Lennart Boksjö (1938-2023)
– Founder

Lennart Boksjö was sharp intellectually with a creative entrepreneurial bent and addressed problems from unusual and new perspectives. His thoughts were furthermore often shared with a frisky 
twinkle in his eye.

As a fresh graduate from the Gothenburg Business School in 1963 he gains early experiences from large organisations, whose long-term planning, hierarchical leadership and focus on details he later challenges.

Lennart co-founds The Foresight Group, which already during the 1980s offers a new innovation concept, intrapreneurship. This concept is grounded in the conviction that companies´ capacity to renew is the premier advantage in a changing world. The challenge is therefore to release the inherent capacity of talented internal entrepreneurs and let them develop themselves as well as the business by testing their best ideas in concrete action. The concept of intrapreneurship becomes 
a world-wide phenomenon licenced to management consultants in 15 countries.

Foresight cooperates with the futurist John Naisbitt, author of the bestseller Megatrends, which foresees the globalised knowledge- and networking economy that we are now living in. This inspires Lennart who becomes a sought-after speaker on the theme “The Paradigm Shift”. He practises his modern pedagogy and gives short and inspiring 
introductions to his main lines of thought via creative dialogue lifting the many questions 
of his listeners to a higher level.

In his private life Lennart completes a number of extensive building projects. Among others he purchases a beach property in the archipelago of Stockholm, where he builds a magnificent deck with small cottages, where he lives on his own bridge with only a few metres to his boat, on which he often takes his friends around the bay after a barbecue.

Lennart reminds his friends until his end: - Life is no dress rehearsal. It is not you personally but your life that should be enriched.

Lennart himself enriches the lives of many. Among others through his warm and humorous attitude. This is well illustrated by the fact that as he, in his late years, takes daily walks to the Waxholm hotel for having lunch at his reserved table, is met by a brass sign with the inscription; “For Lennart, our favorite guest.”