Ms Kristina Karlsson

Experience, background and philosophy

Kristina is based in Melbourne/Naarm and has northern ancestral roots.

She has held roles across the public and private sectors in organisational development, human resources, mediation, commercial law, native title policy, and settlement agreements with First Nations peoples. These experiences have given her a strong understanding of the complexity and challenges that organisations face.

Kristina works across consulting, teaching, research, coaching, and supervision, using systems psychodynamics and action research to help people and organisations make sense of complexity and work through change.

She also brings outdoor coaching into her work, using nature as a co-facilitator to create space for reflection, insight and grounded action. Her goal is to support clients to foster healthier, more thoughtful, and more sustainable ways of working.

Kristina’s research and practice focus on inter-cultural collaboration, the changing relationship between technology, people, and work, and the challenges and opportunities of hybrid working. She is particularly interested in how place and space influence how people connect, form identities, and collaborate across physical, digital, and cultural boundaries.

Committed to sharing ideas and growing the field, Kristina serves on the Editorial Board of the journal 'Socioanalysis' and is the journal’s Book Review Editor.