ADVISOR · SPEAKER · GUIDE
Mette Ballari
Know yourself - and lead from there
Everyone leads something: a company, a family, a team or their own life.
For 25 years I've sat in the rooms where leaders and owners make their most important decisions. What decides the outcome is rarely in the documents. It is what we know about ourselves. I help people know themselves better – with ancient wisdom for modern life.
Certified Guide and Teacher in the Modern Mystery School
25 years
Advising leaders and owners
350 families
The Nordics' largest family businesses
Fellow
Family Firm Institute + Harvard
Meet Mette Ballari
Two worlds, one path
For twenty-five years I advised the largest family businesses in the Nordics – on strategy, ownership and the difficult conversations. I was trained in everything. But one evening it struck me that I had never been trained in the one thing that matters most: myself.
So I took another path – inward. Today I am also a Guide, Teacher and Healer in the Modern Mystery School. I build a bridge between the two worlds I know: leadership and ownership on one side, and the inner journey on the other.
Background
From the inside of family enterprise
CFBA & ACFBA
Certified Family Business Advisor, with over twenty years alongside owner families across the Nordics and globally.
Harvard Business School
Executive education in Strategic Leadership, Sustainability and Disruptive Strategy.
Coaching & Facilitation
Executive coaching, facilitation and change leadership for leaders and owner families.
Ownership & Governance
Strategy, succession and ownership governance – and keynotes on the art of owning.
Family Firm Institute
Fellow of the Family Firm Institute (FFI), the global association for family enterprise professionals.
Work with me
Ways in, and ways onward
All programmes and sessions listed here are of the Modern Mystery School, taught in the Lineage of King Salomon. They are one part of my work - you can read about the rest under About.
The first step
Life Activation
A deep, holistic healing that awakens your innate potential and helps you release old patterns. The doorway to the path.
The initiation
Empower Thyself
The first step on the path of initiation, where you take back the lead in your own life and are initiated as an Adept in the lineage.
Community
Sanctuary Meditation
Group meditation in a calm, safe, powerful space – open to all, wherever you are on the path.
Onward
Individual guidance
Personal guidance over time: conversation, meditation and healing, tailored to where you are.
New here?
Where do I start?
Not sure what fits? Begin with a no-obligation conversation. We’ll find the first step that feels right.
My path
Trained in everything - but never in myself
“You cannot create something greater than yourself from a place you do not know.”
For twenty-five years I helped families carry whole life’s works safely onward. I saw that more than 70% of the world’s value creation comes from families who own – and that these are the people who shape the direction the world takes. But I also saw the same thing happen again and again: even when everything was done right, they fell back into old patterns, because they had never learned to know themselves.
So that became my question. For more than twenty years I searched for the most effective tools I could find – not more insight, but something that actually helps a person discover who they really are.
Then my work changed too. I could help owners find their way back to themselves – and they began to use all they had to create something greater than themselves. This is what I most want to pass on. It’s simple. But not easy.
A question to take with you
Who are you when no one is watching?
Most of our decisions come from fear, duty or inherited roles – not from clarity. Knowing yourself is what changes that.