Sandja Brügmann is a transformational business and leadership strategist and thought leader, international speaker, author and named one of the "world's leadership gurus" by Danish Executive Leadership Association. Founder and Managing Partner The Passion Institute, Founder and Managing Partner of The Passion Institute, where she and team, empower leaders and organizations to embrace transformative strategies, revitalizing the next era of life-enhancing leadership and business design.

As Chief Executive I lead our mission to create a just and regenerative future. This involves a focus on transforming leadership and governance, and on reimagining the purpose of capitalism, business, and humanity in our global human society.

Big picture, teal and extrasensory, Sandja has the ability to see and sense patterns within systems, and can point to the place or places that impinge on the health of the whole system, making her an extraordinary resource as a strategic business and organizational designer.

Sandja advocates for the new era of capitalism as a vehicle to transcendent change in the world, systemic solution thinking and investing in leadership and organizational consciousness development, and a shift where success is measured in thriving across the organization's touchpoints for people and earth's ecosystems, which she calls life-enhancing business design. The Passion Institute's business portfolio include respected companies like Chr. Hansen, IKEA, Ørsted, Hempel, Novo Nordisk, LEGO, Sustainable Brands, Crocs, Spier, ITO EN, Promote Iceland, The Body Shop, DIS, Global Fund for Women, Aliaxis, Drive Business, Unreasonable Institute and University of Colorado Boulder.

Sustainable Leadership Network is an international alliance for systems change agents deploying their leadership and influence to create systems change through business, powered by The Passion Institute, founded in 2017.

Co-author of The Gurubook, featuring 45 pioneering thought leaders within innovation, leadership and strategy. She has developed and taught academic programs such as *Women & Leadership* at DIS – accredited US university partner in Scandinavia to Harvard, UC Berkeley etc., and leadership programs and workshops ex. Masters of the Environment at University of Colorado Boulder, If Forsikring, Danish Leadership Association, and hosted executive networks in collaboration with F5 Inspiring Women, Visionary Leadership, and is a key note speaker on topics related to Life-enhancing leadership and business design such as: 'From Sustainability to Regeneration, Designing Developmental Cultures, Conscious Leadership, and Business Strategies for Flourishing Futures.

A regularly featured expert in international business, innovation and sustainability media including Inc Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, CBS, Lederne, CSR Magasinet. Finans, Børsen and spoken at international conferences like Sustainable Brands, Natural products Expo, Drive Business, Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Leadership Summit.

Christina Terry Cand. Comm. Communication and English at RUC Christina is a seasoned Communication expert, experienced copywriter and Corporate brand builder with a strong record building long-term strategies – digital, print, newspaper, social media, broadcast and radio – focused on the Nordic and Scandinavian markets. Christina has extensive expertise as an editor, translator (English to Danish), and has ghostwritten books for Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir, one of Scandinavia’s leading international best selling health gurus and for the architect behind one of the world’s most innovative musical festivals Roskilde Festival. Client portfolio: Unilever, The Body Shop, Sustainable Brands, Spier, Chilean Association of Hass Avocado Farmers, Bornholm Foodies, Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir, Teknisk Landsforbund & Roskilde Festival.

Sustainable Communication – Nordic Region 

Sustainable Leadership Network Manager

Eva is a change maker engaged in youth action and leadership for sustainable growth, particularly sustainable city design. She is passionate about social sustainability and aims to positively impact the environment and our quality of life. Eva is getting her master’s degree in engineering in urban planing at DTU in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a specific focus on sustainable, innovative, and environmentally conscious ways to plan, design, build and manage cities. She grew up in Monterrey, Mexico and later moved to the Nordics, where she received her bachelor’s degree in city planning at University of Stavanger in Stavanger, Norway, and therefore fits perfectly with the international mindset and perspectives that The Passion Institute finds important in creating global systems change and one of the key values the organization brings to our clients and business leaders. She is a driven person, focused on producing successful means of collaboration with a holistic approach in diverse contexts and between stakeholders. At The Passion Institute Eva is the Network Manager for Sustainable Leadership Network.

Project manager with strong relational and organizational skills

Amilija has an optimistic perspective on life, and how business and leadership can drive positive planetary and social change. She is specifically engaged with SDG #17 and passionate about how youth has become an acknowledged and important driver in collaborating with business leaders to co-create a more just, sustainable and flourishing future for all. She has a particular interest in how sustainable communication through design can help accelerate cohesive behavior change, lift awareness and drive business towards benefitting all stakeholders. Amilija grew up in Boulder, CO, USA and Copenhagen, Denmark with a Danish mother (CEO of The Passion Institute) and an American father. She has a strong international background, and diverse cultural experience and can navigate successfully in complex contexts, across international identities. At The Passion Institute she has a supportive hand in projects from network administration and relation management to event development and planning.

Annie Lake is an expert in understanding and engaging with the millennial generation, a cohort known to make choices - both product and place of work, that are values and purpose aligned. From external communication campaigns that draw and engages to internal team culture build, she ensures generational understanding, tapping the strengths of the new leaders segment, ensures efficiency and workplace motivation. She is a storytelling enthusiast with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for creating magnetic brands, engaging content creation and brand strategy. Client portfolio: So Delicious, Nisolo, Munk Pack, Smashburger, Chinook Seedery.

Millennial, Gen Z, Alpha Engagement – USA

Steve Demos Co-founder/CEO White Wave 1977 – 2004. White Wave was purchased by Danone in 2016 and renamed DanoneWave. Co-founder and Chairman Goodbelly. Founder Mama Toucan’s Natural Market.  Watch PASSIONTALK TV with Sandja featuring Steve Demos.