COURSE
Strengthen Your Leadership – Leaders with a Specialist Background
Learn to lead technical specialists with confidence. Gain practical tools to balance performance and well-being while leading in complex, technology-driven organisations.
Course details
København
21 October 2026
Duration: 3 days
DKK 16,000.00 - 18,000.00
Prices are excluding VAT.
English
Strengthen your leadership in technology-driven organisations
How do you lead highly specialized employees in a constantly changing technological landscape?
Leading technical experts requires more than technical expertise. It requires the ability to balance performance, well-being and organisational goals in complex, technology-driven environments.
This course combines practical leadership tools with an understanding of leadership in technical organisations. Building on your own professional expertise, you will strengthen your ability to lead upward, outward, and inward, across the organisation and within your own team.
The course introduces the FIRE and SHIELD frameworks, developed by Elize Dimare and Johnny Sørensen, which provide a practical approach to two central pillars of modern leadership: performance and well-being.
FIRE strengthens drive, direction and performance.
SHIELD strengthens psychological safety, balance, and well-being.
You will learn to apply both frameworks (both within yourself and within your team) and to design a leadership that considers the technological reality in which you and your team work.
What you will work with
- Leading technical experts and specialist teams
- Balancing performance and well-being
- Building psychological safety
- Leading in technology-driven organisations
- Strengthening your personal leadership
- Applying the FIRE and SHIELD frameworks to real leadership challenges
The course is for you if you lead highly skilled professionals
The course is relevant for you if you have a specialist or technical background and lead highly skilled professionals - or if you are responsible for driving progress within a specialist area.
You may be a people manager, project manager, team leader or specialist with leadership responsibility in a technical, engineering or knowledge-intensive organisation.
What you will gain from the course
After the course, you will be better equipped to lead yourself and others in complex professional and technological environments.
You will gain a clear leadership framework and practical tools to:
- Balance performance and well-being in your team
- Lead highly skilled professionals with greater confidence
- Build psychological safety while maintaining high performance
- Navigate organizational and technological change
- Apply the FIRE and SHIELD frameworks to your own leadership challenges
Company benefits
The organisation gains a leader who can support both performance and well-being in specialist teams.
After the course, the participant is better equipped to:
- Strengthen motivation, engagement and psychological safety
- Drive performance through clearer direction and focused leadership
- Support highly specialised employees in a technology-driven work environment
- Foster a leadership environment where specialists are motivated to stay, develop and perform
- Contribute to a healthier leadership culture with a stronger balance between performance and well-being
- Navigate organisational and technological change with greater clarity
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