[slow down to speed up]
Relax. This is not a place for quick fixes or instant answers. It is a space to slow down, reflect, and grow the inner capacity required for wise leadership in complex and consequential times.
We are no longer in a normal cycle. Leaders today face converging pressures — geopolitical instability, ecological overshoot, technological acceleration, and societal fragmentation — that cannot be met with speed alone. What is being tested is not only strategy or execution, but leadership maturity itself.
This blog explores leadership, strategy, and transformation through a deeper, integrative lens — connecting inner development with outer impact, and short-term decisions with long-term consequences. It’s not for those in a hurry, but for those who realise that they will regularly have to slow down to see clearly and co-create meaningful impact and renewal across self, teams, organisation, and beyond.

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 >>

Welcome to a free online learning space designed to support you as a leader in developing your capacity to lead in uncertainty – with wisdom, clarity, care and courage.
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
Welcome to slow down to speed up – and enjoy the reading!

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Fit for Purpose — Designing Business Around What Truly Matters
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The Fit for Purpose Model Navigator (AI)
The Fit for Purpose Model is a free strategic framework designed to help purpose-led leaders design and transform their organisations to become aligned with…
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Fit for Purpose: Learning from the Past, Acting in the Present, Designing for the Future
Time is change, transformation and evolution. Still, when leadership teams gather to discuss strategy, the conversation often begins with numbers, market shares, risks, competitors…
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Beyond leadership as plumbing and poetry
Not too long ago, I came across the book On Leadership by James G. March and Thierry Weil, a leadership classic from 2005, coming…
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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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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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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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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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