Leading Transformative Change Collectively: A Practitioner Guide to Realizing the SDGs

✍ Scribed by Petra Kuenkel, Elisabeth Kühn, Dominic Stucker, Douglas F. Williamson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book directly helps decision-makers and change agents in companies, NGOs, and government bodies become more proficient in transformative, collaborative change in realizing the SDGs.

This practitioner’s handbook translates a systemic – and enlivening – approach to collaboration into day-to-day work and management. It connects the emerging practice of multi-stakeholder collaboration to easily understandable models, tools, and cases. Numerous, concrete cases not only bring this methodology to life, but also help identify the challenges and avoid common mistakes. The book can be used as a guide to apply a breakthrough approach for navigating the complexity of stakeholder systems, designing results-oriented process architectures, ensuring the success of cross-sector change initiatives, and enlivening collaboration ecosystems for SDG implementation. It is designed to enhance high quality stakeholder engagement, dialogue, and collaboration.

A must-read, the book sets a new standard for the collaborative implementation of Agenda 2030 and is a foundational guide for leading sustainability transformations collectively to achieve climate change mitigation, social integration, equitable value chains, and broad sustainability challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of acronyms
List of tables
List of figures
List of case examples
List of boxes
Acknowledgments
Preamble
Foreword
Introduction
1 Getting started: understanding collaborative action for transformative change
Multi-stakeholder collaborations in SDG implementation
Leading collectively at all levels: from global to local
Formats of multi-stakeholder collaborations that fit purpose
Understanding cross-sector settings
Creating conditions for transformative change
The Collective Leadership Compass for the collaborative journey
2 Getting active: making multi-stakeholder collaborations work
Stewarding collaborative change: the Dialogic Change Model
Examples from the field: leading transformative change
3 Ensuring success: the role of dialogic process facilitators in enlivening collaboration ecosystems
The purpose of dialogue in multi-stakeholder collaborations
Dialogic process facilitators: stewards of aliveness in collaboration ecosystems
4 Becoming transformative: process architectures for building impactful collaboration ecosystems
Planning impact in multi-stakeholder collaborations
The purpose of process: cultivating aliveness in collaboration ecosystems
The purpose of structure: governance for sustaining aliveness in collaboration ecosystems
5 Becoming reflective: cultivating a culture of learning
From success factors to collaboration catalysts
The role of process monitoring in multi-stakeholder collaboration
Trouble shooting guide: managing difficulties in multi-stakeholder collaboration
Communication: the fastest route to a learning culture
Methodologies for leading transformative change collectively
6 Epilogue
Annex 1 Collective Leadership Compass
Annex 2 The Dialogic Change Model
Annex 3 SDGs
Annex 4 Glossary
Index