Thomas Sewerin Email & Phone Number

Malmö, Skane County, Sweden

Coaching management teams in all kinds of business and public organisations

With Lars Berglund and Magnus Folkesson, Thomas started a new publishing company in 2007, dedicated to workbooks for learning and team development, Tertulia books. The literal meaning of the Spanish Tertulia is café conversation, the word refers to the famous cafés of Madrid where new models of culture and community were talked forth in dynamic and spontaneous conversations among equals.Tertulia Books published in 2008 Gå Malmö – reflektionspromander for arbetsgrupper (“Walk Malmö – reflection walks for work teams”) which is a series of exercises for teams to reflect about team development issues while walking and talking in different places of the city. The book is based on the creative notion of using places – outside of regular meeting venues – as coaches.

Lund, Sweden

In the fall of 2011 I enrolled at the University of Lund as a PhD student. Reactivated a commitment since twenty years back. I am now involved in research, actually two research projects. One is about leadership at the university, it's based on ten years of consultancy and leadership development programs at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. The topic is the influence of metaphors and theory making in leading the university through strategic challenges. The other project I'm involved in has to do with exploring the determinants of scientific creativity. It's a single case study, a biography of a successful research team in medical science in Lund. Plus all the courses necessary to fulfill the requirements of graduate studies.

Thomas joined the MiL Institute as an independent consultant in 1985 to work with designing and leading Management Development Programs in many of the largest corporations of Sweden. At MiL there was a constant development of theories and methods around leadership, management team development, and the coaching of action, reflection and learning. It was a virtual hotbed of creativity in this field. Thomas coached the learning coaches of MiL for many years in series of seminars. He wrote papers, and eventually the books En plats i stolen – en arbetsbok för grupper om grupper (roughly, “Chairs – a workbook for teams about teams”) and Hållplatser – sex berättelser om coaching (“Holding Places – six stories of coaching”) on MiL’s own publishing company MiL Publishers.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Industrial And Organizational Psychology, Phd

Master'S Degree, Psychology

Sociology Of Religion

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Organisational Psychology