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Future
Navigators
Academy

Build foresight and leadership maturity through immersive learning experiences that expand capacity to sense, adapt, and evolve.

Learning that transforms — building the capacity to sense, adapt, and evolve.

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Courses and programs

We help leaders build the capacities to navigate beyond business as usual, in open or bespoke programs. We have designed immersive learning experiences for both executives and master’s students for some of the top business schools in Europe and the Nordics.

Below is a selection of courses and programs. Contact us to explore how we can help design an experience fit to your needs.

[ Online program ]

The Better Business Acceleration Program™

Self-paced online | 24h of learning in six modules

Business leaders and businesses can contribute to a better world! This unique online program helps you navigate the why and the how of the Sustainability Revolution and learn from trailblazers such as Patagonia, Interface, Unilever, Ørsted, IKEA, and Oatly. Everything to accelerate the transformation towards Better Business and co-creating a better future.

Based on the book Better Business Better Future by Elisabet Lagerstedt (2022), who is also your host and guide on this journey.

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[ Workshop ]

Better Business Strategy

In person | Three days

This is a three-day workshop and program for leadership teams offered live in English or Swedish. You will learn and apply a purpose-led Better Business Strategy development process with your own company’s strategic renewal in focus. It can be built out to encompass a whole strategy process covering 9 days over a four to six-month period.

Offered to corporate clients only.

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Leading in times of change, distruption and renewal

In person or online | Three days

In a world of accelerating change and disruption, an organization’s resilience relies heavily on its leadership’s collective ability to adapt, innovate, and guide the way forward in multiple horizons. Here we explore just that and equip you and your team for the road ahead to build a Better Business and co-create a better future.

Currently offered to corporate clients only.

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Desiging the theory of change

In person or online | Two days

This two-day combined program and workshop will help strategic business leaders and teams explore how to develop a Theory of Change in a step-by-step co-creative process that supports a sustainable and regenerative future. 

Currently offered to corporate clients only. 

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[ Workshop ]

Business model exploration for sustainable and regenerative futures

In person or online | Two days

This two-day combined program and workshop, is designed to help strategic business leaders and their teams identify the big problem they aim to solve, the outcome they aim to accomplish, and explore potential business models supporting a sustainable and regenerative future. 

Currently offered to corporate clients only. 

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[ Workshop ]

Value proposition design for sustainable and regenerative futures

In person or online | Two days

This two-day combined program and workshop is designed to help business leaders and product leaders identify the problems they aim to solve and explore value propositions supporting a sustainable and regenerative future. 

Currently offered to corporate clients only. 

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[ Workshop ]

Leadership for impact

In person or online | Two days

Leading transformational change beyond business as usual asks for us as business leaders to go inside of ourselves, understand our values and beliefs, and get in touch with our own purpose. This program is designed to do just that. 

Can be combined with 1:1 executive coaching.
Currently offered to corporate clients only. 

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[ Workshop ]

Leading in flow

In person | Three days

Leading in flow helps you tap into neural pathways in the brain into faculties you already possess but might not be consistently using at work. This is a state to be activated rather than something you learn from a management book. Here we help you practice tapping into your inner core—the space of your highest potential and best self—and how to bring that space with you as a leader at work.

Can be combined with 1:1 executive coaching.
Offered to corporate clients only. 

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[ Workshop ]

Go beyond: Impact leadership retreat

In person | Three to five days | South of Sweden*

This 3-5 day in-person leadership retreat in the South of Sweden we get together to increase our self-awareness, and expand our leadership capacities to navigate a VUCA world, and lead change and renewal beyond business as usual, enabling the co-creation of Better Business and a Better Future.

Can be combined with 1:1 executive coaching.

*Location and venue can be discussed. 
Offered to corporate clients only. 

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[ Workshop ]

The better business Mastermind

Online | 6-8 people | €4,500/person

In this MasterMind with Elisabet Lagerstedt, a small, select group of business leaders get together online on a monthly basis. Starting out with the six key online modules of the Better Business Acceleration program, we then deep-dive into the frontiers of Better Business, and explore the horizon beyond: from leadership capacities, to strategy, innovation, and transformation. And we work together to put this to use – to build Better Business and co-create a Better Future. 

Currently offered to corporate clients only. 

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How we can help

Future Navigators Academy helps develop the future-fit leadership capacity needed in an increasingly complex world of accelerating change.

Through programs that integrate foresight, systems thinking, and vertical leadership development, participants learn to navigate complexity with greater clarity and coherence. Each journey expands awareness, adaptability, and capability — cultivating future-fit leaders who can sense emerging possibilities and act with purpose.

Core Focus Areas

  • Foresight, futures literacy, and systems awareness
  • Vertical leadership development and self-reflection
  • Adaptive and regenerative strategy thinking
  • Collaboration and sensemaking across boundaries
  • How to move beyond business as usual and build Better Business

How It Works

Offered as open programs or tailored in-company experiences, our programs range from half-day masterclasses to multi-month blended learning journeys. Sessions combine lectures, dialogue, experiential practice, peer learning, and guided reflection. All formats are designed to meet participants where they are — stretching and developing both mindset and skillset.

Typical Outcomes

  • Shared language for future-fit leadership across your leadership team
  • New perspectives and skills
  • Increased contextual awareness
  • Renewed confidence and clarity of direction
  • Expanded capacity to lead through ambiguity

Ready to strengthen your leadership for the future unfolding?

Explore upcoming programs or contact us to co-design a tailored learning experience for your organization.

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