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Exploring leadership and business beyond business as usual
Our work grows from decades of business and leadership practice, enriched by future studies, deep reflection, writing, and ongoing research in transformative business leadership.
Here, we explore the evolution beyond business as usual — an era where conscious leaders, regenerative systems, and transformative technologies build the foundations for a thriving future.
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Blog
Short, practical reflections on leadership, business renewal, foresight, and transformation. Updated regularly, the blog connects emerging signals, megatrends, and leadership practice.
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Publications
Here you can find books and articles that share our frameworks. Publications are designed to support executives and teams in building future-fit strategies and leadership practices.
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AI Tools
Explore our free AI-powered Navigators — tools that combine strategic foresight and leadership wisdom to help leaders think, reflect, and act beyond business as usual. Note that an OpenAI account is needed to access and utilise our Navigators.
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Beyond Business as Usual
A space for thoughtful leaders exploring inner growth, strategic clarity, and wiser ways of shaping business, society, and our shared future.
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Quarterly Newsletter
A quarterly newsletter offering fresh insights, emerging trends, and reflective guidance for leaders committed to wiser action and a future-fit world.
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Leadership Evolution Lab
A free catalytic learning space where leaders expand awareness, deepen capacity, and explore wiser ways of navigating complexity, transformation, and emerging futures. Register and log in to access.
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Be inspired by some of the methods and approaches we use in our projects
Immunity to Change
Based on 30 years of adult developmental research, Immunity to Change is a way of helping people take a kind of mental X-ray, a picture of their own mindset. The method helps leaders to overcome barriers, find new solutions, and embrace the change they want to make.
Theory U
Theory U is an awareness-based method for changing systems. Theory U blends systems thinking, innovation, and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolving human consciousness.
StageShift Coaching
StageSHIFT Coaching is a highly innovative and integrative approach to adult and leadership development that liberates the mind, spirit, and heart to realize our unlimited human potential. The approach has proven to be four times more effective in 10 percent of the time invested than other vertical leadership development methods.
System Innovation Network
The Si Network is an online platform connecting people around the world to learn and apply the ideas and methods of systems innovation towards addressing complex challenges and building better systems that work for all.
Stanford Impact Business Model Canvas
The IBMC, or Impact Business Model Canvas, is a framework for visualizing, evaluating, and refining your business model to achieve both social and financial value. .
Strategizer Unpacks Innovation
Ideas, learnings and methods to help you further your understanding and practice of innovation. The team behind the books Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, Invincible Companies, Testing Business Models, and more.
Disruptive Innovation
View this video with Clay Christensen. He was a Harvard Business School professor and the world’s most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50. Here, he lays out his landmark theory on disruptive innovatio
Ideo.org
IDEO is the leading innovation and design firm in the world. IDEO.org is their nonprofit design studio. They design products and services for organizations committed to creating a more just and inclusive world. Be inspired by innovation doing good.
Design kit by ideo.org
Design Kit is IDEO.org’s platform to learn human-centered design, a creative approach to solving the world’s most difficult problems. Their mission is to help you routinely innovate and solve big problems
Service Design Network
The Service Design Network (SDN) is the leading non-profit institution for expertise in service design and a driver of global growth, development and innovation within the practice.
Circo Circular Design
The circular economy does not arise by itself. CIRCO activates entrepreneurs and creative professionals to (re) design products, services and business models in order to subsequently do circular business.
Ten Types of Innovation
Creating new products is only one way to innovate. The Ten Types of Innovation-framework provides a way to identify new opportunities beyond products and develop viable innovations.
Blue Ocean Strategy
BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost to open up a new market space and create new demand. It is about creating and capturing uncontested market space, thereby making the competition irrelevant.
Stanford d.School
Stanford d.School is a place for explorers, innovators and experimenters at Stanford University. The d.school helps people develop their creative abilities. It is a community and a mindset to help people unlock creative abilities and apply them to the world. Be inspired by their website.