The uniqueness in our competencies lies in
Combining Earth Wisdom and Earth System Science
By integrating Earth Wisdom and Earth System Science, we understand and work with the interconnectedness of all living beings and the Earth as a complex and dynamic system. Our work combines traditional practices with a scientific and systemic approach, ensuring long-term thinking through space, boundaries and deep time. Learning from the past and designing the future from the present within boundary conditions of the carrying capacity of the Earth. This unlocks collective knowledge in powerful ways that guide and empower organisations to make substantial steps towards a regenerative future that is better for all, viable and in accordance with nature.
Strong process facilitation to lead system transformation
As experienced leadership consultants and process facilitators, we understand and master the complexity of organisational life, along with the relational and behavioural aspects of organisational, cultural and business change. Through a systemic, dialogical and appreciative approach, we foster meaningful conversations and cultivate collaborative efficacy among stakeholders in ways that clarify purpose, give direction, create alignment and foster commitment to drive shared positive impact through wholesome and appropriate solutions that mimic nature's ways.
Representing regenerativity beyond limits
Estuary is more than just our name; it’s a generative metaphor for our purpose as professionals and mindset as individuals. It represents any place that nurtures abundant life in a healthy dynamic equilibrium. We come together as purpose-driven streams of skills and ideas to exchange dreams and solutions for a better future. Together with our collaborators we innovate and manifest to realise those dreams and collective longings. Our diverse perspectives and skills mirror the abundant and productive nature of an estuary. We carry and live a regenerative mindset as a way of being in the world—entangled relationships, balance and flow. We work and stand for health and vitality in the workspace, in our bodies and minds, in our relationships and in the ecosystems of our sacred world. We care, we can and we do—together.
Get to know our people and how they can help you
Partners
Gry Guldberg
Strategic leadership consultant for sustainability & practitioner of Earth Wisdom
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Gry is an experienced and vivid transformative leader who, with purpose, empathy, and ambition, realises the full potential of individuals and organisations. She excels in working strategically with top management teams and boards, leadership training and coaching and navigating political organisations. Gry is trained in Earth Wisdom, from which she has conceptualised and executed regenerative leadership training for executives over the past five years.
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+45 2481 4533
Mikkel Pilgaard
Strategic expert advisor for sustainability & systemic transformational designer
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Mikkel, a visionary leader and expert in sustainability, blends strategic expertise and a design-oriented approach with a profound commitment to systemic value for all, including the non-human. With over fifteen years of experience and a Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, he inspires leaders and change makers worldwide through his transformative trainings, talks, advisory and education filled with innovative thinking, scientific understanding, strategic outlook and philosophical insights. All with the purpose of guiding individuals and organisations to be part of the solution to the sustainability crisis.
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+45 5336 9822
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Amy Jean Hamilton
Strategic innovation consultant for sustainability & practitioner of Earth Wisdom
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Amy is an experienced transformer, advisor, coach and lead facilitator who, based on solid professional foundations in the systemic appreciative field, design thinking, innovation and wisdom traditions, has a broad palette to work within. This is evident when she leads processes or coaches, where she can draw on what is needed to create results together with the client. Amy is a unifying and holistic facilitator with a keen eye for people, process and product throughout.
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+45 3140 6240
Trine Blichfeldt
Communication advisor and consultant for sustainability
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Trine is dedicated to communicating the complexity of sustainability in an accurate, clear and elegant way. She tells the stories of Estuary as an agency for strategic sustainable development, creates content with and for our committed clients and advises on communicating sustainability without greenwashing. Trine brings light and laughter to every work situation and finds satisfaction in establishing structure to enhance clarity in a collaborative process.
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+45 3110 3053
Mille Brøndum Henriksen
Graphic designer, student assistant
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Mille manages and develops Estuary's visual identity to ensure a consistent and recognisable expression across all of Estuary's platforms. Additionally, she supports communication efforts visually by creating graphic materials.
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Deniz Koppatschek
Digital development expert & Kaospilot, student assistant
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Deniz is our digital development expert. He is passionate about AI and its potential to become an assistant in our everyday lives. At Estuary, he improves our digital workflows while integrating AI across the organisation.
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Associates
Jens G. Friis
Executive strategic consultant & executive leadership coach
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Jens is a highly skilled professional with a focus on strategic leadership communication and organisational understanding. He works primarily at the executive level, using his sharp analyses, essential questioning and a gentle approach to help leaders step up and take full and often complicated responsibility towards sustainable transformation.
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+45 2173 4533
Per Arberg Jensen
Senior product management and leadership consultant
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With more than 20 years of leadership experience in international B2B companies and with a strong track record as a consultant, Per has been supporting executive management and other leaders in their journeys to change companies, products and business models.
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+45 4062 7962
Thomas Kirkeskov
Senior systemic consultant and leadership advisor
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Thomas is an experienced consultant and advisor with expertise in leadership, volunteerism and social innovation. With his solid professional background in the systemic approach, his dedication to real value creation and over 30 years of experience, he brings ambition, stability, focus and structure to change processes.
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+45 2222 9420
Frederik Fredslund
Leadership coach and strategic facilitator
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+45 26362634
Alexandra Benedicte Collin
Senior consultant - leadership, communication and creativity
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Alexandra is an experienced, vital and transformational educator who meets the target group exactly where they are and works from there. Alexandra has her feet firmly grounded in the appreciative and systemic field, and with her clear vision, she can create sustainable relationships. One of Alexandra's special competencies is to turn resistance to learning into meaning creation and development, enabling the recipients to move forward individually and together.
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+45 2628 1908
Bjarne Stark
Senior systemic consultant and leadership advisor
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Bjarne Stark has a thorough and deep professional systemic capacity. Over the past twenty years, he has worked theoretically and practically with systemic thinking through leadership development, process design, project management and organisational development. Bjarne has a strong focus on creating collective meaning, direction and agency, and knows the value of organisational pluralism as the path to sustainable change.
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+45 3039 7040
Pernille Thorup
Strategic leadership consultant
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Pernille is an experienced and thoughtful strategic leader with a longstanding interest in sustainable leadership.
Her work is closely tied to unfolding and advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, where she emphasises the interconnected focus on economic, environmental and social objectives.
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Partnerships
To bolster our capacities and open our horizons and reach in the world we have established a partnership with The Sustainability Collaborative (TSC); the Nordic office of The Natural Step (TNS) with whom we share our purpose. Through memberships in TSC, we represent TNS in Denmark. This connects us to a huge network of people and a database of cases, knowledge, experience and competencies that we contribute to and can draw upon and integrate into our services for a greater impact.
Estuary - what does it mean (to us)?
A geological meeting place
An estuary is where the freshwater of rivers meets the saltwater of the sea, creating a fascinating geological phenomenon. This unique environment is also a harsh habitat, shaped by the powerful forces of nature—winds, tidal currents, waves, and temperature—all in constant interplay. Despite these conditions, an estuary is a place where life of countless species emerge, demonstrating nature’s resilience in the most challenging circumstances.
A metaphor for collaboration
Like rivers flowing together in an estuary to create a rich ecosystem for countless species, we believe in the power of bringing people together from different backgrounds to exchange ideas, resources, and visions.
Only when forces unite and we view the world’s systems from a broader perspective we can make a real difference.
Action towards a greater common purpose
At Estuary, we aim to become a center for colleagues, peers, and partners to share insights and inspire action towards a greater common purpose.
We believe in the transformative potential within us all and the regenerative potential in all ecosystems and social systems.
Let your stream flow with ours.