By Petra LohmeierWe are not here to fix the old world.We are here to build the next one. For years, my work revolved around helping large systems—corporations, financial institutions, governments—clean up messes they often couldn’t even name. I was the one they called when things went wrong. The discreet fixer. The consultant who walked into rooms where no one would say the real problem out loud, but everyone looked at me as if I already knew it. Most of the time, I didn’t—at first. But patte...

By Petra LohmeierWe are not here to fix the old world.We are here to build the next one. For years, my work revolved around helping large systems—corporations, financial institutions, governments—clean up messes they often couldn’t even name. I was the one they called when things went wrong. The discreet fixer. The consultant who walked into rooms where no one would say the real problem out loud, but everyone looked at me as if I already knew it. Most of the time, I didn’t—at first. But patte...