Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing

Seana Lowe Steffen was the founder and CEO of the Restorative Leadership Institute (RLI), which cultivates leadership and enterprise that fulfills humanity’s potential to thrive in balance with all life.Jamie Rezmovits, Chair of the Restorative Leadership Institute, supports purpose-driven organizations and planet-minded leadership to increase their positive impact.;Shanah Trevenna has been leading and guiding leaders of companies and non-profit organizations in the impact space for over fifteen years.;Shana Rappaport has worked actively for over a decade as a community organizer and cross-industry convener to advance sustainability solutions.

• Introduction; Seana Lowe Steffen and Jamie RezmovitsPART I: EVOLVED LEADERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTUREChapter 1. The Emergence of Restorative Leadership; Seana Lowe SteffenChapter 2. Humanistic Leadership for Sustainable Transformation; Barry A. Colbert, Jessica Nicholson and Elizabeth C. Kurucz Chapter 3. Collective Impact Through Regenerative Development: Lessons from Green and Healthy Home Repair; Elizabeth A. WalshChapter 4. Achieving a Sustainable Future Through Adaptive and Strategic Leadership; Ebere MorganChapter 5. Leadership Lessons from Women in High Risk Environments; Wanda KrausePART II: LEADING FROM ALIGNED VALUES;Chapter 6. Fossil Fuel Divestment: The Power of Positively Deviant Leadership for Catalyzing Climate Action and Financing Clean Energy; Abigail Abrash Walton Chapter 7. Aligning Your Team’s Vision with the World’s Bold Goals; Adriana Salazar, David H. García, and Mariana Quiroga;Chapter 8. Perspectives and Possibilities: Aligning for Social Change; Karen CvitkovichPART III: RELATIONSHIPS AND THE HEART OF OUR SHARED HUMANITY;Chapter 9. Relational Leadership and Laudato Si’: Pope Francis’ Call to Care for Our Common Home; Dung Q. Tran and Michael R. Carey; Chapter 10. Thriving as One Global Family: Leadership Beyond the Nation State; Ejaj Ahmad and Hugh O’Doherty;Chapter 11. How to Negotiate for Sustainable Relationships and Prosperity; Mehrad Nazari PART IV: THE MORAL AND ETHICAL IMPERATIVE OF AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY;Chapter 12. The Living Company: A Systems Approach; Jennifer M. Chirico and Anette M. Nystrøm Chapter 13. Guiding Principles for Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy and for Leveraging Blockchain for Collective Wellbeing; Shanah TrevennaChapter 14. Gross National Happiness: A Powerful Instrument for Positive and Sustainable Global Change; Elżbieta Jabłońska;PART V: GROWING OUR FUTURE LEADERS Chapter 15. Prototyping in the Anthropocene: A Case for Optimism from the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative; Christina L. Monroe and Lance C. Boyd;Chapter 16. Ceeds of Peace; Maya Soetoro-Ng and Kerrie Urosevich;Chapter 17. Let’s Get Sustainable: A Five Day MBA Residency Adventure; Grace Hurford and Philippa Chapman

This volume consists of 17 chapters that describe how leaders can implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. They discuss leadership qualities and capacities needed to achieve the goals, including restorative leadership, humanistic leadership, leadership practices that support regenerative design and development, adaptive and strategic leadership, and learning from lessons from women in high-risk environments; the importance of value alignment, in terms of fossil fuel divestment, guiding organizational action towards addressing world problems, and aligning for social change; the role of relationships, with specific case study examples and ways to negotiate for sustainable relationships and prosperity; creating an inclusive economy, including using an integrative systems perspective, principles for co-creating a sustainable economy, and using the measurement of Gross National Happiness; and education and training as tools for systemic transformation and building peace and sustainability, with discussion of specific case studies. Contributors are leadership and other scholars from around the world.