ABSTRACT
In response to questions about the challenge of implementing large-scale sustainability initiatives and transforming the culture of their global companies, numerous executives the author interviews shares how their long-time work in sustainability was changing how they think about leadership. The majority of the executives he interviewed had at least a decade of sustainability leadership experience in the corporate world, with many of them having worked in the sustainability field for up to twenty years. A highly collaborative approach to leadership that appeared in the interviews was an enhanced capacity to translate and communicate complex sustainability initiatives. This capacity arises from the greater awareness of diverse worldviews and contexts that is a key characteristic of a post-conventional worldview. When fuelled by an ecological worldview, the post-conventional archetype of "collaborator-in-chief" can lead to new breakthrough environmental technologies and suggests how sustainability leadership must evolve in the future.
