About us | Emergy

Who are we?

Emergy® is a pioneering Nordic company that specializes in developing and training Emotional Agency in the workplace.

Our core focus is on helping our clients understand human emotions in the workplace and fostering emotionally intelligent environments that promote well-being and drive business growth. We pride ourselves on our active academic co-operation and ongoing scientific research with the top universities in Finland, ensuring the highest quality of our trainings.

Let us help you unlock the power of human emotions and transform your workplace for the better.

Hard facts won’t make your company thrive. Emotions will.

Emergy's Team

Jarkko is a highly appreciated trainer and management team facilitator with decades of experience in emotion skills. He has helped hundreds of companies to create flourishing emotional climates and has trained thousands of professionals. Jarkko has published two books about workplace emotions and is constantly bringing in pragmatic insight from the latest research in the field of emotions at work.

Jarkko Rantanen

Master Trainer, Partner, MSc (Psyc)

Ira is a highly skilled organizational developer with strong experience in carrying out successful change management programs. She believes the success lays in understanding the key drivers of the people behind their professional roles. She utilizes her extensive background in leadership, management consulting and change management when helping clients develop their emotional skills and thriving workplace emotional climates.

Ira Leppänen

Master Trainer, Partner, MSc (Econ), Executive Coach

Hilkka-Maija is an experienced leadership and team developer. Before her career as an independent coach she has worked in international HR director positions. Her experience as a member of multinational management teams serves as basis for appreciating the challenges and realities of creating and sustaining successful operations. In her mind “bottom line” business focus and individual wellbeing are to co-exist.

Hilkka-Maija Katajisto

Master Trainer, Partner, MSc (Econ)

Henna is a true multi-skilled professional and organizing wizard who can juggle many balls at once. A people’s person who keeps her smile even under the pressure.

Henna Kapulainen

Emergy Coordinator

Henna is a true multi-skilled professional and organizing wizard who can juggle many balls at once. A people’s person who keeps her smile even under the pressure.

Tuuli has over 20 years of experience in leadership, wellbeing and emotional climate development in organisations. She is a highly regarded coach whose holistic approach creatively combines the theories and practices of business, work psychology and psychotherapy.

TUULI VIRANTA

Human advisor

Ellariina Rautio is a communication professional and a certified emotional skills coach by Emergy. Ellariina has worked in competence development and occupational well-being within a research organization and has served as an internal emotional skills coach. She possesses extensive communicative and pedagogical expertise and a strong passion for developing interaction skills in work communities. Ellariina's strength as a trainer lies in creating an open and trusting atmosphere.

Ellariina Rautio

Human Advisor, FM

Erica is analytical, creative, and open-minded, known for her quick wit and readiness for new challenges. At Emergy, she actively contributes to developing innovative products and services. Her background includes working in psychology research groups and teaching university-level statistics. Erica's expertise lies in psychological and neurocognitive assessment methods, as well as in psychometrics.

Erica Michelsson

Researcher, Developer, MSc (Psyc)

Victoria is an expressive and extroverted team member, who values efficiency. With a BSc Double Major in Biology and Psychology from Canada, she has gained experience across various fields. She is always eager to learn new skills to take on any challenge with a positive attitude.

Victoria Gora

Marketing, Content Creation

Elina is a leadership and corporate communications professional who believes that the key to success, both for individuals and organizations, lies in encountering people in an appreciative way. Elina has a solid track record of leading challenging change initiatives and a passion for developing leadership and providing people with means for change.

Elinä Ämmälä

Emergy Advisor, Master of Social Sciences

Tomi seeks novelty and opposes resistance to change. He solves problems openly and methodically. In his work, Tomi adapts quickly to changing situations, and he always has his eye on the next challenge. Tomi has worked as a managerial coach and business developer and in several system integration projects.

Tomi Hakala

Systems specialist

Miia is an expert in workplace empathy and cooperation, known for founding the CoPassion project and her impactful books like "The Power of Empathy at Work." With significant media presence and academic contributions, she specializes in training and research to foster compassionate work environments.

Miia Paakkanen

Emergy Advisor

With a long career as a leader, manager and consultant, Heikki is an experienced developer of work communities and management coach. In his own work, Heikki has concretely identified the crucial impact of the workplace's emotional climate on performance. Heikki helps organisations to manage their emotional climate with a confident approach, combining facts and practice.

Heikki Kankaanpää

Emergy Advisor, MSc (Econ), BSc (Tech).

Emergy in research:

Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure | Frontiers in Education (frontiersin.org)

Emotional competence at work | Journal of Organizational Change Management (Emerald Insight)

TUNTO – Emotions have an impact on the atmosphere in and results of a workplace (jyu.fi)

TUNTO2 – Emotional agency in strategy implementation | Aalto-University