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Leadership Development for the VUCA World

We develop future-oriented mindsets, skills, and working practices for the challenges of the VUCA world.

Future-oriented leadership

Together with you, we develop and cultivate the future-oriented mindsets, skills, and working practices of your leaders. In a VUCA world, conventional management methods alone are no longer enough.

Our leadership programs go beyond traditional leadership development. We work at the level of attitude and values — the innovation mindset that forms the foundation for every meaningful change. Leaders become catalysts for an innovation-driven culture.

What we develop
  • Innovation Mindset: openness to the new, and the capacity to learn from the future.
  • Sensing Capabilities: a deep understanding of the organization and its environment.
  • Enabling Competence: creating the conditions that foster emergence.
  • Co-creation Skills: shaping outcomes together with stakeholders and teams.

Every leadership program is tailored individually to your organization. Discover how our innovation processes and transformation approaches complement our leadership development.

FormatS

Two paths with frame

Whether an inspiring introduction or an in-depth transformation program — choose the format that fits your organization.

Frame Spotlight

Get inspired!

Immerse yourself in the concept of “Leading from the Future” and discover innovative leadership practices. Together, we identify potentials within your organization and define what future-readiness means for your leaders.

Duration: 6 hours
Impact: Inspiring & encouraging

Frame Shift

Transformative leaders

Over three months, your leaders build future-ready capabilities, prototype effective leadership practices, and prepare the organization for the change ahead — right through to activating enablers for transformation.

Duration: 3 months
Impact: Empowering & transformative

frame for your team? Both formats are tailored individually to your organization.

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Case Study

gkk: How Working on Mindsets Drives Successful Transformation

Why do most transformations stall? For gkk, the answer was mindsets and reshaping them turned years of failed change into momentum across all four sites.

Bene: New World of Work – Produktentwicklung Explore the project

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    Thomas Fundneider


    Founder & CEO


    Knowledge and innovation architect with over 20 years of experience at the interface of business, design and science.

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