Insights
Essays, reflections, and field notes from our practice.
recorded_webinar·11 SEPTEMBER 2026The Hidden Power Behind Legacy Builders — LinkedIn Live #11
Mario and Elsbeth on the hidden power behind legacy builders — the three-factor equation of soul mission, company purpose, and unique contribution. Final LinkedIn Live before the 17 September Summit. Meaning is not optional.
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recorded_webinar·4 SEPTEMBER 2026ESG: Compliance or Compass? — LinkedIn Live #10
Mario and Elsbeth on ESG as compass rather than compliance instrument. Featuring Pieter Hemels' new AEX Futureproof Index on the AEX — and why financially high-performing companies are 'creating debt in the current society'. LinkedIn Live #10, in preparation for the 17 September Summit.
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recorded_webinar·28 AUGUST 2026Money, Meaning, and the Space Between — LinkedIn Live #9
Elsbeth and Nienke on the money-meaning entanglement, the integrity moment inside their own Full Spectrum Resolution work, and what Peter Hemels' organisation has already made operational. LinkedIn Live #9, in preparation for the Summit.
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recorded_webinar·25 AUGUST 2026The Indigo Heart Activation — Guided Meditation
A guided meditation from Nienke, rooted in HeartMath™ heart-coherence techniques and customised for The Indigo Elephant audience. An 8-step practice to shift from mental occupation into the neutral, radiating field of the heart.
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article·24 AUGUST 2026Money and Meaning Are Not a Sequence. They Are a Multiplication.
Every advisory firm on the market is solving for one variable. The next generation of organisations will be built by leaders who understand there are two. Not money plus meaning. Money times meaning. And the product is legacy.
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article·20 AUGUST 2026What Executives Actually Buy When They Ask Us to Sense Their Organisation
A CEO asked what she would be buying. Everything I had said described the how — nothing named the what. So I said it plainly. You are not buying our sensing capacity. You are buying reduced risk on the highest-stake decisions of your career.
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recorded_webinar·20 AUGUST 2026Consciousness in the Boardroom — Hype or Necessity
You cannot do consciousness at 50%. Elsbeth and Nienke on what consciousness in the boardroom actually means — beyond wellness talk and website branding — and why the purpose-driven performance data has been sitting there since 2007.
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recorded_webinar·14 AUGUST 2026Corporate Coherence — Reading the Undercurrent
On the KPIs, an organisation can look normal. Underneath, incoherence is quietly producing what will show up as business disease six months later. Mario Haneca and Nienke van Bezooijen on corporate coherence as measurable, trainable, and contagious.
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article·6 AUGUST 2026The Coherent Perspective
Coherence — everyone moving in the same direction, for the same reason, at the same time — is what actually drives organisational forward movement. Not effort. Nienke van Bezooijen on coherence in the body, in the team, and in the whole.
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recorded_webinar·5 AUGUST 2026The €29 Billion Question — LinkedIn Live #5
Sick leave in Dutch organisations sits at 5.4%. Cost: an estimated €29 billion a year. Most responses target the KPI, not the system producing the illness. Elsbeth Van Lienden and Nienke van Bezooijen on the architecture underneath.
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article·30 JULY 2026The Canary Knows Something the Org Chart Doesn't
Organisations signal disruption long before it breaks — cynicism, silence, quiet withdrawal — but almost nobody is trained to read those signals. Experiential expertise, embedded structurally in the org chart, is one of the clearest ways to build sensing capacity before the crisis forces it.
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recorded_webinar·9 JULY 2026Heart-Centered vs Mind-Centered Companies
Companies sit on a spectrum. On one end: mind- and ego-driven organisations where numbers come first. On the other: heart-driven, soul-led collectives where meaning and contribution shape every decision. Where does your organisation actually operate?
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recorded_webinar·9 JULY 2026Deep Dive Live #1 — Not Broken. The System Is.
In our first Deep Dive Live, the three founders open the conversation on why organisations are not broken — the system is. From industrial control toward soul-first, heart-led companies designed as living systems for a new economy.
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video·5 JULY 2026First Founder Interview — The Full Conversation
The unfiltered 71-minute founder conversation behind The Indigo Elephant. Mario, Nienke, and Elsbeth on why the movement found them, why organisations are designed for a world that no longer exists, and what a business built as legacy actually looks like.
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recorded_webinar·5 JULY 2026First LinkedIn Live — Meet the Founders
In our first LinkedIn Live, the three founders — Mario Haneca, Nienke van Bezooijen, and Elsbeth van Lienden — introduce The Indigo Elephant. Not a firm. A movement. A triangle of complementary contributions, helping visionary leaders guide their organisations into what comes next.
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article·28 JUNE 2026When Nothing Else Is Certain, the Leader Must Be
In an era without certainty, the leader becomes the source of stability — not because they have more answers, but because they have more presence. The future of organisations is not built by predicting the unpredictable. It is built by leaders who can stay sovereign when the world is not.
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podcast·21 JUNE 2026From Controller to Conductor — The Indigo Perspective
Under pressure, our focus narrows into tunnel vision — sharp, analytical, fast. Useful for deadlines, but it shuts down our deepest asset. The Indigo Perspective is the practice of softening from controller to conductor, accessing what only a wider field can show.
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article·21 JUNE 2026A First Note From the Founders
The Indigo Elephant is in the world. Founders Mario, Elsbeth and Nienke introduce an advisory built to help leaders bridge from Society 3.0 organisations to a Society 4.0 reality — where intelligence belongs to the whole.
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