Our cases

Where intelligence takes root. Reflections from practice.

Every engagement leaves something behind. Sometimes it changes the organization. Sometimes it changes us. What follows is a selection of reflections drawn from our work across different places, organizations and transitions.

Organizational Intelligence
FIBS

FIBS

Finland · Corporate Network

From intention to strategy.

Useful and necessary. But reporting is only the baseline.

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Mendes Gonçalves

Mendes Gonçalves

Golegã · Corporate-Civic

From corporate responsibility to civic co-authorship.

Mendes Gonçalves had deep roots in Golegã. Instead of creating another corporate responsibility programme, we focused on strengthening the connective tissue between leadership,…

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VIBE

VIBE

Belgium · Membership organization · Natural Construction

From product orientation to systemic evolution.

As we explored the wider system, it became clear that sustainable construction would never be transformed through products alone. The opportunity was to reposition VIBE itself:…

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Idanha-à-Vida

Idanha-à-Vida

Idanha a Velha · Biocultural restoration project

From restoring a place of 1600 ha to belonging to it.

Seven years in, Idanha-à-Vida had restored land and grown community in a village of Roman times, but it had reached a limit shared with similar ambitious projects: increased…

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Place Intelligence
Sensing Lisbon

Sensing Lisbon

Lisbon · Community-building

From residents to co-stewards of place.

Lisbon has never looked more beautiful, and something essential is fading away — the river, the green corridors, the rhythms of the old city. Together with Michelle Holliday,…

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The Regenerative Practitioner Series

The Regenerative Practitioner Series

Europe · Learning journey

Growing a Regenerative Development practice in Europe.

We are a regenerative development pioneer and lead educator in Europe since 2020, when we hosted for the first time “The Regenerative Practitioner Series” — the flagship…

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Place Intelligence
Conferência “LISBOA VIVA”

Conferência “LISBOA VIVA”

Lisbon · Story of Place · Conference

Seeing Lisbon as a living being — and what that enables.

Lisboa Viva asked a single, disarming question: what if the city isn’t a set of problems to fix, but a living system we all participate in? Rather than opening with metrics or…

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KAOSPILOT

KAOSPILOT

Lisbon / Denmark · Process design · Learning journey

Hosting locally an international education semester.

In 2024, Kaospilot (a Denmark-based transformative education provider) returned to Lisbon for their “Outpost” semester in Enterprising Leadership Education. During an Outpost,…

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ARHCESMO

ARHCESMO

Portugal west coast · Workshop

Co-facilitating “Sustainability as a Paradigm Shift” with BCSD.

In 2023, we were invited by Turismo de Portugal to take part in the Lisbon Tourism Fair (BTL) in a public debate on the role of tourism in achieving broad sustainability…

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Golden topographic lines across stripped terrain

There is a moment when you recognise your own situation in someone else’s story — not the sector, but the shape of the challenge. That’s what these reflections are for.