Päivi Mayor

I work as a Principal Lecturer in the Business and Media unit at TAMK. I have over 25 years of experience as a leadership developer in international organizations in the financial, pharmaceutical and consulting industries. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland in 2000 for the innovation capacity of international product development teams. In leadership, I am particularly interested in motivational leadership, self-leadership, well-being at work, team leadership, and competence managemement. In all my activities, the goal is also to reduce the so-called. "accidentally bad ledership." Related to this topic and the Reiss Motivation Profile, ie the utilization of the RMP, is also the 2015 book "Guide to individual motivation" (Opas yksilölliseen motivointiin, Talentum 2015), which will be updated at the end of 2022.

I am at TAMK since 2009. Together with my colleague Mark Curcher, I manage the Master in Educational Leadership (MEL), a Master of Business Administration degree program that began in 2017, with about 25 international school, college, and university leaders or aspiring ones, starting each year. From the beginning, the program has been designed as a collaborative online program with three intensive weeks in Finland. We have succeeded in building a system where distance learning from others has been possible and where long-term friendships and well-functioning international networks have emerged.

I prefer using coaching and facilitation methods as a teacher and I enjoy getting to know groups and meeting new people. I am constantly trying to develop myself pedagogically and use activating teaching methods that maximize knowledge sharing and learning from others. I teach leadership to a wide variety of adult learners with different backgrounds and in various Master programs and commercial education.

I am involved intwo ESR funded projects, "Sustainable Brain Health" and "Distant leadership in the health care sector". In the Sustainable Brain Health project, we study the impact of individual motives on recovery, self-management and leadership, and develop practical tools and methods for creating a more brain-healthy working life. In the Distant Leadership project we have researched and developed methods to support the remote management and teleworking of healthcare personnel.

Since 2019 a speaker in the international educator's conference organised by UPC in Lima, Peru: XXIII Congreso Internacional de Educadores | UPC