A regenerative future

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...

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...

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 sh...

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...

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 man...

She hasn't talked so much about this before, but she cut the bonds with her biological father when she was 11 years old. Ever since she has continued to fight for justice. It was almost a coincidence that she bumped into fighting for a greener society when a friend made her the most amazing salad she had every tasted around 10 years ago. She then jumped of a career as an analyst at Google to becom...

As a young girl Lene wanted to become a singer and eventually she became an artist and released her own song. She has since embarked on achieving many new goals in her life and on her way both won dancing with the stars and now recently a powerlifting championship. On her journey through life she has had many ups and downs, but never lost her belief in that everything is possible. The most importa...

Every weekend I have some days off, I make sure to take time off to meditate a lot, rest more, move my body and be out in nature. This long weekend was not any different.  Every time I keep on getting reminded of what I need more of in my everyday life, and every time I get to take one small step at the time to a more meaningful way of living. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future I have...

One year ago we in Future leaders global was set out to find two CEOs, that was before we met Tilmann Stolte. After a couple of rounds we realised we had found the perfect candidate to lead both the commercial and NGO part of the company, so we decided to merge both the organisations and the boards. It has now gone a year since we did our onboarding in a Sauna in Oslo and we talk about his main le...

The room is packed with people and Im standing in the back. My heart starts to beat like crazy when the author starts to share the first story from her book “What leaders dont talk about”. It doesn't take many sentences before I realise that she decided to kick off her book launch with my story. In that moment Im back to being 29 again and the worst treatment I have ever experienced in my care...

Aaron Kroon is adopted and came to Sweden 1978, as the first person of colour in a small Swedish village. His parents has always been his greatest allies and one of the main reasons for him being where he is today. Maybe against his odds. This weeks guest of A regenerative future, is ranked as top 3 in "Swedish Role Model of the Year” 2022, he is a Diversity Trailblazer and People Director at...

At the moment Lars Rinnan is in Kairo and is soon going to talk to 12 000 people at the "Rise up summit" about how AI will save the world, with one of the worlds greatest wonders the pyramids, as the backdrop. We where lucky enough to catch him before he flew of to Egypt. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future, you get to hear more about the world he dreams of in 2029. Lars is a...

Siri Abrahamsen is on a mission to bring more empathy and joy to the world, through her company Gleding. She is a founder, a bestselling author and a dear friend which I have had many fruitful conversations with. Even when we disagree, which we do alot, we do that it with love. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future we talk about why we need to stop talking about anti-bullying, the ambitio...

The first time I met Sirine Fodstad was when we where both going to speak at a global HR conference. She was the host and I was speaking. At the speakers dinner the day before, we ended up next to each other, and since then we have developed a great friendship. Serine is a true people person with International background with 17 years abroad in 7 different countries, she has been global HR Directo...

Todays guest Kjersti Rinde Omsted is a full time ecological og regenerative farmer, she is passionate about food as medicine and has personally recovered from ME. Now she is moving into the field of therapy and using her own knowledge and experience to help others to live better lives. We talk about her personal health journey recovering from severe ME, through clean eating, meditation,...

The first time I met this lady, I knew that I had met a true friend and a HR rebell in crime. She is known for being the queen of radical flexibility. She believes in life balance and work being an integrated part of it. Heidi Nygjelten is the Chief People and Culture Officer at Amesto Tech House and is this weeks guest of “A regenerative future”. Together with her dog off course. In this episode...

I remember Alex sitting around my dinner table a couple of years ago and reflecting on what his next steps would be within the space of sustainable tech. Little did I know that he would soon embark on a truly impressive journey where he over a period of 500 days went deep into the potential of AI, by writing and publishing an article on the topic every single day. Because of the thousands of hours...

Content Warning: This podcast includes some references to gender based violence and sexual assault. Last time I met Astrid Sundberg, we shared stage on Diversify - the Nordics largest conference on Diversity. From stage she shared vulnerably about her struggle with cancer and her experience as a survivor of sexual assault. Im glad that she said yes to share her inspirational story with all you lis...

The first time I saw Lars Erik Lund sharing brutally honest about his mental health and depression on Facebook, I knew then that he would be a leader that would make a difference for many peoples lives going forward. I have since had the pleasure to share the mike with him several times and every time he continue to inspire me with his radical openness and they way he break down stigma around ment...

Are you brave enough to empathise with Andrew Tate, is the question this weeks videocast Pellegrino Riccardi ends on. Pell is an author and recently released his new book "Drowning Quietly: Memoir of a mans shortcomings". He is also an award-winning motivational speaker, who has excited and delighted audiences all over the world. In Scandinavia he is known as our top cross...

Last time I met todays guest was when she invited me to speak infront of the extended global leadership team of Red Cross and challenged me to share my personal story being gay with leaders from many countries where its illegal to be me. I must admit I was a bit scared. Catrhine Foss Stene is the founder of Skapr a management consultancy company. She is also the leader of the jury of Norways large...

Kicking off the new year with a person that is a true role model in being him/herself unapologetically. I met Torben last time in 2017. I knew him then only as Torben. Today he/her identifies as both Torben and Cathrine Dyhr-Nielsen. This is the first time I meet him/her after coming out as a trans person, and I didn't know who would show up as my guest in this episode. Would it be Torben or Cathr...

I first met the truly inspiring Chisom Udeze 4 years ago. We recently connected again after Covid, when I was lucky enough to be invited to facilitate a panel at her amazing conference Diversify Nordics Summit, this fall. Since I first met her, she has been a women that truly inspires me with her story, how she makes other people feel and how she put actions behind her dreams. She is a 3 times imp...

Berta Lende Røed is an inspiring and successful CEO and founder of Fuelbox, which is a global organisation that believes that great conversations will heal the world. I first got to know her when she invited me to a breakfast at our home through social media. She has since then definitely become a sister from another mister, she is an inspiring business leader and after this episode apparently als...

Poornima Luthra is a well known TedX speaker, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, an author of now three books and a strong activist for equality for all. She strongly believes in the power of positive change and influence through education. I have had the pleasure to contribute to her books and working together on several occasions and look forward to dig a bit deeper in what...