Choose to create your own future now, before our disruptive world makes the choice for you.

I know how, I have done it, successfully, many times over.

Creating the Future

As Global Strategist and Sparring Partner, I'll get your organization ready for the future and establish true sustainability - for your business, for people, and for the planet.

The world has become more complex, more uncertain and sometimes chaotic or even incomprehensible. The speed of change is now faster than at any other time in human history. And, the disruption fueled by digitalization is upending entire industries, calling business models into question, if not rendering them fully obsolete. Clearly, the future is not what it used to be. 

Looking forward, what can we expect? The question to end all questions, and one I first began grappling with back in 2005 in my first Strategic Foresight project. Since then, I have been involved with the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS), exploring and studying the future, observing and analyzing the trends, and mastering the tools that support the foresight process.

As Global Strategist, I know from experience how to leverage Strategic Foresight to turn a «conventional» strategy into one that is future ready. I also bring the tools that infuse future-readiness into your downstream processes – from strategy development, kick-off and implementation all the way through to the plan-to-perform process and the organization of Finance & GBS. 

In the role of a Sparring Partner, I guide entrepreneurs, international companies, C-level managements, and corporate boards through the process of making their business future ready and achieving true sustainability in all three dimensions – people, planet, and business. 

All this is no rocket science - I know how, I have done it, successfully and many times over.


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I am a passionate Young Entrepreneur and Global Strategist who has profited from a rich 30-year «apprenticeship» at IKEA – arguably the sustainably most successful global retail company in the world – eagerly learning the ins and outs of global business. Now I am ready to pursue my vocation and bring my knowledge, experience, and passion to the free market.

As a Swiss-Polish dual citizen with decades of international management and board experience under my belt, I’ve served in Poland, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Denmark, China, and the US.

Open to new ideas, keeping a sharp eye on the latest technological advances, tolerant and respectful – that’s my approach when I work with businesses. I am firmly convinced that the future holds far more opportunities than threats. Let’s harness them.

Would you like to learn more about me? Get in touch and schedule a complimentary discovery call.


I am a passionate Young Entrepreneur and Global Strategist who draws on 30 years of comprehensive experience at IKEA – arguably the sustainably most successful global retail company in the world – and have been through the complexities of global business in all its facts. Now I am ready to pursue my vocation and bring my knowledge, experience, and passion to the free market.

As a Swiss-Polish dual citizen with decades of international management and board experience under my belt, I’ve served in Poland, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Denmark, China, and the US.who draws on my extensive 30 years of experience at IKEA

Open to new ideas, keeping a sharp eye on the latest technological advances, tolerant and respectful – that’s my approach when I work with businesses. I am firmly convinced that the future holds far more opportunities than threats. Let’s harness them.

Would you like to learn more about me?
Get in touch and
schedule a complimentary discovery call.



Strategic Foresight

All too often, businesses try to take a shortcut, skipping over Strategic Foresight and jumping straight into strategy development. But if your objective is to actively create your future, it’s critical to align internal change with the external megatrends.

Strategic Foresight

Finance and Global Business Services (GBS)

Finance departments frequently struggle with two issues: For one, the planning and follow-up cycle puts a heavy focus on deviations from the budget, while virtually ignoring the future. Second, companies are seeing the future of digital and mobile work through a problem lens rather than through the lens of opportunity. In fact, the future of work is a wonderful challenge that harbors enormous potential.

Finance & Administration




Blog

Dive into my years of experience on Leadership, the Future, true Sustainability, Strategy and Finance & GBS. Reflections and views from a global strategist in the field.

Future oriented leadership in stormy times

Bad times are good Foresight times

With the 2023 fall quarterly closings, most companies are in the process of approving their budgets for 2024 or…