Kaisa-Leena Pesonen

Chaos-to-Comfort Specialist | Sourdough of Facilities Management | Workplace Experience’s Secret Ingredient | Adding the Dill-Pickle Twist to Your Work Environment Pizza | Making Work… Work

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

About

Facilities Management and space management specialist with a people‑first mindset and a healthy tolerance for chaos (especially the kind that hides opportunities). Multilingual, endlessly curious, and always learning. I care deeply about making people’s work life better by designing and managing environments that support work instead of getting in the way of it. My background spans Workplace & Employee Experience, Facilities Management, EHS, and Corporate Security, which means I naturally balance comfort, safety, functionality, and calm operations. Best deployed when solving problems, negotiating practical solutions, and investigating root causes until confusion turns into comfort and things quietly run smoothly. Key interests: Workplace Experience, Employee Experience, Facilities Management, Hybrid Work, Employee Wellbeing, EHS, Corporate Security, and people‑centred work environments.

Experience

  • Facility, Real Estate & Security at Picosun - An Applied Materials Company
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Contract Research Analyst at Self-employed
    May 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

    Due diligence research in Finnish, English, Estonian, Swedish and Spanish

  • Facility Project Lead at ICEYE
    Apr 2022 - Jul 2022 · 4 mos

    Project Lead for the main office renovation project.

  • Co-founder, chairperson at Juustotytöt
    Dec 2018 - Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Facility Administrator at Airbus / Secure Land Communications
    Jul 2018 - Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Responsible for all the facility related tasks and projects of the Helsinki office. Operative lead of the office and work culture renovation project 2020-2022.