Three Horizons and the Economics of Mutuality
Online Masterclass with Carly Santer
11 March | 15.00–16.15 | Online
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Navigating Change Across Time Horizons
As organizations face accelerating disruption, from climate and health pressures to shifting expectations of business, many leaders sense that transformation is necessary, but struggle to locate where meaningful change is possible.
Short-term performance demands dominate Horizon 1 as the primary measure of success.
Emerging innovations and tensions surface in Horizon 2.
Long-term possibilities, often faint and fragile, sit in Horizon 3.
Without the ability to hold space to pay attention across time horizons, organizations risk becoming reactive: optimizing today while unintentionally closing down opportunities to create mutual value tomorrow.
What leaders choose to pay attention to, and what they legitimize as valuable decision-making, ultimately shapes transformation potential.
Creating Space to See Differently
This online masterclass uses the Three Horizons framework as a practical lens for understanding transformation, explored through the principles of the Economics of Mutuality. Rather than treating strategy, sustainability and purpose as competing priorities, the session invites participants to examine how value is created, sustained and renewed across time.
Structured into three interconnected sections, the masterclass will help participants explore:
How existing systems deliver value today, and where that same success begins to limit capability
Where experiments, tensions and alternative logics are already visible but not yet fully legitimized
How long-term mutual value - economic, social and environmental - can be intentionally held and cultivated over time
Each horizon becomes a space for reflection, dialogue and practical sense-making, supported by provocations designed to surface multiple perspectives.
An Interactive Learning Experience
The masterclass builds on the Economics of Mutuality executive education course while remaining fully accessible to new participants, offering a shared language for navigating uncertainty and sense-making while working within complex systems, without rushing to immediate resolution.
About the Facilitator
The session is led by Carly Santer, whose work sits at the intersection of health, climate and economic systems, including 14 years at Bayer. With a background spanning academic research, corporate strategy and sustainability leadership, Carly brings deep practical experience in translating long-term purpose into organisational action.
Carly was part of the Autumn 2025 executive education cohort. Her work positions the Economics of Mutuality not as an abstract ideal, but as a viable and necessary model for organisations seeking to align profit with enduring societal value.
Carly is the Founder and Director of Future Delta, an organization that works at the intersection of climate and health, cultivating the conditions for leaders and organizations to take collective action for the well-being of current and future generations.
Visit www.future-delta.earth for more information.
An Invitation
This masterclass is offered as a learning space to the Economics of Mutuality executive education alumni, along with those interested to learn more about Three Horizons, mutual value creation and the education program; it is a chance to pause, reflect and engage with others navigating similar questions, balancing the pressures of today with the possibilities of tomorrow.
Places are limited to support meaningful interaction.