Prof. Dr. Oyvind Martinsen is a professor in organisational psychology at BI-Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. He took his PhD in psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen (also in Norway)
in 1995 where he was employed full-time from 1990 until 1998 and in 20% position from 2004-2008. He came to Norwegian Business School in 1998 as an associate professor in organisational psychology. Here, he was Associate Dean for BI’s Master of Management programs from 2003 to 2006. In 2006/2007, he was on leave from BI to be the head of the Norwegian Army’s Leadership Research Institute. He was adjunct professor in leadership at the same institution from 2011 to 2018. He is currently a professor in organisational psychology and was also head of department at Department for Leadership and Organizational Behavior at Norwegian Business School for eight years. He has written several articles in national and international research journals on leadership, personality, motivation, educational psychology, and creativity, and several book chapters and reports on the same topics. He is editor-in-chief for the
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. His current research projects are aimed at creative personality, personality testing in selection settings, military leadership, 360 degree leadership evaluations, self-leadership and
empowerment, and motivational influences on insight and creativity.
Prof. Dr. Jan Ketil Arnulf is a professor in industrial and organisational psychology. Currently, he serves at Department of
Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School in in Oslo, Norway. His main focus is on leadership development, cross-cultural leadership and the role of language and cognition in organisational behaviour.
In recent years, he has been exploring how language algorithms can predict and explain surveys on topics in organisational behaviour. He was a registered clinical psychologist before getting back to academia taking his PhD. He
received his PhD degree from the University of Oslo in November 2005. Prof. Dr. Arnulf has served as the Dean Executive of BI Norwegian Business School’s Executive programs and two periods as Associate Dean of the BI-Fudan MBA program.
