Sandja Brügmann: Visionary Leader in Systems Awareness and Sustainable Transformation
Sandja Brügmann is a leadership and transformation strategist and thought leader, an international speaker, and a published author. Lederne (Danish leadership organization) named her one of the “World’s Leadership Gurus”.
Sandja Brügmann is a prominent figure in the realm of transformational leadership and regenerative development, known for her ability to unite diverse groups of leaders and entrepreneurs in the pursuit of a thriving, conscious future. With her extensive expertise in transforming business paradigms, Sandja has dedicated her career to advancing sustainability and regeneration on three integrated levels: Leadership, Organizational Cultures, and Strategy. Her unique approach integrates holistic and systemic awareness, allowing her to uplevel consciousness, and drive positive change in businesses and communities alike.
As the founder and Chief Executive of The Passion Institute, Sandja and team serve ambitious and proactive change-minded global top leaders and boards to uplevel their skill sets and understanding towards the new paradigm. Through their offering, Sustainable Leadership Network, she has cultivated a dynamic international community of like-minded individuals committed to systems innovation and purposeful action. Under her guidance, the network engages with developmental practices at each member’s growth level, and learns with international experts and thought leaders, sharing knowledge, wisdom, and real-world case studies to inspire transformative practices. Her ability to foster a collaborative atmosphere enables participants to not only learn, but also co-create solutions that address pressing challenges in today’s business landscape.
Designing for Systems Awareness
Becoming multi-systems aware is the key work for leaders and organizations for a future where we can overcome the metacrisis and make safe transitions toward a flourishing future. The developmental journey is one of consciousness, stepping out of illusion and into reality towards a global mind. It involves self-knowledge, shadow work and opening all inherent intelligences where leaders are grounded in the field of Being. It requires crossing the threshold from reactive to creator, from outer success to inner success, from outer validation to internal validation, from achiever towards alchemist worldview.
The process sounds abstract in philosophy, however, it becomes very concrete as we look at a specific challenge within the organization, deploying a higher worldview perspective to the challenges, and subsequently strategically designing transformations where the board, top executives uplevel, and both strategy and culture become vehicles for transformative upleveling of systems awareness.
Sandja merges systems science, adult developmental psychology, behavioral sciences, wisdom practices, consciousness transformation technologies and sustainability with commercial logic in her leadership style; at times she experiments with integrating creative process methods like visual arts, music, poetry, and embodiment practices into her initiatives where necessary for unlocking growth and a freeing of the system towards health and thriving.
She believes that as a person grows in consciousness and capacity, experiencing a more potent and capable version of themselves, thinking, perspective, engagement, performance and presence increases, making a substantial impact on how individuals and organizations operate. Her commitment to multi-intelligences encourages diverse perspectives and fosters a rich learning environment where innovative ideas can flourish.
Dedicated Advocate for Practical Impact
With a strong focus on practical application, Sandja is dedicated to ensuring that her initiatives have a tangible impact on the daily operations of businesses and their evolutionary journeys. By employing co-learning strategies, she effectively guides organizations with navigating complex systems and integrating sustainable practices into their core DNA. Sandja’s passion for making a difference and guiding leaders to grow drives her unwavering commitment to a livable future for all.
International Expertise
Sandja is a regularly featured expert in leading international business, leadership and sustainability media including Inc Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, CBS, SoCap Global, Unreasonable, CSR Magasinet, New Hope, Børsen, and various others. She has taken to the stage at leading conferences including Sustainable Brands, Natural Products Expo, Drive Business, Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Leadership Summit.
With her international business development and positioning strategy expertise, Sandja was part of the start-up team, which took Crocs Inc from start-up to the largest IPO in the global footwear industry at USD$208 million IPO, in February 2006.
Sandja is an acknowledged systems awareness expert applied to leadership, sustainability and business, having co-created a paper with Fritjof Capra, world renowned expert in Living Systems science Systems Thinking: Life-Enhancing Leadership through business.
Sandja was a contributor among the selected 45 well-known thought leaders and entrepreneurs, whose leadership and strategic skills have resulted in very successful businesses in The Gurubook including Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Salim Ismail (Singularity University), Naveen Jain (Moon Express), Jimmy Maymann (Huffington Post), Otto Scharmer (Theory U), and Blake Mycoskie (TOMS).
More Achievements
- Folkemødet, Democratic Festival Panel debate speaker “Is mission-driven leadership the answer to overcome the wild systemic challenges?” Bornholm, Denmark
- SDG TechAwards – Jury
- Danish Confederation of Enterprise 360 Degree Award – Jury and panel debate
- CSR Link & Aarhus University – keynote & panel debate
- Promote Iceland Islandsstoffa annual meeting – keynote (Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Ledernes Kompetence Center – Fremtidens Lederskab / Future of Leadership (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Sustainable Brands – keynote & exclusive workshop Good Governance and Leadership (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Sustainable Brands – keynote – Driving Conscious Leadership Skills and Culture Change Through Deep Inner Exploration (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Sustainable Brands – Panel – Transformational Leadership: Defining the next wave of successful business leaders (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- DRIVE Business EXPO – keynote – Sustainable Business (Vejle, Denmark)
- MENV: Masters of the Environment MBA, University of Colorado Boulder – seminar – Conscious Compassionate Leadership (Boulder, CO USA)
- F5 BOX – keynote & following panel – How is sustainability a part of the future of leadership
- F5 Inspiring Women – keynote, facilitation (Denmark)
- High Performance F5 Network – keynote – Sustainable, Conscious Leadership (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Women’s Leadership Summit (Global)
- Sustainable Brands – panel debate host –
- Sustainable Brands – workshop – Activating Purpose: Purpose-driven Storytelling through Mainstream Media (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- IMPAQT Summit – The Next Wave of Successful Sustainable Business Leaders (Global)
- Markedsføringsdagen Marketing Day – keynote (Copenhagen)
- Social Media Week – keynote – Driving purpose through communication
- Natural Products Expo West – keynote & panel (Anaheim, CA, USA)
- Natural Products Industry Expo East – keynote & educator (Baltimore, MD, USA)
- Big Blab Event Global Entrepreneurship Week – host & panels (Global)
- Beyond Envy Conference – panel (Global)
- Å Workshop – keynote workshop – Shadow Work & Conscious Leadership (Copenhagen)
- And many other public and private events, including large corporate events, as well as upstart entrepreneurial speaks, teachings and workshops
- Sandja has written articles for and been interviewed by international media such as Inc Magazine, Huffington Post, Unreasonable Institute, CBS12 News, Prevue, POV International, YFS Magazine, Kommunikations Forum, Bureau Biz, 5280 Magazine, Social Media Week, Jyllands Posten, IN Magasin, Organic Spa Magazine, The Muse, New Hope 360, NEXT Accelerator and many more.
Formats and Topics
Customized content can be incorporated into 15 minutes to 1.5 hour sessions, depending on the requirement. Speaking sessions are in person or via webinar/video conference format. Sandja travels from Copenhagen, Denmark.
All Sandja’s speaking themes build on strategic transformation of behavior change for leaders, enterprises, workers and systems. Sustainable futures, social business drivers and trends, facilitating exponential change through conscious leadership, unlocking the human potential for creative, resourceful solution-focused innovation, high cognitive processes like systems awareness for business to catalyze the collective humanity towards the purposeful, ambitious and much needed north star aim: to transcend the metacrisis, and ultimately heal, the challenges we are facing in the world today.
Keynote Topics include:
- Sustainable Leadership & Systems transformation
- The Future of Leadership: Purpose, consciousness, and evolution of humanity
- Leading the new economy: Consciousness, human potential & future of good governance
- Designing strategic transformation to transcend the metacrisis
Moderator
Sandja Brügmann has a wealth of experience as a moderator of events and conferences. Her keen capability to hold space for the emergence of the group, and to weave the thread that brings cohesion to engagements among multiple speakers, topics and the audience.
With a mix of intellect, humor, relational intelligence and systems awareness of the space and people in attendance, she creates connections with people even in large audiences, and has the capability to navigate any obstacle that could, and often does, arise during live events.
She thinks on her feet, making light of, and overcome challenges, and has an array of practices and reflections ready to engage to engage the audience, all while tying the storyline back to the overarching theme of the event/conference and of futures- and systems literacy.
See Sandja In Action
Fremtidens Leder / The Future Leader (In Danish) 1.5 hour keynote & workshop at The Danish Institute for Managers and Executives
What is trust worth? Sustainable Leadership in international branding
Keynote at Promote Iceland Islandsstoffa Annual Meeting Reykjavik, Iceland (160 politicians and business executives).
Interested in booking Sandja?
Call Sandja at 4244 9800 or email.
Testimonials
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
I have known Sandja for many years both professionally and personally and I find her to be one of the most engaging and intelligent people I know. We have appeared together in presentations and I am always impressed with her ability to connect with people in any situation – whether a room of 2 or 200 she definitely knows how to communicate ideas with passion and skill. Her public speaking is exceptional, her knowledge of how to communicate ideas top notch and her enthusiasm for finding the passion in everything she does and pulling it out of everyone she meets is not only impressive …it is humbling. I highly recommend Sandja! – Bill Capsalis Co-founder Big Picture Brands
Sandja is a professional event planner’s dream. She is articulate, poised and extremely knowledgeable in a range of areas including Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Female Empowerment and Branding. She is well prepared, timely, always on point and an overall joy with whom to work. – Lori Webb Executive Livestream Conference Producer-The Big Blab Event, Startup Con Live and Beyond Envy 2016.
An awesome powerhouse revolutionizing business! -Susannah Campora, business owner
It was a great pleasure that Sandja Brügmann and Refresh Agency enriched us and our audience with an intriguing key note speak on newest trends, barriers and ways for enterprises to convey their sustainable walk to understandable talk for the common public, hence building brand value and gaining trust. Well done, Sandja! – Jens Prebensen, Co-founder CSR Link
In Sandja I see one of the most dynamic and passionate people in the leadership, strategic communication and business development space. These qualities, combined with a keen business sense, make Sandja an extraordinary individual driven by her passion. Sandja’s ease of communication in her various fields, from communication to leadership, social media to mindful business development, makes her inspirational to listen to and be inspired by. – Mads Ehrhardt, CEO Copenhagen Concept and Social Media Week Copenhagen
Sandja Brügmann is represented by A-Speakers, an international speakers bureau with locations in New York, USA, London, UK and Nordics, Denmark.
