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Did you know that the textile industry is responsible for more than 8% of the total Co2 emissions, which is more than both airplanes and boats? Im wondering why we dont talk more about our own overconsumption of clothes and the industry that encourages us to consume way to much clothes. We are fuelling an industry that is both destroying our planet and creates large islands of clothes in landfills all over the world. Its about time we as consumers take action and its about time companies within the industry does the same. Finally this week, we got the great news with passing of new legislation in Norway that makes it easier to sell reused clothes and other products. Hopefully that will take us some steps on the way. One of the companies that also tries to take us there, and which has had worldwide success with their recycling of plastic bottles, is Tomra. Now they are aiming to conquer the textile industry and make it circular. This week we are lucky to get to speak to Vibeke Krohn, who has taken on the important role as CEO for Tomra textiles. She has a passion for creating a better world and making sure we use our resources wisely and hopefully over and over again. So if you are curious on how we can change one of the worst industries and how you can contribute. Then tune in to this weeks episode of A regenerative future. With Tomra´s previous success with plastic bottles, Im hopeful that they will contribute to make one of the worst industries become a bit better. Lets all be a part of the change and do our share fare in consuming less!

Those of you who know me, know that I wanted to become a farmer when I was young and that I love to fly high. I also love to travel the world, but would like do to it in a much greener way. And I have a love relationship with Telia. Little did you maybe know that I have all this in common with Abraham Foss, the CEO of Avinor. He grew up on a farm, he works relentlessly so we all can fly both high and greener, and he was in love with Telia a couple of years ago as the Norwegian CEO. Now he is well into his new job in aviation and its time to catch up on the latest: Tune in for this weeks episode of A regenerative future if you love to fly high, but would love to do it in a greener way. And for a leadership lesson or two. Wish you all a great highflying week!

Im so sick and tired of all the talking about a more diverse and inclusive world, when most people and companies dont do near enough to really move the needle. So since I dont like empty celebrations of all the days where we still have a long way to go in the world, I decided to invite someone who really walks the talk in the occasion of the international women's day this Friday. Tove Selnes is Chief People Officer in Storebrand, which was recently rated as the second best company in the world on gender equality, with the mission of people first and digital always. Tove has made a huge difference for people throughout her whole career and is a frontrunner in flexibility, gender equality, AI implementation and more. Her fire for making a difference comes both from her parents and fighting for a better world for her kids to growi up in. Tove i still clear on one thing, its up to us to fix it now! Wish you all a wonderful start of your week, and hope you can be inspired from Tove to do a little bit less of talking and a lot more walking!

Its time to celebrate our 30th episode of A regenerative future and who better to invite for this milestone, than Kris Østergaard who is to make the world more human at the Rehumanize institute? With AI moving with full speed ahead, its time for us to take the opportunity to become even more human again. Krist is a best selling author of transforming legacy organisations, the cofounder of SingularityU Nordic and Head of research and publishing at the Rehumanize institute, where they bring leaders together to develop at their countryside and soon seaside retreat to create a more ethical and responsible future together. He has also lately been digging deep into the connection between AI and leadership, and just launched a paper last week in collaboration with Accenture, called Impact leadership in the age of generative AI. Hot off the press. Wish you all a great listen to this weeks episode of HumAIn regenerative future!

This regenerative power couple couldn't be separated, so we just needed to invite them both to the very first episode of A regenerative future with two guests. Double trouble! When Sveinung and Lars Jacob met around 20 years ago, you could say it was love at first sight. They now just passed a millon downloads of their book "7 ways towards a more sustainable business”. They are well known for spreading hope for a better future all around the world, with concrete examples that truly makes a measurable impact. They both work as sustainability adventurers out from the safety of their home at the Norwegian school of Economics. Lean back, fall in love, get inspired and have some fun with us in this weeks episode of A regenerative future. Wishing you all a great week of love and regeneration!

"If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a women you educate a nation." The first time I met the brilliant Nada Ahmed was at Fundraiser dinner in 2017, for her foundation who works to secure education for more women in India. Since then she has moved back to the US and written a truly inspiring book about how we can take the lead in our own lives. She started her own soul journey and step by step took herself out from being a victim of other people and taking charge of her own life. We get to learn more about her ups and downs through life. And I can promise that its a truly inspiring story about a little girl growing up in India, becoming a successful corporate leader in Norway, to her breaking free from normative corporate cultures and starting her own company. Today she works as an innovation strategist, a board professional and is an Amazon best selling author with the book Determined to lead. Which I can highly recommend to read. If you want to learn more about how you can take charge of creating the best life for yourself and master up the courage to take the lead, then you should definitely start the year with this weeks episode of A regenerative Future. Wish you all an awesome start of the year, where you dare to take lead of your own life!

When he turned 20 he went to live with the Mayans and by doing so he got fired up to embark on a mission to create a better future for all of us. He started out as an activist but then he went into founding a business when he and a friend got a brilliant idea within outdoor wear. Jo Egil Tobiassen is today the founder and CEO of Northern Playground, with a dream to make less consumption sexy. They have even come to be called the little brother of Patagonia, so definitely a company to watch. Join us in unfolding Jo´s journey from the Mayans to a successful sustainable business founder, in this episode of A regenerative future. Thank you for listening and for the small steps you decide to take every day to contribute to a better world for all of us.

Jøril Korperud Johnsen is the former Head of Sustainability at IKEA and is now in the search for a new path to use business as a force for good. On the way there, she works as an eco system facilitator and advisor to businesses and boardrooms and has lately fallen in love with the inner sustainability goals. Her childhood made her grow up with parents which today would have been seen as sustainable pioneers. Her path took her through an intense leadership career, where she eventually met burnout. We walk through her story on how she came back from such a setback and we even get a taste of a guided radical slowness meditation that has served her well on her way. If your curious about Jøril´s ways of living more regenerative in tune with nature and using business for the force of good, then make sure you listen to this weeks episode of A regenerative future here. Thank you all for listening and taking some time to tune into the season we are going into, where nature slows down. We all need a bit of slowing down once in a while.

What better way to start off your week, than to listen to a professor in self-leadership? Irmelin was encouraged to draw her big dream in an exercise in a leadership program for female talents when she was 26. Six years later she had published a book and 15 years later she took her sabbatical with her three kids working with women empowerment in Zanzibar. Everything she had drawn became true. Come join us on her journey from a young women with a dream, her periods getting so much pushback that it silenced her, to the outspoken, vulnerable and successful professor she is today. This weeks inspiring guest is an associate professor in self-leadership and has been awarded the best lecturer of the year 2021. She is doing a lot of exciting projects among them is promoting female role-models in Zanzibar. Its not always easy getting through life, but there is ways to make sure your get through it in a better way. Tune in to Irmelins ways in this weeks episode here. Wish you all a wonderful dreamy week ahead!

When did we forget to live meaningful lives? Many of us doesn't realise what we forgot before we either meet the well know wall, some deep personal crises or come midways in our life. Morten Albæk started his journey to find a more meaningful way of living after his dad died and he realised that it felt meaningful even though he was deeply saddened by it. Now he seems to have found the answer and this weeks guest of a Regenerative future is now leading Voluntas, which is a global company on a mission to help companies create more meaning in their peoples lives. He is a honorary professor in philosophy, several times a bestselling author of several books like “One life” and “Fake news in life", and the only Scandinavian who has been selected 5 times for The Internationalist's list of the “100 Most Influential CMOs in the World”. Dont wait until you are in deep waters. Listen to Mortens recipe for a meaningful life in this weeks episode here. Because we all deserve better lives!

The first time I met Petter I felt like I had lost a bit hope of a better future. I felt everything was moving to slow and I felt that there where so few people that did enough for it to matter in the big picture. A lot of talk and not so much walk. Its a bit like I feel with the the local Norwegian election this year. Loosing hope. Something shifted for me when Petter on both in and out breath shared concrete examples where huge efforts where being made and he gave me a glimps of hope. Petter himself got huge hope from Al Gore. He is a sustainable brand advisor and founder of 12YEARS. He has authored the book “Hope” and been the contributor to many more. He has made his life mission to make us do more and better, and to never loose hope. We hope you will also find some inspiration and get some hope from our conversation. Without hope, we have nothing. Who or what gives you hope?

The first time I met Paul Skinner my brain got a intellectual orgasm. I knew I needed to dig deeper into his ideas and share his brilliant messages with more people. How he bring fresh flavours to established concepts like he have done in his books purpose upgrade and collaborative advantage, is definitely worth listening to, read and be inspired of. He is the founder of Marketing Kind a community of marketers, business leaders & change makers who come together to make marketing mean more and change the world for the better, an bestselling author and director at The Agency of the future. His mantra is that we all need to change the stories we live and work by to do more and better. Not just the tightly controlled stories of marketing messages, but the deeper stories that we tell ourselves and others. How can we upgrade the stories we live by and thereby the lives we live? Paul seems to have found the answer to that. Wish you all a great listen, starting your week with a real upgrade!

Its about time to step out of the pools and get our clothes on to create an even more inclusive and thriving world for all of us. Kimiya is a true inspiration in such matter, from the best female chess player in Norway to a law school dropout and today running her own successful company contributing to a better world by making it more inclusive. She has faced a lot of adversity on her way, but managed to use that as a fire to fuel her passion for the better for others. Many times pushing it too far, and learned a lot from that. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future, she share a lot of her learnings on her way to success and advice all of us to dare to quit more, cry more and give a less of a fuck. Probably most important of them all, we cant ever loose hope. Thats the only thing we have. Thanks Kimiya for your great advices and a great reminder for how to set up ourselves for better balance the coming season. Wish you all a great listen and kick start on a better fall!

She hasn't talked so much about this before, but she cut the bonds with her biological father when she was 11 years old. Ever since she has continued to fight for justice. It was almost a coincidence that she bumped into fighting for a greener society when a friend made her the most amazing salad she had every tasted around 10 years ago. She then jumped of a career as an analyst at Google to become a greendom fighter. This weeks guest of a Regenerative Future Hanne Lene Dahlgren, is on a mission to reduce meat consumption with 30% by 2025 and change the influencer industry to become fighters for a greener world. She is a serial entrepreneur, an award winning sustainability influencer and has written 3 bestselling cookbooks. We end on a personal note and both agree that our rebellious youth comes in handy when we want to create a more thriving world for all of us. Thank you for listening, lets join Hanne Lene in the fight for a greener world!

As a young girl Lene wanted to become a singer and eventually she became an artist and released her own song. She has since embarked on achieving many new goals in her life and on her way both won dancing with the stars and now recently a powerlifting championship. On her journey through life she has had many ups and downs, but never lost her belief in that everything is possible. The most important thing that has given her this winner mentality, has been her closest ones who always believed in her and lifted her up. Today she works and lives for lifting others and some weights here and there. We can all learn a lot from inspiring Lene Alexandra on how to keep the believe in ourselves even when few others do. Wish you all a great watch or listen!

Every weekend I have some days off, I make sure to take time off to meditate a lot, rest more, move my body and be out in nature. This long weekend was not any different. Every time I keep on getting reminded of what I need more of in my everyday life, and every time I get to take one small step at the time to a more meaningful way of living. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future I have invited Shani Persson who recently started her new company Wonder, which is aiming to create better human experiences and a lot of wonders. I just love all the great tips Shani is sharing here in combining business with harmoni in life. Im definitely inspired to include more elements of both harmony and wonder going forward. Hope you had a great long weekend of rest and hope you also get inspired by Shani to do some small changes in your life for better harmony. Wish you all a great listen and start on your week!

One year ago we in Future leaders global was set out to find two CEOs, that was before we met Tilmann Stolte. After a couple of rounds we realised we had found the perfect candidate to lead both the commercial and NGO part of the company, so we decided to merge both the organisations and the boards. It has now gone a year since we did our onboarding in a Sauna in Oslo and we talk about his main learnings after the first year, his tricks to keep in balance in a start-up in growth phase, how we feel about working together and how it is leading a Norwegian company from Copenhagen and being German himself. Till has previously worked in SingularityU and has been a professional drummer in Buck Roger & The Sidetrackers. He has the last year taken the organisation into a more regenerative and exciting direction. I encourage you to listen in to hear his thoughts about how we all can be part of the solution to create an even better future for all of us. I have personally found the Future leaders program so valuable that I have been part of the program three times, before I was asked to join the board. So hopefully you will get a sneak peak into what this amazing community of future leaders can offer you!

The room is packed with people and Im standing in the back. My heart starts to beat like crazy when the author starts to share the first story from her book “What leaders dont talk about”. It doesn't take many sentences before I realise that she decided to kick off her book launch with my story. In that moment Im back to being 29 again and the worst treatment I have ever experienced in my career. It hit me hard and it took me a while to get back on my feet again. I also learned how you should not treat people. Thinking about it still makes me anxious, and at first I was not sure if would dare to share my story. When Anita called me 6 months ago, she convinced me that it was worth it. Because noone should never be silenced in fear. If I wouldnt dare to speak up and share my story in this book, how can I then expect others to dare to speak up? Luckily most people I have met in my career , knows how to treat people respectfully. This weeks guest in A regenerative future Anita Sundby is one of them and her story is equally incredible. She is now on a mission to create a healthier worklife, where people dare to speak up and are treated with respect. Even in difficult situations. If you want to hear more about it, I suggest you listen or watch this weeks episode. Wish you all a happy easter and thanks for listening!

Aaron Kroon is adopted and came to Sweden 1978, as the first person of colour in a small Swedish village. His parents has always been his greatest allies and one of the main reasons for him being where he is today. Maybe against his odds. This weeks guest of A regenerative future, is ranked as top 3 in "Swedish Role Model of the Year” 2022, he is a Diversity Trailblazer and People Director at Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces. He today uses his platform to fight for equal rights for all and especially for the LGBTQIA+ community. We talk about the importance of a safe team of family, friends and colleagues around us, how to deal with hate, discrimination and racism thrown at you, about him being too cool for school, and how we all can use our voices for the greater good. Then we ask ourselves why strong voices suddenly go silent, addressing our moments of doubt, sharing the story of how we both got a job offer turned down in last minute because of being gay and sharing our key defining moments in life. Ending up with the importance of being humble about the privelleges we all have and that its a duty for us, to us it for the better of others who are less fortunate. Aarons advice to all of us out there is to dont apologise for who we are, use our voice for the better and lets be brave together!

At the moment Lars Rinnan is in Kairo and is soon going to talk to 12 000 people at the "Rise up summit" about how AI will save the world, with one of the worlds greatest wonders the pyramids, as the backdrop. We where lucky enough to catch him before he flew of to Egypt. In this weeks episode of A regenerative future, you get to hear more about the world he dreams of in 2029. Lars is a true futurist who works to change the world for the better with technology. He is the CEO of Amesto Nextbridge, which aim to be the innovator in data driven sustainabilty and insight. We talk about the silly title futurist, the world in 2029, how tech will save the world, the old trend of language tech, how he did a career shift from trying to become a pilot to become an expert in AI, how we use ChatGPT in our daily work and our beloved private virtual assistants. Then we both agree that we with more technology, theres a need for us to double down on empathy. We adresse some of the dark sides of AI and how we need to stop using it for addiction and profit, and start using it for the greater good. We share some of the concrete solutions that give us hope, lets not let fear or governments stop us in making it happen. This episode really makes me hopeful that we can use AI for the greater good. So we can finally live more meaningful lives and let robots do what they are good at. It may happen sooner than 2029!