Sustainability Transformations
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Transformations towards a more sustainable world require more than a declaration of commitment to global goals.

My Expertise
Sustainability Transformations

Transformations towards a more sustainable world require more than a declaration of commitment to global goals

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Collective Leadership

We need to see leadership towards a more sustainable world as the capacity of a collective to catalyze and implement change for the common good jointly.

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Collaboration Literacy

Partnering and Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration is Key

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The Patterns of Aliveness Theory

Stewarding systems aliveness

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Collective Stewardship

Collective Stewardship is the pro-active and collaborative engagement for sustainability transformations by many complementary actors

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Blog
Moving from events to high quality process architecture

I know many people who are determined to make the world a better place, by analysing the status quo, recommending and reminding of what needs to be done, or by pushing new agendas. But what startles me is how many of them tend to be locked in a strange paradigm – our habit of believing that it is events that change the world. Packed with key note speeches, panel discussions and so-called break-out sessions (breaking-out from what?) these publically noticeable events are built on the assumption that if the audience listens to new or convincing thoughts they get inspired and will do things differently.

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From the individual to the collective

Leadership paradigms often refer only to individuals and the expansion of one person's skills. The challenges we face in sustainability initiatives require us to go beyond the individual and build the capacity of groups and systems to move important issues of common concern forward.

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Understanding the quality of stakeholder collaboration

Sometimes life suggests contradictions. On could suggest that in stakeholder collaboration people work together, because they can’t achieve the goal alone. This is surely right. And yet, without suggesting that competition in collaboration is helpful, my experience is that the stronger the collaboration partners, the better the quality of collaboration.

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My Teachings
The Art of Leading Collectively
26 June — 28 June 2019
Potsdam, Germany
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The Energised Leader Workshop Series
2 April — 4 April 2019
Switzerland
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Collective Stewardship
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Collective Stewardship is the pro-active and collaborative engagement for sustainability transformations by many complementary actors. Together, they foster transformation networks, mutually supportive strategies and multiple pathways to enhance patterns of socio-ecological systems aliveness.