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The Collective Leadership Institute is the leading capacity builder for transformation literacy
We empower you to lead collectively towards your goals
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The Collective Leadership Institute empowers people at the individual level by building the competence for collective leadership, stakeholder collaboration, dialogic- and process facilitation, as well as transformation stewardship expertise. Additionally, CLI builds competence at the systemic level by strengthening the collective capacity of collaborating actors to implement dialogic change and to shift towards more co-creation.
CLI offers its certification programme through open courses, on-site courses, tailor made solutions, online learning, and the Young Leaders for Sustainability programme.

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    CLI Training Catalogue

    Find out about the full range of trainings and services offered by CLI in our catalogue.

    Upcoming certification programme training modules
    The Art of Transformative Change
    16 December — 19 December 2024
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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    The Art of Leading Collectively
    24 June — 27 June 2025
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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    The Art of Process Facilitation
    1 July — 4 July 2025
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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    Project Teams Stakeholder Collaboration Course
    16 September — 19 September 2025
    Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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    Project Teams Stakeholder Collaboration Course
    21 October — 24 October 2025
    The Cape Milner, Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, South Africa
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    The Art of Stakeholder Collaboration
    11 November — 14 November 2025
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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    Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development
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    All CLI services are also available in online and hybrid formats! Learn more about our high-quality digital capacity building on the online learning webpage. CLI also continues to develop innovative digital solutions to tackle complex SDG challenges and reduce CO2 emissions. Call us or write us at germany@collectiveleadership.com if you have any questions or suggestions. You can find our digital and hybrid learning offers below. We hope you find them valuable inspirations for your work. Stay tuned, stay curious, stay well!

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    Scaling up collaboration skills worldwide
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    CLI is an active participant in the global sustainability transformation discourse. CLI develops complex change management and transformation stewardship methodologies that integrate a systems view of life into the planning and implementation of projects, programmes, and sustainability initiatives. At the same time, CLI contributes to expanding the understanding of the interconnectedness among individual, group, institutional, and collaborative global change endeavors.

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    CLI statement on violent conflicts
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    CLI envisions a world in which inclusion and equitable collaboration are universally embraced and practiced. When violent conflict erupts, it is evidence of the urgency of our work.
    Through this link, we have crafted specific statements to express our deep regret about the violent conflicts in the Levant and in Ukraine/Russia. These are two conflicts that are directly affecting some of our closest organisational friends and partners. We know that these are not the only conflict zones around the world that deserve our attention.
    We will continue to collaborate with diverse partners around the world until a time when these types of statements can be deleted from our website. We know that time will come only when societies and their governments choose life-enhancing collaboration instead of life-denying competition and violence.
    We invite you to read our statements at the link, and if you would like to work with us to foster collaboration, cooperation, and peace through dialogue, we would love to hear from you.

    The future of leadership is collective
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    The Collective Leadership Institute (CLI) is building a global movement that positively impacts multi-stakeholder sustainability initiatives, improves governance, enhances democracy, invigorates education, shifts companies to be of service for the future of humankind, and creates a new paradigm where leadership is seen as the capacity of a collective to catalyze positive change for the common good.

    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

    Margaret Mead
    Upcoming certification programme training modules
    The Art of Transformative Change
    16 December — 19 December 2024
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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    The Art of Leading Collectively
    24 June — 27 June 2025
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
    Learn more
    The Art of Process Facilitation
    1 July — 4 July 2025
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
    Learn more
    Project Teams Stakeholder Collaboration Course
    16 September — 19 September 2025
    Samarkand, Uzbekistan
    Learn more
    Project Teams Stakeholder Collaboration Course
    21 October — 24 October 2025
    The Cape Milner, Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, South Africa
    Learn more
    The Art of Stakeholder Collaboration
    11 November — 14 November 2025
    Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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