What if business success meant supporting life, not just profit?

The Life Support Business

WE ARE WORKING ON A BOOK…

Our mission is to showcase businesses creating long-term value for people and the planet. Businesses that approach sustainability as an opportunity for a business model transformation.

We’re looking for system-level innovation stories to create an innovation playbook for business leaders driving the shift toward life-supporting business.

Innovating with a Systems Thinking approach

We believe that adopting a systems thinking approach helps businesses rethink how they create value and drive change—enabling more effective strategies and moving beyond short-term fixes.

Re-imagine

Understand the limits of system we operate in and imagine alternatives that are life supporting

Re-purpose

Change the goals, role and structure of businesses to pursue different forms of value

Re-configure

Transform the material flows, assets, relationships and value streams of the company

About us

Having worked together in the past our paths crossed recently and we discussed a shared frustration with the world of sustainability. In a nutshell; too much focus on reporting and not enough change.

We strongly feel we need creativity and innovation to address the ecological and human harm that we are experiencing today. Our quest is to find companies who are addressing the challenge by genuinely creating a new type of business.

Ben Reason

Pioneer of Service Design at international studio Livework Ben is a leading practitioner of systemic innovation. With a long term mission to find creative solutions to our ecological challenge Ben is always on the lookout for what really works.


Theresa Berg

Innovation leader with extensive experience in driving transformation, Theresa has led sustainability initiatives and innovation projects for top Nordic companies. She thrives on navigating complex challenges to create sustainable value.


OUR THINKING

Work in progress

We are looking for businesses making the shift to ‘life support’ models. We’re looking for business leaders who are innovating with the planet and people in mind — share their stories with us for inclusion in our upcoming book.