Life’s Principles Leadership Cards

A tool designed to inspire and guide your leadership grounded in Nature’s genius

What Are Life’s Principles?

Over the past several billion years, life has developed and refined a set of strategies that have made it possible for an astonishing array of living things to evolve and thrive on Earth. Life’s Principles are the deep patterns that can be found within and across those strategies. We observe these patterns over and over across time, geography, biomes, ecosystems, and species.

What are Life’s Principles Leadership Cards?

The Life’s Principles Leadership Cards help you understand these deep patterns and apply them to your work. They.are your gateway to learning from nature’s most enduring success stories.

Created through a partnership between Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry for Social Innovation, this deck helps leaders at all levels explore nature’s innovative strategies, measure against sustainable benchmarks, and aspire to create conditions conducive to Life.

Each card illuminates a Life’s Principle through a natural organism. Each example is paired with a thought-provoking leadership question to help you reflect, adapt, and grow.

Whether you’re learning how to cultivate cooperative relationships from strawberries, or how to use feedback loops from owls, you can rely on nature’s genius to deepen and expand your influence as a Nature Positive social impact leader.

How Can I Use Life’s Principles Leadership Cards?

This versatile deck can be applied in a variety of ways to support your leadership journey. Here are a few ideas for integrating them into your work.

Looking for more detailed instructions? Download our LPL Card Deck Use Guide PDFs

Uplevel Your Experience With Nature Positive Practices

You can reinforce and amplify the impact of the Life’s Principles Leadership Card Deck by subscribing to Nature Positive Practices.

When you do, you’ll receive a steady stream of nature’s insights in your inbox, complete with biological deep dives into each of Life’s Principles, as well as tools, strategies, and inspiring case studies from our network of practitioners to help you put the Principles into practice.

Share Your Nature-Positive Leadership Story

We want to hear how Life’s Principles have shaped your leadership! Share your journey and how you’ve used the Life’s Principles Leadership Cards. Your story could be featured in our content, giving you the opportunity to inspire leaders around the world and giving us the opportunity to amplify your work!

Purchase Your Deck

Are you ready to bring nature’s wisdom into your leadership practice? Get your Life’s Principles Leadership Cards today!

If you’re interested in ordering LPL Card Decks for your entire team or organization, please email sharon@bio-sis.net to learn more about bulk pricing options.