Rethinking Performance and Stress: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Carin-Isabel Knoop founded and leads the Harvard Business School's Case Research and Writing Group. The nineteen-member team of researchers collaborates with Harvard Business School faculty members and public and private organizations worldwide to craft world-class curricular and pedagogical experiences. This work affords her a front-row seat to the professional and personal challenges of executives—insights that fuel her mission to develop resources and programs that support them and advance human sustainability at work. She has co-authored over 200 cases, a book on compassionate management of mental health at work with Professor John A Quelch (Springer, 2018), and nearly 100 articles on leadership, mental health, and performance. Her work reflects a multicultural background—born in Mexico to a French Catholic mother and German protestant father from a very different social context—that was as enriching as it could be lonely. As a result, she is interested in how we make sense of our world and build more compassionate workplaces. She loves talking to strangers and inviting them to dinner, writing postcards and torturing metaphors, and eating soft-serve ice cream.

A licensed psychological counselor, trauma and grief therapist, and a certified narcissistic abuse treatment clinician with a background in business, Susanna Sjoberg focuses on various aspects of workplace relationships, and organizational behavior. She has lived and worked in multiple countries, including China and India and has multicultural managerial experience. Sjoberg serves several United Nation's organizations and nonprofits, is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Pan-European Coalition on workplace mental health. She is also an Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid where she lectures about workplace well-being, nervous system safety, and relational stress to executives and graduate students.