Kicki Oljemark, Ph.D., MSc, BSc

Varby Trädgård
614 92 Söderköping
Sweden

Email: kicki.oljemark@senspero.com, Kicki.oljemark@mdu.se
Phone: +46733569347
Web: www.senspero.com

Kicki Oljemark works mainly as a lecturer at the University of Mälardalen in Sweden. Her field of interest is primarily leadership and change management. Kicki has a huge interest in action research and in how action research with its possibilities of being a transformative process can empower individuals and groups.

Kicki also works part time as a leadership and organizational consultant with focus on social constructionist, systemic, narrative and strengths-based approaches. Kicki has a background with many years of own leadership experience and also experience from working as a systemic family therapist.

Kicki holds a Doctors degree in Systemic Leadership Practice. She also holds a MSc degree in Leadership and Organizational development and BSc in within social science.

Kicki’s passion is to contribute to contexts that will acknowledge, look for and strenghten peoples resources and potential.


Kicki works mostly in Sweden but also in England and in Tanzania. Examples of Swedish assignments: leadership programs in different communities, school development within a whole community with the aim to develop systemic and appreciative work throughout the whole school system. Kicki has also worked with a research project and community development in Tanzania together with Elspeth McAdam in collaboration with Harvard University and Muhimbili University. The aim was to educate facilitators who in their turn have been educating nearly 500 change agents in Tanzania. The aim was to by apprecaitive approaches empower people living with HIV to see their own resources and to become an important part of the solution themselves. The research project addressed important issues such as; a healthy and safe life, taking care of orphans, economic support for themselves, healthy relationships, helpful communication and self appreciation. The name of the project is Namweza and is a short name for Kwapa moja tona weza, Yes together we can!

Kicki is very much inspired by her meetings with different people in different contexts, collaborators, participants and commissioners. New learning increases all the time. Kicki has had the fortune to meet and work with a lot of inspiring people and two of them are Elspeth McAdam and Peter Lang.

Kicki has published three books in Swedish; one about systemic and strengths-based school development, and the last one; To lead in change, leadership, the power of Appreciative Inquiry and co-creation.

Kicki is a frequently engaged seminar holder. Her wish is to inspire into action and to support people to see their strengths, potential and action space. She often finds the action space within the words we use, questions we ask and helpful stories, values and dreams. Kicki strongly believes in the power of the co-created organization and community. She relies on an a social contructionist and appreciative foundation.