[slow down to speed up]
Welcome to a journey beyond business as usual! Here, you can learn more about conscious and transformative strategy and leadership development, to accelerate Better Business, and co-creating a better future—from the outside in, inside out, and from the future back. Your guide and coach is Elisabet Lagerstedt, who has chosen to dive deeper into Transformative Business Leadership as part of a PhD after 30+ years in business and leadership.

This short clip is from a longer dialogue with Vincent Stanley, the Director of Philosophy at Patagonia (January 12, 2023), as part of the Better Business Acceleration Program™. You can read more about Patagonia’s journey here >>
The Better Business Acceleration Program™ will help you move beyond business as usual to develop future-fit leadership and a future-fit business.
This journey starts with you!
As business leaders, we can go far beyond demonstrating in the streets. We can mobilize capital, minds, and actions and cooperate to nudge consumers into making choices that co-create the healthy future we want and need for our business, humanity, and the generations to come—our own children and grandchildren included. Below are a few resources to help you accelerate this important shift.



Latest blog posts
Beyond Business as Usual
Welcome to slow down to speed up – and enjoy the reading!

Leadership
A Challenge of Leadership Capacity: We Are Not in a Normal Cycle
For much of modern business history, leadership has been shaped by a fairly stable mental model of how change unfolds: a model deeply intertwined…
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Leadership, Strategy
Why leadership, wisdom, and inner capacity need to shape strategy in the age of AI
The past years have not been demanding because of one disruption, but because of the simultaneity of many forces unfolding at once. Geopolitical volatility…
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Strategy
The Inner Practice of Leadership & Strategy: Slowing Down to See Clearly and Lead Wisely
There is an aspect of strategy that we rarely acknowledge, perhaps because it feels too subtle, too human, or too inward to fit comfortably…
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Leadership
The Power of Slowing Down: Finding Clarity and Coherence in Complex Times
In a world that rewards speed, slowing down can feel countercultural — even irresponsible. Yet for leaders navigating increasing complexity, slowing down is not…
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Strategy
Introducing the Strategy Navigator: A Reflective Partner for Leaders Beyond Business-as-Usual
The challenges facing business today are not only strategic and operational — they are existential. Climate change, societal fragmentation, technological disruption, and shifting stakeholder…
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Leadership
Seven Boundaries Breached – and the Silence in the Room
Yesterday, the Planetary Health Check 2025 was released. Its message is sobering: human activities have now pushed Earth beyond seven of the nine scientifically…
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Leadership
Riding the Shake: Meeting the Inner and Outer Challenges of Transformation
If you are leading transformation today, you already know it is not just a technical project or a strategy exercise. It is a lived,…
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Leadership
From Overwhelm to Evolution: Navigating the Leadership Gap in a VUCA World
Across the world, more and more leaders are at unease and sensing the consequences of the growing leadership capability gap — a sign that…
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Leadership
The Key to Future-Fit Leadership: Why Growing Yourself Is the Most Strategic Move You Can Make
Next to me lies Giles Hutchins’ latest book, Keys for Future-Fit Leadership. It’s a book summarizing and visualizing the very best of Giles’ work…
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Trends
Business at a Crossroads: a Global Snapshot of Leadership, Themes, and Tensions
I will be joining the President’s Summit in Copenhagen next week. It’s one of Northern Europe’s leading business conferences, with more than 3000 participants…
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Trends
Rethinking Growth: Why the Future of Progress Needs a Rethink
Rethinking growth? If you are a business person like me, this may feel like an odd and strangely relevant question at the same time,…
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Leadership
Whole Systems Transformation – from the inside out
Last week, I participated in a deeply rewarding program outside of Paris: Transforming Organisations with the Barrett Values Centre. Our focus was on whole…
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