Future-Fit Leadership: From Coping to Thriving Amid Rising Complexity
Each generation experiences significant change due to innovations, disruptions and shifting perspectives transforming our ways of operating and organizing in business and beyond. Yet, the times in which we live herald paradigmic and metamorphic shifts challenging what we do and the way we do it, calling into question our sense of purpose, and demanding wholly new ways of creating and delivering value. This is in part due to the catalytic effect of digitization and globalization, and in part due to the urgent trilemma of economic, environmental and social challenges now upon us. Amid all this, there are complex shifts affecting each of us at deep and partly unconscious levels, challenging how we perceive ourselves, each other and the world around us. At once it is an immensely exciting, liberating, testing and unpredictable time to be involved in the future of business.
‘Its not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most able to adapt to change.’ Charles Darwin
This capacity to truly adapt to change amid a time of upheaval, stress and dissonance, is what we explore through the embodied learning environment of nature Herself.
Nature works and it does work for atleast two good reasons:
- There is an immense treasure-trove of insights and techniques we can draw from the natural world around us. Over 3.8bn years-worth of R&D of what works and what doesn’t during change upon change.
- The very act of going into nature is scientifically proven to enhance our future-fit capacities as leaders and change agents. By example, engaging in the various practices I facilitate amid ancient woodlands while exploring next-stage leadership enhances our coherence, resilience, empathy, creativity, ability to truly listen to self and other, and to tune-in to the systemic relationality of the systems we serve. All of these, and many more, are important skills we gain in nature that aid Future-Fitness.
‘Those who flow as life flows no they need no other force.’ Lao Tzu
This short 5min video provides some insights we gain from leadership immersions in nature:
Amid 60 acres of secluded ancient woodland set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, close to London, airports and international train-links, on 29th June, 2026 we shall be diving into next-stage future-fit regenerative leadership 9.30am-4pm for an immersive experience.
Through over a decade of working on regenerative leadership and nature-based coaching, I have developed a range of practices, coaching-frames and processes that aid the journey of becoming a next-stage future-fit leader – one that can work with and thrive amid complexity, and journey toward becoming regenerative for self and system. As a CEO I coach, Jayne Mayled, notes:
‘Having been ‘leadership development-ed’ up to my eyeballs in my corporate years, Giles Hutchins brings a unique mix of skills and techniques to coaching for these transformative times.’
29th June Immersion – Logistics:
9.30am Arrivals – refreshments upon arrival. Workshop commences at 9.45am
4pm Departures
By Car – RH17 6HQ aim to arrive for 9.15-9.30am.
By Train – Come to Three Bridges station for 9.25am, a cab will meet you there.
Cost: £390 –To register for your place either Direct Message me on LinkedIn or contact me via my website https://gileshutchins.com/contact/
Pre-reading or preparation: Once you have paid, your place is confirmed, and you will be sent a pre-read, preparatory material and guidance. Other emails will also be sent near the immersion with further information. Other content/material will also be shared post-immersion.
What can you hope to gain from the experience: You will form part of a small group of like-minded yet diverse leaders and practitioners, and will be facilitated by Giles Hutchins for the entire day. Here are some of the things you can hope to experience:
- An embodied experience of future-fit/regenerative leadership
- Tools, processes and techniques to aid future-fitness for yourself and organization/project
- Consciousness-raising practices and modalities
- Peer-sharing and facilitated group dialogue sessions
- Pre-reading material and guidance before the workshop
- A signed copy of Leading by Nature book OR any other of Giles’s first six books – a signed copy of latest 7th book Keys for Future-fit Leadership can be purchased for £50 (RRP£59.99)
- Organic lunch and refreshments throughout the day
- A certificate from The Future Fit Leadership Academy for your attendance
- A special 25% discount for regenerative leadership coaching with Giles Hutchins
Some quotes from recent immersion workshops at Springwood with Giles:
‘The nature immersion workshop with Giles exceeded all expectations. This is real space to develop strategies fit for the 21st century.’ – Stephen Passmore, CEO, Resilience Alliance
‘Feel I’ve had a day with a real master. What beautiful profound lessons’. – Simon Milton, CEO of Pulse Brands
‘Powerful and provocative – the most useful leadership course I’ve ever attended!’ – Ian Ayling, Director, Soil Association
About Springwood Farm: a mix of semi-ancient and ancient woodland with wildflower meadows, 60 acres, private and secluded specially designed for advanced leadership coaching work, see some pictures here: https://gileshutchins.com/springwood/
‘Your Leadership Immersion into nature opened our minds, opened our souls, to deeply connect in ways that enabled us as a team to become far more future-fit, going right to the heart of what we need to adapt and evolve amid these fast-moving and challenging times. With deep appreciation for your inspiration and space-holding.’ Sue Cheshire, CEO, Global Leaders Academy
About Giles Hutchins – a pioneering practitioner and senior adviser at the fore-front of the [r]evolution in organizational and leadership consciousness and developmental approaches that enhance personal, organizational and systemic agility and vitality. He is an award-winning author of several leadership and organizational development papers, and the books The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014), Future Fit (2016), Regenerative Leadership (2019), Leading by Nature (2022), Nature Works (2024) and Keys for Future-fit Leadership (2025). Chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, Co-founder of Keys for Future-fit Leadership Academy, and Founder of Leadership Immersions, he anchors his international leadership practice amid 60 acres of ancient woodland at Springwood Farm, an area of outstanding natural beauty near London, UK. Previously held corporate roles – Head of Practice for KPMG, and Global Head of Sustainability for Atos (150,000 employees, over 40 countries). He provides transformational coaching at individual and organizational levels for those seeking to transform their professional and personal lives in harmony with life. his coaching work has been called ‘life changing.’ Clients include IKEA, Aviva, Unilever, Sainsbury, Coop, AXA, Cambridge University, Ashridge Hult Business School, Cook, Ella’s Kitchen, Pukka Herbs, Vivobarefoot, Fairtrade, Rabobank, Impact International, World Benchmarking Alliance, BBC, BP, Angel Investments, BNP Paribas, Cap Gemini, Deloitte, Richemont, EQT, INSEAD, HEC, Lang O’Rouke, Bahlsen, BMW, Grant Thornton, HSBC, Sky Media, and more. He blogs at www.thenatureofbusiness.org and examples of his work can be found at https://gileshutchins.com/
‘Giles Hutchins is one of the most broad-reaching forward-thinking advisers, speakers and writers in business.’ Tima Bansal, Chair & Senior Professor, Ivey Business School
His Leading by Nature podcast can be found at https://gileshutchins.com/podcast/
For more on coaching with Giles or to register for the one-day immersion, visit his website here.
You can also sign up to his newsletter here.
Feedback from a recent immersion with Giles:
‘The immersion at Springwood with Giles was very powerful, thought-provoking, energising and soul-touching. I’m still strongly feeling the ripples from our time, many days after, and have already started some conversations which could be life-changing as a result. Thank you Giles! Highly recommended!’ Jules O’Donnell, Founder – talking CAT consulting
Giles’s latest book is Keys for Future-Fit Leadership:
‘Giles’ book – Keys for Future-fit Leadership – is impressively comprehensive and very generous. With a large amount of frameworks, tools, and visuals, it acts as both a reference work and a source of daily inspiration. It can be read cover to cover or dipped into as needed. The book also features a selection of guest chapters with real-world stories from leaders applying these ideas in diverse industries and contexts. This brings his insights to life, grounding them in lived experience. It’s not just about insight — it’s about practice. In short, Keys for Future-Fit Leadership is not just another leadership book. It’s a distillation of 30 years of inquiry, practice, and deep listening to what our times require. It invites us to move beyond surviving the future — and instead, to co-create it through presence, wisdom, and alignment. I highly recommend it for leaders, coaches, and practitioners working at the edge of business, human development, and systemic change.’ – Elisabet Lagerstedt, Founder & Director, Future Navigators
Watch a short video on Keys for Future-fit Leadership here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQ6s80ewNU&list=PL4fiSooXivB7D83ut1Igssgg0xZcf-mGN&index=33
Feel free to join the Leadership Immersions LinkedIn Group here https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13767578/
To sign-up for the special one-day immersion with Giles at Springwood Farm on 29th June 2026, contact Giles here https://gileshutchins.com/contact/
‘Giles is a visionary and guide for anyone exploring the journey toward Future-fit/Regenerative Business. He’s been called a wise medicine man for our time and a magician of consciousness. When you are with Giles you get why these words are apt.’ Jannine Barron, Founder of The Growth Experience
The Nature of Business 