Collection: Anneke (Anne) Leinonen

Anneke (Anne) Leinonen, PhD, studied speech sciences as her major subjects and is trained as a teacher, special education teacher, and linguist. She has also studied leadership and is enthusiastic about coaching-based leadership. She has studied NLP (Practitioner, Master, and Trainer Ass.) and has applied its principles in her teaching and supervisory work.

Anne has gained expertise in vocational education as a teacher, special education teacher, and lecturer at a teacher training college. She has also trained customer service and communication at a telecommunications company. She currently works as principal of a community college. One of her central ideas about workplace wellbeing is appreciation.

People should appreciate themselves, their skills, the people they meet, and the work they do. Working life involves many contradictory elements that one can live with – and even grow to like. Greet everyone you meet in your work, and remember that mistakes are essential for development.