Big News: Frederic Laloux, Jos de Blok, Lisa Gill at Corporate Rebels Summit 2025
Ten years ago, we started Corporate Rebels with a simple mission: to make work more human and more fun. It began with research. We traveled the world to learn from pioneering organizations that were reinventing what work could look like.
We met people who replaced control with trust, hierarchy with autonomy, and profit as the only goal with genuine purpose.
Over time, something became clear.
These pioneers shouldn’t have to figure it all out alone.
That insight led us to build the Rebel Cell network: a global community of organizations eager to team up, learn from each other, and jointly push the boundaries of what work can be.
Last year, we brought these organizations together for the first Summit.
The energy during the 2-day event was electric. It showed what happens when the world’s most progressive companies connect around a shared mission.
This November, we’re doing it again.
The second Corporate Rebels Summit will bring together 200 pioneers from around the world - alongside the most respected voices in self-management.
We are proud to announce a star-studded lineup of speakers:
- Frederic Laloux
Author of Reinventing Organizations, the book that sparked a global movement toward more soulful, self-managing workplaces. He rarely accepts conference invitations, so we’re genuinely honored to have him with us in Barcelona.
- Jos de Blok
Founder of Buurtzorg, the self-managed healthcare organization that revolutionized community care. Under his leadership, 15,000 nurses work in small, autonomous teams, proving that trust and purpose outperform control and hierarchy.
- Lisa Gill
Host of the Leadermorphosis podcast and a leading voice in self-management and new ways of working. Lisa helps organizations across the world experiment with radical transparency, shared power, and more human approaches to leadership.
- Karin Tenelius
Founder of Tuff Leadership Training, author, and long-time pioneer of self-managing businesses. Karin has spent decades transforming traditional companies into collaborative, high-trust environments where people take real ownership.
- Xavier Costa
Co-founder of Krisos, a company that buys traditional businesses and transforms them into self managed organizations. Xavier leads by example, showing how human centered principles can scale across hundreds of people without losing soul or speed.
- Etienne Salborn
Founder of SINA (Social Innovation Academy), a self-organized learning community in Africa empowering young people to become social entrepreneurs. Etienne proves that self-management can thrive far beyond corporate walls, even in the most challenging contexts.
- And many more
From progressive startups to reinventing multinationals, from tech to manufacturing to education, dozens of pioneers will join to share real-world stories of transformation. Each brings a unique perspective on how to build organizations that are not just more effective, but more human.
For us, it’s more than an event.
It’s the next step in scaling a global movement that’s transforming work from the inside out.
We had no idea it would grow this quickly into a global movement with so much momentum.
A global network in motion
The network (and the summit) brings together the companies already making it real.
NER Group in Spain has built a federation of 20+ companies and 2,000+ employees practicing self-management and collective decision making. Mindera is a tech company of 1,200+ people working without functional hierarchy or job titles. 10Pines in Argentina practices agile and sociocratic structures, with autonomous teams and shared profit among all contributors.
Elsewhere in the network, Chorus, an Australian care provider, is rethinking how services are delivered by distributing decision rights to those closest to the clients.
Net Protections in Japan runs a high trust organization without managers. And in Denmark, EV company Clever is innovating not just in its product but with internal practices that provide an environment of radical autonomy for 400+ people. Basetis in Spain is a human centric technology firm where 400 people self manage around purpose and freedom.
At a different scale, GE Appliances in the United States, applies self management principles to an industrial setting of more than 15,000 people. Bayer, with 100,000 people worldwide, is in the midst of a radical decentralization journey, shifting decision making and ownership to the edges of the organization.
Var Group in Italy is spreading distributed leadership across 3,000 employees. And in Africa, SINA empowers 1,000+ young people to self organize and launch social ventures that rebuild their communities.
From Japan to Brazil, from Australia to India, these pioneers are proving that self management and decentralization can thrive in any culture, industry, or company size.
Some are ten-person startups. Others are global corporations with over 100,000 employees.
All share one conviction: work can be better.
Where the movement comes together
Looking back, it’s hard to believe how far this journey has come. From visiting a handful of pioneers to uniting hundreds of pioneers from organizations around the world, the momentum keeps building.
The Summit is where it all meets: ideas, people, and the shared belief that work can serve humanity better.
It’s more than a gathering.
It’s a movement taking shape before our eyes.
- 📍 Barcelona, Spain
- 🗓️ 20–21 November 2025
How to join?
The summit is exclusively for member organizations of the Rebel Cell network.
For more information on the network and how to join, go here.
After your organization signs up, we will send your summit invitation and registration.
Seats are limited and likely to sell out within the next 2 weeks.
Hope to see you in Barcelona.
