Introducing the Leadership Navigator: A Reflective Partner for Future-Fit Leadership

The challenges facing leaders today are not just strategic or operational — they are deeply human. The complexity of climate change, societal fragmentation, technological acceleration, and shifting stakeholder expectations demands more than technical expertise. It calls for leaders who can hold paradox, navigate uncertainty, and grow beyond business-as-usual.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a reflective partner who could help you as a senior leader to expand your capacity to make sense of complexity, metabolise uncertainty, and lead transformation with presence and wisdom? Like an executive coach, but available 24/7.

What if such a guide already exists...

From Future-Fit Strategy to Future-Fit Leadership

Over the years, we have worked with executives, boards, and leadership teams in transformation journeys. We’ve seen firsthand how strategy alone is not enough. Future-fit strategy and organisations require leaders who are fit for purpose at a deeper level — leaders who align inner development with outer impact.

The Leadership Navigator builds on insights from vertical leadership development, adult and ego development theory, neuropsychology, and transformative learning practices. It acts as a gentle guide, offering reflective questions, frameworks, and practices that stretch leaders beyond their current stage of meaning-making.

Just as the Strategy Navigator helps align purpose, strategy, and business models, the Leadership Navigator supports the inner journey of leadership — cultivating the capacity to see differently, hold paradox, and grow into the kind of leadership our time requires.

What is the Leadership Navigator?

In short, the Leadership Navigator (version 1.0) is a Custom GPT — an AI-powered reflective partner. It is designed to help leaders, coaches, and boards to:

• Explore disorienting dilemmas and expand vertical leadership capacity.

• Reflect on assumptions, blind spots, and developmental edges.

• Practice reframing, perspective-taking, and sensemaking.

• Access simple yet profound practices that integrate inner growth with outer action.

• Engage leadership teams with reflective dialogue and inquiry that deepen collective awareness.

The Leadership Navigator is not a replacement for coaches, mentors, or human dialogue. Instead, it serves as a developmental companion — a way to pause, reflect, and stretch toward the next stage of leadership maturity. It will help spark reflection, deepen conversations, and support leaders in becoming the guides and stewards that our world needs now.

Why launch this now?

We live in an era of disruption where yesterday’s leadership models are breaking down. Heroic, individualistic leadership no longer suffices. What is needed are leaders who can work with complexity, hold multiple perspectives, and lead transformation with presence and courage.

The Leadership Navigator democratizes access to reflective development conversations, making them available on demand. It is grounded in research and practice, designed to support leaders who are ready to step beyond problem-solving into deeper sensemaking and transformation.

It is, in essence, a bridge between inner development and outer impact — helping leaders grow themselves to grow the organisations and ecosystems they serve.

How to try it out

Anyone with a ChatGPT account (free, Plus, or Pro) can access the Leadership Navigator. Simply click the button below, log into your account and start exploring right away.

Note that the Leadership Navigator works best in English with ChatGPT-5, but can also be used in other major languages (e.g., German, French, Spanish, Italian).

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The Leadership Navigator builds on the practice and research of Elisabet Lagerstedt, founder and CEO of Future Navigators Group AB, a trusted strategic advisor and transformative executive coach, and PhD researcher in Transformative Leadership Development. The Leadership Navigator is rooted in her ongoing research and practice in vertical leadership development, transformative learning, complexity thinking and beyond.

NB. If you have any questions or comments regarding the Leadership Navigator, please contact Elisabet Lagerstedt at elisabet.lagerstedt@future-navigators.com