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.
We live in a world of accelerating change where industrialization and globalization has helped us leap forward and transform the world in ways that were previously unimaginable.
In business lingo, wicked problems, such as climate change and the related changes in consumer values, politics, and regulations can be viewed as inflection points. As such, they have a potentially vast impact on businesses across the globe.
A few years back Johan Rockström at the Stockholm Resilient Center delivered this important TED Talk.
Better Business needs to be recognized as not only a necessity for the future of our humanity but also for the huge business opportunity it presents.
We live in a world of accelerating change where industrialization and globalization has helped us leap forward and transform the world in ways that were previously unimaginable.