Leadership capabilities for the 21st century

Recent years have seen increased action to transform unsustainable systems and practices, but more attention needs to be paid to leadership capabilities and qualities required at an individual and collective level to make fundamental and lasting progress. 

The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has developed a framework to help develop mainstream leadership for a sustainable future.  The framework seeks to address some of the limitations of dominant ways of thinking about leadership. It brings together the significance of purpose, the relational nature of leadership expressed as four principles: connected, collaborative, creative and courageous, and the importance of place and context to identify leadership characteristics for a sustainable future.