Elisabet Lagerstedt is a strategic advisor, transformative executive coach, and researcher working at the intersection of leadership maturity, systemic change, and future-readiness.

She supports leaders and organisations in navigating the “Complexity and Uncertainty Gap”—the space between our current cognitive capacity and the exponential challenges of the 2020s and 2030s.

Her work is grounded in foresight, transformative leadership and strategy development, helping executives broaden their perspectives, mature and widen their “window of tolerance” to lead meaningful, systemic transformation, while connecting the past, present and future.

As the Founder and CEO of Future Navigators, a Certified B Corporation, Elisabet works with executives and executive teams on strategic renewal and leadership maturity. Over the past 30+ years, she has held senior leadership roles at global corporations like Hilti Group and Thule Group, and advised leaders at innovative companies such as IKEA and Oatly.

Alongside her practice, Elisabet is currently pursuing a PhD in Transformative Business Leadership. Her research explores the shift from conventional to self-authoring mindsets, investigating how inner development enables leaders and entrepreneurs to cultivate transformative change across self, teams, organisations and ecosystems.

Elisabet is also the author of two books: Navigera in i framtiden (2018) and Better Business Better Future (2022). Since 2010, her writing has served as a platform for deep reflection on change, renewal and leadership; in 2025, her blog was recognised by Feedspot as one of the Top 100 Business Blogs worldwide.

Since 2011, she has been a pro-bono guest lecturer and mentor at the master’s program of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Lund University.

She holds a Master’s degree from Lund University School of Economics and Management and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School, Oxford, IMD, INSEAD, and Singularity University.

She is a also a certified Business Model Innovation Coach, StageSHIFT Transformative Coach, a Barrett Values Centre Consultant, and an Immunity to Change™ Facilitator.

You can explore more about her background on LinkedIn.