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Sustainability Leadership
The Sustainability Leadership Member Group serves as a connection point for ILA members and partners who are interested in embedding sustainability into their lives and leadership. We recognize the deep and interconnected social and environmental challenges that pervade our world, and we seek to find avenues in which we as leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners can address those challenges. We believe that we can no longer ignore the many signals calling for leadership aimed at making the world a better and more habitable place for all forms of life. We aim for the transformation of the field and practice of leadership to include sustainability in all its dimensions as a fundamental aim and goal of ‘good leadership.’
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Member Community Leaders
ILA Member Community leaders serve as ILA’s trusted experts in the field of leadership
Kate Sheridan
Co-Convener
Chatham University
Bill Smedick
Co-Convener
Kathleen Allen
Past-Convener
President, Allen and Associates
Contact Community Leaders at sustainabilityleadership@ilaglobalnetwork.org
Priorities and Projects
Build Partnerships
Building partnerships internal and external to ILA
Scholarship & Publishing
Developing and pursuing scholarship and publishing opportunities
Sustainability Practices
Integrating sustainability practices and principles into 1) ILA structure and culture, and 2) leadership education and development
Get Involved
Presenter & Attendee Opportunities
ILA’s member communities make up the foundation of ILA’s Global Conference topic focused streams. Submit your session proposal and attend this premier conference.
Engage in Vibrant Discussions
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Volunteer
Our activities and programs are organized by our dedicated team of member volunteers. If you would like to deepen your engagement, please email us about volunteer opportunities at sustainabilityleadership@ilaglobalnetwork.org.
Resources
The ILA offers a wide variety of leadership resources to help you elevate your leadership research and practice.
Climate Change Leadership in Organizations
Live Webinar 29 May 2024, 6pm EDT (UTC-5). Doug MacKie, editor of Handbook of Climate Change Leadership in Organisations, discusses the failures of current leadership practice and how climate change leadership capabilities can be effectively developed in organizations.
ILA’s Inaugural Dialogue Lab Delivers Thoughtful Inquiry
ILA’s inaugural Dialogue Lab (D-Lab) took place January 2024 and asked, “How might we exercise leadership that responds meaningfully to the issues of this moment?” Learn more about the activities at this experimental event.
Leadership: A Threat or Solution to Securing a Better Future?
Too often scientists and activists lead the way in advocating change, not the political and corporate leaders who actually have the power and authority to effect change. What role, though, does the leadership industry play in challenging leaders to address political, social, and economic systems that are inequitable and unsustainable?
Teaching Sustainability in Leadership Education
Past and present Leaders of ILA’s Sustainability Leadership Member Community discuss the latest issue of New Directions for Student Leadership and the push for research and action utilizing the UN SDGs as a framework.