IDG Business Forum 2026
Two days for leaders serious about inner change and outer impact
14–15 September 2026 | Djurönäset, Stockholm Archipelago
Are you ready to lead at the threshold?
The IDG Business Forum brings together leaders from business, research, and civil society who share one thing: a growing sense that the way we have been leading is not sufficient for the complexity we are now facing.
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 refining what already exists, however skilfully, will not be sufficient.
The way we are solving problems is the problem - Erik Fernholm
The leaders shaping tomorrow’s organisations need more than new strategies. We need new ways of thinking, relating, and making decisions under conditions that none of our existing frameworks were built for.
Inner development is not a retreat from the hard work of leadership. It is the work.
After years of IDG Summits, we know what shifts when the right people are in the room. This forum is built for those who want to carry that further, inside the organisations and sectors where it matters most.
We have built two days of serious peer-level conversation about what leading well actually demands right now.
There will be no keynotes designed to impress and no solutions pitched from a stage. We are not here because we have the answers. We are here because we are willing to hold the questions together, and at depth.
This forum is for:
- Leaders, researchers, and change agents
Those who carry real responsibility and are serious about what inner development demands of them in practice.
- Investors, policymakers, and educators
People who shape the conditions in which organisations operate and who recognise that those conditions need to change.
- Founders and emerging leadersÂ
Anyone building organisations from the ground up and want to do it differently from the start.Â
What we’re working towards:
- A clearer sense of where our collective work intersects and where it can reinforce each other.
- A shared language for the inner dimensions of the challenges we are each navigating.
- Practical ideas and directions we can act on when we return home.
- Cross-company collaborations that extend beyond the forum and into sustained practice.
- A sense of being genuinely nourished in our own energy and resilience.
- Greater clarity of purpose and the inner grounding to follow through.
- Deep peer connections that continue well after the forum ends.
Hosts & Facilitators
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
Madeleine McGirk
Managing Director, International Teaching Artists Collaborative
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
More TBC...
The Programme
This forum follows the arc of Joanna Macy’s ‘Work That Reconnects’: opening with gratitude, moving honestly through the difficulty of our current moment, finding new perspective, and going forth with concrete intention. From IT to I to WE.
Day 1
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
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Day 2
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 can hold the tension between short-term pressure and long-term purpose?
- How do we support the kind of transformation that makes us more fit for the complexity we are facing?
- What would it take, across sectors, to become the change-makers this transformation actually needs?Â
- What does genuine resilience look like when things are not going well, not as a framework, but as a lived practice?
- What stops us from acting on what we already know, and what would help us close that gap?
Date: 14th & 15th September 2026
Location: Djuronaset, Stockholm, SwedenÂ
Hosts: IDG, Mobius Faculty & WBCSD
Capacity: 50 senior leaders & change agents
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.
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
