Solveig Beyza Narli Evenstad

About

Solveig Beyza Narli Evenstad is an Associate Professor of Organization and Leadership at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Campus Gjøvik. She teaches Sustainable Organization and Management of Innovation at master's level, and courses like Organizations and Management, Organizational psychology and Leadership, Quality Management and Qualitative methods at bachelor level.

Her research topics are at the intersection of organization, leadership, communication, innovation, digitalization and digital transformation and she has a particular interest in manufacturing and process industry as well as health sector and how technology implementation is influencing organizations, individuals and society at large.

She is also a research associate at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, now Université Côte d'Azur, the research laboratory SIC.Lab Méditerranée where she also focuses on impact of digital technologies on organizations, individuals and society at large.

After working with municipal health leaders in leadership development education in 2018-2019, Solveig focused increasingly on leadership development during 2020-2023. She was a Senior Leadership Development Specialist with Telenor’s Global Learning and Development function and owned, designed, developed, and facilitated in Telenor’s leadership development programs at various leadership levels in Nordics and Asia. Before that, she was a Senior Consultant with responsibility for Leadership Development at the Norwegian Correctional Services Academy.

Solveig was an Associate Professor (2017-2020) at the School of Business and Social Sciences, Department of Organization, Leadership and Management, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She has taught courses on Organizational Behaviour, HRM, Leadership, Change management, Innovation management, Communication, and Conflict and Crisis Management and developed the Digitalization School for SMBs and obtained several grants.

Doctor of Communication and Media Studies, she obtained her PhD in 2016 at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis with a focus on organizational and managerial communication. During her PhD, she was also a sessional lecturer (2012-2015) in two subjects in the organizational communication major of the department, in undergraduate and master level. She also taught two master courses at the IDRAC Business School in Mougins.

Her PhD thesis was on the role of communication in work-related stress and burnout. She obtained her master's degree in Organization and Leadership in 2011 (Master of Management, High Honors, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway) with a specialization in Relationship Management: Coaching, Counseling and Motivation. She holds also a BSc in Informatics (1988, Honors, University of Oslo) and BA in Management (1985, High Honors, Bogazici University, Istanbul).

She worked with information and communication systems in global companies as a line manager, consultant, project manager, and systems analyst in 20 years before embarking upon her academic career. Her expertise was in leveraging interdisciplinary and cross-cultural insights to drive technology-enabled innovation, enhance business processes, and streamline operational workflows. She excels in organizational design, fostering team and interdepartmental communication and collaboration, and leading transformative change initiatives in the implementation of large-scale innovation projects within complex organizational systems. She now continues working with research of and teaching how to increase organizational sustainability with focus on ambidexterity and resilience for organizations and employees in today's VUCA world.

She has worked in Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, and France and had assignments in USA, UK, Sweden, Mexico. She speaks fluent English, Norwegian, French and Turkish.

Publications

Teaching

Courses

Outreach

2023

Academic lecture

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2023) Exploring Leadership and Organizational Strategies for Navigating Uncertainty: Insights from the BANI Framework - A Theoretical Analysis. Høgskolen i Innlandet og NTNU NEON-konferansen , Trondheim 2023-11-21 - 2023-11-23

2019

Academic lecture

Slåtten, Terje; Lien, Gudbrand; Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli; Onshus, Terje. (2019) Nominated best selected papers for publication at QMOD Conference 2019 Paper: "Supportive study climate and academic performance among univeristy students:The role of psychological capital, positive emotions and study engagement". Lund University and Lindköping University The 22nd QMOD-ICQSS Conference 2019: Leadership and Strategies for Quality, Sustainability and Innovation in the 4th Industrial Revolution , Krakow 2019-10-13 - 2019-10-15

2018

Academic lecture

Slåtten, Terje; Lien, Gudbrand; Onshus, Terje; Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2018) THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL FOR STUDENT RELATED OUTCOMES- A STUDY FROM HIGHER EDUCATION IN NORWAY. FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB 7th M-Sphere Conference 2018 Multidisciplinarity in Business & Science , Zagreb 2018-12-12 - 2018-12-14
Academic lecture

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2018) You cannot not connect! Hyper-connectivity as a sign of employee engagement and exercising the right to disconnect as a sign of disengagement: a new double-bind . Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge NEON 2018 , Lillehammer 2018-11-20 - 2018-11-22
Academic lecture

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2018) The common denominator between innovation-adverse and stress-inducing work environments: perpetual paradoxes. SFSIC CONGRÈS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES SCIENCES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION , Paris 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-15
Academic lecture

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2018) ATOUTS ET RISQUES DU NUMÉRIQUE AU TRAVAIL Quelle place pour l'information et la communication ?. Université Côte D'Azur FORUM M2 CCOSII , Nice 2018-04-16 - 2018-04-16
Interview

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2018) L’accélération technologique. ForumDigital ForumDigital [Business/trade/industry journal] 2018-04-05

2017

Academic lecture

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2017) «Hvordan studenter mestrer og fungerer i sin hverdag: en studie av psykologisk kapital, akademisk prestasjon, studieengasjement og studentutbrenthet blant HINN studenter». HINN Wintergames , Hamar 2017-11-27 - 2017-11-28
Academic lecture

Evenstad, Solveig Beyza Narli. (2017) Organizational change and work stress: The role of organizational changes in the work stress and burnout experience of Norwegian and French ICT workers. NEON-konferansen 2017: Omstillingsprosesser , Bodø 2017-11-21 - 2017-11-23

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