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From Corona Crisis to Opportunity with Optimism

Meet Louise Opprud Jakobsen, futurist specialised in new technology, digitalization, NeuroScience and innovation explain our endless and wonderful capabilities to adapt to changes and adjust to the future.

When we push the pause button in a machine, it stops. But for human beings, we actually start to rethink, become inspired and crave for learning. Like now, when the economy has frozen, the machine has completely stopped. But for us humans, we have to take this time as an opportunity to think and use it in a very constructive way.

Working with technology, Louise shares ways to be relevant. To her, extreme flexibility is a core strength that we all need to muster. Disruptions within technology are always there, and that’s why we need to develop the ability to adapt and adopt new ways. We have to be radically creative.

Crises are opportunities to find new strengths. Louise remembers mentors saying, never waste a crisis. So how can we not waste this crisis? What can we learn from it? How can we gear ourselves to stay relevant amid this?

As humans, we are more flexible than we realize. But we won’t until we’re forced. History and the more recent events in the past months have shown us that we are capable of digitizing and rebooting our economies and societies.

Our brains may not be wired for lots of change; most of the time, they are happy with habits and everything familiar. So taking an entire curriculum from analog to digital real quick is huge, seeming to be next to impossible. But we’ve done it in the last two months! This demonstrates our ability waiting to be tapped. And Louise encourages us to embrace this opportunity.

Who may have a difficult time adapting?  Those that haven’t got that core balance and strength, use your resources to take the pivot and refit to the current situation. Build optimism in your core. The question should be: ‘How can we make it?’; not ‘Can we make it?’. There are always new ways if we just keep looking.

As Louise worked in Neuroscience, she discovered that creativity is all about optimism. If we are happy, we are 300% more innovative and therefore, resilient. And we can shift our brains to being happy–by igniting thoughts of gratitude, hope and thankfulness. And this is the exact same mindset that we need in facing this crisis and opportunity.

Connect with Louise here.

Meet Louise Opprud Jakobsen, futurist specialised in new technology, digitalization, NeuroScience and innovation explain our endless and wonderful capabilities to adapt to changes and adjust to the future. When we push the pause button in a machine, it stops. But for human beings, we actually start to rethink, become inspired and crave for learning. Like […]
Business, Inspiration, Leaders, Professional

Pioneering Leadership with Sustainability

Everything in the world starts with a deep understanding of the inner perspective. This is how Lars Borgmann, pioneering Leadership Developer and Consultant, specialized in “The DNA of Sustainability” explains personal leadership influenced by therapy– a tool to maximise the opportunity this crisis is presenting.

We tend to look at sustainability as an outside or external matter but inner or internal sustainability actually demonstrates how interconnected we are to each other and to our world. And seeing this super interconnectedness is very critical. Lars explains this lens with this example: people in different places getting infected with the virus VS our earth getting sick and infected. But nothing in the mainstream conversation focuses on the immune system and the strategy of building the inside to effect the outside. DNA is not just something we inherit, but also something we shape and reshape.

So for Lars, instead of getting occupied with panic media, we must take the time to reflect on our sustainability and resilience as a self-leadership tool.

Working with different organizations, Lars saw some recurring issues: we built up a society where people feel under stress from complexity, from the minutes and seconds and from the underlying fear and difficulty coping with and adapting to massive changes. And our Earth is screaming at us: we need less, we don’t need more. We are on the same boat.

Throughout his extensive experience in pioneering leadership, Lars observed that everyone loves development as long as we don’t have to change. Because we are afraid to move into the unknown. So how to be part of the solution? By confronting fear.

Take in and let go and trust that the more we let go, the more comes for us to take in. Embrace the new consciousness and create from there.

Connect with Lars here.

Everything in the world starts with a deep understanding of the inner perspective. This is how Lars Borgmann, pioneering Leadership Developer and Consultant, specialized in “The DNA of Sustainability” explains personal leadership influenced by therapy– a tool to maximise the opportunity this crisis is presenting. We tend to look at sustainability as an outside or […]
Business, Inspiration, Leaders, Professional, Uncategorized

Staying Agile and Steady amid the Corona Crisis

Change and disruption was the name of the game in this era, but corona virus crisis?

Set a positive outlook towards the changes happening around us with Tune Hein, author, keynote speaker and  consultant specialised in disruption and change.

To him, this crisis might be a huge disruption but actually makes room for a lot of innovations. A lot of exciting things are coming up–if we only capture these changes and developments to deploy them and bring to our normal life after the crisis. It’s a great time to stop and think and reflect!

In his experience consulting for various business, private and public organizations, he shares that organizations have actually been finding a lot of surprises. And as leaders, we must be mindful of these and take these developments as the new normal.

In his book Disruption, he explains how the digital business model has been a must-have for everyone. Going digital does not necessarily decrease or lose relationships, it can actually increase real-time relationships and our sense of community. And these prove to be true very recently.

If we wonder, why organizations become better at executing in times of crisis? He explains it’s because goals, processes are made more simple. We unload complexity, bureaucracy, among others, and see things are a lot better in SIMPLICITY. So leaders must ask, how do we maintain this even after the crisis?

Tune, who have extensively worked on bridging leadership gaps, sees that a lot of people are now supporting each other; a break from the competitor mindset– something that makes us feel a lot better despite the crisis. People are showing more compassion, something that might have been lacking in leadership relationships for so long.

For leaders, take this time to reflect and find clever solutions and the right road map forward.

What is the leadership that we’ll need post crisis? It’s the combination of being agile and steady at the same time. Shift the traditional driver for business from fear to purpose. Stop the autopilot. Think and capture developments for your organizations.

Connect with Tune here.

Change and disruption was the name of the game in this era, but corona virus crisis? Set a positive outlook towards the changes happening around us with Tune Hein, author, keynote speaker and  consultant specialised in disruption and change. To him, this crisis might be a huge disruption but actually makes room for a lot […]
Business, Inspiration, Leaders, Professional

How Corona can Change our Inner and Outer Leadership

Meet serial success entrepreneur, CEO and “Business as a Love Affair” enthusiast Martin Bjergegaard for a talk about how the COVID19 crisis can become a quantum leap, for leaders, businesses and humanity.

Martin discusses alternative ways to cope with the current crisis and finding opportunities in its midst– by engaging with an inward and positive outlook.  He points out how to take advantage of the situation to learn and maximize various collaborative platforms and tools to connect and reconnect with yourself and other people.

As CEO himself, Martin Bjergegaard highlights the positive gains that the business sector can achieve from this situation, giving stress to the necessity  to realize and feel the real needs of its community and the prospects of resetting the business and look forward to new door openings.

Like how he positively tackled business in his endeavors, he takes up the beauty that has been created by this situation as somewhat an opportunity to start making everyone equal. Learning, growth and inspiration push us to recognize the grace in the catastrophe.

His challenge: do not miss this precious moment and stay present!  Allowing ourselves to be authentic and to uplift everyone is an urgent undertaking for a quantum leap, for leaders, businesses and the rest of humanity.  

Connect with Martin here.

 

Meet serial success entrepreneur, CEO and “Business as a Love Affair” enthusiast Martin Bjergegaard for a talk about how the COVID19 crisis can become a quantum leap, for leaders, businesses and humanity. Martin discusses alternative ways to cope with the current crisis and finding opportunities in its midst– by engaging with an inward and positive […]
Business, Inspiration, Leaders, Men, Professional

The Mechanical Engineer that intuitively became a forerunner for the 21st Century Leadership Paradigm

Meet Jørgen Bonde Eriksen, an engineer, who shows a living example of the new business paradigm:
he stopped working in the old ego-directed way because it gave him headaches.
He dropped all plans and strategies and started to listen to the consciousness of the company every day, allowing it to tell him what to do.
He regarded his main job to be present and connected to the Oneness consciousness and come from the heart.
What he experienced was that his company became a trendsetting success, now owning 90% of the market – with effortlessness.
“You can struggle by pushing your own will, or you can ride effortlessly on the waves of consciousness. If you tap into the wholeness in the world, everything is smooth but you have to move your attention away from the head and into your true self. We have learned a lot of things which prevent us from that so there are a lot of items to remove from the system.”

Enjoy this inspiring frontrunner for 21st Century Leadership

Meet Jørgen Bonde Eriksen, an engineer, who shows a living example of the new business paradigm: he stopped working in the old ego-directed way because it gave him headaches. He dropped all plans and strategies and started to listen to the consciousness of the company every day, allowing it to tell him what to do. […]
Inspiration, Professional

Do you know crisis?

Crisis hurts the soul and breaks hearts.

Crises send us into the unknown – without knowing whether we will ever come back whole.

Crises can hit our most sore areas and stop, weaken or paralyze us.

Crisis can be destructive.

In short, crisis often is a terrible experience, and therefore something we fear.

Unfortunately, however, crisis is not always something we choose consciously.

Often we are “thrown into” a crisis or “end up” in a crisis.

And what do we do then?

We are, of course, doing the best we have learned.

But even this best is not always enough to keep us floating.

In my own experience, you need help when you are in a crisis.

Massive help even.

You need to quickly gather other perspectives and competences than before.

“One can not solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it,” Einstein said.

If you want to get well through a crisis then you need to upgrade your awareness.

Aswell as your toolbox, mindset, habits, self-perception, life-sight and practice.

I know what I am talking about because I have experienced a crisis, when I lost my 7-year-old son after six months with highly aggressive incurable cancer.

It is 6 years ago and I learned more from this crisis than from any education, relationship, job or leadership position I have had.

Now I am ready to share what got me through, and how to go up instead of down from a crisis.

That’s why I’ve created a new course for you who know about crisis and would like to turn it into a quantum leap.

Contact me if you are interested in hearing more.

If you have experienced crisis, I would love to hear your questions or best tips in the comments below.

Best regards, Kirsten

PS: Here’s a video about my deepest crisis: losing my beloved middle child.

Crisis hurts the soul and breaks hearts. Crises send us into the unknown – without knowing whether we will ever come back whole. Crises can hit our most sore areas and stop, weaken or paralyze us. Crisis can be destructive. In short, crisis often is a terrible experience, and therefore something we fear. Unfortunately, however, […]
Business, Leaders, Professional

The need for women in technology

Why is it important that more women become interested in new technology?

Why is it crucial that feminine values are represented in tech?

Why should men care?

Why should women become financially successful?

Join me as I eKSplore these questions with international business consultant Susanne Odgaard, who has specialised in Women, Business and Technology and runs several networks for women, Curie, that are all about educating women on new technology.

Why is it important that more women become interested in new technology? Why is it crucial that feminine values are represented in tech? Why should men care? Why should women become financially successful? Join me as I eKSplore these questions with international business consultant Susanne Odgaard, who has specialised in Women, Business and Technology and […]
Business, Leaders, Professional

21st Century Megatrends

What can be expect from the 21st Century?

What are the mega trends?

IS the future feminine?

Will you keep your job?

Amd if not, what will you do?

Join internationally acclaimed futurist, Liselotte Lyngsø, CEO of Future Navigator as we eKSplore these questions.

What can be expect from the 21st Century? What are the mega trends? IS the future feminine? Will you keep your job? Amd if not, what will you do? Join internationally acclaimed futurist, Liselotte Lyngsø, CEO of Future Navigator as we eKSplore these questions.
Business, Leaders, Professional

Power Men and Women at Work

What sets powerful women and men a part at work?

How can we collaborate in a fruitful manner?

What does it take to become a powerful male or female leader?

Join me as I ask corporate communication expert and board member Vibeke Hartkorn these questions.

Vibeke has written several books about Man Power and Woman Power, and she has experience from one of the most balanced countrys in the world.

What has she learned from working closely with male and female leaders to make them more powerful?

What sets powerful women and men a part at work? How can we collaborate in a fruitful manner? What does it take to become a powerful male or female leader? Join me as I ask corporate communication expert and board member Vibeke Hartkorn these questions. Vibeke has written several books about Man Power and Woman […]
Business, Leaders, Professional

How do you become a powerful leader while remaining feminine?

This should not be a question – but it is.

Because most women find that in order to have influence and compete on equal terms with the boys, they must become one-

Not Mai Kappenberger, CEO of award winning international spa hotel Kurhotel Skodsborg in Denmark.

How did she remain so feminine?

How does she use feminine leadership skills to create extraordinary results?

Join me to hear her inspiring answers.

This should not be a question – but it is. Because most women find that in order to have influence and compete on equal terms with the boys, they must become one- Not Mai Kappenberger, CEO of award winning international spa hotel Kurhotel Skodsborg in Denmark. How did she remain so feminine? How does she […]

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