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Giles Hutchins, who is at the forefront of a necessary revolution, advises business leaders, coaches teams, guest lectures at leading universities and business schools and is a keynote speaker at conferences. He uses consciousness-raising techniques including deep-dive nature immersions, as he is informed by ancient wisdom traditions and cutting-edge research, to help business leaders deal with making their organizations vibrant and future-fit. Giles is Chairman of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, a community of forward-thinking practitioners. Also, he is lead partner of The Natural Business Partnership, co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, co-founder of Regenerators.co, and partner/associate with several pioneering organizations that include The Global Leaders Academy and The Laszlo New Paradigm Research Institute. His blog is The Nature of Business, and he’s written four books: The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014), Future Fit (2016) and Regenerative Leadership co-authored with Laura Storm (2019). He holds an MSc in Business Systems, a BSc in Finance, Valuation and Property, a post graduate diploma in Advanced Leadership, Global Leadership Development GOLD certification, and an Advanced Coaching certification. He is an Analytic Coaching Network practitioner, trained in Human Emergence Framework, Solonomic and 5 Deep Holistic Leadership, and Way of Council, and he is a certified Reiki Master. He lives and works at Springwood Farm, 60 acres of ancient and semi-ancient woodlands and wild-flower meadows in Sussex, England, where his leadership immersion centre inspires shifts in consciousness that result in organizations becoming “future-fit.” 

Giles Hutchins website
The Future Fit Leadership Academy website
Giles’s TEDx Talk

Giles’s mission: “Help humanity reconnect with nature’s wisdom, and in particular by activating the logic–of–life for leaders.”

Giles’s one-line message to the world: “What is within us is within everything. And let’s learn to open our eyes, our ears, and our body-mind to the song-lines and the synchronicities of life so that we learn to read the book of life, to co-create and participate with the book of life, and in so doing step into what it means to be truly human.”

The SUE Speaks Blog Post about Giles Hutchins

• Need for new vision for humanity
  
• Change education to be transformative — “bringing forth what is within us”
  
• How nature works to motivate humanity
  
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who say that “If you want to build a ship, don’t assign people tasks or break the, up into teems, Instead, teach them to long for the immensity of the sea.”  
  
• The mythos and the logos — A story of separation shifting into a story of reconnection and regeneration
  
• Don’t use yesterday’s logic (top down, mechanistic, masculine) to solve today’s issues 
  
• Leadership development — connecting with natural world and their deeper nature. Working with root cause. Kindness pervading the world.
  
• Simple practices that enable us to open-up and deepen self-discovery — sitting around the campfire  
  
• How interconnected everything is — since Einstein, Max Plank, and David Bohm, participating in a field of consciousness rather than self-preservation/self-maximization  
  
• A trip through history. First, we were attuned to nature.
  
• 300-400 years ago started a mechanistic approach, story of separation – focus on parts and not whole
  
• Wave of change last 20 years –from maximizing shareholder returns to enhancing stakeholder value (all of us).
  
• Approaches to organizations and social systems and political structures to enhance a new way
  
• Anne Baring: lunar to solar (from being in nature to supplicating to God outside ourselves) – background that we need to understand
  
• Donella Meadows: worldview is where we make the most leverage for system change
  
• Regenerative Leadership — living-systems logic – learning to be in right relation to life, not stuffing in behavior top down but emerge from within  
  
• Jesus: If we bring forth what is within us, then will save us. If we don’t bring forth what is within us, it will destroy us. Racism, Trumpism.  
  
• Circles of Trust – senior leaders come together — deep listening
  
• Parker J. Palmer, way of council
  
• Change at leadership level leverages change.
  
• Up against it helps us to change it.
  
• Hero’s Journey: departure, separation, returning home. Now, returning home.  
  
• Council of people? Yes! Use this podcast as uniter!!!!!
  
• Pace of change accelerated last 30 years
  
• Natural capacity of human being to love and be wise is basic, beyond left and right.
  
• Path for Giles – learning from wise sources, follow your bliss, inner guidance
  
• Wisdom starting to come into mainstream – open to sacredness of life and spirit all around us. Kairos — now is supreme moment in our history to be able to shift.
  
• Schumacher College, Findhorn, Eden Project, Ervin Laszlo
  
• Brian Swimme’s The Universe is a Green Dragon — the privilege of being human