perfect? The ex-perfectionist Elizabeth gives you all her advice on how to improve your self-esteem to distance yourself from your achievements, and thereby become the real winner, in her book Free from Perfectionism.

Free from Perfectionism is part of a non-fiction series with short books of 100 pages maximum, which can be read in an hour. You can start changing your life whilst taking a plane from Stockholm to Malmö, or during that hour between the late news and bedtime. All the books in the “På en timme”-serie by Forum (“In an hour”) can be read within an hour but will give you knew knowledge that lasts a lifetime. This small book is a great gift to someone who, in their stressful everyday life, needs to take a moment to gather their thoughts about how they can choose to approach life and what is important.

Jealousy Emergency

What actually is jealousy? What is it that makes us think that we have the right to control another person, and thereby act in fear?

For a long time, the most common question that was emailed to Elizabeth was how do I handle my jealousy? Or how do I handle the jealousy of others? Elizabeth tried to refer these people to methods, books, lecturers, seminars, and so on, but nothing seemed to be enough. As a result, she decided to write the book herself, the book that could not be found on any bookshelves, even if jealousy is something that most people will have experienced.

The Jealousy Emergency was released in 2010 (Forum) to help all the jealous people in the country, and then as a paperback in 2011 (Månpocket).

Jealousy is becoming more and more common, as families change and new relationships are created, siblings fight over their parents’ love, and adults can be jealous of a new partner’s children from a previous relationship. There can be jealousy among colleagues, or friends, and it often evolves when someone is feeling left aside, overtaken, or excluded. However, jealousy is most often found in romantic relationships, where it can be expressed as both a comedy and a tragedy.
It can be the woman who reads her husband’s email and messages every morning before he wakes up, or the man who can’t let go of the suspicion that his wife was flirting at a party – in 1968!
This book offers a way out – both for the jealous person and those who are affected by other people’s jealousy. It offers an emergency strategy for the moment and a foundation to how you can rebuild yourself and your mental strength, so that you can handle jealousy from now on.

Elizabeth writes in an insightful and captivating way about jealousy, its background, causes and consequences. The Jealousy Emergency is a profoundly straight forward, interesting, and hopeful book full of possibilities, knowledge, advice, coaching, and people’s honest stories about jealousy.

Good Enough

Good Enough – Free Yourself from Perfectionism (Forum 2009) became a bestseller as soon as it arrived in the bookshops around Sweden and is still selling well; recently it was back on the list of bestselling paperbacks. There are many people that want to learn about how to find a more relaxed approach to their achievements, and Good Enough has also been released in Norway (Du er god nok) and Germany (Mir reicht’s).

Good Enough is used by people and companies; schools have used it as guiding material, and those training to become coaches have used the book as course literature.

A play was written based on Good Enough, which went on tour at schools all over Sweden.
Good Enough was published as a paperback during the summer of 2010, and got even more attention as a Swedish skier won a bronze medal in the world championships and revealed that she had used Good Enoughto help her reach her goals and have fun at the same time.

Someone puts on mascara one eyelash at the time, someone seriously believes that her way of doing the laundry is the only correct way, and someone else must write a to-do-list with the most beautiful handwriting possible.

Perfectionism can be an obstacle for people’s health, beyond the perfect achievements. Did you know that perfectionists rather refrain if they are not 100% certain that they will succeed? Or that people who are close to a perfectionist feel that they are also affected by the perfectionist’s low self-esteem and desire to be liked?

Elizabeth was almost killed by her perfectionism, but managed to turn it around, and now she is living the life of her dreams, by helping others. The requirements of making everything perfect involve all parts of life: work, weekends, home, relationships towards children, family, and friends, as well as one’s view on the body and the appearance.

Elizabeth uses humour and thoughtfulness as she tells us about what life can look like for a perfectionist, or for someone who lives with a perfectionist, using stories of her own combined with those of others.

Elizabeth gives you clear advice on how to make a change, not just to survive, but to actually live! It is all about understanding that you are – good enough.

Elizabeth Wiborg was previously Gummesson & Kuylenstierna.

For more information and contact: elizabeth@elizabethledarskap.com