A week ago I wrote about Hvis Krigen Kommer, the day we spend with teams sixty metres underground in a Cold War bunker in Nordjylland. Since then, more than one person has asked a fair question: what if a team can't get there? What if they don't have the day, or the budget doesn't stretch to travel and perhaps extend the day with an overnight stay? The honest answer is that the bunker is not the point. It is an exceptional setting, and a very good way of getting to the point. But it is...

There is a door in the Rold Skov forest that still says "Yderst Hemmeligt" (Top Secret). Sixty metres below it is REGAN Vest, the bunker built to keep Denmark's government running through a nuclear war that never came. For decades, almost no one saw inside it. Now, for one day at a time, teams can. Authentic Leaders DK has partnered with Nordjyske Museer to build something new around that bunker: a corporate team experience called Hvis Krigen Kommer (If the War Begins). It starts with a...

Recently I was sitting in the reception area of a large organisation, waiting for a meeting. I looked around, and almost everyone was dressed the same way. White or light blue shirts. Black, grey or dark navy trousers or skirt. Woman or man, it made no difference. I couldn't help thinking: is this what it takes to feel like you belong here? "The opposite of belonging is fitting in." — Brené Brown I think about this line more than almost any other quote I know, and not just in the context...