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.