A regenerative future

Its time to celebrate our 30th episode of A regenerative future and who better to invite for this milestone, than Kris Østergaard who is to make the world more human at the Rehumanize institute?

With AI moving with full speed ahead, its time for us to take the opportunity to become even more human again.

Krist is a best selling author of transforming legacy organisations, the cofounder of SingularityU Nordic and Head of research and publishing at the Rehumanize institute, where they bring leaders together to develop at their countryside and soon seaside retreat to create a more ethical and responsible future together.

He has also lately been digging deep into the connection between AI and leadership, and just launched a paper last week in collaboration with Accenture, called Impact leadership in the age of generative AI. Hot off the press.

Wish you all a great listen to this weeks episode of HumAIn regenerative future!

This regenerative power couple couldn't be separated, so we just needed to invite them both to the very first episode of A regenerative future with two guests. Double trouble!

When Sveinung and Lars Jacob met around 20 years ago, you could say it was love at first sight. They now just passed a millon downloads of their book "7 ways towards a more sustainable business”.

They are well known for spreading hope for a better future all around the world, with concrete examples that truly makes a measurable impact. They both work as sustainability adventurers out from the safety of their home at the Norwegian school of Economics.

Lean back, fall in love, get inspired and have some fun with us in this weeks episode of A regenerative future.

Wishing you all a great week of love and regeneration!

"If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a women you educate a nation."

The first time I met the brilliant Nada Ahmed was at Fundraiser dinner in 2017, for her foundation who works to secure education for more women in India.
Since then she has moved back to the US and written a truly inspiring book about how we can take the lead in our own lives.

She started her own soul journey and step by step took herself out from being a victim of other people and taking charge of her own life.
We get to learn more about her ups and downs through life. And I can promise that its a truly inspiring story about a little girl growing up in India, becoming a successful corporate leader in Norway, to her breaking free from normative corporate cultures and starting her own company.

Today she works as an innovation strategist, a board professional and is an Amazon best selling author with the book Determined to lead. Which I can highly recommend to read.

If you want to learn more about how you can take charge of creating the best life for yourself and master up the courage to take the lead, then you should definitely start the year with this weeks episode of A regenerative Future.

Wish you all an awesome start of the year, where you dare to take lead of your own life!

When he turned 20 he went to live with the Mayans and by doing so he got fired up to embark on a mission to create a better future for all of us. He started out as an activist but then he went into founding a business when he and a friend got a brilliant idea within outdoor wear.

Jo Egil Tobiassen is today the founder and CEO of Northern Playground, with a dream to make less consumption sexy. They have even come to be called the little brother of Patagonia, so definitely a company to watch.

Join us in unfolding Jo´s journey from the Mayans to a successful sustainable business founder, in this episode of A regenerative future.

Thank you for listening and for the small steps you decide to take every day to contribute to a better world for all of us.

Jøril Korperud Johnsen is the former Head of Sustainability at IKEA and is now in the search for a new path to use business as a force for good. On the way there, she works as an eco system facilitator and advisor to businesses and boardrooms and has lately fallen in love with the inner sustainability goals.

Her childhood made her grow up with parents which today would have been seen as sustainable pioneers. Her path took her through an intense leadership career, where she eventually met burnout. We walk through her story on how she came back from such a setback and we even get a taste of a guided radical slowness meditation that has served her well on her way.

If your curious about Jøril´s ways of living more regenerative in tune with nature and using business for the force of good, then make sure you listen to this weeks episode of A regenerative future here.

Thank you all for listening and taking some time to tune into the season we are going into, where nature slows down. We all need a bit of slowing down once in a while.

What better way to start off your week, than to listen to a professor in self-leadership?

Irmelin was encouraged to draw her big dream in an exercise in a leadership program for female talents when she was 26. Six years later she had published a book and 15 years later she took her sabbatical with her three kids working with women empowerment in Zanzibar. Everything she had drawn became true.

Come join us on her journey from a young women with a dream, her periods getting so much pushback that it silenced her, to the outspoken, vulnerable and successful professor she is today.

This weeks inspiring guest is an associate professor in self-leadership and has been awarded the best lecturer of the year 2021. She is doing a lot of exciting projects among them is promoting female role-models in Zanzibar. 

Its not always easy getting through life, but there is ways to make sure your get through it in a better way.

Tune in to Irmelins ways in this weeks episode here.

Wish you all a wonderful dreamy week ahead!

When did we forget to live meaningful lives?

Many of us doesn't realise what we forgot before we either meet the well know wall, some deep personal crises or come midways in our life.

Morten Albæk started his journey to find a more meaningful way of living after his dad died and he realised that it felt meaningful even though he was deeply saddened by it.

Now he seems to have found the answer and this weeks guest of a Regenerative future is now leading Voluntas, which is a global company on a mission to help companies create more meaning in their peoples lives.

He is a honorary professor in philosophy, several times a bestselling author of several books like “One life” and “Fake news in life", and the only Scandinavian who has been selected 5 times for The Internationalist's list of the “100 Most Influential CMOs in the World”.

Dont wait until you are in deep waters. Listen to Mortens recipe for a meaningful life in this weeks episode here.

Because we all deserve better lives!

The first time I met Petter I felt like I had lost a bit hope of a better future. I felt everything was moving to slow and I felt that there where so few people that did enough for it to matter in the big picture. A lot of talk and not so much walk. Its a bit like I feel with the the local Norwegian election this year. Loosing hope.

Something shifted for me when Petter on both in and out breath shared concrete examples where huge efforts where being made and he gave me a glimps of hope. Petter himself got huge hope from Al Gore. He is a sustainable brand advisor and founder of 12YEARS. He has authored the book “Hope” and been the contributor to many more. He has made his life mission to make us do more and better, and to never loose hope.

We hope you will also find some inspiration and get some hope from our conversation.

Without hope, we have nothing. Who or what gives you hope?

The first time I met Paul Skinner my brain got a intellectual orgasm. I knew I needed to dig deeper into his ideas and share his brilliant messages with more people. How he bring fresh flavours to established concepts like he have done in his books purpose upgrade and collaborative advantage, is definitely worth listening to, read and be inspired of.

He is the founder of Marketing Kind a community of marketers, business leaders & change makers who come together to make marketing mean more and change the world for the better, an bestselling author and director at The Agency of the future.

His mantra is that we all need to change the stories we live and work by to do more and better. Not just the tightly controlled stories of marketing messages, but the deeper stories that we tell ourselves and others.

How can we upgrade the stories we live by and thereby the lives we live? Paul seems to have found the answer to that.

Wish you all a great listen, starting your week with a real upgrade!

Its about time to step out of the pools and get our clothes on to create an even more inclusive and thriving world for all of us.

Kimiya is a true inspiration in such matter, from the best female chess player in Norway to a law school dropout and today running her own successful company contributing to a better world by making it more inclusive.

She has faced a lot of adversity on her way, but managed to use that as a fire to fuel her passion for the better for others. Many times pushing it too far, and learned a lot from that.

In this weeks episode of A regenerative future, she share a lot of her learnings on her way to success and advice all of us to dare to quit more, cry more and give a less of a fuck. Probably most important of them all, we cant ever loose hope. Thats the only thing we have.

Thanks Kimiya for your great advices and a great reminder for how to set up ourselves for better balance the coming season. 

Wish you all a great listen and kick start on a better fall!