How do organisations unlock the strategic
value already sitting inside their sustainability teams?
Anticipatory leadership is the practice of using futures thinking to strengthen your decisions today. It means reading signals of change, surfacing hidden assumptions, and leading with a longer horizon in mind.
Anticipatory
Leadership
The ChallengeOver the last decade, the sustainability profession has built real capacity to measure, disclose, and report. What it has underinvested in is translating that knowledge into strategic foresight.
Sustainability professionals already hold some of the most valuable intelligence in any organisation: shifting social expectations, emerging regulatory trends, environmental tipping points, signals of systemic change. The question is not whether that information exists. It is whether organisations are using it to lead, or simply to comply.
The workAnticipatory Leadership
Anticipatory Leadership by Erik Korsvik Østergaard is the intellectual backbone of this training. The book explores how futures thinking and strategic foresight can be used inside organisations to shape culture, structure, and governance — and asks the questions most leadership frameworks avoid: what assumptions are we building our strategy on, and are they still valid?
Working with Erik directly, we have taken that foundation and brought it into the specific conditions sustainability professionals face. The result is a day that is both methodologically grounded and immediately applicable to the work you are already doing.
A powerful guide to the practices now needed in business to become a 21st century future-fit organization, unlocking how both business and employees can thrive and co-exist together. A book that is easily read and hard to put down.
about 'anticipatory leadership'Louise Raaschou,
Head of Leadership Transformation and Strategy Europe at Mercedes-Benz AG
What would it mean to treat your sustainability team as a strategic foresight function, not just a reporting one?
In the Anticipatory Leadership for Sustainability training, we will address:
What assumptions is your current sustainability strategy built on, and are they still valid?
What signals of change are you already seeing, and what are you doing with them?
What would it look like to lead from a longer horizon, not just a longer to-do list?
I developed this training with Alba and Darina because sustainability professionals are sitting on a gold mine of strategic intelligence that most organisations are not using. This is about giving them the tools and the confidence to bring that knowledge into the room where decisions are actually made.