IDG Business Forum 2026
Two days for leaders serious about inner change and outer impact.
Join an intimate group of 50 leaders, researchers, and change agents who’ve stopped waiting for the old models to catch up.
14-15 September 2026Â
Djurönäset, Stockholm, SE
Hosts: IDG, Mobius Faculty & WBCSD
50 senior leaders & change agents
€1830 · Access codes available
Are you ready to lead at the threshold?
Most leadership teams already know their current playbook is straining under complexity it wasn’t designed for: climate volatility, AI disruption, geopolitical shocks, workforces running on empty.
We are the first generation with the potential to see the full consequences of the models we inherited. The complexity is visible. The stakes are clear. And the instinct is to refine the playbook harder.
Refining what already exists, however skilfully, won’t be enough. Our organisations need new ways of thinking, relating, and deciding, suited to conditions few of our existing tools were built for.
The IDG Business Forum brings together an intentionally intimate group of 50 leaders, researchers, and change agents who’ve stopped waiting for the old models to catch up.
"The way we are solving problems is the problem."
Inner development is not a retreat from the hard work of leadership. It is the hard work.
The shift that matters here is not only personal. It is what changes inside organisations, and between them, when leaders develop the capacity to think, decide, and collaborate differently under real pressure.
After years of running IDG Summits, we have seen what becomes possible when the right people are in one room, off the record, and willing to go beyond the surface.
This forum takes that into the organisations and sectors where the stakes are highest: into questions of culture, strategy, and how companies learn from one another across sectors.
We are not gathering because we have the answers. We are gathering because we are willing to hold the questions together, at depth, with others working on similar challenges.
What we're working towards
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A clearer sense of where your work intersects with others in the room, and where you can move faster together.
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A shared language for the human and cultural side of the challenges your organisation is navigating.
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Sharper clarity on your own strategy, tested against the experience of leaders facing comparable pressures.
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Cross-company collaborations that start at the forum and outlast it.
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Renewed energy and resilience that holds up under real pressure.
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A clearer sense of your own part in the changes this moment is asking for.
This forum is for
- Leaders, researchers, and change agents carrying real responsibility, who are ready to change how they lead.
- Investors, policymakers, and educators who set the conditions organisations operate in, and know those conditions have to shift.
- Founders and emerging leaders building something new, who want to build it differently from day one.
- Organisations ready to be at the forefront of systemic change, and to act as catalysts for the shifts their sectors need.
Hosts & Facilitators
This runs as a working group, not a lineup of speakers. The facilitators are leaders and practitioners embedded in this work at organisations including Welser Group, Volvo, WBCSD and Mobius Executive Leadership, and they stay inside the conversation alongside you throughout.
Jennifer Garvey Berger
Founder & CEO, Cultivating Leadership
James Gomme
Director of Education & Knowledge Management, WBCSD
Amy Elizabeth Fox
Co-Founder & CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership
Thomas Welser
Chairman, Welser Group
Mickael Drouard
CEO, Fabric & Lead of IDG-Mobius Leadership Lab for Systemic TransformationÂ
Madeleine McGirk
Managing Director, International Teaching Artists Collaborative
Johan Holm
Gestalt Psychologist & IDG Business Coalition CoordinatorÂ
Erik Fernholm
Co-founder, 29k & IDG Co-initiator
Pontus Holmgren
Psychologist & IDG Global Hubs Coordinator
Jan Artem Henriksson
IDG Co-initiator & Senior Fellow at the Human Flourishing Network, Harvard
The Programme
Built on the arc of Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects”: starting with what’s actually true about where things stand, working through the difficulty honestly, and leaving with something concrete. From IT, to I, to WE.
Day 1: Facing what’s real
Welcome, Introduction & Gratitude
The Current State: How Are Businesses Affected and Responding?
Our Personal Experience in This World
Leading in Chaos: Renewal, Restoration, Resonance
Fireside Conversations
Day 2: Building what’s next
Morning Reflection
How Can We Support Human Development in the Industrial Transformation?
Cross-Organisational Collaboration and Complex Challenges
What Collaborative Initiatives Do We Want to Initiate?
What Will I Bring Home?
Closing
Examples of what we will explore together
- How do we build organisations that hold the tension between short-term pressure and long-term purpose?
- What would actually make us more fit for the complexity we’re facing?
- What would it take, across sectors, to become the change-makers this transformation needs?
- What does real resilience look like in practice?
- What would our strategy look like if it took the inner and relational side of the work seriously?
- What’s stopping us from acting on what we already know, and what would close that gap?
Djurönäset is one of Sweden’s largest spa and conference hotels, set in the Stockholm Archipelago in Värmdö municipality roughly 45 minutes from the city centre.
The hotel opened in 1979, purpose-built to create ideal conditions for learning and development in a natural archipelago setting. The original architectural concept, named “Fresh Air,” was built on the principle that creativity, focus, and wellbeing flourish when we move and breathe in open surroundings.
It holds the Nordic Swan Ecolabel, one of the Nordic region’s established environmental certifications, and its kitchen works with seasonal, locally sourced produce from the archipelago and wider Scandinavia.
Join 50 leaders holding the questions togetherÂ
Date: 14th & 15th September 2026
Location: Djuronaset, Stockholm, SwedenÂ
Hosts: IDG, Mobius Faculty & WBCSD
Investment: €1830 – Access codes available
About the IDG Business Coalition
The Coalition supports organisations in developing the inner and relational capacities needed to lead in complexity, strengthen collaboration across sectors, and integrate inner development as a core capability for innovation, resilience and long-term value creation.
Through leadership labs, peer learning, and partner-driven forums, we develop the inner and relational capacities needed to lead well in a world that demands something new of us.
About Inner Development Goals
The Inner Development Goals are a research-based guide for the inner and relational capacities that leadership in complexity requires.Â
The work rests on a straightforward premise: the quality of our outer results is shaped by the quality of our inner development.
What started as an open research initiative has grown into a global movement, with a network of practitioners, researchers, and organisations putting the IDG Guide to work across more than fifty countries.Â
If you have any queries about the forum please contact: anna@innerdevelopmentgoals.org
