Bringing heart and soul to leadership and business. Coaching, constellations and keynotes for individuals and organizations.

I live at the intersection of two worlds. I work with fast-paced leaders from around the globe, and I live on a quiet farm and retreat center in Northern Sweden. I am a philosophical writer, and a hands-on practitioner. I am half Swedish, and half American.

And my work is an attempt to bring a bit more heaven to earth.

Work with me

I work with individuals and organizations in a variety of ways.

  • 1-on-1 coaching to connect with who you are and dissolve the obstacles that hold you back – as a leader and a human.

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  • Leadership development and strategy projects to bring more heart, soul and humanity to business (especially in an age of AI).

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  • See and resolve the hidden patterns that drive problematic dynamics in yourself, your family, or your organization.

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  • Get provoked in the mind and touched in the heart through a variety of talks and workshops.

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  • Take some time away to get some distance from the daily pressures, and reconnect with what’s important.

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Previous clients

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  • A woman with her hair in a bun, smiling and wearing a black sleeveless top, speaking into a headset microphone with a background of warm lighting and wooden beams.

    “Alex has an extraordinary ability to see you as a person, guiding you to know yourself better, and become conscious of your habits — good and bad. It's been a truly transformational experience.”

    Miriam Plon Sauer
    Global Chief Strategy Officer at AKQA

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    “Working with Alex is a wonderful detour from traditional coaches. He has an incredibly diverse set of tools and frameworks ... Every session I do with him is transformative in some way.”

    Clarisa Doval
    Chief Data and AI Officer at Airbus Helicopters

  • Sathy Rajasekharan

    “Working with Alex was a powerful catalyst that set me on a path of continuous learning and awareness about myself, which is really the only toolkit I have needed.”

    Sathy Rajasekharan
    Vice President at Parkinson Canada

  • Jelle Vastert

    “Alex’s coaching isn’t performance - it’s real, direct, and it stays with you. I took away a clarity I haven’t had in years, one that’s still steering how I show up in daily life.”

    Jelle Vastert
    Associate Partner at IMPROVED

  • Soroush Hakami

    “I quickly learned more than I had ever hoped for in my sessions with Alex. I now have tools to help me tackle any decision in life or in business, and a deeper understanding of who I am as a person.”

    Soroush Hakami
    CEO & Co-Founder at Syson

  • Rasmus Jönsson

    “My time with Alex has taken me to new personal heights. He has challenged me to realize who I am and what I want to achieve. Alex has the ability to both see and understand things you didn’t know yourself. A journey with Alex is not easy, but one thing is sure – it has an effect.”

    Rasmus Jönsson
    Owner at ELON Stores

  • “Coaching with Alex has helped me to better understand what drives me, and has challenged some of my deep-rooted patterns around performance, success and responsibility. I have new perspectives on how I can combine ambition with balance, energy and what is really important in life. Alex has a fantastic ability to listen, challenge and ask the right questions at the right time.”

    Anonymous
    Head of Innovation

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Allsta Gård

A northern Swedish retreat center and farm – and my home.

Here my family and I host retreat, offsites, and events throughout the year. We grow organic vegetables, have egg-laying chickens, and welcome people from around the world to evolve and expand.

Our vision is a more connected, alive, and beautiful world – and we strive to play a part in bringing that into being.

Learn more about Allsta Gård
Upcoming Events & Retreats
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On Relationality

A brief book on the relational nature of life – and how to live more relationally – informed by the ideas of philosopher Martin Buber.

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Take one look at society today and you’re met with symptoms of relational hurt. We treat ourselves as machines, other people as objects, and the planet as a resource to plunder.

Martin Buber, the twentieth-century philosopher, devoted his life to responding to these states of affairs. He claimed that we are always relating, all of the time. Life is relationship. He pointed at ways of living in relation that can bring us closer, not further away, to what we encounter in our lives.

The book is an exploration of Martin Buber’s ideas in a concise and easy to digest format, informed by ideas from human development and trauma healing.

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Other publications

Feeling the System: Numbness, Trauma, Relationality, and Ethical Restoration in Leadership

The International Studying Leadership Conference 2023

Title page of a conference presentation document titled 'Feeling the System: Numbness, Trauma, Relationality, and Ethical Restoration in Leadership' by Alexander Carabi, discussing leadership paradigms and societal issues.

“In the context of leadership, sensing and responding appropriately is of paramount importance. In order to respond more adequately to the systems they are embedded within, leaders require capacities that allow them to sense and feel more of the embodied data at their disposal. For leaders to think and choose better, they need to be able to feel more.”

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Meeting our Worldviews

Perspectiva, 2022

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“It’s common these days to hear calls for new worldviews. These calls are often accompanied by a condemnation of the current ways of thinking, doing, and being. [But] every worldview is attempting to take care of something. And if we don’t acknowledge and respect these aspects of our current worldviews, then they won’t fundamentally change.”

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