ABSTRACT
By using the descriptions of post-conventional worldviews as a deductive lens for further analysis of the transcripts, the author uncovers a surprising amount of evidence suggestive of post-conventional worldviews. Overall, the author was able to identify five distinct ways sustainability executives expressed post-conventional worldviews during the interviews. The first set of quotations suggest that global sustainability leaders appear to have developed an enhanced capacity to see a growing range of worldviews and contexts as part of their global sustainability practice. The diversity of worldviews and contexts exists both internally within their organizations and externally with a wide range of global stakeholders. The second set of interview quotations indicate a capacity to consistently think in longer time-horizons, another strong indicator of post-conventional worldviews. The capacity to identify with a widening circle of human communities, the biosphere and all species is another important characteristic of a post-conventional worldview.
