Petri’s extensive experience within Academia and ICT business covers themes such as strategy, internationalization and human resources. Petri has made a long career as an academic, a manager, and as a consultant for various companies in the starting phase of their internationalisation process and entering into new markets.
When Petri got his first experience with NoviCraft he was impressed with the opportunities it provides for companies. Through the practical experience as a Human Resource director he knew the challenges companies are facing at the moment with personnel development, in NoviCraft he saw the solution to this challenge.
Petri Ahokangas, Co-Founder and CEO, Professor International Business at the University of Oulu
Jaana Kuusipalo, Co-Founder
Jaana’s expertise on leadership and the effects of generational change in organisations provides new insights into leadership that TeamingStream can and has applied into NoviCraft and NoviCraft training sessions. Jaana’s work experience from organization development, project management and lecturing has provided pedagogical expertise that enables her to turn leadership lectures into exciting adventures for student, not to mention the application of NoviCraft in the process.
Johanna Bluemink, Founding Partner, Specialist on immersive learning and design
Johanna’s education and research on collaborative learning and social interaction in web-based learning environments has been the foundation of NoviCraft game and its scientific background. Her strengths are in applying theoretical knowledge into practice in order to grasp the core mechanisms of intelligent human actions. Johanna enjoys to learn and work with inspiring people and create something new together. Her doctoral thesis manuscript is currently under review and she expects to defend her thesis at the Research Unit for Learning and Educational Technology at the University of Oulu in early spring 2011. Her core research interest are in intersubjective meaning making, collaborative learning, technology-supported learning, social...
Piritta Leinonen, co-founder
Piritta’s research and practical work experience along with knowledge on how to empower distributed teams to perform better with the use of technology has been great advantage when developing NoviCraft. Her research finding has been modeled into NoviCraft and many teams have learned how to improve their communication in distributed teams. In addition her expertise rises from the practical work experience in a global HR team in the ICT sector. Her doctoral thesis was entitled: “Interpersonal evaluation of knowledge in distributed team collaboration” for the Research Unit of Educational Technology, University of Oulu, ...
Lotta Hietanen, Project Manager
Lotta is a M.Sc. (Econ.) from the University of Oulu and she did her Master’s thesis with a title “Effects of M&A on employees’ psychological contracts and workplace commitment”. Her career progressed to ICT sector where she acted as a marketing coordinator first, before joining TeamingStream as a project manager. Her passion is to learn on the methodologies that build better work places and through that help companies succeed and prosper.
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Testimonials
“My team is going through large change process, and needed something common to get energy. We played NoviCraft online and used the support material from TeamingStream for reflection. The game really got the team engaged and revealed...
