ABSTRACT
Multi-stakeholder collaborations are laboratories for the societal learning culture humankind needs to develop to accelerate sustainability transformations and achieve the SDGs. In addressing sustainability challenges, structured reflection is important: certainly, by key actors, and by the core group, but ideally by a wider group of stakeholders involved in the collaboration ecosystem. This chapter looks at the many ways a learning culture can be established in multi-stakeholder collaborations for SDG implementation. It explains success factors as collaboration catalysts that are related to the six dimensions of the Collective Leadership Compass and shows how they can be used as a process-monitoring tool to enhance and keep the quality of the collaborative process. The chapter elaborates the role of communication for the many forms of learning mechanisms that can emerge in multi-stakeholder collaboration, and how they can be integrated in all four phases of collaborative change, so that reflection becomes second nature for all stakeholders involved. It provides a troubleshooting guide for managing difficulties in multi-stakeholder collaborations by paying attention to the dimensions and aspects of the Collective Leadership Compass and the four phases of the Dialogic Change Model. The chapter concludes with a summary of the methodologies for leading transformative change collectively.
