Make inner development tangible
Research-backed dialogue and assessment tools that turn Inner Development into everyday practice. Used by leaders, teams, educators, and coaches around the world.
Can we change the world by focusing on ourselves?
Yes! Lasting change doesn’t start with new strategies – it starts with people. Research and leading change theories point to the same fundamental truth: real, sustainable change starts from within.
The Inner Development Goals toolkit turns this insight into action. Inspired by the Inner Development Goals (IDG) guide and leading thinkers like Amy Edmondson, Otto Scharmer, and Peter Senge, this research-backed toolkit provides practical facilitation tools to help leaders, HR professionals, consultants, teachers and coaches create meaningful development processes.
With the Inner Development Kit, you can:
- Connect inner and outer goals to drive meaningful transformation
- Strengthen team dynamics, trust and stronger collaboration
- Guide meaningful one-on-one sessions that inspire personal growth
- Facilitate self-and team reflection to unlock potential and deepen awareness
- Design processes that produce measurable results
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Browse this website to find out why inner development matters, and how integrating it into your work can create profound, sustainable change. NEW: We are supporting the Inner Development Goals by donating 10% of our revenue of Kits.
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Why work with your inner development?
Everything we do matters. The way we feel, think, relate, collaborate and act shapes the world we create. That’s why developing our inner strengths is essential – it helps us create meaningful change from an authentic place that is more motivating and engaging – and therefore value creating – for both humans and business.
Take leadership, for example. Picture this: a leader is facing a resistance from the team towards a new strategy. A leader who is self-aware, open to feedback, and able to navigate uncertainty with clarity and trust will create a completely different outcome than one who reacts defensively or avoids difficult conversations. Inner development is the key to unlocking our full potential as leaders, employess, and agents of change!
Take a team, for example. Picture this: a workplace where there’s a spirit of collaboration, where everyone feels psychologically safe, and where the ideas flow freely! People are eager to move forward, and the energy is contagious. But when a team works on self-awareness, active listening, and shared reflection, it’s amazing what happens. Conversations become open, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and real engagement leads to stronger outcomes.
By working with inner development, you will:
- Develop a stronger connection to your self and awareness of your strengths
- Challenge your own mindsets and assumptions and become more bold and creative
- Build strong, trust-based teams of strong and self-aware emplyoees
- Act with courage, clarity, and purpose
- Create sustainable, messurable, long-lasting, and impactful change
Want to dive deeper into the theory behind inner development?
Visit the resources section gain a deeper understanding of the research and theories that form the foundation of inner development Goals and transformational leadership.
About the Kit developer
Sara has 18 years of experience in leadership training, coaching, facilitation, and strategy development – from high-performing executives to young entrepreneurs – and across industries and cultures. While every setting is different, one truth remains universal:
Real transformation starts with processes designed to create involvement and honest reflection and dialogue – and results in human AND business growth.
Sara Øllgaard developed the Inner Development Kit to bridge the gap between change theory and real action. Between human growth and business growth. Between serious and playfull actions.
Inspired by the Inner Development Goals (IDG), Sara has transformed the guide into a practical, hands-on toolkit that is easy to facilitate and deeply engaging. The tools have been tested with her clients to ensure they create the desired outcome:
- Building stronger teams with greater engagement and psychological safety
- Foster higher self-awareness, openness and well-being
- Motivate and empower teams and individuals to create sustainable change
What some people say:
Sold across 5 continents
– donate 10% shop revenue to Inner Development Goals
7 language options
– available in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Danish
Support IDG implementation
– widely embraced by leaders, HR, educators and the IDG Ambassador community
What’s inside the Inner Development Kit?
The Inner Development Kit includes three facilitation tools: Dialogue Cards, Strength Cards, and an Assessment Tool. The tools are designed to be easy to use, engaging, and adaptable for both teams and individuals. They help spark deeper conversations, build self-awareness, and drive meaningful change through structured reflection and dialogue processes. The Inner Development Kit is inspired by Inner Development Goals.
Why work with dialogue cards
The Dialogue Cards encourage deeper conversations and new insights that might not emerge in everyday discussions. They create space for self-reflection about how we are, think and act, and they create curiosity, and meaningful dialogues that build trustfull relations and inspire action.
Why work with strength cards
The strength cards can be used for various exercises, eg. to:
Recognizing your own strengths to give you a deeper understanding of yourself and helps you focus on what to develop further.
Acknowledge others for their strengths to foster motivation, strengthens relationships, and build self-confidence.
Sharing your own strengths with our team it allows them to understand your motivation and behavior, leading to stronger connections, and a better understanding of your teams collective potential.
Why work with Assessments?
The Tool gives a clear visual overview that helps individuals and teams reflect on their current situation and what is needed to succeed with a specific outer challenge. By bringing awareness to strengths and growth areas, this tool is a great starting point to support structured and action-oriented discussions.
NEW: The tool is now available in an online version. See below.
How-to guide
The kit includes a How-To Guide with inspiration on facilitation techniques in both team and individual settings. The Guide provides coaching questions, reflection prompts, and exercises to deepen insights and foster meaningful conversations. This means that the tools can be facilitated without further instructions. If you want further inspiration, see the online courses.
Online assessment tool for individuals, teams and 360
The online Assessment tool helps individuals and teams identify their strengths and reflect on the skills they need to create the outer change they’re after.
Unlike most assessments, this one has few rating questions. The focus is on open-ended reflection tied to your real challenge – because reflection is what turns insight into action.
You get a printable report with your (or your team’s) spiderweb and answers, ready to use as a dialogue starter in any development process (teams, one-on-one settings, or as part of talent programmes and recruitment).
The extended AI-version adds tailored recommendations on how to work with the skills you’ve chosen, based on your answers.
See more in the Q&A below.
Take a look at the Inner Development Kit!
In this short video, Sara Øllgaard guides you through the three tools in the toolkit: the Assessment Tool to map strengths, the Dialogue Cards to spark deeper conversations, and the Skill Cards to explore what it takes to master each skill.
Watch the video to learn how the toolkit can help leaders, teams and organisations cultivate deeper awareness, stronger collaboration and meaningful engagement.
This video was recorded in one take to keep it honest and human. You may notice small imperfections — they’re part of speaking from the heart.
Courses, workshops & talks
Inner Development is the foundation for outer growth.
If you’re looking to bring inner development to solve your current challenges, we offer tailored workshops and talks that combine inspiration with hands-on practice. You’ll learn how to apply Inner Development in your team and across the organisation — strengthening psychological safety, deepening dialogue, and building collaboration and engagement.
Facilitation matters. If you want to learn how to facilitate Inner Development in an active and engaging way, we host an online course every month to help you build the skills and confidence to guide others – and to get the most out of the Inner Development Kit.
Online facilitator course
This course is a great way to get a quick introduction to facilitate and create value from the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) guide! You’ll gain hands-on experience and facilitators tips and tricks on how to engage teams and individuals inner development to maximize outer impact.
Through this course, you will:
– Integrate the Inner Development Goals (IDG) in workshops and meetings
– Learn to create engagement by using the 3 tools in one-on-one and teams
– Discuss and share leadership and faclitation experience
– Gain confidence in applying the Kit to create meaningful development processes
As part of the training, you will have the opportunity to try the online assessment tool, which is an extended version of the spider-web assessment you find in the toolkit. The online assessment is also available for purchase in the webshop.
Courses are offered each month. See dates and sign up in the shop.
Tailored workshops, courses and talks
We offer both tailored short inspirational workshops and longer processes for leaders, teams and organisations looking to develop their leadership, teams, and talents. The services meet specific needs, whether for:
– teams looking to build trust, strengthen collaboration and engagement and create a more curious and open dialogue;
– leaders / HR who want to develop their leadership skills by strengthing their inner capacities to better navigate complexity and lead change effectively; or
– talents / students seeking greater self-awareness, a deeper understanding of their strengths, and a foundation for conscious decision-making, hope and optimism.
Do not hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss how we can design a process that meets your needs, KPIs and wishes to create the workplace that gives more than it takes.
Inspirational talks
We also offer inspirational talks on conferences and in networks to inspire people to engage on a deeper level. Because this is what truly moves.
Unboxing the Inner Development Kit
– A moment of excitement!
This was my reaction when I unboxed the Inner Development Kit. I hope you’ll feel just as excited when you receive yours and start exploring all its possibilities.
Designed to turn the academic framework of the Inner Development Goals into tangible facilitation and dialogue tools, the Inner Development Kit helps educators, leaders, teams and organisations create real, measurable outer change by working from within.
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