Leadership Skills for Change Agents
Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Advantage and The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook prepares you to lead organizational change and find the advantages in sustainable enterprise. This four-part workshop connects the dots between timeless leadership practices and how to transform an organization to a sustainability culture. You'll benefit from four live and interactive webinars with an industry expert.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Lead the integrate sustainability into their organization, using a seven-step sustainability change process.
- Build an effective, relevant business case to support their company’s transformation to being a sustainable enterprise.
- By able to apply effective change leadership practices during the sustainability change process, capitalize on change paradoxes, and avoid potential derailers of their initiatives.
- Help others be more effective sustainability champions.
This course meets on-line on Mondays (November 1, 8, 15, 22) at 5:00PM Pacific Time for 60-90 minutes.
More About the Instructor
Bob Willard is a leading expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies. He has given hundreds of keynote presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences on the bottom-line benefits of sustainability strategies. He has authored three books, The Sustainability Advantage, The Next Sustainability Wave, and The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook, plus created a DVD of his presentation, The Business Case for Sustainability. He worked 34 years with IBM Canada, is on the faculty of the Sustainable Enterprise Academy, and serves on the advisory board of the Natural Step Canada. He has a PhD in sustainability from the University of Toronto. See www.sustainabilityadvantage.com for more information about him and his resources for sustainability champions.
