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Leadership and Governance Indicators of a Rights Respecting Culture

This resource from Shift provides an array of leadership and governance indicators that can help you to evaluate your progress towards building a rights-respecting culture. It highlights 22 practices and behaviours that leaders can model to advance equity in the workplace, and applies a three-level lens to help you understand, apply, and validate each indicator.

Business Leadership in Times of Crisis

This report from the UN Global Compact provides a glimpse into CEO perspectives on navigating the growing complexity of global challenges. Based on firsthand insights from CEOs, it explains the challenges CEOs face, such as inconsistent data, evolving societal expectations, and outdate business norms, as well as the tactics used to address them. It also outlines the opportunities CEOs see in collaborating with others, enabling financial flows towards sustainability, and making credible plans to cut emissions. These insights will be most useful to executive teams seeking peer knowledge, and to sustainability practitioners interested in better understanding and supporting senior leaders.

Rewiring leadership: The future we want, the leadership we need

"The systemic pressures the world faces today mean that leadership simply cannot be the preserve of a ‘heroic’ few."

This report from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Learning (CISL) explains how companies can develop leadership that can deliver value for business, society, and the environment. Informed by CISL's work with over 9,000 leaders, the paper outlines their leadership development model, which explores the thinking, values, and practices required to wed 'business purpose' with 'the leadership we need'. This paper will help inform your approach to leadership development and support you in cultivating diverse leadership capacity at all levels.

Getting Real About Inclusive Leadership: Why Change Starts With You

This guide from Catalyst can help you to develop a more inclusive model of leadership. It highlights six core behaviours for "leading outward" (accountability, ownership, and allyship) and "leading inward" (curiosity, humility, and courage) and explains ways to embed these attributes. This resource will benefit both new and senior leaders.

Why It's Crucial to Walk the Talk as a Business Leader

This short article shares how leaders can "walk the talk" and effectively model sustainable behaviour. These tips will be especially valuable for leaders preparing to initiate or support a culture shift.

Tony’s Chocolonely CEO on values-based leadership

"I don’t want to walk away with an awful lot of money. I want to walk away with the feeling that I can have a smile in my rocking chair when I’m sitting in the elderly people’s home." In this short article, Henk Jan Beltman explains how Tony's Chocolonely's ethical mission is intrinsically linked to its strategy, and how he has taken the lead in modelling the sort of passionate, values-based leadership that he sees as necessary for making the world a better place.