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I am a coach, facilitator, and speaker. My work is devoted to bringing more heart and soul to leadership, business, and humanity at large.

I integrate teachings from ancient mystic traditions, family constellations, and depth psychology in my work with people and organisations from around the world.

I live on a farm and retreat center in Northern Sweden with my family.

About

My story

For most of the first 25 years of my life, I tried to be a good boy. Achievement in school, career progression, and never saying no were my strategies of ensuring relational acceptance. The fact that society supported these pursuits made it easy to get along in the world and to achieve conventional success.

But deeper down, I intuitively knew there more to life than I was being told. It might have been drummed out of me from an early age, but somewhere inside me I always had a sense of the inherent beauty and magically nature of reality. Although it was hidden from view, it was somehow still present in its absence.

After an initially promising career in entrepreneurship and then management consulting, I soon became disillusioned and drained. Is increasing corporate profit and personal wealth all there is to life? Although a deeper part of me knew this wasn’t the case, my egoic mind didn’t dare admit it – my primary orienting metrics in life would have been a sham otherwise. Eventually, thanks to the wisdom of my body and the consolation of ancient contemplative texts, I finally recognized that things had to change. I was called to a different path, professionally and, more importantly, personally as a human and a man. I had no choice but to listen to my inner guidance and walk in a different direction.

Today, I work with leaders and organisations from around the world to bring more heart and soul to business. By practicing and teaching methods for healing trauma and developing presence and integrity, I help leaders to move from their egoic mind to their deeper sources of insight and wisdom. It is not easy work, nor is it for the faint of heart. But we are not living in a time when faint hearts are anywhere close to being sufficient.

While the modern world has given us much to be grateful for, business as usual is a recipe for disaster and destruction. In an age of metacrisis and exponential technology and AI, there won’t be much left of our humanity, or life on the world as we know it, if we keep showing up as we having been doing in business, leadership and culture. The times are calling us to grow up, wake up, and become better stewards of our planet, each other, and the lives we have been given.

Part of my attempt to live in response to these questions was the choice to move to Allsta Gård, the farm and retreat center I run with my family in northern Sweden. Set in a quiet valley, the farm allows us to grow organic vegetables, raise pastured laying hens, and host retreats and offsites for people and organisations from around the world. Giving a (literal) taste of what it means to live in relationship with the land is transformational for our guests. Our vision is for Allsta Gård to become a hub for human development in the Norrland region, and in so doing helping to bring forth a more connected, alive, and beautiful world.

Read a longer version of my story here
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Principles I (strive to) live by

  • There is always an inside to the outside of anything in existence. There is the surface, and then there is the interior.

    The same goes for us as humans. The state of our interior defines the world we will see and the world end up creating.

    To change the state of our planet for the better, technological and political changes are not sufficient. A better world will only come to be if there is a critical mass of transformation in our inner states of consciousness.

    The state of humanity and the planet, now and in the future, depends on the state of our inner worlds.

  • Every challenge you face is happening for your evolution. There are no accidents, there are no mistakes. What we are experiencing is happening in service of life’s and our soul’s evolution. Our challenges are ultimately a gift.

    This is a tough pill to swallow. But there is no more empowering stance to take in life. It rests upon timeless spiritual truths and can transform your life in an instant. You work with what arises rather than pushing away based on preferences and undigested emotions. You accept the invitation from life to face your dragons, and you emerge with treasures of unimaginable richness.

    By saying “Yes” to what you are experiencing, you take your place as an empowered co-creator in life.

  • Whenever something is hidden or excluded, the system in question will get stuck. Whether it’s a person, family, organization, or a culture, systems falter when parts are excluded. Examples include ignoring overwhelming emotions, avoiding difficult conversations, and denying unprocessed intergenerational suffering. When we exclude in these ways, then pain, disease, and difficulty naturally follow.

    Only by seeing, feeling, and including that which has been excluded can true change occur. When we put things in their proper place, we can finally breathe out. Life can start anew.

    When we include what has been excluded, we become midwives of a future worthy of the name.

  • Our personalities are largely a composition of defense mechanisms and survival strategies, designed to maintain the attachment relationships with our primary caregivers. Much of who you think you are is not really “you”; it’s a collection of patterns you have picked up along the way to ensure survival and belonging. This is the ego.

    But, crucially, underneath our egoic patterning there is a deeper, more authentic version of you are. This is what the mystics have referred to as the soul. It is the essential quality of energy and spirit that makes you, you.

    Living as the ego is draining and destructive for the oneself, others and the planet. When we instead live in alignment with the soul, life becomes a fulfilling and energy-generating journey that serves us all.

    The work of our lives is to dissolve the ego to allow the soul to shine forth, for the benefit of all beings and life itself.

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What I offer

  • Fluent in the languages of business and soul. My professional career has been combination of business and human development work. I can make my way around a P&L as well as I can guide people through mystic healing practices. I adjust the delivery and language I use to make sure it resonates for the people involved.

  • Getting at the roots. Much of personal development work is focused on behavioral change, but it doesn’t address the original source of the issue. My training in developmental and collective trauma means I can help to identify and dissolve the deeper roots of your challenges, so that they can finally and surely dissolve.

  • Change without addition or force. My work is less about adding new information, and more about removing what’s in the way of organic change unfolding on its own. By dissolving what’s frozen, the water of innovation and insight can flow on its own accord, without effort and force.

  • Anchored on the land. I live in the countryside. Here my family and I grow our own food, are embedded in the local community, and host groups for retreats. Living in alignment with the land, and offering people an experience of it, provides a settledness that is a counterweight to the speed and surface of daily modern life.

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Training and credentials

  • ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

  • NLP Master Practitioner from NLP Marin

  • NARM Master Practitioner

  • PsychoNeuroEnergetics Practitioner

  • Timeless Wisdom Training from Thomas Hübl

  • Fellowship of Light from Patrick Connor

  • Family Constellations from NLP Marin

  • Warm Data Lab Host from the International Bateson Institute

  • Master’s Degree in International Marketing and Management from Copenhagen Business School