Thryving Strategy - A human centered guide to strategic clarity, co-creation, and adaptive leadership - Leonel Barbe. 2025
📘 Thryving Strategy
A Practical Guide to Adaptive Strategy, Team Alignment, and Strategic Facilitation
Who it's for
Leaders, consultants, facilitators, and changemakers who want to build strategy that doesn’t sit in a slide deck — but lives in the culture. Whether you're aligning a team, running a strategy session, or navigating uncertainty, this guide helps you co-create strategic clarity from the inside out.
What’s inside
✔️ A full 2-day workshop guide for teams
✔️ Tools for systems mapping, time horizons & prioritization
✔️ A practical introduction to adaptive leadership
✔️ Real-world case examples from Denmark, Chile, and Germany
✔️ Reflection prompts, visual tools & post-workshop practices
✔️ Inspired by methods from Kaospilot & Harvard Business School
“This is the book I wish I had before facilitating my first strategy process.”
— Leonel Barbe, Author & Founder of Thryve
The result? Strategy that sticks, grows with your team, and actually gets lived.
📘 Thryving Strategy
A Practical Guide to Adaptive Strategy, Team Alignment, and Strategic Facilitation
Who it's for
Leaders, consultants, facilitators, and changemakers who want to build strategy that doesn’t sit in a slide deck — but lives in the culture. Whether you're aligning a team, running a strategy session, or navigating uncertainty, this guide helps you co-create strategic clarity from the inside out.
What’s inside
✔️ A full 2-day workshop guide for teams
✔️ Tools for systems mapping, time horizons & prioritization
✔️ A practical introduction to adaptive leadership
✔️ Real-world case examples from Denmark, Chile, and Germany
✔️ Reflection prompts, visual tools & post-workshop practices
✔️ Inspired by methods from Kaospilot & Harvard Business School
“This is the book I wish I had before facilitating my first strategy process.”
— Leonel Barbe, Author & Founder of Thryve
The result? Strategy that sticks, grows with your team, and actually gets lived.
📘 Thryving Strategy
A Practical Guide to Adaptive Strategy, Team Alignment, and Strategic Facilitation
Who it's for
Leaders, consultants, facilitators, and changemakers who want to build strategy that doesn’t sit in a slide deck — but lives in the culture. Whether you're aligning a team, running a strategy session, or navigating uncertainty, this guide helps you co-create strategic clarity from the inside out.
What’s inside
✔️ A full 2-day workshop guide for teams
✔️ Tools for systems mapping, time horizons & prioritization
✔️ A practical introduction to adaptive leadership
✔️ Real-world case examples from Denmark, Chile, and Germany
✔️ Reflection prompts, visual tools & post-workshop practices
✔️ Inspired by methods from Kaospilot & Harvard Business School
“This is the book I wish I had before facilitating my first strategy process.”
— Leonel Barbe, Author & Founder of Thryve
The result? Strategy that sticks, grows with your team, and actually gets lived.
Thryving Strategy and the Role of Leadership is more than a book — it’s a toolkit for modern leaders, facilitators, and teams who are ready to turn strategic confusion into collective momentum.
In a world of increasing complexity, traditional top-down strategy no longer works. This book offers a fresh alternative: a co-creative, human-centered process designed to help people make meaning together, align around what matters, and move forward with confidence.
Rooted in lived experience across Europe and Latin America, and inspired by methods from Kaospilot, Harvard Business School, and systems leadership practices, Thryving Strategy brings strategy back to the people — where it belongs.
Inside, you’ll find:
A step-by-step framework for a two-day strategic workshop
Principles of adaptive leadership for navigating change
Tools for surfacing tensions, mapping systems, and building shared ownership
Anecdotes from real-world projects in Chile, Germany, and Denmark
A deep dive into what makes strategy stick after the sticky notes are gone
Whether you're leading a team, facilitating a session, or simply trying to move good ideas forward — this book will help you build strategy that’s felt, shared, and lived.