The circular economy is emerging. It is not an extrapolation.
Green Mentors teaches mid-market leaders and the practitioners who advise them to read what is emerging and act on it β in four weeks, working on a real business, ending in a project somebody can approve.
Led by Dr Paul O. Olson: forty years in global business, an ISO/TC 323 expert seat on the committee writing the circular-economy standards, and GO-TKM's Global Executive Vice-President.
ISO/TC 323
Expert seat, circular economy
GO-TKM
Endorsed by the Brussels think-tank
40 years
Of executive practice behind it
4 weeks
From first session to a real project
The argument
Reporting is the easy part.
Measurement never stopped pollution. Standards represent the how β our collective tacit knowledge β and they are necessary. But a standard tells you the road; it does not drive it.
Most planning treats the future as this year minus a percentage. Circularity does not work that way. It is a different shape of business, forming now, and the companies that find its shape early choose their position in it.
So the work is acceleration: the right projects started, in the right order, by people with the authority to decide β and by the practitioners who can sit beside them while they do it.
Not a consultancy
We do not do it for you. You do the work on your own business, facilitated, with people who have done it before in the room.
Not a lecture series
Principles-based and facilitated. One hour of input and provocations, one hour of guided peer discussion, one optional hour for what did not fit.
Not a certificate of attendance
Executives leave with a project charter. Practitioners leave with a capability, and a route to a credential evidenced by their own work.
Two tracks
Which side of the table are you on?
Same four weeks, same frameworks, same standards. What differs is the third hour β and what you are holding at the end of it.
For executives Β· β¬1,297
You run the company
CEOs, CXOs and senior directors of mid-sized businesses. You leave with your three circular hotspots named, the standards that actually apply to you, and a one-page project charter your board can approve.
β ESG argued as position and risk, not compliance
β A year in the GO-TKM TKM Boardroom included
β In-house delivery on request
For practitioners Β· β¬597
You advise the company
Experienced coaches, mentors and consultants. You already know how to hold the room; this gives you the domain β and a supervised hour on your own practice that no reading can replace.
β A second reason clients hire you
β Route to Sustainability Project Coach certification
β The mastermind community after it
Both courses can lead to certification β a number of executive students are consultants or managers who already carry a coaching toolbox.
Start in 90 minutes
Two live events, β¬47 each
Worked, not presented. The cheapest way to find out whether this method is for you.
For executives
The Board-Ready Hour
One live 90-minute working session. Bring your value chain as you understand it today; leave with your three circular hotspots named and ranked.
For practitioners
The Green Conversation
How to hold a sustainability conversation at board level, and be useful in it. Your β¬47 comes off the Masterclass if you enrol within 30 days.
How the work runs
Three hours a week, one of them optional
Before
Homework
Planning against the core model, so you arrive with your own material in hand.
Hour 1
Input & provocations
Principles, frameworks and cases β the slides are the anchor for both versions of the course.
Hour 2
Facilitated discussion
Group format, tapping our collective tacit knowledge: what must be true for circularity projects to succeed.
Hour 3
Stay behind
Optional. For the questions we didn't have time for, or where you need a 1:1 discussion.
An AI learning agent carries the thread between sessions, so nobody starts cold each week. Cohorts are capped at 25β30, in English, Norwegian or German β Oslo, Stockholm, Cologne, Brussels or London, or in-house on request.
"Probably the fastest turnaround we've ever seen."
Chairman of the board, health-insurance joint venture β where Paul was lead coach on the LEAN project and executive coach to the CEO
"Outstanding to help maximize value creation within management teams."
J.D., ex Senior Executive VP of a global airline; chairman of several corporate boards, Denmark
"A visionary that can fathom complexity and make that complexity understandable."
P.L., master practitioner executive coach, former VP Research
The briefing
What actually changed in circular practice, every second week.
Read in five minutes: a standard that moved, a case that worked, a decision someone got right. Plus whitepapers, The Good News Collection, and cohort dates before they reach this site.
Two questions when you sign up, so we send you the track you are actually on. No noise, unsubscribe in one click.
Join the briefing list
Name, work email, and two questions: what you do, and why you are here.
Who runs this
Dr Paul O. Olson, MBA MSc
A doctorate in psychology, an MBA, and forty years in global business services and executive development β turnarounds, board work, and the conversations that decide whether a company moves.
He holds an ISO/TC 323 expert seat on the committee writing the circular-economy standards, is GO-TKM's Global Executive Vice-President, lectures and supervises research at NSPC, Middlesex University, and is an EMCC Master Practitioner and supervisor. More about Paul β
ISO/TC 323
Expert, circular economy
Global Executive VP
GO-TKM, Brussels
EMCC Master Practitioner
Coach & supervisor
NSPC Middlesex
Lecturer & research supervisor