Elisabet Vinberg Hearn is a speaker, author, leadership strategist and executive coach who is passionate about creating Sustainability and long-term success for leaders and organisations around the world.
She is often hired to talk about Future Leadership and Winning Team, and is a published, award-winning author.
Elisabet has extensive experience from the business world, including 13 years with American Express, based in Sweden and in the UK, while working internationally. She has held various leadership roles, responsible for customer servicing, process re-engineering and corporate culture transformation.
She has a degree in Marketing Economics from IHM Business School and an MBA in Leadership and Sustainability from the University of Cumbria (Robert Kennedy College).
Read Elisabet's latest blog posts below
It’s OK to have an attitude
From WeTheCity’s Future Leaders blog Your attitude matters. In life, at work, in leadership. Attitude, perspective, approach, outlook – whatever we call it – it changes or impacts everything. Imagine if something unexpected or even unwanted happens. What if you...
Everyone is a leader
WeAreTheCity’s Future Leaders blog You may aspire to be a leader or you may already have a leadership role. Regardless of what your official role is, what we know is that you influence and have an impact on people every day. And you are therefore a leader. In fact,...
Performance reviews or not? Time for change?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leaders blog There are a lot of discussions going on at the moment regarding annual appraisals and whether they should be performed at all. Sadly appraisals are often ineffective and something people dread, both the person appraising and the...
Inspire hope
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s blog Hope is a great fuel of human drive and determination. As a leader, to inspire hope in others, and of course yourself, is one of your most important tasks. The future may seem unclear or uncertain at times – that’s only to be...
Don’t be a know-it-all, be a learn-it-all
From WeAreTheCity’ Future Leader’s blog Don’t be a know-it-all be a learn–it–all”Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft As leaders and influencers we are always learning, we can’t possibly have all the answers, how could we know everything? Yet so many leaders think they have...
Leading through change, what impact are you having?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future leader’s blog “Whosoever desire constant success must change his conduct with the times” Niccolo Machiavelli Change Change Change – how are we leading it, managing it or not? Let’s look at a story about change and the impact of a leader who...
The role of a leader
From 2020 Vision leader’s blog So much has been said said about leadership over the years, so much research is available. You may for example have heard about the concepts of Authentic Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Situational Leadership, Ethical Leadership,...
You don’t need all the answers, just good questions
From 2020 Vision leader’s blog Are you a leader? Do you feel like you have to have all the answers? Well, you don’t. In fact, you shouldn’t. It would in fact be absurd if you had all the answers – because no-one does. And if someone thinks he/she has all the...
The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
From 2020 Vision leader’s blog Is that you? Leadership is changing fast. And emotional intelligence is climbing to the top of desired leadership abilities. The ability to relate to others, to “get people”, to see people, to value others, to take care of how we impact...
Can you learn leadership from a book?
From 2020 Vision leader’s blog There’s a wealth of leadership books to choose from if you want to gain knowledge about leadership. But gaining knowledge and really learning so that you can apply your knowledge is not the same thing. Leaders will need to continuously...







