Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations

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Authors

  • O. Care
  • M. J. Bernstein
  • M. Chapman
  • G. Dressler
  • M. R. Felipe-Lucia
  • C. Friis
  • S. Graham
  • H. Hänke
  • L. J. Haider
  • M. Hernández-Morcillo
  • H. Hoffmann
  • M. Kernecker
  • P. Nicol
  • C. Piñeiro
  • H. Pitt
  • C. Schill
  • V. Seufert
  • K. Shu
  • V. Valencia
  • J. G. Zaehringer

Enduring sustainability challenges requires a new model of collective leadership that embraces critical reflection, inclusivity and care. Leadership collectives can support a move in academia from metrics to merits, from a focus on career to care, and enact a shift from disciplinary to inter- and trans-disciplinary research. Academic organisations need to reorient their training programs, work ethics and reward systems to encourage collective excellence and to allow space for future leaders to develop and enact a radically re-imagined vision of how to lead as a collective with care for people and the planet.

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftSustainability Science
Jahrgang16
Ausgabenummer2
Seiten (von - bis)703-708
Anzahl der Seiten6
ISSN1862-4065
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 04.03.2021

Bibliographische Notiz

Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the space and support provided by the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership (PATL) funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, where we were members from 2018–2020. The PATL is a joint project of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and four academic centres: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) in Rotterdam. It is designed to develop the next generation of leaders in sustainability and transformation research. We would like to thank Amanda Wood for her contributions to the program and the Careoperative. SG acknowledges the financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, through the “María de Maeztu” program for Units of Excellence (MDM-2015-0552). LJH is funded from the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet (2018-06732). MK is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Grant No.420434427. HP is Sêr Cymru II Research Fellow part-funded by Cardiff University and the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government. JGZ received financial support from the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme) under Grant No. 400440 152167, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

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