Leadership in Sustainability
Courage, Collective Wisdom, Conversations, Creativity, Contemplation and Care
Peter Newman author Renée Newman author Jayne Bryant author Aimee Smith author Mike Mouritz author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:12th Oct '26
£171.99
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This book sets out to unpack the human skills, qualities and practices necessary for sustainability leadership and change-making in these complex and urgent times.
Told through the authors’ own experiences of being involved in sustainability and change processes over many years, as well as their shared experience in sustainable leadership education, the book explores the intersections between leadership, sustainability, complexity thinking and more. The chapters present a theoretically grounded framework for understanding sustainability leadership – from creativity to collaboration, self-reflection to dialogue across diversity, fostering care and courage, and how we can enable and build these qualities in ourselves and others. Peppered through the book are also conversation excerpts with other sustainability leaders who share insights into their real-life experiences of change-making – the messy, the complex and the beautiful.
A must read for anyone interested in making change – social change makers, business educators, government officials, and other practitioners interested in creating change towards sustainability, whether that be in a formal leadership role or through informal efforts to shift the system and improve the lives and wellbeing of people and planet in partnership.
'On our majority urban planet, sustainable transition cannot be the prerogative of a single hero leader, sector, idea or institution. Instead, this book gives life to the myriad ways in which building better worlds depends as much on harnessing wisdom, civic imagination and shared purpose as it does on policy, investment or technology. Its call to our inner virtues and collective capacity to act offers valuable impetus to all of us seeking to lead change across cities, communities and generations.'
Dr Tim Moonen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Business of Cities
'We, all of us, believe in things that are not yet visible. We have worked tirelessly to transform the impossible: first by making it imaginable, then achievable, and ultimately part of the everyday. I welcome this book with admiration, conviction, and affection. It reflects not only the scholarship of its authors, but also their decency, generosity, and hope. Its ideas have been shaped through lifetimes of teaching, practice, reflection, and service. I am proud to introduce it, and grateful, once again, to my mentor Peter Newman, as well as to the co-authors and friends who continue to open doors through which others may walk.'
Ernesto Sirolli, Director of the Sirolli Institute for Enterprise Facilitation
'A vital, beautifully honest guide to hosting change, this book weaves theory, story and creative practice into six powerful pillars—collective wisdom, conversations, creativity, contemplation, courage and care—that will sustain anyone called to lead for sustainability in turbulent times.'
Wendy Sarkissian, PhD, Author and Environmental Ethicist
'This book is a roadmap for a new world. It is full of practical hope and wisdom that will build a transformative relational architecture, helping to heal and renew ourselves and our communities. Within it lie imaginal cells to create a more regenerative and life nourishing world. It takes a Village.'
Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder of Villagewell, A Regenerative Placemaking Organisation.
ISBN: 9781041226611
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 460g
138 pages