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 the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, end of May 2020, I delivered the final lecture to the participants of the one-year Executive Program in Industrial Management at KTH Executive School in Stockholm – for the second consecutive year.
Many of our clients just have too much going on. Ultimately, this overwhelms the mind, makes thinking cluttered, and creates difficulties in prioritization.