After five years of hard work, our Global Leadership for Sustainability (GLfS) paper is now available online.
It is IISL’s response, given the social and environmental challenges facing all organizations, to the need for new leadership models, methods, and tools for implementing organizational change for sustainable development. Toward that end, we review current approaches to leadership for sustainability in terms of their conceptual frameworks and empirical research. Then, drawing from spiritual and being-centered leadership theories, we offer a model of Global Leadership for Sustainability that incorporates and extends the current approaches to leadership for sustainability. Then we argue that by leading through the GLfS model, global leaders for sustainability become more committed to moving beyond satisfying stakeholders’ demands for economic returns toward a more sustainable, triple bottom line, balanced approach.
