From strategic plans to real-time action

Most strategies were built for a world that no longer exists. In today’s fast-changing reality, the organisations that stay relevant are not the ones with the best plan they are the ones that can sense, decide and move together, across levels.

In this vodcast, we explore how strategy can become a shared organisational capability, and why that shift is no longer a nice-to-have. Whether you are leading a team, shaping decisions from the middle, or trying to make your voice count this conversation is for you.

Why this matters right now

• Traditional strategy processes are too slow for the pace of change most organisations face today
• Valuable insights from people closest to the work rarely reach the decisions that matter
• AI and distributed working are fundamentally changing what it means to lead and to contribute the old boundaries are dissolving
• Participatory approaches to strategy exist, but making them credible upward to leadership or the board remains the hard, unresolved problem
• More people than ever are expected to act strategically, without the tools, language or mandate to do so
• Organisations that cannot connect insights across levels are already losing ground

What this vodcast is

A sharp, honest conversation at the frontier of how organisations actually make strategy work in practice. Innovation Lab Partner and Lab Agent for “Strategic Design” Chris Weier opens with a concise framing of why traditional strategy breaks down in uncertain environments and what the alternatives look like in practice.

Christian Bason (Co-Founder Transition Collective) then joins for a candid, experience-based discussion on what it really takes to shift strategy from a leadership privilege to a shared organisational capacity: who gets involved, how input travels upward, and what leaders need to do differently to make that possible.

What you will take away
• A clear diagnosis of why traditional strategy fails in uncertain environments and what that costs organisations
• Practical insight into how experiential and participatory formats unlock better decisions at every level
• A new frame for the manager’s role: from directing strategy to creating the conditions for it to emerge
• Concrete thinking on the hardest question: how do you make input from the floor credible to the people in the boardroom?
• A sharper sense of your own role in a world where strategy is no longer someone else’s job

Who is this for?
Leaders, managers, and practitioners working in organisations navigating complexity, change, and uncertainty — especially those who want to bridge the gap between strategy and execution. And anyone who has ever felt that the real intelligence in their organisation never quite reaches the decisions that matter.

Your hosts

Chris Weier
Chris Weier is an InnovationLab partner and founder of Nordic Connective, a Copenhagen-based consultancy connecting organisations - particularly in the German-speaking world - with Nordic leadership and organisational thinking. With a background as a software engineer and over 20 years of experience designing leadership programmes, strategy facilitation and cross-cultural learning journeys, Chris works at the intersection of experiential formats and real organisational change. She is the creator of Strategy Expeditions, a new InnovationLab format for making strategy work across organisational levels.

Christian Bason, Ph.D.
Christian Bason is co-founder of Transition Collective and one of Europe’s leading voices on organisational transformation, design leadership and participatory change. He was CEO of the Danish Design Centre (2014–2023) and before that Director of MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation lab (2007–2014) where he spent nearly two decades working on the exact question this vodcast addresses: how to make distributed input legible to the people who hold decision-making power. He is the author of nine books on leadership, design and public sector transformation, and currently teaches executives at Copenhagen Business School, CEDEP/INSEAD and the European School of Administration.

Format
• Online vodcast, 40–45 minutes
• 10–15 min masterclass-style introduction by Chris Weier
• 30–40 min in-depth conversation with Christian Bason

Sign up now to learn how to turn strategy into a shared capability and position yourself and your organisation to thrive in uncertainty.