Working Session: Ten Keys for Leading Positive Change to Drive Sustainable Practices
About the event
To meet the United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to address our most significant and complex sustainability challenges, todays sustainability practitioners must have the ability to work with others to initiate and drive change to advance more sustainable practices. In short, they need to build their individual and collective ‘leadership capacity’.
This workshop will draw on, and expand upon, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s ‘Six keys for leading positive change’ framework to explore 10 keys to lead positive change that are particularly relevant to sustainability practitioners/leaders who want to effectively address complex sustainability challenges (i.e. ‘wicked’ problems) and meet the SDGs. These keys represent fundamental aspects of individual and collective leadership that sustainability practitioners would be wise to master. The workshop will explain and explore these keys using stories and interactive activities. It will include opportunities for live polling, group discussions and individual reflection.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the relevance and importance of individual and collective forms of leadership to emerging and established sustainability professionals.
- To understand the nature of 10 keys for leading positive change that are highly relevant to sustainability practitioners/leaders (i.e. 10 critical aspects of leadership and leadership capacity).
- To explore these keys through interactive workshop activities and stories.
- To provide opportunities for workshop participants to reflect on which of these keys (i.e. aspects of leadership and leadership capacity) currently represent individual strengths, and which represent developmental opportunities.
- To identify some resources for further learning and leadership development
Meet your panelists
Dr André Taylor is a leadership development specialist and coach who designs, delivers and evaluates customised courses and programs for emerging and executive leaders. He primarily works with sustainability leaders, leaders from the water sector and executive business leaders.
André’s professional purpose is to use his knowledge and experience in leadership development to help build the leadership capacity of enthusiastic, self-motivated people to enable them to fulfil their purpose, and drive positive change to create healthier communities and environments.
He began his professional career in the early 1990s as an environmental manager and scientist, and spent the first half of his career working as a sustainability specialist and leader in the water sector. In the mid-2000s he chose to specialise in institutional capacity building and leadership development as a mechanism to drive more sustainable practices.
In 2010 André completed a midcareer PhD in leadership and leadership development at Monash University. Since then, he has worked solely as a leadership development specialist who engages in course/program design, facilitation, training, coaching, mentoring and speaking.
André currently works as the Leadership Specialist and Adjunct Associate Professor at the International WaterCentre (part of Griffith University, Australia) and directs his own consulting business.
This event addresses the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Continuing education requirements
ISSP credential holders will earn 0.5 CEU's for attending this webinar.
Recording
This is an interactive working session and will not be recorded.
Please note that your link to join will only be emailed to you after registration.