Ingrid Johansson

Ingrid Johansson, PhD, was born in Sweden and lives in Stockholm. In 1997 she completed her doctoral thesis in Education at the University of Stockholm and then worked as a senior lecturer for 12 years at Mälardalen University. Her main research interests concerns older people in working life, older people in general and intergenerational relations. Among other things she was involved in a project comparing the daily lives of older people in Sweden and Japan. In 1999-2000 she stayed at the University of Sheffield in the UK for a year and studied younger managers with older subordinates in Sweden and the UK.

In 1972-1998 Ingrid Johansson was working with Human Resources in a private company in Sweden.

In 2007 she survived lung cancer and her life took a new turn. In 2012, after her retirement, she became a certified facilitator of The Passion Test and started a company called Senior Life Joy. Her interest in helping people grow and to find more joy in life has since then kept growing.