Olen Gunnlaugson

Olen Gunnlaugson, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Leadership and Coaching at Université Laval’s Business School in Québec, Canada, specializing in transformative and wisdom-based approaches for developing leaders and coaches.

His current research in Dynamic Presencing explores how presence and presencing-based mastery create the inner conditions for professionals engaged in transformational work to uncover and empower their wisdom way of being, cultivating resilient ways of thriving amid today’s destabilized and rapidly shifting world.

Dynamic Presencing introduces a presence-sourced, presencing-guided, and field-attuned approach to leadership, coaching, and life as a whole. His latest book, featured below, offers an introduction to this presencing approach. Two new books currently underway go much more into depth into its core practices and frameworks.

To date, his research contributions have appeared in over 55 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and in 15 edited, authored, and forthcoming books—including the recent three-volume series Advances in Presencing, which brings together leading-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from the global presencing community.

His passion for creating meaningful, transformative learning environments for MBA students has been recognized through five prestigious faculty awards for excellence in teaching in Canada and the USA. At Université Laval and other universities internationally, he mentors MBA and PhD candidates in exploring new frontiers of research in leadership and coaching.

He also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching (IJPLC), a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal that bridges emerging scholarship and practice in the fields of presencing-based leadership and coaching.

In parallel, Olen is the founder of Dynamic Presencing Coaching (DPC), a transformative coaching approach and living lineage of practice. As his principal focus of applied research, DPC integrates his teaching, coaching, and presencing-related scholarship into a unified body of work that has continued to evolve over the past five years through engagement within global MBA classrooms and international communities of practice.

To explore his research, publications, and latest contributions, visit his profiles on LinkedIn, Google Scholar, or ResearchGate.