Ten years of pressure taught me more about leadership than any course did.
I played professional basketball for a decade, in Finland and abroad, and was the first Finnish woman to play in the EuroLeague.
Sport teaches you things no classroom does: how to be accountable to people who are counting on you, how to lead when it's your turn and follow when it isn't, and how a team either trusts each other under pressure or falls apart.
After my playing career, I worked as a Financing Specialist at Danske Finance, then moved into a People role at the tech company Qvik, supporting HR, sales and marketing through growth and change. That's where I learned the other half of this: you cannot copy-paste a locker room into a corporation. The two worlds run on different rules.
What I do now sits between them. As a consultant, I bring hands-on experience leading change from inside organizations as a People Specialist, backed by a certification in change management practice. I take what actually works from competitive sport and help companies build change that people can live with.