We are living through an age of entanglement — ecological, technological, social, and psychological systems folding into one another faster than our institutions can adapt. Traditional strategy and innovation methods, designed for linear predictability, falter in this complexity. Facilitated Emergence® was born from this reality. It is a design practice for living systems — a way of shaping futures within complexity by creating the conditions for beneficial outcomes to arise

The world does not run on plans—it runs on stories. After a decade navigating enterprise transformation projects, I came to an unsettling truth: the bigger and more complex a project becomes, the less the framework matters. Gantt charts fade into the background. Governance packs grow fat and hungry. What truly carries a project forward is not the plan, but the story everyone believes they are inside of.

We live in a time when the systems that sustain life on Earth are shifting faster than our institutions, economies, and imaginations can adapt. Climate instability, biodiversity collapse, digital disruption, and social fragmentation are no longer separate crises — they are symptoms of a deeper systems problem: a way of thinking that isolates what is, in reality, interconnected.