Publications

Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations

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

Summary

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.