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Senior Managers Drive Internal Sustainability Commitment

This paper examines how sustainability goals in an organisation trickle down, particularly through the influence that supervisors and their behaviour have on subordinates. When signalling support for sustainability within an organisation, perceived commitment from top management is key.

Leadership and Governance Indicators of a Rights Respecting Culture

This resource from Shift provides an array of leadership and governance indicators that will 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.

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.

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.