Synthetic strategy™ and the emergence of New Global Mind—how leaders align capital, governance, and decision-making to remain viable as systems shift.   Most strategies today are built on assumptions that no longer hold. They assume stability where there is systemic transition. They assume predictability where there is emergence. They assume control where complexity is increasing. As a result, many organisations are still optimising within systems that are already being restructured. What is less recognised is that this is not only a structural challenge. It is a cognitive one. The conditions we are entering cannot be engaged with using the same ways of perceiving, deciding, and acting that were shaped in a more stable world. They require a different order of… Read more »

  Unprocessed trauma is a governance risk — especially in times of sustained uncertainty. But there is a second, often unspoken dimension of leadership in complexity: the capacity to access deeper judgement, intuition, and purpose — the “hidden chamber” that sits beneath the surface of rational decision-making. In this conversation, Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO Mobius Executive Leadership and I explore both. We discuss how unprocessed trauma at senior levels manifests as reactivity, short-termism, control dynamics, and fragmented execution — ultimately undermining decision quality, trust, and resilience. And we examine the other side of the equation: how leaders who are internally coherent are better able to access signal in the noise — to sense direction, align action over time, and lead… Read more »

These 5 Tips to create a Strong Sustainability and Purpose Culture from Sandja Brügmann, CEO The Passion Institute, was originally published alongside an interview in SustainReport, the full article (in Danish) is accessible here: 5 råd til lederen, der vil skabe en stærk sustainability kultur.   1. Move from being Change-ready to Change-driven  In order to solve the sustainability challenges we are faced with, as a leader you need to be able to bring other people to life, to flourish, such that they experience and are able to access their innate passion, innovation and creativity. This require leadership development on the personal development plane to know what motivates and drive others, beneath the obvious and spoken. This is why you… Read more »

  Change is one of the most challenging elements of life within an organization. To sustain a change agenda moving away from behaviors and decisions that are life-destroying to becoming life-enhancing, the nuances of both corporate culture and the patterns of human behavior need to be understood. This requires systems thinking – also called visual seeing and thinking skills. I sat down with Fritjof Capra, one of the world’s most distinguished scientists and systems theorists, to discuss the implications of systems thinking for business, leadership and society. Sandja Brügmann: In Capra Course, you speak to the biggest crisis of our time – that we are not just experiencing a sustainability crisis, but a crisis of perception. What is this crisis of… Read more »

Mark Nepo is a New York Times best selling author, poet and spiritual teacher. He has been featured in Super Soul Sunday with Oprah, and he is the featured poet and spiritual teacher in the film The Power of the Heart, currently on world tour. Mark’s new book Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness was just published. You might think, what does a poet and spiritual teacher have to do with conscious leadership and success in business? So let me explain just briefly how this connects for me. Our inner journey of being broken open, so we can learn to sink into our own real, humble, authentic, feeling selves is the very same journey we need to master in… Read more »

Sometimes, success comes not from what you learn to do but what you learn to stop doing.

Leaders of the new Conscious Capitalism business paradigm are typically committed to continued personal growth, expanded inclusion and conscious awareness of the context in which they do business.