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The Leadership Evolution Lab™
An invitation to grow into your next level of leadership capacity, beyond business as usual
This is an unconventional online learning space for leaders who sense that business as usual is no longer sufficient. It is designed to support the development of the inner capacity required to lead with clarity, care, and responsibility in times of uncertainty and accelerating change — in your own context, and at your own pace.
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Grow into your next level of leadership capacity, beyond leadership as usual
Feeling the unease of increasing uncertainty? A quiet call to make a more meaningful difference? In a world of AI, geopolitical uncertainty, planetary crisis, and demographic shifts, what once worked no longer quite does. This invites you to step up to your next level of leadership maturity.
Ultimately we need to develop the capacity to lead with wisdom, clarity, courage, and care across systems in a VUCA world of accelerating change. These challenges do not have to become overwhelming and disruptive. Research shows that the leadership maturation we need as a collective can develop as you as a leaders grow your inner capacity in step with the unfolding context — through reflection, lived experience, and transformative learning. It can be done proactively, as something you grow into over time. The Leadership Evolution Lab exists to support that journey, beyond business as usual.
For leaders sensing that something is changing
For leaders and leadership teams who recognise that today’s complexity can no longer be met by competence and execution alone — and who sense that the next chapter of leadership calls for deeper maturity, perspective, and inner grounding.
To grow the capacity leadership now requires
For leaders who want to strengthen the inner capacities required for responsible, future-fit leadership — staying grounded under pressure, making sense of complexity, and acting with clarity and maturity in real-world, high-stakes contexts.
To evolve as a mature, transformat leader
For leaders who want to mature their leadership — not by doing more, but by leading with greater coherence, judgment, and care across people, organisations, and the wider systems they influence under increasing complexity and pressure.
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Register for free!
The Leadership Evolution Lab is a new online learning space with self-paced online courses and resources supporting your growth.
It is created with the ambition to catalyse the shift toward a wise and transformative leadership beyond business as usual.
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Free online resources helping you grow
The Leadership Evolution Lab brings together several pathways for self-paced exploration and leadership development. It includes findings from the fields of adult and vertical leadership development, transformative learning, systems and complexity thinking, neuropsychology, deep psychology, philosophy, the wisdom traditions and more.
Online courses
Deep, self-paced learning journeys that explore leadership, inner development, complexity, and future-fit capacity — designed to be engaged with slowly, and revisited over time.
Space for reflection
Guided inquiries, prompts, and practices that help you pause, make sense of experience, and notice how your perspective and leadership are evolving.
Podcasts
AI-supported "mini-podcasts" to summarize online courses on the go at the intersection of leadership, wisdom, and future-thinking offering new perspectives, insights, and inspiration.
Wisdom Library
Curated resources from science, philosophy, leadership, and adult development to support your continuous growth and broaden your horizon.
AI reflection partners
Purpose-built GPT tools that help you think, sense, design, and reflect — extending your capacity to navigate dilemmas and explore emerging possibilities.
Leadership Conversations
Authentic dialogues with leadership practitioners and pioneers — offering lived wisdom, practical insights, and perspectives on leading with purpose in a changing world.
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Add leadership assessments for deeper insight
Leadership assessments — for you and your leadership team — can help you better understand your growth edges and how to expand your capacity from where you are today.
This is not part of the free Lab but offered as part of our tailored services with professional interpretation and guidance.
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Deepen your journey through live experiences
The Lab is a beginning — a space to learn, reflect, and grow at your own pace.
If you want to go deeper and further, you are invited to add live experiences such as one-to-one executive coaching in vertical leadership development, leadership team programs, leadership cafés, and immersive retreats.
This is not part of the free Lab but offered as a part of our tailored service.
Frequently asked questions
Q: Who is the Leadership Evolution Lab for?
The Leadership Evolution Lab is primarily a free reflective online learning space designed to help experienced leaders upshift to the next level of leadership, and become a wise and transformative leader. It is particularly attractive to leaders actively seeking better ways of leading in more complex and uncertain environments, across systems, and in an accelerating pace of change and transformation beyond business-as-usual.
You can sign up on you own, or together with your leadership team. As a leadership team, contact us if you want us to help you create your own private space for discussions and reflections.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is primarily a free reflective online learning space designed to help experienced leaders upshift to the next level of leadership, and become a wise and transformative leader. It is particularly attractive to leaders actively seeking better ways of leading in more complex and uncertain environments, across systems, and in an accelerating pace of change and transformation beyond business-as-usual.
You can sign up on you own, or together with your leadership team. As a leadership team, contact us if you want us to help you create your own private space for discussions and reflections.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is primarily a free reflective online learning space designed to help experienced leaders upshift to the next level of leadership, and become a wise and transformative leader. It is particularly attractive to leaders actively seeking better ways of leading in more complex and uncertain environments, across systems, and in an accelerating pace of change and transformation beyond business-as-usual.
You can sign up on you own, or together with your leadership team. As a leadership team, contact us if you want us to help you create your own private space for discussions and reflections.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is primarily a free reflective online learning space designed to help experienced leaders upshift to the next level of leadership, and become a wise and transformative leader. It is particularly attractive to leaders actively seeking better ways of leading in more complex and uncertain environments, across systems, and in an accelerating pace of change and transformation beyond business-as-usual.
You can sign up on you own, or together with your leadership team. As a leadership team, contact us if you want us to help you create your own private space for discussions and reflections.
Q: Why does the Leadership Evolution Lab exist?
We are living in a time marked by planetary crisis, accelerating technological change, and growing systemic uncertainty. Research and lived experience increasingly show that conventional leadership capacities — focused on expertise, performance, and control — are no longer sufficient.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is a transformative online learning space created to support experienced leaders who sense that edge and who are ready to upshift their leadership capacity in response to the world as it is becoming. Live experiences and assessments are not part of the free offering, but a tailored service.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is created and curated by Elisabet Lagerstedt — founder & CEO of Future Navigators, experienced leader, senior advisor, executive coach, and PhD researcher in Transformative Business Leadership — as part of her ambition to make this knowledge and content accessible to a wider audience as part of her mission to catalyse the shift toward wise and transformative leadership — co-creating thriving businesses, organisations and futures beyond business as usual.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is also a living research space. Alongside supporting leadership development, the Lab explores an important and still under-researched question:
How can wise and transformative leadership development be meaningfully supported in an online environment — and made more widely accessible?
To explore this, the Lab continuously experiments with and refines different learning modalities, such as:
reflective inquiry and sense-making
embodied and nervous-system-aware practices
narrative and perspective-shifting exercises
developmental prompts and integration practices
Some formats will deepen, others will evolve, and some will be retired — as learning accumulates over time.
Insights from participation may contribute to ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in fully anonymised, ethical, and transparent ways. No personal data is used for commercial purposes.
Your engagement contributes not only to your own development, but to a growing understanding of how leadership evolution can be supported responsibly and at scale online.
Registration and participation in the Leadership Evolution Lab does not imply any additional engagement in executive coaching, advisory work, or live programs. Some leaders and leadership teams may later choose to explore deeper developmental partnerships guided by us, but this is always optional and initiated separately.
The Lab stands on its own.
We are currently looking for advisory board members with deep experience in relevant fields, as well as partnerships. Contact elisabet.lagerstedt@future-navigators for more information.
We are living in a time marked by planetary crisis, accelerating technological change, and growing systemic uncertainty. Research and lived experience increasingly show that conventional leadership capacities — focused on expertise, performance, and control — are no longer sufficient.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is a transformative online learning space created to support experienced leaders who sense that edge and who are ready to upshift their leadership capacity in response to the world as it is becoming. Live experiences and assessments are not part of the free offering, but a tailored service.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is created and curated by Elisabet Lagerstedt — founder & CEO of Future Navigators, experienced leader, senior advisor, executive coach, and PhD researcher in Transformative Business Leadership — as part of her ambition to make this knowledge and content accessible to a wider audience as part of her mission to catalyse the shift toward wise and transformative leadership — co-creating thriving businesses, organisations and futures beyond business as usual.
The Leadership Evolution Lab is also a living research space. Alongside supporting leadership development, the Lab explores an important and still under-researched question:
How can wise and transformative leadership development be meaningfully supported in an online environment — and made more widely accessible?
To explore this, the Lab continuously experiments with and refines different learning modalities, such as:
reflective inquiry and sense-making
embodied and nervous-system-aware practices
narrative and perspective-shifting exercises
developmental prompts and integration practices
Some formats will deepen, others will evolve, and some will be retired — as learning accumulates over time.
Insights from participation may contribute to ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in fully anonymised, ethical, and transparent ways. No personal data is used for commercial purposes.
Your engagement contributes not only to your own development, but to a growing understanding of how leadership evolution can be supported responsibly and at scale online.
Registration and participation in the Leadership Evolution Lab does not imply any additional engagement in executive coaching, advisory work, or live programs. Some leaders and leadership teams may later choose to explore deeper developmental partnerships guided by us, but this is always optional and initiated separately.
The Lab stands on its own.
We are currently looking for advisory board members with deep experience in relevant fields, as well as partnerships. Contact elisabet.lagerstedt@future-navigators for more information.
Q: Is the content research-based? Does it have a connection to lived leadership experience?
The Lab is deeply grounded in extensive leadership, business and entrepreneurial experience. It further has a broad academic interdisciplinary foundation. It draws from organizational development and leadership research, futures and foresight, economic history, entrepreneurship and innovation, sociology, resilience science, systems and complexity thinking, transformative learning, adult and vertical leadership development, psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy, and the wisdom traditions.
Together, this offers a rigorous and holistic understanding of how we as leaders evolve and grow, the context that we grow in - and how our inner development enables outer change through wiser action in a world of accelerating complexity and change.
Your participation and engagement will contribute to the further evolution of the lab, and to our ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in anonymised and ethical ways.
The Lab is deeply grounded in extensive leadership, business and entrepreneurial experience. It further has a broad academic interdisciplinary foundation. It draws from organizational development and leadership research, futures and foresight, economic history, entrepreneurship and innovation, sociology, resilience science, systems and complexity thinking, transformative learning, adult and vertical leadership development, psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy, and the wisdom traditions.
Together, this offers a rigorous and holistic understanding of how we as leaders evolve and grow, the context that we grow in - and how our inner development enables outer change through wiser action in a world of accelerating complexity and change.
Your participation and engagement will contribute to the further evolution of the lab, and to our ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in anonymised and ethical ways.
The Lab is deeply grounded in extensive leadership, business and entrepreneurial experience. It further has a broad academic interdisciplinary foundation. It draws from organizational development and leadership research, futures and foresight, economic history, entrepreneurship and innovation, sociology, resilience science, systems and complexity thinking, transformative learning, adult and vertical leadership development, psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy, and the wisdom traditions.
Together, this offers a rigorous and holistic understanding of how we as leaders evolve and grow, the context that we grow in - and how our inner development enables outer change through wiser action in a world of accelerating complexity and change.
Your participation and engagement will contribute to the further evolution of the lab, and to our ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in anonymised and ethical ways.
The Lab is deeply grounded in extensive leadership, business and entrepreneurial experience. It further has a broad academic interdisciplinary foundation. It draws from organizational development and leadership research, futures and foresight, economic history, entrepreneurship and innovation, sociology, resilience science, systems and complexity thinking, transformative learning, adult and vertical leadership development, psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy, and the wisdom traditions.
Together, this offers a rigorous and holistic understanding of how we as leaders evolve and grow, the context that we grow in - and how our inner development enables outer change through wiser action in a world of accelerating complexity and change.
Your participation and engagement will contribute to the further evolution of the lab, and to our ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in anonymised and ethical ways.
Q: Is the content research-based? Does it have a connection to lived leadership experience?
The Lab is deeply grounded in extensive leadership, business and entrepreneurial experience.
It further has a broad academic interdisciplinary foundation. It draws from organizational development and leadership research, futures and foresight, economic history, entrepreneurship and innovation, sociology, resilience science, systems and complexity thinking, transformative learning, adult and vertical leadership development, psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy, and the wisdom traditions.
Together, this offers a rigorous and holistic understanding of how we as leaders grow, the context that we grow in - and how our inner development enables outer change through wiser action in a world of accelerating complexity and change.
Your participation and engagement will contribute to the further evolution of the lab, and to our ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in anonymised and ethical ways.
The Lab is deeply grounded in extensive leadership, business and entrepreneurial experience.
It further has a broad academic interdisciplinary foundation. It draws from organizational development and leadership research, futures and foresight, economic history, entrepreneurship and innovation, sociology, resilience science, systems and complexity thinking, transformative learning, adult and vertical leadership development, psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy, and the wisdom traditions.
Together, this offers a rigorous and holistic understanding of how we as leaders grow, the context that we grow in - and how our inner development enables outer change through wiser action in a world of accelerating complexity and change.
Your participation and engagement will contribute to the further evolution of the lab, and to our ongoing research in Transformative Business Leadership in anonymised and ethical ways.
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