TY - JOUR
T1 - The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives
T2 - Rethinking what it means to be an academic leader
AU - Caviglia-Harris, Jill
AU - Hodges, Karen E.
AU - Helmuth, Brian
AU - Bennett, Elena M.
AU - Galvin, Kathleen
AU - Krebs, Margaret
AU - Lips, Karen
AU - Lowman, Meg
AU - Schulte, Lisa A.
AU - Schuur, Edward A.G.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are thankful to Jane Lubchenco, the founder and pioneer of the Leopold Leadership Program and to Pam Matson for mobilizing knowledge for action toward sustainability. The authors thank their many friends and collaborators who were involved in the work described in this paper: Dr. Alemayehu Wassie Eshete, champion of Ethiopian forest conservation; Professors Nadia al-Mudaffar Fawzi, Malik Hassan Ali, and Ali Douabul of the University of Basrah; and the investigators, students, and cooperators associated with the STRIPS project. Jill Caviglia-Harris was supported by National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from the National Science Foundation DBI-1052875. Kathleen Galvin was supported by the USAID Climate Change Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program and by the International Social Science Council, Transformations to Sustainability Program (T2S_PP_066). Brian Helmuth was supported by the USAID Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) program. Lisa Schulte Moore was supported by the USDA-NIFA McIntire-Stennis Program. Dedication We dedicate this article to our friend, the late Susan Williams, director of the Bodega Marine Laboratory of the University of California, Davis; Leopold Leadership Fellow (2000); and renowned coral reef scientist.
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© 2021 by the author(s).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches to co-produce knowledge that can be mobilized for action. We outline a new collective leadership model with six dimensions, Inquire, Connect, Engage, Strategize, Empower, and Reflect, and show through a series of case studies how each of these leadership dimensions can be used to create positive and lasting change for people and their environments. We also describe how academic researchers can learn to apply these dimensions in their own work and introduce a series of companion online narratives and teaching resources designed to facilitate the use of this collective leadership model in classrooms.
AB - Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches to co-produce knowledge that can be mobilized for action. We outline a new collective leadership model with six dimensions, Inquire, Connect, Engage, Strategize, Empower, and Reflect, and show through a series of case studies how each of these leadership dimensions can be used to create positive and lasting change for people and their environments. We also describe how academic researchers can learn to apply these dimensions in their own work and introduce a series of companion online narratives and teaching resources designed to facilitate the use of this collective leadership model in classrooms.
KW - Collective leadership
KW - Knowledge to action
KW - Sustainability
KW - Transdisciplinary leadership
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U2 - 10.5751/ES-12396-260309
DO - 10.5751/ES-12396-260309
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113806444
VL - 26
JO - Conservation Ecology
JF - Conservation Ecology
SN - 1708-3087
IS - 3
M1 - 9
ER -