Christel Kinning: The leadership qualities we can’t afford to keep ignoring
Christel Kinning: What 40+ years in business taught me about what we need next. These are the leadership qualities we can’t afford to keep ignoring.
Christel Kinning: What 40+ years in business taught me about what we need next. These are the leadership qualities we can’t afford to keep ignoring.
Recently, Future Navigators was named the Best Boutique Business Strategy Consultant 2025 in Sweden by EU Business News, as part of their European Business Awards.
Rapid advances in AI are fundamentally changing how decisions are made, how work gets done, and how trust is built. At the same time, the economic landscape has remained uneven, with easing but persistent inflation pressures and cautious capital allocation.
There is an aspect of strategy that we rarely acknowledge, perhaps because it feels too subtle, too human, or too inward to fit comfortably within the rational language of business. Yet it is this very dimension that determines the difference between strategies that remain conceptual and those that become living, breathing realities.
Every meaningful strategic journey begins long before we start shaping purpose statements or describing who we want to become. It begins by widening our field of vision — from past, to present, and to the evolving future — to understand the deeper story and context that the organisation is part of.
In a world that rewards speed, slowing down can feel counterintuitive — even risky. Yet for you as a leader, it may be the most important strategic move you can make.
In today’s business landscape, understanding both your company’s impact on society and the environment, as well as the financial implications of these impacts, is crucial.
Have you tried to take in the fact that six out of nine planetary boundaries have already been crossed and that multiple tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels?
Sustainability is a strategic imperative for companies – not only to position themselves for the future and remain compliant in the face of increasing regulations – but even more pertinent, to help shape the future we want for our children and future generations.
It seems like the whole world is now abruptly waking-up to increasing economic and political uncertainty, as well as to accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss.
Unleashing the potential of Better Business to address the wicked problems of the world provides vast opportunities – ultimately to build a better future.
The Sustainability Revolution is here, and today’s sustainability trailblazers are leading the way.
Over the past century, the world has seen unprecedented economic development and an exponentially growing population. Industrialization and globalization have led to wealth and prosperity; they have increased our lifespan by decades and brought billions out of poverty across the globe.
Sustainability can be defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
As business leaders we have a unique opportunity to make a difference. Not only for our companies and teams, but
A business opportunity is generally considered an opening in the business environment that – when exploited – can create economic value.