Petra Kuenkel is a full Member of the International Club of Rome and the Executive Director of the Collective Leadership Institute, a Germany and South Africa based social enterprise building collaboration competency for transformative change towards world sustainability. As a seasoned systems scientist, visionary author and expert in complex multi-stakeholder settings she promotes systems transformations by scaling-up collective stewardship skills for decision-makers from corporations, public sector and civil society. With her educational background in change management, organizational psychology and political science she has profound international experiences in corporate change, development cooperation and policy implementation. She is a leading strategic advisor to pioneering international initiatives that tackle sustainability challenges. Based on successful transformation processes, she developed the dialogic change methodology and the Collective Leadership Compass, a guiding tool for navigating change in complex multi-actor settings. Kuenkel's ground-breaking publication The Art of Leading Collectively received international attention; her writings have appeared in numerous professional journals as well as the Guardian and Huffington Post.

Serves as a guidebook for decision-makers, researchers and activists who need to navigate complex change towards sustainable development

Inspires academics and practitioners alike to explore new routes towards co-creating responsible futures in the era of the Anthropocene

Translates a pattern approach to systems theory into a practical guidance for planning and implementing interventions across all sectors of society

Sets a new direction in the field of sustainability transformations and will become a foundation for planning collective action and achieving impact at scale

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Chapter1: Introduction and Context: The State of the World.- Chapter2: The Collective Leadership Compass: A Practice Model for Navigating Complex Change.- Chapter3: Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge.- Chapter4: A Living Systems Perspective for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations.- Chapter5: The Patterns of Aliveness Theory.- Chapter6: Stewarding Sustainability Transformations in Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration.- Chapter7: A Conceptual Architecture for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations.- Chapter8: The Choreography of Stewarding Sustainability Transformations