Mind and Heart

This book shows how leaders can use life and leadership experience to make a more meaningful contribution to the world It leads us into the inner world of leadership that we often tend to deny: the intuitive insight that at the core of our leadership journey is our contribution to the collective evolutionary process. What if we all knew the place within that is at home with the universe? What if we all knew how it feels to tend the common, the very force that nurtures all of us? Building on her own leadership journey and intensive conversations with 14 leaders from eight different countries around the world, Petra Kuenkel shows us how we can reconnect with the deeper theme of our journey and develop our own humanity as a gateway to leadership for sustainability.

Petra Kuenkel is a leading strategic advisor to pioneering international multi-stakeholder initiatives that address complex sustainability issues. She is a full member of the Club of Rome. As the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Collective Leadership Institute in Potsdam/Germany (www.collectiveleadership.com) - an international not-for-profit organisation, she promotes the scaling-up of collaboration skills for change agents from the private sector, public sector and civil society that have the sustainability of this world and the future of humankind as their focus. With close to 2000 Alumnis globally the institute has built collaboration competences for sustainability change agents around the globe. The main focus of Mrs Kuenkel's work is to identify and disseminate knowledge about success factors for individual and institutional collaboration at scale - to find solutions to complex challenges such as water scarcity, environmental degradation, climate change impact, social tension, or unsustainable value chains. She raises awareness for the potential of collaborative inventiveness and invigorates the human competences to change the current state of affairs towards an agenda of sustainability. As an expert of dialogue she contributes her profound experiences for making dialogue and stakeholder engagement action-oriented to ensure real-time change in people's behaviour as well as tangible results. She is a pioneering thinker on re-inventing leadership as a collective competence of a group of leaders that catalyse positive change for the common good. She fosters mind-set change among decision-makers and has developed a methodology for invigorating human competences that foster result-oriented and value-based collaboration for the common good. Petra Kuenkel is part of an international think tank on large system's change and co-founder of the Partnering Alliance, an initiative aiming at improving the quality of partnering for sustainability between the public sector, the private sector and civil society. Prior to the founding of the Collective Leadership Institute she facilitated value-based leadership development programs for executives from multinational companies and held a management position at an international development organisation.