The Leadership Gap
21st Century Challenges,
20th Century Management
Organizations face unprecedented complexity.
Yet management practices haven't evolved to match.
We bridge that gap.
3 Inconvenient Management Truths
Yesterday's problems came one at a time. Today's come all at once.
Climate disasters. Social upheaval. Economic shocks. Digital transformation. These aren't separate challenges — they're interconnected crises that amplify each other. When flooding disrupts supply chains that impacts food security that triggers social unrest. The polycrisis doesn't respect departmental boundaries or quarterly planning cycles.
We are using management styles that won't solve 2030s problems, let alone 2050s.
Our institutions were designed for a simpler world. Hierarchical. Departmental. Linear. But complexity demands something different. When your challenges are interconnected, your responses must be too. Your management system is a perfect match for a world that no longer exists.
The gap gets wider every day.
While organizations keep optimizing their existing practices, complexity keeps accelerating. It's like draining a swamp with a thimble — while the rain keeps falling.
This isn't about trying harder with familiar tools. It's about adopting management practices that match the moment we're in.
The opportunity? Transform how we manage. Not incrementally, but fundamentally.
From controlling to enabling. From separating to integrating. From reacting to adapting.
That's where breakthrough becomes possible.
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what we offer
When you view an organization's ecosystem as a collection of problems, you get incremental fixes.
When you see it as a living system, you unlock transformative potential.
At Enterprise Evolution, we transform how organizations navigate complexity. While others see separate departments fighting separate fires with separate hoses, we see the interconnected threads that weave the ecosystem together.
Traditional management focuses on control, efficiency, and linear solutions. But the polycrisis we face demands something more: systemic practices that integrate rather than compartmentalize, collaborate rather than control, and dynamically adapt rather than react.
When organizations shift from managing services to enabling ecosystem well-being — operating within planetary boundaries while ensuring social foundations are met for all — transformation happens. We're here to guide that journey beyond incremental improvements toward fundamental transformation.
The future belongs to organizations that embrace the whole system, not just the parts they can control.
It's about building partnerships with all stakeholders in your ecosystem.
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TESTIMONIALS
WHAT OTHERS SAY
The Flourishing Enterprise Strategy Design has been tailored and applied in various circumstances in Canada and Europe with over 30 senior leadership client teams. Here are some examples of what clients have to say at the end of their various experiences:
"integrates triple bottom line aspects into a single tool"
"When working with our 120 member companies we have found the Flourishing Business Canvas useful when the leadership teams of our member companies are doing business strategy and modelling. The canvas is particularly useful as it integrates triple bottom line aspects into a single tool. While it requires work to grasp, our senior leaders appreciate such a forward looking canvas, and find it helps them developing their thinking about the connections between business, society and the environment."
— JAN HELGE VISTE, Manager for Digitalization and Business Development, GCE NODE, Kristiansand, Adger, Norway
"now engaging with the board to set a new strategic plan"
"It was a wake-up call and forced us to see the implications of our goals ... It was good to work with other firms and coaches – getting input from a different perspective and seeing how other companies are doing things. As a result of our participation the senior management team is now engaging with the board to set a new strategic plan.”
— CEO of a medium sized Norwegian manufacturing company (~100 employees), a member of a membership-based innovation centre of excellence, who experienced the method in a 4-day strategy design lab, with 2 other firms in attendance
"made us think further into the future"
"We’ve been really happy about these sessions. I am really sure that with some of the inputs and some of the topics that we’ve been talking about in these sessions have made us think further into the future than we would have done otherwise, and made us think about how can we be more sustainable within our line of business. Just getting some input and working with the frameworks you introduced has been really helpful. Over the next 18 months we aim to be implementing the strategy you helped us create.”
— CEO of a small Danish I.T. company (~25 employees), a client of an international innovation project, who experienced the method via a strategy design sprint consisting of 8 on-line sessions
"We are undergoing a transformation"
“We are here to further grow our business. We are undergoing a transformation. Following continuous growth for some time, now is the time to align our thinking and workflow to better handle further growth. We came out of the program with a great tool for identifying and implementing improvements in our organization. It was especially useful to have someone take a look at us from the outside,”
— CEO of a Norwegian digital services company, who experienced the method over 8 weeks with 8 ½ day sessions supported by a Learning Management System
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