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The Collective Leadership Institute's publications enable people to lead collectively, inspire them to participate in shaping the future, motivate them to make a difference and explain them how to co-create change in a collaborative way.

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Zukunftskompetenz Stewardship

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

Dieses Buch verändert die Sichtweise auf Veränderungsmanagement im 21zigsten Jahrhundert grundlegend. Es inspiriert dazu Führung dort einzusetzen, wo sie vor allem gebraucht wird: für die Zukunft der Menschheit und die des Planeten. Transformationen hin zu einer Welt in Balance erfordern ein neues Narrativ von Führung als Stewardship – die Fähigkeit verantwortlich und kooperativ Zukunft so zu gestalten, dass Vitalität und Resilienz für alle erreichbar sind. Gespickt mit Denkanstößen und leicht verdaulichen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen stattet das Buch mit praktischen Werkzeugen aus, um wirklich transformativ zu führen. Interviews mit einschlägigen Entscheidungsträgerinnen aus Unternehmen, Forschung und Politik illustrieren die Machbarkeit von kollektiver Führung.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2023): Zukunftskompetenz Stewardship – Vitale und resiliente Systeme durch transformative Führung, Springer

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Transformation Literacy

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir

Transformation Literacy – Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations is a book that sets a new direction in conceptualizing research and practice of global transformations for human and planetary health. Thought-provoking contributions by female visionaries enrich the debate on accelerating sustainability transformations. It offers a thorough examination of the three building blocks of transformation literacy: mindsets, systems, and process

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Ragnarsdottir, K. V. (2022): Transformation Literacy – Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations, Springer

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Leading Transformative Change Collectively

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Elisabeth Kuehn, Dominic Stucker, Douglas F. Williamson

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.

This book is the standard reference material for Collective Leadership Specialists.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Kuehn, E., Stucker, D. Williamson, D.F. (2020): Leading Transformative Change Collectively, Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group

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French edition here: Conduire collectivement le changement transformateur. Guide du practicien pour la réalisation des ODD (2022)

THE NEW REPORT TO THE CLUB OF ROME 2019 written by Dr. Petra Künkel: Stewarding Sustainability Transformations - An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

In the context of the world’s pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists. With reference to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Boundaries it introduces the theory and practice ofCollective Stewardshipas a management tool that respects the integrity of human and natural systems. Drawing on the work of transdisciplinary scientific scholars and seasoned sustainability practitioners, it shows how transformative change can be built on life’s inherent tendency to generate patterns of vitality and resilience. This ground-breaking monograph shows workable pathways to stewarding patterns of aliveness in social and ecological systems at all levels of the global society. As a highly regarded author and expert in collective leadership, Petra Kuenkel inspires academics and practitioners alike to explore new routes towards co-creating responsible futures in the era of the Anthropocene, where the human footprint has begun to change the course of planetary evolution. She invites decision-makers,
researchers, planners and social activists to become stewards of systems patterns, enhance their collaborative competencies and guide life-enhancing socio-ecological interaction at scale.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2019): Stewarding Sustainability Transformations, Springer International Publishing

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Führung mit Sinn

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

“Führung mit Sinn” richtet sich an ‪Führungskräfte‬, die sich als Folge gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, innerer Krisen oder Veränderungen ihrer Unternehmen die Frage nach ihren eigenen Werten stellen und wie sie diese mit ihrer professionellen Aufgabe in Einklang bringen.

“Führung mit Sinn” is aimed at executives who ask themselves the question of their own values as a result of social developments, internal crises or changes in their companies and how to compose them with their professional tasks (book is available in German language).

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2016): Führung mit Sinn: Wie Manager verantwortlich Zukunft gestalten, Springer Gabler

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The Art of Leading Collectively - Co-creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

Petra Kuenkel`s ground-braking publication for the Collective Leadership Movement:

The Art of Leading Collectively – Co-creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future

A guide to collaborative impact for leaders in the industry, government, and social change networks written by Petra Kuenkel with a foreword by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.

Please find further information on the book overview page and on Petra Kuenkel’s website. Order here: www.chelseagreen.com or www.amazon.com.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2016): The Art of Leading Collectively – Co-creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future, Chelsea Green, USA

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Stakeholder Dialoge erfolgreich gestalten

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Silvine Gerlach, Vera Frieg

“Stakeholder Dialoge erfolgreich gestalten”: Im Sinne von kollektiver Führung für Nachhaltigkeit bietet das vorliegende Werk einen konzeptionellen Rahmen, einen methodischen Ansatz und viele Fallbeispiele, die verdeutlichen, was möglich ist, wenn Personen unterschiedlichen Hintergrunds zusammenkommen, um gemeinsam ein Nachhaltigkeitsinteresse voranzubringen. Hier bestellen.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Gerlach, S. , Frieg, V. (2016): Stakeholder Dialoge erfolgreich gestalten, Springer Gabler

Stakeholder Dialogues: Skills for better Collaboration - Key Concepts and Competencies for Achieving Common Goals

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Silvine Gerlach, Vera Frieg

Working towards a more sustainable world requires bringing together differing world-views and balancing conflicts of interests for responsible business, people-oriented public service, and a strong civil society.
Stakeholder Dialogues are a methodology for the design and implementation of consultation and cooperation processes that are built on the inclusion and integration of different interest groups.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Gerlach, S. , Frieg, V. (2016): Working with Stakeholder Dialogues: Key Concepts and Competencies for Achieving Common Goals – a practical guide for change agents from public sector, private sector, and civil society. Potsdam: Collective Leadership Institute Publishing, also available in French, Spanish, German and Arabic.

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Mind and Heart - Mapping your Personal Leadership Journey Towards Sustainability

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

In the book “Mind and Heart” Petra Kuenkel, founder and executive director of the CLI, shows how leaders can use life and leadership experience to make a more meaningful contribution to the world. It leads us into the inner world of leadership that we often tend to deny: the intuitive insight that at the core of our leadership journey is our contribution to the collective evolutionary process.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2008). Mind and Heart – Mapping Your Personal Leadership Journey Towards Sustainability, Potsdam: Collective Leadership Institute Publishing.

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The Art of Leading Collectively

Co-Creating a Sustainable, Socially Just Future

The new book by Dr. Petra Kuenkel with foreword by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker, is a guide to collaborative impact for leaders in industry, government, and social change networks.

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Collective Leadership Studies

Building Transformation Networks - Strategic Guidance with the Network Enablers

Elisabeth Kühn

“Building Transformation Networks – Strategic Guidance with the Network Enablers” – Volume 9 of the Collective Leadership Study series explores the concept of transformation networks, and why they are imperative for all efforts in attaining transformative impact for SDG implementation. It argues that such networks need to be stewarded collectively and follow a system’s approach to advancing transformative change. For that purpose, the study presents the six Network Enablers, based on the Collective Leadership Compass, that can provide such systemic, strategic and action-oriented guidance in the complex undertaking of setting up and implementing transformation networks.

Citation: Kuehn E. (2021). Building Transformation Networks – Strategic Guidance with the Network Enablers, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 9, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Creating a Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Sustainable City Development – The Bab el Medina Dialogue Platform in Kairouan

Mehdi Ayadi, Oumayma Selmi, Soumaya Khalfaoui, Takwa Mallat, Zied Nsir

“Creating a Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Sustainable City Development” – Volume 8 of the Collective Leadership Studies focuses on sustainable city development and good governance as a contribution to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment and multi-stakeholder collaboration. The study describes how the Tunisian youth organization We Love Kairouan established a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform in their city with support from the Collective Leadership Institute, applying the methodologies of the Dialogic Change Model and the Collective Leadership Compass.

Citation: Ayadi, M. , Selmi, O., Khalfaoui, S., Mallat, T., Nsir, Z. (2021). Creating a Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Sustainable City Development – The Bab el Medina Dialogue Platform in Kairouan, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 8, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Stewarding Systems Change - A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Designs

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

“Stewarding Systems Change – A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Designs”- This Volume 7 of the Collective Leadership Studies argues that systems change is the intention of billions of activists, change agents, game-changers, and ordinary people. They need to expand their competency to steward transformations collectively. Based on the Collective Leadership Compass, this volume proposes a conceptual architecture for transformative change designs in large systems that cuts through the complexity of change initiatives by bringing human beings back to where they belong: into the center of attention of systems change, and into their emotional connection with an aspiration for a sustainable and interdependent world.

Citation: Kuenkel P. (2018). Stewarding Systems Change – A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Designs, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 7, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change in Responsible Value Chains

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Elisabeth Kuehn

“Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change in Responsible Value Chains” – This Volume 6 of the Collective Leadership Studies aims at encouraging multi-level stakeholder collaboration for scaling the systemic change needed for the sustainability transformation in commodity sectors. It provides guidance for planning programmes and projects for responsible value chain promotion collaboratively with all relevant stakeholders.

Citation: Kuenkel P. , Kuehn E. (2018). Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change in Responsible Value Chains – Six Principles for Transformative Process Designs, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 6, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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A Pattern Approach to Stewarding Sustainability Transformation – How the 17 SDGs Can Become a Starting Point for Systemic Change

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

“A Pattern Approach to Stewarding Sustainability Transformation” – Volume 5 of the Collective‬ ‪‎Leadership‬ Studies: Large system change requires new collaborative leadership approaches. The ability to recognise and shift patterns through applying six principles based on living systems theory can shift collaboration processes away from individual concepts of leadership towards a more systematic patterned approach, especially when used with a methodological tool such as the Collective Leadership Compass.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2018). A Pattern Approach to Stewarding Sustainability Transformation – How the 17 SDG Can Become a Starting Point for Systemic Change, Collective Leadership Studies Vol. 5; Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Collaboration for the SDGs - Establishing the Nebhana Water Forum in Tunisia

Elisabeth Kuehn

Volume 4 of the Collective Leadership Studies focuses on the challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs provide a demanding set of aspirations for global development and aim for nothing less than to ‘shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path’.

Citation: Kuehn, E. (2017): Collaboration for the SDGs – Establishing the Nebhana Water Forum in Tunisia, Collective Leadership Studies Vol 4, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Empowering Young Professionals - How we can tap into the potential of a passionate generation

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Jade Buddenberg, Andrew Aitken, Helena Wagener

“Empowering Young Professionals” – Volume 3 of our ‪‎Collective‬ ‪‎Leadership‬ Studies is dedicated to the leadership perspective and potential of young professionals. Often described as ‪Generation Y‬ or Millennials, they not only are the leaders of tomorrow, but also hold the key for sustainable development today.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Buddenberg, J., Aitken, A., Wagener, H. (2015): Empowering Young Professionals, Colleactive Leadership Studies Vol 3, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Navigating Complex Change - How We Can Master the Challenges of Stakeholder Collaboration

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

This Volume 2 of the Collective Leadership Studies explores the conceptual background and application of our core methodological approach, the Collective Leadership Compass, that empowers individuals and groups of leaders to navigate complex change in multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2014): Navigating Complex Change – How We Can Master the Challenges of Stakeholder Collaboration, Collective Leadership Studies Vol 2, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Shifting the Way We Co-create: How We Can Turn the Challenges of Sustainability into Opportunities

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Kristiane Schaefer

In order to explore the patterns and factors that help facilitate a collective way of leading for sustainability, CLI interviewed practitioners from the private sector, the public sector, and civil society who explored essential steps in sustainable development.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Schaefer, K. (2013): Shifting the way we co-create: How we can turn the challenges of sustainability into opportunities, Collective Leadership Studies Vol 1, Collective Leadership Institute: Potsdam/Germany, ISSN 2569-1171.

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Transformation Literacy Confererence Report 2023

Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH

CLI’s 2nd annual Transformation Literacy Conference took place from 24 to 28 April 2023 and featured an array of professionals working in transformation efforts from around the world. The objective of the TLC 2023 was to explore transformational change efforts and understanding through the lens of the Collective Leadership Compass’ six Transformation Enablers, with a special focus on the theme of the year: Governance and Democracy. In this light, CLI convened three two-hour panels, each having a focus on one axis comprising two of the Transformation Enablers.

In the report we present all information about Speakers, Viewpoints and Insights represented in the Conference.

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CLI Information Brochure

Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH

Learn more about CLI’s mission, trainings, methodologies, projects, and partners. A brief overview on the Collective Leadership Compass and Dialogic Change Model methodologies and how they are applied in social-, environmental-, and economic partnership projects around the world.

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Partnering with Collective Leadership Institute For Impact - Brochure

Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH

The options that you have to empower people to address complex challenges in collaboration are diverse. Over the years, CLI has developed eight ways to create issue-based collaboration that delivers resilient results and impact with the help of the Collective Leadership Academy, Transformation Stewardship, and Network Building.

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Book Contributions

Multi-Akteurs-Netzwerke: Kooperation als Chance für die Umsetzung der Agenda 2030

Kapitel im Buch 978-3-658-38522-4:

In Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften Nachhaltigkeitsziele verwirklichen.

Dieser Beitrag zeigt auf, wie erfolgreiche Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften (MAPs) als Kooperationsprozess in vier Phasen umgesetzt werden. Das vorgestellte Prozessmodell Dialogic-Change-Modell zeigt, wie Erfolgsfaktoren für Planung, Implementierung und Monitoring an die jeweiligen Bedürfnisse des Kontexts angepasst werden können. Durch die Anwendung dieses integrativen und strukturierten Ansatzes entstehen neue Fähigkeiten und Perspektiven, die zu sozialen Innovationen führen und systemische Veränderungen bewirken.

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Citation: Kuenkel, P., Gruen, A., Kuschka, T. (2023): In Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften Nachhaltigkeitsziele verwirklichen, in Herlyn, E., Lévy-Tödter, M., Fischer, K., Scherle, N. Multi-Akteurs-Netzwerke: Kooperation als Chance für die Umsetzung der Agenda 2030, Springer

The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto For Global Economics

This book envisions a new global economics based on human values in the post-COVID world, develops a connection with the emerging business-oriented SDG-focused circular economy movement, and gives lessons in basic changes in managing our future through uncertain times, in the depth of our humanity.

CLI contributed the chapter “Stewarding Systems Aliveness – Pathways to Transformation” which is about collective stewardship capacities across the globe inspired by a system’s view of life that puts our shared humanity back at the center of attention. Based on more than 20 years of experience in transformation and change initiatives, and grounded in transdisciplinary thinking that draws from, among others, physics, system’s theory, organizational theory and ecology, CLI puts forward the ‘transformation enablers’, part of a meta-level approach for a stewardship architecture fostering multi-level collaboration for sustainability. Integrating a balance of all enablers in design and implementation of strategic transformative action ensures a contribution to shifting the grammar, not just the language, towards a new global socio-economic system serving life.

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Citation: Kuenkel, P., Kuehn, E. (2022). Stewarding Systems Aliveness—Pathways to Transformation. In: Hill, S., Yagi, T., Yamash’ta, S. (eds) The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto For Global Economics. Creative Economy. Springer, Singapore.

Investment Climate Reform Toolbox

CLI contributed its Stakeholder Dialogue Planning Checklist and Assessment Tools (pages 100-104) to the “Investment Climate Reform Toolbox” (Download here), published by the Investment Climate Reform Facility. “The ICR Toolbox is written for policy-makers and the business membership organisations… and is designed to respond to common challenges faced by those working to develop a business environment for a thriving, inclusive, and sustainable private sector. It includes straightforward, practical tools that require limited resources and time to apply, with step-by-step guidance and lessons learned from applying the tools in practice, as well as hands-on materials and a discussion of the potential for integrating cross-cutting topics such as gender, sustainability, and public-private dialogue.” (more details here).

Fowler, B. and Strub F. (2021). Investment Climate Reform Toolbox – Tools for Reforming the Business Environment; ICR Facility; Brussels, Belgium.

Mapping of Good Practices for Business Sector Involvement in TVET in the MENA Region

The Gesellschaft fuer internationalle Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Sector Network for Sustainable Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region identified CLI’s collaboration with GIZ Egypt and national partners on the “Enhancement of the Egyptian Dual System” (2017-2019) as a best practice case for public-private sector collaboration in TVET in the MENA region. Enjoy their publication – with cases from across the region – in Arabic and English.

Stephany-Daguzém, M.; Jweiles, Z.; Badran, M.; Bauer, K.J. (2020). Mapping of Good Practices for Business Sector Involvement in TVET in the MENA Region; GIZ Sector Network for Sustainable Economic Development in the MENA Region; Eschborn, Germany.

What Corporate Strategists Can Learn From International Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration - A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Change

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

The book:
– Demonstrates how to make business sense of sustainability at this time in the
21st century
– Explains sustainable strategizing approaches to achieve positive impact and
improve corporate future fitness
– Examines how companies thrive through purpose-driven strategy practices

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Citation: Kuenkel, (2019): What Corporate Strategists Can Learn From International Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration - A Conceptual Architecture for Transformative Change, in Wunder T.,Rethinking Strategic Management. Sustainable Strategizing for Positive Impact. Springer

Co-creation for Sustainability as a Societal Learning Journey

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Alina Gruen

Chapter of the book “Lifelong Learning and Education in Healthy and Sustainable Cities” 978-3-319-69473-3.

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Citation: Kuenkel P., Gruen A. (2018) Co-creation for Sustainability as a Societal Learning Journey. In: Azeiteiro U., AKERMAN M., Leal Filho W., Setti A., Brandli L. (eds) Lifelong Learning and Education in Healthy and Sustainable Cities. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham

Die Zukunft von Führung ist kollektiv - was zukunftsorientierte Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu einem anderen Wirtschaften von Multi-Akteursinitiativen lernen können

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

Gesellschaft und Organisation: Widersprüche integrieren, plurales Selbstverständins kultivieren (book is available in German language).

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Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2017): Die Zukunft von Führung ist kollektiv – was zukunftsorientierte Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu einem anderen Wirtschaften von Multi-Akteursinitiativen lernen können, in Daniels, K., Hollmann, J. Anders wirtschaften- Integrale Impulse für eine plurale Ökonomie, Gabler

Navigating Change in Complex Multi-Actor Settings: A Practice Approach to Better Collaboration

Dr. Petra Kuenkel

The article examines successful patterns for collaboration in large-scale, multi-actor sustainability initiatives across the boundaries of private sector, public sector, and civil society.

The Journal of Corporate Citizenship No. 58,
Large Systems Change: An Emerging Field of Transformation and Transitions (June 2015), pp. 119-136.

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Citation: Kuenkel, P. (2015). Navigating Change in Complex Multi-Actor Settings: A Practice Approach to Better Collaboration. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, (58), 119-136.

Key Factors of the Successful Implementation of Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of the African Cashew Initiative

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Andrew Aitken

One of the few books to examine the role of business in social and environmental innovation, particularly in the context of Africa. This study addresses entrepreneurship, large companies, cross-sector collaboration initiatives, and the role of academia and teachers. It frames and complements empirical contributions in a synthesis of key theories and concepts.

Citation: Kuenkel, P., Aitken, A. (2015): Key Factors for the Successful Implementation of Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of the African Cashew Initiative, in: Bitzer, V., Hamann, R., Hall, M., Griffin-EL, E.W. (Eds.), The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation – New Frontiers in Africa. Springer.

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Stakeholder Dialogues Manual

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Vera Frieg, Silvine Gerlach, Christian Görg, Marike Ferguson, Judith Kohler, Johannes Herde

In 2011, the Collective Leadership Institute developed a manual on Stakeholder Dialogues for the Sector Project Private Sector Cooperation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It serves as a practical how-to guide to approaching cross-sector collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

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Referenzrahmen zur erfolgreichen Gestaltung von Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften zur Umsetzung der Agenda 2030

Dr. Petra Kuenkel, Sabine Heckmann, Jade Buddenberg

Unter Federführung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) ist 2015 die Initiative zum Aufbau einer Plattform für Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften (MAP) zur Umsetzung der 2030 Agenda entstanden. Im Rahmen der Initiative förderte die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH im Auftrag des BMZ finanziell die Entwicklung eines Handbuches für MAP durch das CLI. Der Text basiert auf den Inhalten der Weiterbildung und Capacity Developments für Sektoren übergreifende Kooperationsprojekte des CLI.

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Stakeholder Dialogues: A way to engage Stakeholders for Sustainability

Jade Buddenberg

Understanding how to engage stakeholders for sustainability boils down to the question: Why should we or others care about sustainability? In some way, we all are stakeholders of sustainability. But when do we choose to act on our own behalf? (Published in OpenCitizenship: Who Cares About Sustainability? Vol. 5, 2014)

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Adaptation to Climate Change through Water Resources Management

Co-edited by Dominic Stucker and Elena Lopez-Gunn

Climate change-exacerbated floods, droughts, and changes in precipitation patterns impact urban and rural communities around the world. This volume uses a systems approach to identify common barriers and bridges for climate change adaptation through water resources management. Essential approaches across the 20 diverse case studies include dialogue and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

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Articles

Published Articles

Neue Mindsets und Skillsets für die Zukunft der Berufsbildung (pages 16-18), in German), xPort magazine 2023-02, iMove Germany

Der freie Markt löst das Problem nicht, Der Standard

Democracy at the Crossroads - How can we enhance governance and democracy to address sustainability challenges?, tbd

Vitalität fördern – das Kernelement von kollektiver Führung im Kontext globaler Transformationen

Life economies – an emerging opportunity for stewarding future, Club of Rome

Leading Transformations – The Fundamental Shift in Strategic Management, CXO Mag

Den digitalen Raum erkunden, (pages 7-8), in German), xPort magazine 2020-02, iMove Germany

Partnerships Matter: Implementation of Multi- Stakeholder Cooperation Tools for Sustainable Development, EU-Russia Civil Society Forum

Behutsam und mit Augenmaß (pages 17-19, in German), xPort magazine 2020-01, iMove Germany

Nuevos Modelos de Liderazgo para Responder a Futuros Desafíos (Spanish, pages 16-17), Made in Germany magazine 2020-01, AHK Bolivia

Intergenerational Dialogue, Collaboration, Learning, and Decision-Making in Global Environmental Governance: The Case of the IUCN Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability; MDPI

6 Strategies for Stabilizing the Planet, NBS Network for Business Sustainability

What Gives Life to Large System Change? SAGE Journals.

Partnerships with business for development. Great Insights

Navigating Change in Complex Multi-Actor Settings A Practice Approach to Better Collaboration

Collaboration in Action: From Supporting Projects to Funding Partnerships; IISD SDG Knowledge Hub

Building competences for partnering: How donors can ensure multi-stakeholder partnerships succeed; ECDPM-European Centre for Development Policy Management

Towards a Reference Framework for Effective Partnering - Creating Collaboration Patterns that Work for Successful SDG Implementation

Die Wertschätzung der Teilnehmer ist wichtiger Bestandteil eines ganzheitlichen Trainingsansatzes (pages 9-10, in German), xPort magazin 1-2018, iMove Germany

Making America Great Again! Huffington post

Shifting Focus: From Events to Collaborative Process; Huffington post

No Exit - Collaboration is Our Only Option; Huffington post

For Better or Worse: Will You Say Yes To Collaboration? Huffington post

The World Is In Trouble: What Are You Doing About It? Huffington post

The 6 commandments of successful collaboration; Green Biz

Towards a governance of trust: Leading collectively in multi-stakeholder partnerships; ECDPM-European Centre for Development Policy Management

Why is Stakeholder Collaboration So Important?TRiple Pundit - People, Planet, Profit

Ten ingredients for embedding sustainability into leadership; The Guardian

Stakeholder engagement: a practical guide; The Guardian

Sustainability leadership: how can we combine flatland and wonderland? The Guardian

Leadership for sustainability: the art of engaging; The Guardian

Collaborative leadership for sustainable development; The Guardian

Visionen entwickeln Was wir von der «Generation Y» lernen können; ZOE-Zeitschrift Organisations Entwicklung

The Common Code for the Coffee Community; National Academic Press

Das Dialogische Prinzip als Führungsmodell in der Praxis; ZOE-Zeitschrift Organisations Entwicklung

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