Sustainability Leadership

As CEOs and business leaders navigate a world of complex global challenges, sustainability is no longer optional but a business imperative. In this book, two sustainability leaders with decades of experience - Henrik Henriksson, CEO of Scania, and Elaine Weidman Grunewald, cofounder of the AI Sustainability Center and former chief sustainability and public affairs officer at Ericsson - offer a simple but powerful three-step model for leading an organization on a sustainability transformation journey that aims at big, audacious, world-changing goals.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life “A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst...

Leadership for Profitable Sustainability will change the ways leaders, managers, and others perceive and improve their communications to be more clear and efficient, and their behaviors to be more empathetic and irreproachable. It will maximize financial and psychic rewards for individuals and firms.

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

How could a 66-year-old grandmother, who gave her life to helping people with their health, become the subject of a malicious smear campaign which resulted in her being classified as a serious threat to public health in Australia? This book exposes the hypocrisy of the organization Friends of Science in Medicine who act as 'friends of science', but are in reality pharmaceutical apologists and the 'Enemies of Truth in Medical Science'. Barbara became collateral damage in the war on any dissent from mainstream medical dogma.

In today’s rapidly changing world, where climate change, social justice, and responsible governance are taking centre stage, businesses are under increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices. More than just a buzzword, ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) has become the cornerstone of responsible leadership, driving the next wave of innovation, risk management, and long-term profitability. "ESG Leadership: Mastering Sustainability Strategies for a Net ZERO Future" is the ultimate guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, and sustainability professionals who want to gain deep ...

In a world increasingly valuing more than profit-focused endeavors, “Sustainability Leadership” is a compelling invitation to transformative action. This pivotal work encourages businesses and visionaries to adopt a holistic approach, melding profit with societal and environmental welfare. It highlights the crucial roles of Global Social Responsibility, Eco-environmental Circularity, and Prosperity-Wellbeing Purposes, heralding a shift from conventional practices towards evolved models of responsible capitalism and holistic success metrics. Structurally, the book presents a balanced ...

New York Times reporter and bestselling author David Gelles reveals how Patagonia became a global leader in doing well by doing good and how other companies are adopting its principles. This is the inside story of one of the most extraordinary brands in the corporate world, the rare company that...

Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.

Transform your business for tomorrow's challenges today. This groundbreaking guide, crafted at the intersection of deep expertise and cutting-edge AI, turns sustainability challenges into your next competitive advantage.

This is a book for new leaders and people who care for the world. It is an invitation to go deeper and wider into critical reflections on leadership in its management biases and old paradigms. It is an innovative approach for sustainability in its development values and connections with nature. It is a bold proposition to embrace sustainability leadership with consciousness paradigm that aims to answer deeper ethical, spiritual and purposeful questions. The book offers personal, organizational and systemic overviews of key concepts in relation to sustainability practices, leadership ...

Drawing on interviews with 75 leaders in more than 40 multinational organizations and NGOs, the author explores how ecological worldviews are expressed in the context of global sustainability practice. By empirically grounding key theories from developmental psychology in sustainability leadership practice, the author encourages us to think about leadership in a different way.

*** BRONZE MEDAL WINNER - 2025 Global Book Awards (Business Management Category) *** Skip the Overwhelm! Turn Your Passion into a Purpose-Driven Nonprofit – Quickly! Starting a nonprofit is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming, complicated, confusing, and time-consuming. Nonprofit Setup Simplified takes the guesswork out of the process, walking you through every step with clarity and confidence. Bestselling author and experienced nonprofit founder Michele L. Whetzel shares the exact roadmap she uses to launch nonprofits quickly and effectively – without backtracking or costly ...

This book presents a comprehensive company operation manual, founded on the principles of Collaborative intelligence & Resilient LAQL Way (LeanAgileQualityLeadership Way), authored by Prof. Aecio D’Silva of Moura Enterprises, LLC. It serves as a blueprint that can be readily applied or adapted by businesses and corporations worldwide. Resilient-LAQL WAY embodies a culture of collaborative intelligence, total-quality-management, lean, agile, and constraint-free thinking. It cultivates an environment of total-quality management, and a lean, agile, and toxicity-free workplace, fostering a ...

In the face of unprecedented global challenges like poverty and climate change, can individuals make a difference? This scholarly book reveals what motivates people to devote their time and energies to addressing social, environmental and ethical issues. Based on in-depth academic research among corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR) professionals, it shows the pivotal role of values, inspiration, expertise, empowerment, strategic thinking and social contribution among “purpose-inspired leaders”. Using extensive illustrative quotations, different types of CSR change agents ...

This book is an excellent reference for beginners or those seeking general knowledge about the subject matter. It is divided into six parts including (1) understanding soft skills, (2) leadership and soft skills, (3) emotional intelligence, (4) understanding social responsibility, (5) leadership and social responsibility, and (6) the future leader. Each section is written for easy reader comprehension and examples are provided throughout for explanation and clarification purposes.

In The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability, businessman Andre Hoffmann and journalist Peter Vanham describe how companies should change their ways to have continued success, and why the current modus operandi is not working. They present a template for creating "sustainable prosperity", and case-studies of companies that survived and thrived by opting for change. In doing so, they provide a way out of long-standing dilemmas, such as how to balance business needs with impact on nature, shareholders with stakeholders, and short-term vs. long-term profits.

Renowned social changemakers Jakada Imani, Monna Wong, and Bex Ahuja deliver an effective and practical how-to guide for the equitable management of nonprofit and social change organizations. In the book, you'll learn how to multiply your impact by using the authors' insightful strategies for delegation, goal setting, and team culture-building. You'll also discover how to fairly exercise power in an environment that spans racial, generational, gender, and other identity divides.

How can organizations integrate sustainable design into their overarching operations and align it with profitability and corporate strategy? The Sustainability Scorecard is the first scientifically rooted, data-driven methodology for creating inherently sustainable and profitable products and processes. By redesigning with sustainability as a key design element, firms open themselves to unexpected solutions, leapfrog innovations, and sources of value that simply don’t occur when sustainability is leveraged purely as a risk-avoidance and compliance measure.

Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture - but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to "transform" a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation. In Culture Renovation, Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world's top companies.