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Dr. Natalia Fey is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI ºÚÁÏרÇø Business School, an ICF-certified organizational coach, and a co-founder of Climate Coaching Alliance Norway. She defended her doctoral dissertation, “Advancing coaching for leadership development: Coaching as an enabler of learning and well-being in local and global organizations,” at Hanken School of Economics in Finland, in the Fall of 2023.

Natalia's research deepens scholarly and practitioner understanding of how coaching enables leadership development beyond mainstream coaching forms and organizational contexts, and contributes to more inclusive leadership development. In particular, Natalia examines innovative coaching forms such as intercultural leadership coaching, peer coaching, and climate coaching, and she explores these coaching forms in little-studied organizational contexts such as international development organizations and emerging contexts such as self-managing organizations and green transition organizations. Further, Natalia Fey’s research interests include coaching for sustainability leadership, longitudinal approaches to leadership development, the dark sides of leadership development, and dyadic research design. In her research, she draws on more than ten years of professional experience in intercultural leadership coaching and training in the Nordics and China. Natalia is a regular presenter at the Academy of Management and European International Business Academy annual meetings, and a reviewer for several leading management journals and management conferences. Her previous work has been published in Organizational Dynamics and Advances in Global Leadership. She received a Best Reviewer Award from the International Management Division at the 2022 Academy of Management. Natalia is committed to enhancing the credibility of coaching and leadership development in organizations. Natalia's research can be read via , , and .