How do Leadership and The Environment Connect?
January 22, 2019
Hosted by Maureen Metcalf
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Our guests represent multiple frameworks on leadership and the environment. They would like leaders to consider the biosphere as one of the primary frames of leadership. During the interview, they discuss how to apply these frameworks in practice in ways that are practical. Kathy's book: Leading From The Roots is about nature inspired leadership lessons that help us create more generous, resilient and sustainable organizations (sustainable including kind to the earth). They describe their independent work and how they approach this complex set of challenges we currently face. Kathy coming from organizational perspective with senior leaders and Rian with university students. Like a forest, diversity in approach strengthens the field of study and impact they will both make. Both of our guests co-chair the ILA sustainability leadership group. They have a strong commitment to build people teaching and leading in this area.
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Maureen Metcalf
Maureen is the Founder and CEO of the Innovative Leadership Institute, a renowned executive advisor focused on making the world better through leadership! She helps clients strengthen their leadership talent pool so that leadership itself becomes one of your strategic advantages to co-create a thriving future.
Maureen brings 30 years of business experience to provide high-impact, practical solutions that support her clients' leadership development and organizational transformations. She is recognized as an innovative, principled thought leader who combines intellectual rigor and discipline with an ability to translate theory into practice in all her work. Her operational focus is coupled with a strategic ability to analyze, develop and implement successful strategies for profitability, growth and sustainability.
Maureen is the author of an international award-winning book series on Innovative leadership, including the Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations, winner of a 2014 International Book Award and a regular contributor to Forbes.
As a board member/chair, Maureen has led multiple organizations through difficult transitions and is open to for-profit board opportunities. Before founding the Innovative Leadership Institute, she led consulting engagements for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture across a broad range of industries, contributing to successful organizational transformation.
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