Lene Alexandra Øien is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, performance coach and World Champion in bench press. Her career has moved through international entertainment, entrepreneurship and elite sport, environments where ambition, discipline and performance are part of everyday life.

For more than 15 years, Lene has coached executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other high-performing professionals. Through that work, she has become especially interested in what drives people to keep pushing, and in the difference between success that builds us and success that slowly wears us down.

She has studied Leadership and Change Management at BI Norwegian Business School and is certified in NLP and Mental Performance Coaching. She is also the author of two bestselling books on health, mindset and personal development.

At TEDxArendal, Lene brings together lived experience, years of coaching and performance psychology to explore what can hide beneath the discipline we admire, and why the same behaviour can be driven by either growth or survival.