A growing group of manufacturing companies are exploring circularity and they are early in the transition process. We see mainly internal leverages, such as building up top-down & bottom-up interactions based on common values, defining feasible actions, building up trust and motivation to take further action. For frontrunners, however, we identify the leverage rather towards stakeholders and their value chain in the form of facilitation in (action) learning, in increasing connections and sharing insights with like-minded stakeholders. This expands the trust from existing only within the company to existing between companies as well. In this publication we explore the different leverages to speed up the transition toward a circular economy in your manufacturing company or value chain.