
Evolving Companies from the Inside Out
Welcome to transformation — the Otter Life way.
Bold Moves for Brave Companies
You’re here for a reason. Maybe you’re ready to lead a new paradigm of working life — one that is human-centered, purpose-driven, and adaptable. Maybe you aim to be a bold pioneer riding the first wave, where well-being, sustainability, conscious co-creation, and embracing the unknown are not exceptions but the new standard.
Or maybe you’ve tried everything, and nothing works. The challenges keep showing up, and you’re ready to try something different — even something a little crazy.
Whether you’re at the extremes or simply open and curious, you’re more than welcome on board.
At Otter Life, we help companies evolve human beings first. We do this through radically transformative, customized projects that are strategic, humane, and deeply engaging.
If you’re ready to leap into your next era, let’s begin.
What We Do
We design and facilitate transformative journeys that help companies grow by evolving their people, culture, and ways of working. Whether it’s a bold reset, deep problem-solving, a long-term process, or meaningful design work, every service is fully customized to your organization.
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This isn’t just a workshop — it’s a ceremonial reset. Refresh is like a cold plunge for your whole team: an awakening experience that clears the air, shakes off stagnation, and invites in fresh flow.
We craft a radically different space that is playful yet deep, where energy shifts, everyday thinking loosens its grip, and you see each other and your business from a whole new angle. Through custom-designed activities, intuitive yet sharp facilitation, and honest dialogue, you will access new neural pathways, unlock ideas that felt out of reach, and reconnect with creativity, clarity, and direction.
This is a reality-bending blend of strategic visioning, human connection, and bold presence. It is designed to revive momentum and spark a future your team is ready to step into.
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Untangle is a guided deep dive into a specific complex challenge within your company. These challenges often stem from underlying human and communication dynamics, even when they manifest in structural, strategic, or operational ways. We help you uncover what’s really going on beneath the surface and co-create clear, actionable solutions that respond to the real need.
Through a holistic process of facilitated conversations, workshops, and data analysis, we define the core issue at its root and shape the path forward. We create a space of trust and presence, where people feel safe to speak openly and insights emerge across data, experience, and past efforts.
The answers are already within your organization. Untangle helps you see them clearly and move forward with shared understanding and a practical plan for lasting change.
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Journey is a fully customized transformation process for companies ready to step boldly into their next era. You’re here to evolve — and we’re here to hold space, guide the ride, and co-create each step with you.
This 3 to 12-month program helps both your company and its people to evolve from the inside out. The journey can lead to a full rebirth of your organization, its culture, leadership, and ways of working, or it can be a shorter, targeted process to develop your employee experience, well-being, or teamwork — or anything else you want to prioritize.
We bring our full spectrum of tools, methods, and expertise, along with a collective of diverse facilitators and specialists hand-picked to support each stage of your journey. Through strategic deep-dives, leadership coaching, team workshops, retreats, assessments, trainings, and more, we help you unlock potential, shift what no longer serves, build what wants to emerge, and fully embody a new way of being and doing within your company. This is a living process, fueled by connection, courage, and presence.
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Otter Life Design is where your essence meets expression. Together with your team, we tune into the core of who you are, and translate that into meaningful, aligned design.
From brand identity creation and enhancement to service design, UX, and websites, we offer a diverse range of design services rooted in clarity, creativity, and co-creation. Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to evolve your brand, we dive deep to get to know you and grow with you.
What sets us apart is how we work: our methods are innovative, engaging, and always human. We bring your team into the process, listen closely to your clients, and craft solutions that reflect your true essence.
Design is our home turf. With strong backgrounds in marketing, communication, and design, we bring both experience and fresh eyes to every project, weaving strategy and soul into every detail.
Who We Are
We are facilitators who bridge our roots in business development, service design, and communication with deep experience in human evolution and inner transformation. We weave strategic clarity with human insight, and performance with purpose, enabling success rooted in human flourishing, well-being, and sustainable impact.
In our projects, we collaborate with a growing circle of facilitators and specialists from business, academia, design, innovation, holistic well-being, and more — all of whom bring a conscious and co-creative approach to their work.
Katarina Ekström
CREATOR OF HARMONY & FLOW
Katarina is a holistic organizational developer and designer who thrives in co-creative spaces where authenticity, structure, and soul meet. With a deep sense for human dynamics and a mind wired for systems thinking, she brings clarity to complexity and helps turn vision into action. Her experience in strategic development, facilitation, branding, communication, and human-centered design allows her to shape organizations through everything from strategy to services. Katarina’s presence is both intuitive and grounded, combining deep listening, resilience, and creativity to guide transformation on every level.
Joonas Ekström
BREAKER OF PATTERNS & BUILDER OF POSSIBILITY
Joonas brings momentum to transformation by blending service design, emotional intelligence, and bold strategy to unlock change that sticks and lasts. He is known for energizing teams, reading between the lines, and speaking truths that others hesitate to name, all while creating a safe, inspiring, and empowering environment for people to show up fully. His rare combination of radical honesty and compassion helps organizations reconnect to what really matters and thrive. With a sharp understanding of both people and systems, Joonas builds solutions that align strategy, culture, and human experience.
How We Work
We don’t do surface-level fixes or off-the-shelf solutions. Every process is designed uniquely, based on the needs, challenges, and potential of your company. We go deep — into people, systems, and culture — to create change that’s real, grounded, and lasting.
Our approach is strategic and analytical, transformative and humane, fun and engaging. We bring tangible strategies and concrete action, while holding intuitive, compassionate space for what wants to emerge.
In all our work, we embody six Living Principles. They reflect how we work within our company, how we collaborate with clients, and what we help organizations strengthen in themselves.
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We believe in work that honors our full humanity. Not just our thinking minds, but our emotions, embodied experience, presence, relationships, and capacity to create and transform.
At the heart of everything we do is a deep understanding of what it means to be human. Our work is grounded in years of facilitating personal and collective transformation. We bring this into your organization to help your team evolve — not just as professionals, but as people.
We support individuals in building the inner skills and capacity needed to thrive. We help teams communicate better, collaborate more naturally, and co-create with trust and energy. We guide organizations through the real root of many challenges: human dynamics.
We create spaces where people can show up fully, speak honestly, and work in ways that feel real. We redesign systems and structures from a human-centered perspective — grounded in how people actually think, feel, act, and relate.
Because when we stop pretending and start working as whole human beings, we unlock something powerful. That’s where real creativity, well-being, and innovation begin.
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Every human being holds vast inner potential — and so does every organization. We help you see what’s truly possible, not just for your company, but for the people within it and for the future of work itself.
Our work begins by recognizing what’s already alive beneath the surface. There is always more available than what meets the eye. We help you uncover that potential, form a shared vision of what could be, and take concrete steps to bring it into reality.
It’s not about lofty ideas with no follow-through. It’s about turning vision into action — and making sure that action is deeply aligned with what you truly want to become. We guide you in creating momentum that feels right, builds clarity, and begins to embody the vision from the inside out.
This is how organizations grow into their next version — not by pushing harder, but by unlocking what’s already waiting to be seen, claimed, and lived.
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Flow is the invisible current that runs through your organization — through people, processes, and structures. When that current is alive and moving, everything works better. Communication opens up. Creativity expands. Clarity sharpens. Collaboration deepens.
We work by attuning to that flow. We sense where things are moving with ease and where the energy is blocked or stuck. Swimming upstream wastes energy. We help you stop forcing what isn’t working and start following the natural current that already exists.
This happens on three levels. First, we bring awareness to what flows and what doesn’t. Then, we restore movement by clearing what’s stuck. Finally, we help you build systems, structures, and practices that are aligned with flow — so your organization can move forward with power, ease, and direction.
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Yes, work can be stressful, frustrating, or draining at times. That’s part of the reality. But it doesn’t have to be the whole truth.
Work can also be a source of energy, inspiration, and growth. Healthy organizations are full of life — motion, connection, well-being, and joy.
We help you tune into what feels alive in your organization and what doesn’t. What brings people energy? What quietly drains it? These signals offer valuable direction for how your culture, systems, and priorities can evolve.
We support organizations in creating cultures where well-being is not a bonus — it’s the baseline. Where people are seen and supported as human beings. Where realness is welcome, and where joy, connection, and meaning are part of how work gets done.
We help you build systems, structures, and rituals that support life — both inside and outside of work. This includes ways of working that feel sustainable, spaces that allow people to show up as they are, and moments that spark energy and purpose.
Joy, fun, and aliveness at work fuel well-being, job satisfaction, and performance. When people feel well, they bring more presence, creativity, and clarity to what they do — and the ripple effects reach every part of the organization.
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Nothing is real — and that’s our superpower.
Companies are not buildings, products, or logos. They are stories, agreements, and shared illusions that exist only because people believe in them.
As Yuval Noah Harari writes in Sapiens, corporations are imagined realities — legal fictions that make it possible for people to collaborate at scale.
Your company is not a fixed entity. It is not bound by what it has always been. It is a living myth, shaped every day by the choices, words, and actions of the people within it. The real question is: What kind of story are you currently telling? And even more importantly: What story do you want to tell next?
If everything is an illusion, then you hold the power to shape it.
We help companies detach from stories that no longer serve them and rewrite their reality. We help you remember that change is possible — and that you have the power to create it.
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The unknown isn’t something to avoid — it’s a powerful portal to transformation.
In the space where nothing is yet defined, everything becomes possible. The unknown is not chaos or confusion. It’s a fertile space of potential — a source of creativity, new insights, and unexpected ideas that can’t emerge within the limits of what’s already known.
It’s natural to seek certainty. Knowing feels safe, familiar, and reassuring — especially in a fast-changing world. We deeply understand that. The unknown, by contrast, can feel uncomfortable or strange. It asks us to pause, release control, and step into a space that doesn’t yet have answers.
But it’s in this very space that true transformation becomes possible. When we dare to be present with the unknown — instead of rushing to resolve it — we create room for something entirely new to take shape.
We help our clients harness the power of the unknown. We guide you to work with it, not against it — to trust it, sense it, and move within it. This is not about giving up direction. It’s about creating space for emergence, and learning to recognize the signals that point to what wants to come alive.
This also builds your capacity to navigate uncertainty. In today’s world, where change is constant, learning to be in relationship with the unknown helps you respond with clarity, presence, and creativity — even when outcomes aren’t clear.
Trust is key. Trust in the process, in each other, and in what is unfolding. When that trust is present, the unknown becomes not something to fear, but something to lean into — a space of possibility, insight, and growth.
The unknown isn’t empty. It’s alive — and it’s waiting for you.

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In the meantime, we’re welcoming a small number of pilot clients who are ready to explore bold, human-centered transformation with us. If you feel the pull, we’d love to hear from you.