Early Professional Journey

Originally planning to participate in the journey of human healing by becoming a medical doctor, Lennart got disillusioned by the mechanistic and disintegrated relationship to health and the human body he experienced during a year-long community service in the surgery ward of a big university hospital. This was not the idea of health (originally the word health comes from being whole = undivided) his heart was deeply longing for.

He decided to take a long but retrospectively important detour towards a more integrated vision of human wholeness. This journey took him through a diploma in German legal studies and an MBA in entrepreneurship. Fascinated by the role of innovation as a process of transformation early on he founded his first business during his law studies in the emerging electric mobility sector.

After university he worked for different startup investors, accelerators and incubators, working directly with founders on solving difficult problems and supporting them in their early stage development, as well as the complexity of growth and scaling.

A few years later he switched into the corporate ecosystem and provided his technology and innovation expertise to large organizations as a top management strategy consultant. Working with the C-suites of large organizations and supporting them in overcoming the transformation paralysis through digital transformation and innovation strategies he soon realized that beyond supporting teams in the process of engaging with cultural shifts and changing perspectives there was something more profound missing.

Personal Journey

What that missing point was, became more obvious through the deeply transformative and life changing experiences he gathered on a 10 year long journey of self-discovery, healing and inner growth. Deconstructing all belief-structures this time felt like a completely opposite track to his professional life for a long time.

He embarked onto a colorful path of different spiritual, therapeutic and developmental experiences that shaped his perspective on the world forever. He spent time in conscious communities who were researching different ways of living in alignment with the natural environment and different models of human society and relationships, found a foundational spiritual home in Zen Buddhism, and studied traditional kashmir shaivistic Tantra. Traveling the world and immersing himself in diverse subcultures through festivals, political movements, environmentalism, the Bay Area Startup community, burning man and other fields provided a glimpse into diverse cultural contexts.

A hugely transformative part of this time was the active participation in the reimmergence of the psychedelic movement as well as experiencing profoundly integrated plant medicine ceremonies with indidgenous elders from Latin America. These experiences with altered states of consciousness have dramatically widened and expanded his perception to be able to include more of the visible and invisible world.

But more and more the professional and the personal seemed to be going into polar opposite directions: Expansive, interconnected, embodied, deeply ecological and relational ecosystems on the one side, and mechanistic, reductionistic, capitalistic structures on the other.

This created the deep inquiry which’s contemplation eventually changed everything: “What is the creative potential that can integrate these seemingly contradictory perspectives on the world into something more whole and inclusive?”

The Convergence

When the tension between the seemingly incompatible lives, became almost unbearable, a new dimension opened when he started to study the developmental aspects of the world in general and of the human psychology and cultural systems in particular. This revealed their manifestations in culture, socio economic structures and our relationships with each other and the living ecology we are a part of.

Integral and systems- or complexity theory, as well as concepts of deep ecology and the nature of consciousness have provided the frameworks to dive deeply into the inquiry. Especially the work of  Robert Kegan, Carl Jung, Ken Wilber, Nora and Gregory Bateson and Iain McGilchrist have profoundly impacted this phase of the development of his own body of work.

This is when he started bringing the two worlds he was embedded in together into a profoundly embodied, animate, relational and yet scientifically and philosophically substantiated and enriched body of work.

Touching the very core of transformation, growth and integration, and what our human journey's trajectory is pointing towards in these seemingly chaotic times is his deepest intention. Read more about what this means in detail under philosophy.

Lennart is living in Berlin and is father to a wonderful daughter.