Thryving Strategy: Transform How Your Team Builds Strategy

Build Alignment, Ownership, and Clarity in Complex Environments

In today’s fast-moving world, traditional strategy just doesn’t cut it. Thryving Strategy offers a modern alternative: a method designed for leaders and teams navigating complexity, change, and collaboration. This book goes beyond theory to deliver an actionable, human-centered approach to strategy — grounded in systems thinking, adaptive leadership, and years of real-world facilitation.

Whether you're designing a strategy workshop, aligning a distributed team, or building a movement, this book equips you with tools that create lasting clarity and shared ownership.

Thryving Strategy - a human centered guide to strategic clarity, co-creation, and adaptive leadership is a game-changing book for leaders, consultants, and facilitators looking to co-create meaningful strategy in a fast-moving world.

Written by Leonel Barbe and based on years of international experience, this book blends adaptive leadership, systems thinking, and facilitation into a step-by-step process that works — whether you're a CEO, team lead, or organizational changemaker.

The book includes:

  • A practical 2-day strategy workshop method

  • Real case stories from Denmark, Germany, and Chile

  • Leadership development tools for building psychological safety and ownership

  • Tools for strategic planning, systems mapping, and priority-setting

Perfect for organizations seeking strategic alignment, agile transformation, or inclusive team collaboration, Thryving Strategy is ideal for anyone looking to:

  • Facilitate strategic workshops

  • Learn adaptive leadership skills

  • Navigate complexity and drive change

  • Build team alignment and engagement

Whether you're working in Europe, Japan, or beyond — this book offers a clear and accessible roadmap for building the kind of strategy people believe in and carry forward.

Includes a Full Workshop Guide + Adaptive Leadership Chapter

Book cover titled "Thrying Strategy" by Leonel Barbe, with subtitle "A human-centered guide to strategic clarity, co-creation, and adaptive leadership" and a small icon of interconnected circles.
Participants on a Thryve Workshop