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Leading Transformative Change Collectively
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Elisabeth Kuehn, Dominic Stucker, Douglas F. Williamson

This book directly helps decision-makers and change agents in companies, NGOs, and government bodies become more proficient in transformative, collaborative change in realizing the SDGs.

This practitioner’s handbook translates a systemic – and enlivening – approach to collaboration into day-to-day work and management. It connects the emerging practice of multi-stakeholder collaboration to easily understandable models, tools, and cases. Numerous, concrete cases not only bring this methodology to life, but also help identify the challenges and avoid common mistakes. The book can be used as a guide to apply a breakthrough approach for navigating the complexity of stakeholder systems, designing results-oriented process architectures, ensuring the success of cross-sector change initiatives, and enlivening collaboration ecosystems for SDG implementation. It is designed to enhance high quality stakeholder engagement, dialogue, and collaboration.

A must-read, the book sets a new standard for the collaborative implementation of Agenda 2030 and is a foundational guide for leading sustainability transformations collectively to achieve climate change mitigation, social integration, equitable value chains, and broad sustainability challenges.

This book is the standard reference material for Collective Leadership Specialists.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Kuehn, E., Stucker, D. Williamson, D.F. (2020): Leading Transformative Change Collectively, Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group

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Stewarding Sustainability Transformations - An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

In the context of the world’s pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists. With reference to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Boundaries it introduces the theory and practice of Collective Stewardship as a management tool that respects the integrity of human and natural systems. Drawing on the work of transdisciplinary scientific scholars and seasoned sustainability practitioners, it shows how transformative change can be built on life’s inherent tendency to generate patterns of vitality and resilience. This ground-breaking monograph shows workable pathways to stewarding patterns of aliveness in social and ecological systems at all levels of the global society. As a highly regarded author and expert in collective leadership, Petra Kuenkel inspires academics and practitioners alike to explore new routes towards co-creating responsible futures in the era of the Anthropocene, where the human footprint has begun to change the course of planetary evolution. She invites decision-makers,
researchers, planners and social activists to become stewards of systems patterns, enhance their collaborative competencies and guide life-enhancing socio-ecological interaction at scale.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2019): Stewarding Sustainability Transformations, Springer International Publishing

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Führung mit Sinn
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

“Führung mit Sinn” richtet sich an ‪Führungskräfte‬, die sich als Folge gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, innerer Krisen oder Veränderungen ihrer Unternehmen die Frage nach ihren eigenen Werten stellen und wie sie diese mit ihrer professionellen Aufgabe in Einklang bringen.

“Führung mit Sinn” is aimed at executives who ask themselves the question of their own values as a result of social developments, internal crises or changes in their companies and how to compose them with their professional tasks (book is available in German language).

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2016):  Führung mit Sinn: Wie Manager verantwortlich Zukunft gestalten, Springer Gabler

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The Art of Leading Collectively - Co-creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

Dr. Petra Kuenkel`s ground-braking publication for the Collective Leadership Movement:

The Art of Leading Collectively – Co-creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future

A guide to collaborative impact for leaders in the industry, government, and social change networks written by Dr. Petra Kuenkel with a foreword by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

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Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2016): The Art of Leading Collectively – Co-creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future, Chelsea Green, USA

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Stakeholder Dialoge erfolgreich gestalten
Petra Künkel, Silvine Gerlach, Vera Frieg

“Stakeholder Dialoge erfolgreich gestalten”: Im Sinne von kollektiver Führung für Nachhaltigkeit bietet das vorliegende Werk einen konzeptionellen Rahmen, einen methodischen Ansatz und viele Fallbeispiele, die verdeutlichen, was möglich ist, wenn Personen unterschiedlichen Hintergrunds zusammenkommen, um gemeinsam ein Nachhaltigkeitsinteresse voranzubringen. Hier bestellen.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Gerlach, S. , Frieg, V. (2016): Stakeholder Dialoge erfolgreich gestalten, Springer Gabler

Stakeholder Dialogues: Skills for better Collaboration - Key Concepts and Competencies for Achieving Common Goals
Dr. Petra Künkel, Silvine Gerlach, Vera Frieg

Working towards a more sustainable world requires bringing together differing world-views and balancing conflicts of interests for responsible business, people-oriented public service, and a strong civil society.
Stakeholder Dialogues are a methodology for the design and implementation of consultation and cooperation processes that are built on the inclusion and integration of different interest groups.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Gerlach, S. , Frieg, V. (2016): Working with Stakeholder Dialogues: Key Concepts and Competencies for Achieving Common Goals – a practical guide for change agents from public sector, private sector, and civil society. Potsdam: Collective Leadership Institute Publishing, also available in French, Spanish, German and Arabic.

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Mind and Heart - Mapping your Personal Leadership Journey Towards Sustainability
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

In the book “Mind and Heart” Petra Kuenkel, founder and honorary president of the Collective Leadership Institute, shows how leaders can use life and leadership experience to make a more meaningful contribution to the world. It leads us into the inner world of leadership that we often tend to deny: the intuitive insight that at the core of our leadership journey is our contribution to the collective evolutionary process.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2008). Mind and Heart – Mapping Your Personal Leadership Journey Towards Sustainability, Potsdam: Collective Leadership Institute Publishing.

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My Book Contributions
What Corporate Strategists Can Learn From International Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration ­- A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Change
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

The book:
– Demonstrates how to make business sense of sustainability at this time in the
21st century
– Explains sustainable strategizing approaches to achieve positive impact and
improve corporate future fitness
– Examines how companies thrive through purpose-driven strategy practices

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Citation: Kuenkel,  (2019): What Corporate Strategists Can Learn From International Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration ­- A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Change, in: Wunder T., Rethinking Strategic Management. Sustainable Strategizing for Positive Impact. Springer

Co-creation for Sustainability as a Societal Learning Journey
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Alina Gruen

Chapter of the book “Lifelong Learning and Education in Healthy and Sustainable Cities” 978-3-319-69473-3.

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Citation: Kuenkel P., Gruen A. (2018) Co-creation for Sustainability as a Societal Learning Journey. In: Azeiteiro U., AKERMAN M., Leal Filho W., Setti A., Brandli L. (eds) Lifelong Learning and Education in Healthy and Sustainable Cities. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham.

Die Zukunft von Führung ist kollektiv - was zukunftsorientierte Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu einem anderen Wirtschaften von Multi-Akteursinitiativen lernen können
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

Gesellschaft und Organisation: Widersprüche integrieren, plurales Selbstverständins kultivieren (book is available in German language).

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Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2017):  Die Zukunft von Führung ist kollektiv – was zukunftsorientierte Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu einem anderen Wirtschaften von Multi-Akteursinitiativen lernen können, in Daniels, K., Hollmann, J. Anders wirtschaften-  Integrale Impulse für eine plurale Ökonomie, Gabler.

Navigating Change in Complex Multi-Actor Settings: A Practice Approach to Better Collaboration
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

The article examines successful patterns for collaboration in large-scale, multi-actor sustainability initiatives across the boundaries of private sector, public sector, and civil society.

The Journal of Corporate Citizenship No. 58,
Large Systems Change: An Emerging Field of Transformation and Transitions (June 2015), pp. 119-136.

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Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2015). Navigating Change in Complex Multi-Actor Settings: A Practice Approach to Better Collaboration. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, (58), 119-136.

Key Factors of the Successful Implementation of Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of the African Cashew Initiative
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Andrew Aitken

One of the few books to examine the role of business in social and environmental innovation, particularly in the context of Africa. This study addresses entrepreneurship, large companies, cross-sector collaboration initiatives, and the role of academia and teachers. It frames and complements empirical contributions in a synthesis of key theories and concepts.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Aitken, A. (2015): Key Factors for the Successful Implementation of Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of the African Cashew Initiative, in: Bitzer, V., Hamann, R., Hall, M., Griffin-EL, E.W. (Eds.), The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation – New Frontiers in Africa. Springer.

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Stakeholder Dialogues Manual
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Vera Frieg, Silvine Gerlach, Christian Görg, Marike Ferguson, Judith Kohler, Johannes Herde

In 2011, the Collective Leadership Institute developed a manual on Stakeholder Dialogues for the Sector Project Private Sector Cooperation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It serves as a practical how-to guide to approaching cross-sector collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

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Referenzrahmen zur erfolgreichen Gestaltung von Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften zur Umsetzung der Agenda 2030
Petra Kuenkel, Sabine Heckmann, Jade Buddenberg

Unter Federführung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) ist 2015 die Initiative zum Aufbau einer Plattform für Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften (MAP) zur Umsetzung der 2030 Agenda entstanden. Im Rahmen der Initiative förderte die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH im Auftrag des BMZ finanziell die Entwicklung eines Handbuches für MAP durch das CLI. Der Text basiert auf den Inhalten der Weiterbildung und Capacity Developments für Sektoren übergreifende Kooperationsprojekte des CLI.

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Collective Leadership Studies
Stewarding Systems Change - A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Designs
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

“Stewarding Systems Change – A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Designs”- This Volume 7 of the Collective Leadership Studies argues that systems change is the intention of billions of activists, change agents, game-changers, and ordinary people. They need to expand their competency to steward transformations collectively. Based on the Collective Leadership Compass, this volume proposes a conceptual architecture for transformative change designs in large systems that cuts through the complexity of change initiatives by bringing human beings back to where they belong: into the center of attention of systems change, and into their emotional connection with an aspiration for a sustainable and interdependent world.

Citation: Kuenkel P.  (2018). Stewarding Systems Change – A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Designs, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 7,  Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change in Responsible Value Chains
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Elisabeth Kuehn

“Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change in Responsible Value Chains” – This Volume 6 of the Collective Leadership Studies aims at encouraging multi-level stakeholder collaboration for scaling the systemic change needed for the sustainability transformation in commodity sectors. It provides guidance for planning programmes and projects for responsible value chain promotion collaboratively with all relevant stakeholders.

Citation: Kuenkel P. , Kuehn E. (2018). Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change in Responsible Value Chains – Six Principles for Transformative Process Designs, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 6,  Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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A Pattern Approach to Stewarding Sustainability Transformation – How the 17 SDGs Can Become a Starting Point for Systemic Change
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

“A Pattern Approach to Stewarding Sustainability Transformation” – Volume 5 of the Collective‬ ‪‎Leadership‬ Studies: Large system change requires new collaborative leadership approaches. The ability to recognise and shift patterns through applying six principles based on living systems theory can shift collaboration processes away from individual concepts of leadership towards a more systematic patterned approach, especially when used with a methodological tool such as the Collective Leadership Compass.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2018). A Pattern Approach to Stewarding Sustainability Transformation – How the 17 SDG Can Become a Starting Point for Systemic Change, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 5; Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Empowering Young Professionals - How we can tap into the potential of a passionate generation
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Jade Buddenberg, Andrew Aitken, Helena Wagener

“Empowering Young Professionals” – Volume 3 of our ‪‎Collective‬ ‪‎Leadership‬ Studies is dedicated to the leadership perspective and potential of young professionals. Often described as ‪Generation Y‬ or Millennials, they not only are the leaders of tomorrow, but also hold the key for sustainable development today.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Buddenberg, J., Aitken, A., Wagener, H. (2015): Empowering Young Professionals, Colleactive Leadership Studies Vol 3, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Navigating Complex Change - How We Can Master the Challenges of Stakeholder Collaboration
Dr. Petra Kuenkel

This Volume 2 of the Collective Leadership Studies explores the conceptual background and application of our core methodological approach, the Collective Leadership Compass, that empowers individuals and groups of leaders to navigate complex change in multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2014): Navigating Complex Change – How We Can Master the Challenges of Stakeholder Collaboration, Collective Leadership Studies Vol 2, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Shifting the Way We Co-create: How We Can Turn the Challenges of Sustainability into Opportunities
Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Kristiane Schaefer

In order to explore the patterns and factors that help facilitate a collective way of leading for sustainability, CLI interviewed practitioners from the private sector, the public sector, and civil society who explored essential steps in sustainable development.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Schaefer, K. (2013): Shifting the way we co-create: How we can turn the challenges of sustainability into opportunities, Collective Leadership Studies Vol 1, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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