Read more about the book launch and why you should participate.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Sarah Freiesleben’s first book, The Opposite of Noise: Engaging with Variety for Positive Change.
Sarah’s ambitious work takes us on an interdisciplinary journey to explore the nature of dynamic systems and how this understanding, combined with using varieties of sensemaking inherent to our humanity, are essential to delivering successful projects, reshaping systems from within, making meaningful change, and living purposefully.
In this cross-genre book, readers do not just read about the necessity of incorporating varieties, they experience it while reading the book, as Sarah weaves poetry and storytelling with philosophy, science, and business practices.
The Opposite of Noise is a transformative guide for innovators, changemakers and leaders who sense that traditional problem solving approaches do not meet the complexity they face.
Instead of treating complexity as something to tame or reduce, Sarah Freiesleben reframes what many dismiss as “noise” as “useful variety”, essential raw material for insight, innovation, and ethical action.
Thursday, 7 May 2026
16:30 to 19:00 CET (Copenhagen)
Mannaz A/S
Farvergade 8, 2. floor
1463 Copenhagen
Participation in this event is free of charge.
16:30 – 17:00 Welcome to Mannaz House, Coffee, mingle
17:00 – 17:30 Leading in Complexity – Book Concepts
17:30 -18:00 Opposite of Noise Process and Range
18.00-19.00 Mingle, food, drinks, book signing, etc.
Sarah Freiesleben helps leaders and teams design and execute transformational initiatives more successfully in complex contexts by helping them identify, navigate, and exploit emergent patterns.
With an advanced degree in linguistics and 18 years leading multi-national, cross-functional enterprise projects in a wide variety of industries, she believes we can (and must) solve better problems, better, by paying attention to relevant collective perspectives that are often overlooked.
Sarah joined Mannaz Consulting and Learning in February and works with all levels of leadership to develop the capabilities to use their agency, improve relational dynamics, and understand systemic patterns and constraints that could affect their ability to make decisions and execute strategy coherently.
The target reader will be looking to find ways to rise to the variety of challenges they are facing with innovating, creating sustainable solutions or simply wanting to do what is right and not feeling like they are always able to, due to systemic constraints.
The book offers a practical yet deeply human approach to navigating complex challenges and harvesting emergent opportunities, empowering readers to reclaim their agency, attend to what matters, and co create better futures in their teams, organisations, and societies.
If you have any further questions about the event, please feel free to contact one of us.
