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In the dynamic landscape of leadership and business, the time is ripe with transformative potential, calling for change agents to gather, to uplevel, and to act with courage and clean intent for a thriving tomorrow. The global meta-crisis continues to unfold, prompting a growing desire and need among individuals, leaders, and organizations to actively contribute to the solutions needed to restore balance to a world facing unprecedented challenges.

We believe in the power of leaders to drive systemic innovation and for organizations and institutions to come into right relationship across systems, internally and externally, socially, environmentally and economically, are the key efforts of our time. Sustainable Leadership Network is a deliberately developmental community of practise to develop your internal capacity and experiment with and learning from likeminded leaders to transform systems in service to life.

We believe that creative thinkers, sensers and doers not afraid to experiment, break down silo thinking and redesigning transformational pathways for systems innovation to serve society and find solutions to the interdependent systemic interplay of the metacrisis as business opportunities and drivers, are the leaders needed for our now and future.

Sustainable Leadership Network: Uniting leaders to transform purpose into action for a livable, more conscious, and thriving tomorrow

Sustainable Leadership Network cultivates a community of leaders who are dedicated to transcending current paradigms and upleveling mindsets through conscious awareness. Our aim is to transform business DNA and drive financial flow in ways that create a flourishing future for all. This network unites visionary leaders, change-agents, entrepreneurs, and professionals from diverse industries and roles within organizations. We aim to exemplify a holistic, developmental, experimental and systemic approach, and a journeying process of sustainability towards regeneration resting on purposeful, intentional, collaborative, and collective convening and action for effectively driving positive change.

Sustainable Leadership Network is meticulously designed as a developmental and co-learning journey, showcasing insights from guesting international experts across the developmental leadership and sustainable business spectrum of knowledge, wisdom, frameworks, inspiration, and real-world cases striving to engage multi-intelligences as is needed to leap in paradigm logic, we will also experiment with how music, poetry, movement, meditation practise and artistic methods can transform our presence and participation in Place. Key focus for this network is at a business strategic level. Our objective is to advance sustainability towards regeneration within organizational DNA, offering insights on navigating and designing for system and organizational presence, with the aim to enhance the likelihood of positive contribution to unleveling the way a system & culture operates. Co-learning actively applies collective insights to address your real-world challenges, ensuring a practical impact on both your daily business and evolutionary journey.

 

11 Principles

Gatherings are woven into the fabric of a living network, where each constituent part plays a pivotal role in elevating the collective beyond the sum of its individual elements. It is imperative that every member aligns with shared values and principles, we screen for kindness:

    • Respectful
    • Be in your higher essence
    • Kindness
    • Uplifting each other
    • Fostering a sense of belonging
    • Compassionate
    • Boundaries
    • Aim to create systems change within your sphere of influence
    • Come to contribute, give more than you take
    • Embrace adaptability and change
    • Humility & Grace

 

We will delve into diverse realms, such as:

  • Redesigning Leadership and Business Strategy: Exploring pathways to shaping perception for sustainable, regenerative, and life-centric outcomes for all
  • Evolving Collective Consciousness: Individual and collective pathways, processes and cultures to advance thriving
  • Holistic Thinking and Sensing: Essential tools for crafting solutions that restore both human and ecosystem well-being
  • Place-based Nurturing: Regenerative consciousness as future stewards
  • The Arts, Music, and Aesthetics: How can the arts, music and beauty in various forms help advance sustainability and regenerative worldviews?
  • Purpose, Meaning, and Right Livelihood: Exploring essence pathways to purposeful livelihoods
  • Whole Human Beings in the Workplace: How do we become more human and whole? How do we bake this state of evolutionary being and becoming into leadership, culture and business design?
  • New Business Models: Integrating solutions to global challenges as integral drivers of business
  • Healthy Culture: Encompassing values, ecoliteracy, the future of work, and the transition from fear to freedom, survival to thriving, and engagement. Examining autonomous and self-organizing principles, and when hierarchy is necessary
  • Organizational and Organizing Structures & Cultures: Creating environments where people thrive and perform. Embracing developmental organizations, networked structures, and democratic models like Holacracy. Exploring regenerative, conscious, and responsive business design
  • Innovation & Technology: Unpacking the future of work, consumer expectations, and behavioral change
  • Sustainable High Performance and Passionate Engagement: Focusing on conscious motivation, innovation, and aliveness
  • Systems Innovation: Navigating transformative journeys within organizations, understanding how levels of consciousness influence the success or challenges of change journeys, mapping for evolutionary progress

We actively encourage network members to contribute their ideas, challenges, opportunities, & failures, fostering a collaborative environment for a rich learning and relating experience.

Embark on a developmental and co-learning journey designed and facilitated by Sandja Brügmann, alongside hand-selected international and local experts, creatives and thought-leaders within a committed and courageous community of leaders walking the path of awakening with aim, humility and will.

Our approach is integral business strategy focused, and involves expanding systemic perceptibility, innovating business to be of benefit to all stakeholders, elevating consciousness and direct collaboration on real cases within members’ organizations, grounding the network experience for seamless implementation in your daily business life.

  • Right Livelihood: Transforming capitalism through business design that benefit all stakeholders, Steve Demos, pioneering visionary serial entrepreneur and business builder co-founder and ex-CEO of WhiteWave, Silk the largest For Benefit Corp in the US, sold to Danone for $12.5mia in 2016 & Co-founder Goodbelly pioneering health through probiotics
  • Finance for a regenerative world: From extractor to enabler, John Fullerton, founder, CEO Capital Institute, x Wall Street, and leading voice on a financial system in service to living systems thriving
  • Creating a Global Constitution for Benevolent AGI, Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, Futurist, Systems Scientist, Award-winning Author, Co-Founder & CEO of EARTHwise Ventures & EARTHwise Centre

Sample Agenda: 

    • Welcome & micro-meditation with intuitive visualisation
    • Regenerative Finance: From extractor to Enabler with John Fullerton founder/CEO Capital Institute, X Wall Street banker, leading voice on an economic system in service to systems thriving (with us digitally from East Coast, USA)
    • Flamenco Jazz x Climate consciousness – awakening a spectrum of perceptions
    • Discussions and co-learning on topics relevant to members’ daily challenges with systems transformation and organizational efforts
    • Open networking

Here’s a glimpse of past themes and experts:

  • Future-Fit Business Benchmark: Dr. Geoff Kendall, the mind behind the science-based benchmark used by The Body Shop, Better Energy, Novo Nordisk.
  • Food Awakening: Robyn McCord, founder of RePlant Capital, triggering a shift in the food industry’s perception.
  • Circular Economy Workshop: Dive into hands-on Circular Economics with Ditte Lysgaard Vind, a partner at Lendager Group.
  • Systems Change Leadership Case – Loop: Tom Szaky, CEO of Terracycle and inventor of Loop, zero packaging waste.
  • Right Livelihood: Steve Demos, co-founder and ex-CEO of WhiteWave, shares insights on creating organizations that benefit all stakeholders.
  • Regenerative Business Design: Carol Sanford, an award-winning conscious business thought-leader, author, and advisor for the new economy.

 

Who participates?

Sustainable Leadership Network is for visionary leaders who embody openness, curiosity, developmental interest and a desire to co-explore and co-create the emergence of what’s possible for the evolutionary purpose of business and collective consciousness as a vehicle to be of benefit to planetary and human health.  The network is designed for those ready to leverage their influence to drive positive change through leadership and business. Whether you’re a corporate leader, intrapreneur, entrepreneurial visionary, or an informal leader without direct reports, your presence is welcomed. All business functions are invited, recognizing that sustainable leadership is an evolved level of consciousness and systems perception and thus seamlessly integrate into every aspect of leadership, organizational designing and business strategy.

Attendance at 75% of meeting is a requirement to ensure a consistent and engaged community for everyone’s optimal experience.

Values and Output

  • Gain access to leading edge knowledge, wisdom and experience
  • Be in Development: Stay actively developmental, motivated and renewing among like minded people
  • Inspiring & Implementable: Uncover inspirational content at the forefront of sustainable leadership, regenerative business design, and social & positive impact
  • Becoming Future-Fit: Gain practical and actionable knowledge, tools, and business cases to implement actions today, setting the course for successful leadership and business navigation in a complex future context
  • Catalysts for Systems Change: Develop mental models and elevate consciousness to become catalysts for systems change
  • Passionate & of Like-Intent: Join a network of like-minded, ambitious, self-development-oriented leaders, creating the stage for new knowledge, inspiration, collaboration, and partnerships
  • International Culture & Perspective: Immerse yourself in international perspectives with expert speakers at the visionary edge from around the world, complemented by insights from our local pool of Danish-based experts. Participants encompass both Danish and international leaders
  • Becoming Developmental: Sessions are designed for developmental processes, and ongoing transformation, fostering a dynamic and ever-evolving community
  • Level-Up Your Leadership: Every participant is courageous and focused on personal leadership growth, integral to becoming the best versions of themselves. This drive, combined with our learning environment, will motivate you to elevate your own game
  • Out of Silo Thinking: Leaders from corporate and entrepreneurial organizational structures across industries ensure a departure from silo thinking, fostering a mind-expanding understanding. This shift increases the likelihood of new solutions emerging to current challenges
  • Invaluable financial and relational value: Among the most visionary sustainable future leaders, leading pioneering edge of knowledge and expertise from sustainable to regeneration, savings on expenses for ex external consultancy expertise and continued education on business strategy and leadership development areas
  • Expand: Your and the organization’s horizons

Network meeting dates

  • All network meetings 15.00 pm – 18.00 pm CET Copenhagen time / 9.00am – 12.00pm EST New York Eastern Time
  • It is required that you attend 75% of Event meeting. Growth Tribe Sessions are optional to attend.
  • You can purchase an in-person in Copenhagen, Denmark or a digital membership participating via Zoom
  • All Growth Tribe Sessions are digital for all 16.00 – 17.00pm CET Copenhagen time / 10.00 – 11.00am EST New York

2025

  • Next cohort begins end March 2025

 

Location

Our physical meeting space is the beautiful & international Soho House, Copenhagen locale. The space can hold 40 people in attendance, and international remote participation is of course, more dynamic in nature.

  • Soho House Copenhagen, Havnegade 44, Copenhagen K, Denmark
  • Via Zoom for international members

 

Price

Annual Membership per person

In-Person membership

Level 1: Corporate / SMEs high income / High Income consultants  28.995 Dkr x vat / EU$3888 / USD$4238

Level 2: SMEs low income / Academia / Start-Ups / Governmentals / Low income consultants  22.995 Dkr x vat / EU$3083 / USD$3360

Payment available in 3 installments / Level 2: USD$1120 x 3 installments / Level 1: USD$1412 x 3 instalments

 

Digital membership

Level 3: Corporate / SMEs high income / High income consultants 16.995 Dkr x vat / EU2278 / USD2480

Level 4: SMEs low income / Academia / Start-Ups / Governmentals / Low income consultants 7500 Dkr x vat / EU1005 / USD1095

*Attendance at 75% of meetings is required for membership

You receive

  • Attend six annual meetings featuring inner growth capacity focused work design and lead by Sandja Brügmann, coupled with world-renowned thought leaders in sustainability, regenerative business design, systems thinking and transformation, and transformational leadership
  • Participate in three virtual Growth Tribe dialogue circles throughout the year, providing opportunities for group discussions, knowledge sharing, and developmental reflection on learning experiences
  • Join a cohort of like-minded individuals on a year-long journey of learning and growth, gaining new knowledge, principles, and engaging in deep transformative development with concrete output as it relates to your daily challenges within your organization
  • Each meeting is carefully designed to offer a blend of new insights, developmental activities, and practical application of the learning in your everyday life and organization
  • Facilitated processes will encourage deeper self-awareness, learning dialogues, knowledge sharing, and collaborative learning among members, fostering a supportive and enriching developmental environment
  • Recordings of presentations and materials are available in the members’ login area throughout the year and beyond, providing ongoing access to valuable resources even after the program year has ended
  • For in-person membership only: Each meeting will feature a light tapas menu, prepared by Soho House Copenhagen’s chefs, and a glass of wine or non-alcoholic option during the open networking session, providing a delightful culinary accompaniment to the learning experience for members attending in person
  • Digital participants will engage in smaller group networking sessions via breakout rooms, facilitating rich and personalized co-learning experiences, fostering community of practise

 

Interested? Apply

Membership Guidelines:
  • Commitment to Systems Change: You are dedicated to growing in your capacity to influence systemic change through effective leadership and sustainable business practices.
  • Personal Development: You recognize that personal growth and development are crucial for fostering effective systems change and are open to experimenting and embracing new perspectives.
  • Collaborative Spirit: You have a generous and kind disposition, willing to share knowledge, insights, and resources with fellow systems change makers.
  • Active Engagement: You are eager to actively participate in, contribute to, and represent the Sustainable Leadership Network, sharing your expertise and supporting the network’s growth and success.
  • Investment in the Network’s Flourishing: You are dedicated to the Sustainable Leadership Network’s success and are willing to invest your time, energy, and resources to foster its development and impact.

Are you ready to be part of this transformative leadership network? We look forward to hearing from you! Apply by briefly describe your commitment to the above guidelines by email to Sandja via Sandja@ThePassionInstitute.com.

 

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Sustainable Leadership Network is an international alliance for systems change agents accelerating the transition to the Symbiocene Epoch by transforming capitalism into a system that safeguards, prioritizes and elevates collective consciousness, human wellbeing and planetary health.



Fantastic network to be part of. Hands on practices on useful tools and leadership methodologies that I directly put in use in my own work, such as the Backcasting methodology which has been really helpful.

Fredrik Östbye Group Vice President Head of FutureLab Grundfos A/S


Sandja is one of the few most inspiring thought leaders in conscious leadership and sustainable business strategy that I have had the pleasure to work with within the large global Sustainable Brands community. As a speaker, she moves the audience in an authentic and heartfelt manner, delivering her messages with a combination of passion and intellect that is second to none. She consistently manages to leave the audience with expanded horizons, new tools for self-improvement and actionable takeaways. I selected her to speak at Sustainable Brands Copenhagen, and I would be delighted to have her back on stage anywhere in the world. She comes highly recommended by the entire Sustainable Brands team!

Dimitar Vlahov, Director of Content Development Sustainable Brands




Verden står overfor en række vanskelige samfundsmæssige problemstillinger, som virksomheder skal være med til at løse. Den allervigtigste er at begrænse klimaforandringerne, og det er en af mange gode grunde til at vi vil skabe en verden der udelukkende kører på grøn energi. I mit arbejde er det vigtigt at sparre med og tage ved lære af andres erfaringer for at vi hele tiden kan udvikle vores bæredygtighedsprofil og dermed ruste virksomheden til den rejse. Dette initiativ er nyt i en dansk kontekst! Sign me up!

Rasmus Skov, Head of Group Sustainability, Ørsted


Sandja is a visionary leader in the field of sustainable development. Sustainability is an integral part of Chr. Hansen. Currently 82% of Chr. Hansen’s product portfolio have a direct positive contribution to the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development no. 2, 3 and 12. We work to continuously understand, monitor, and improve our performance on the issues that are most material to our stakeholders and thereby to the future success of our business. With our Nature’s #1 Strategy, we commit to address these global challenges by enabling better farming, reducing food waste and improving health, with our core microbial based products. Sustainable innovation is a fast paced and complex space and one of the important strategic pillars to Chr. Hansen’s future success. It’s important to me personally and to the business that I stay at the forefront and in the know of what is emerging in sustainable business solutions, and invaluable to expand my network in Denmark among like-minded sustainability leaders, this is why I am joining Sustainable Leadership Network.

– Mauricio Graber, CEO Chr. Hansen