Filipa Castanheira

Full Professor @ Nova SBE
Filipa Castanheira has been dedicated to executive training for over 14 years, with a clear focus: helping people better understand themselves and reflect on their role within organizations. In her teaching approach, science and practice come together—she brings science into the classroom (studies and concepts that help structure what people experience), but she likes to think that she also brings questions. Her work with executives centers on human behavior in organizations: leadership, team management, well-being and stress, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and organizational culture. She helps put things into words, provide context, offer new perspectives, and focuses on the gray areas to foster flexible thinking.
Leadership and Change Management

What is the profile of the business leader of the future?

Filipa Castanheira, Scientific Coordinator of the
Leadership and Change Management

The future now: The managers we have and the managers we need

We urgently need leaders of the future, but not necessarily new people. These new managers should focus on the development and expression of the competencies of the workers that make up the organisations. These people are already in the companies, but they are often "hidden" behind management systems that do not give space or time to prioritize the vectors and the most appropriate activities.
Leadership and Change Management

Female Leadership

For decades, organisations have been trying to improve diversity in the workplace, albeit with little success. Despite the fact that studies and business cases show that it is desirable and beneficial to have women in top positions in organisations, in Portugal, as in the rest of the world, there is still a marked under-representation of women in decision-making and leadership positions in organisations.