The combined efforts of our cohort of climate action change leaders have inspired me with their variety of change leadership plans designed to help our communities build resilience to climate change. I learned something from every one of my cohort’s presentations and in their totality, they’ve revived my sense of cautious optimism. I started CALS … Continue reading “Reflecting”
I’m designing a project to implement a Climate Futures Design Team to both support sustainability reporting and to develop ideas for potential transformative climate solutions as an evolution from incrementally responding and adapting to climate change. This is the final project for the course, Leading Change in the Context of Climate Change. The goal of the … Continue reading “Integrating ideas across industry and cultural practices”
Earlier this year I wrote about transformation in practice, and the opportunities and challenges of bringing together practitioners from across Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) to enable transformative change. As both a practitioner and learner in this space, I see an opportunity for collaboration to help achieve sustainable adaptations that could … Continue reading “Leading within complexity”
Adam Lerner, co-founder of Solvable, helps organizations “live between worlds” in a civilization in transition, by learning how to diagnose, interrupt, and innovate (2023, RRU). Focusing on the initial challenge of diagnostics, I think a good place to start for adaptive leaders, educated in Western academia, is to spend time directly within communities most vulnerable … Continue reading “Starting with a diagnosis”
