The Power of Peers: How EGA Helped a Future CEO to Prepare for New Role

In the fall of 2019, Kristian Sarastuen found himself in an unexpected and challenging situation. One of Norway's most experienced strategic communications advisors with the Oslo office of Burson-Marsteller, a leading worldwide public relations and communications firm, Sarastuen was suddenly and improbably tapped to take on [...]

The Power of Global Innovation Ecosystems in Practice

The many new challenges facing businesses today may seem daunting, but to someone somewhere they are becoming old hat, having already experienced the quickly changing world of work. That someone may be halfway around the globe, but that shouldn’t stop businesses from tapping their knowledge and [...]

Which Four Bubbles Does Global Peer Collaboration Burst?

Innovation has top of corporate agendas for over a decade – often with limited results despite leadership training programs, the establishment of innovation hubs, joint ventures, and hackathons for inspiration and insight. While companies invested $358 billion in corporate training in 2020, with $3.5 billion going [...]

How to thrive in a hyper-connected world as a business leader

We live in a hyper-connected world. Never in our history have people, products, and data been more connected on a global scale than today – allowing access to new markets, ideas, and collaboration partners. However, we’re also experiencing the negative side of ‘hyper-connectedness’– empty shelves, deserted [...]

Four Predictions From Experts on What Life 3.0 Will Look Like

Life 3.0 refers to the point in our future when emerging technologies and trends (AI, metaverse, web 3.0, blockchains) will come to dominate our everyday lives, altering fundamentally how we work, interact, engage and learn. Our Lives 3.0 will likely see the blending of our digital/physical [...]

Global Insight into Future Growth

Within the Executive Growth Alliance, peers from US, Europe, Latin America and Africa collaborate to solve Specific Actionable Challenges. At the conclusion of each Executive Growth Circle (EGC), all participants are challenged to commit to action with accountability to apply the insights gained during the EGC. [...]

Executive Growth Alliance Delivers on ROI

Investment in future-ready leadership is essential to a company’s successful growth. Back in 2019, companies allocated $3.5 billion for leadership training, but often employees were not able to apply the concepts taught during the training in their actual workplace. This resulted in wasted investments. How can [...]