[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.







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Beyond Business as Usual
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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’ insights…
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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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Leadership
Facing the Wild Times: Cooperation, Collapse, and What It Means to Lead Now
Apocalyptic thinking usually doesn’t attract me, but yesterday, I still found myself adding Athena Akipis’s audiobook A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly…
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Trends
Reflections on 55 Years of Change: From Moon Landing to a Regenerative Future
I was born on July 15, 1969—just a few days before we as humankind first set foot on the Moon. As Neil Armstrong…
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Future
The Challenge of Rising Complexity in a VUCA World
I can’t help but be fascinated by history and currently read Joseph Tainter’s book The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), where he describes complexity…
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Leadership
The DELA Summit: Supporting Social Entrepreneurs for a Better Future
Last week, I attended the DELA Summit in Älmhult, Sweden—a remarkable gathering co-hosted by Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship. The summit brought together a…
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Leadership
Thriving in a VUCA World: Why Vertical Leadership Development is Key
In today’s world, we as business leaders face challenges that the best practices of management theory and even the best Ivy League business schools…
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Leadership
Book: Leadership and the New Science
I just finished listening to the book Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, by Margaret Wheatley, initially published in…
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Leadership
My brain is plastic – yours too!
When I was younger, I was taught that our brains stopped developing at the age of 25. It was believed that the brain had…
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Leadership
Why We Need Inner Development to Navigate and Catalyze Outer Change
Today’s world is often described as VUCA—volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The acronym captures the unpredictability of modern life, where everything from climate change…
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