Catalysing regenerative business while liberating the thrill of being human
An ecosystem of change makers & pioneers
The key to regenerative business development lies in generous collaboration and radical co-creation. This is why we have built an extensive network of pioneers - both the Thinkers and the Doers - who we have carefully selected into our ecosystem of conscious change makers.
Entrepreneurs & business leaders
Researchers & experts
Investors & family offices
Creatives & innovators
Start-ups & growth companies
Big corporates & venture labs
OUR CRAFT
Synthesize
Exploring opportunity
& compounding insight
Catalyse
Curating & implementing
for maximum impact
OUR DREAM
A world where businesses enable people & planet to thrive together – a progressive and regenerative world where the more you give, the more you get back.
OUR PORTFOLIO & PARTNERS
Examples of transformational journeys we co-create and catalyze
POLARBRÖD - A BITE OF THE FUTURE. Polarbröd is a family force for bringing sustainable solutions and amazing bread concepts from the North of Sweden to the rest of the world.
FÄRSKING - NO JUNK JUST FUNK. Färsking is a Swedish foodtech start-up on a quest to provide future generations with healthier food products and services.
THE BOOK SYMBIOS. To look upon waste as a resource is the new business logic. Our colleague Emma has written the book Symbios (Symbiosis in Swedish) together with Tobias Jansson to share examples and tools to enable this great opportunity.
HOUDINI - EXPLORE WITH RESPECT. Houdini is a sustainability innovation trailblazer reshaping the apparel industry through regenerative design thinking, business model innovation and strategic partnerships; helping us all reconnect to nature..
IKEA - DEMOCRATISIZE SUSTAINABILITY. Ikea is a global force for people and planet positivity. They aim to make sustainable products available and affordable for all people. Will they become the first multinational that manages to transform itself to net positive and 100% circular?
ROSENDALS TRÄDGÅRD. Rosendals Garden is a driver of the farm to fork concept with global reach and a special hub for people and the entire business world to explore, to enjoy and to dig deeper in important and sustainable opportunities and questions involving circular economy and the future of food.
MASTERCARD - ENABLING A GREAT DECOUPLING. With a global sustainability innovation LAB in Stockholm and a global ecosystem of banks, merchants, and partners - Mastercard aims to drive growth while enabling billions of people to consume more sustainably and explore regenerative lifestyles.
NORDIC SEAFARM - VEGETABLES FROM THE OCEAN. Nordic seafarm is Sweden’s upcoming supplier of seaweed as the new healthy and sustainable food.
OUR METHOD
The Multi-X
The multi-x is our symbol and our method; it stands for the exponential marriage between purpose and profit, and it stands for the way we operate:
GENEROUS COLLABORATION
Through connection, engagement & trust, we build relations and long-term partnerships that drive joint business development and value creation.
RADICAL CO-CREATION
By bringing together and cross-fertilizing some of the most brilliant businesses and people across relevant fields, we explore & create innovative solutions for exponential positive impact.
CONSCIOUS IMPLEMENTATION
We catalyse authentic action by building the teams, processes, and culture needed to experiment and implement progressive solutions to accelerate business transformation.
A LETTER FROM COEST
The Coest team joined forces because of a common determination that business must be a force for good. It was founded in Sweden by a group of business developers, company builders, investors, creatives and sustainability geeks who want to make sure the good guys win massively and have positive impact by operating in harmony with our planet and our society.
To tackle the biggest challenges of our time, we need long term thinking as well as short term action. It is not an easy and straight forward journey. It´s a quest we take together in order to unleash the human spirit and our full potential. It is time to fundamentally remake business and now unleash the generous and heroic spirit of business.
We believe that the secret sauce in transformation lies in the intersection and sweat spot between different ideas and capabilities. That is why Coest have created a unique hybrid across the fields of sustainability, brand, leadership and business development; they all must work together to create transformation and extraordinary companies.
Transformation needs to happen on a systemic scale. This requires co-creation and collaboration within and beyond any one company. We have therefore created an epic ecosystem of business executives, experts, researchers, investors, creatives, artists etc. Together with this crew and the most ambitious in-house executives and teams, we compound insight and catalyze progress exponentially.
We only work with people and businesses that have truly committed to becoming positive forces in the business world. From early start-ups, to middle sized businesses ready to go big, all the way up to specific innovation teams with solid mandate to create change in the largest enterprises, even municipalities and cities. We maximize their potential and we call them our partners in quest. We look for systemic change and transformation and real (societal) value creation.
We invest everything (heart, mind, soul, capital, creativity) into businesses and people who are creating products, services, solutions, and business models that contribute to a better, smarter, and
a more conscious sustainable world.
Together with all our partners in quest we will ignite positive change during the coming decade. With radical innovation and conscious action we make the good guys bigger and the big guys better. Collectively we are part of the movement that will drive the business world into the future; in a way that we can be deeply proud of.
By 2030 we will (perhaps as the first company in the world with this stupid or brilliant promise) close all of our offices for a year-long well-deserved break. This will happen just after a crazy week-long celebration with all the people and businesses that have been on this ride with us. There will be music, drinks, food, tears, laughs and lots of magical memories with great people. Together we proved multiple times that purpose is the reason for being and profit the fuel that enables us all to keep working on our purpose, to expand it, and to be the very best we can be. Until that day, we all have some work to do.
OUR INSPIRATION
“Just as people cannot live without eating, so a business cannot live without profits. But most people don’t live to eat, and neither must businesses live just to make profits.” JOHN MACKEY CEO of Whole Foods Market
“Our company has been around for more than 130 years… By inspiring the world and providing good food for coming generations we want to keep improving and live up to our standards for another 130 years.” KARIN BODIN CEO of Polarbröd
”It is absolutely critical that companies realize their opportunity but also their responsibility to become stewards of the planet and humanity to play their part in the transformation of the world so urgently needs.” - Eva Karlsson, CEO Houdini Sportswear:
“Our generation has this urge to protect the future and we look for honest and sustainable brands. I also believe we are only on the verge of a new era of ”brain food”, connecting aspects such as mental health and school results to what we eat.” ― Amanda Larsson, co-founder of Färsking
“Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.” — Gary Hamel, one of the world's most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers
“The business of business is not only business. Today's most innovative enterprises and the leaders of tomorrow are commited to a different idea: that the business of business is to contribute to a thriving world.” ― Kate Raworth, Researcher, Change maker och Author, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
'Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials we need to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; and reimagine and reshape how we live and work in order to accelerate the needed transition.' - Ellen MacArthur, sailor and founder of Ellen MacArthur Foundation
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ― Walt Disney
"Right here, right now" -Cleo Levin
OUR CORE TEAM
OLA
JÖNSSON
For random cool stuff, partnerships, corporate transformation and investments
+46 70-491 02 98
CARL-JOHAN BJÖRKLUND
To bounce crazy ideas, business model innovation and new ventures and accelerators
+46 70-491 01 99
EMMA
DALVÄG
For sustainability, innovation, circular economy and industrial symbiosis stuff
+46 73-962 82 05
JERKER H. THORSELL
For the big picture, regenerative direction, communications and political stuff
+46 70-970 81 04
MERIT
KAAL
To get the latest on what’s cooking within sustainability, backed by data
merit@coest.se
+46 72-007 75 81
ANNA
KOLLBERG
For a glimpse of the future
and advice on how to design
and re-imagine it
anna.kollberg@coest.se
+46 73-372 22 27
ANNA-KAJSA LIDELL
For insight and progress on the journey toward a regenerative food system
anna-kajsa@coest.se
+46 708 92 32 65
FRIENDS - COMING SOON
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