LEAD062 - Collaborative Leadership for Climate Action
Course Description
In navigating our climate challenges, no single group holds all the answers. Understanding and engaging with these complexities requires embracing networks of relationships. You'll delve into collective leadership models, challenging traditional individualist paradigms and fostering more inclusive approaches.
Throughout the course, you'll critically analyze collaboration amidst sustainability challenges like climate destabilization. Who's driving the transition? Who's affected? Who's left out? Conventional leadership often sidelines marginalized voices, hindering progress. Collaborative leadership prioritizes engagement with those most impacted.
This course is offered in partnership with the Academy of Sustainable Innovation:
Please note: This course is not eligible for the Lifelong Learning Alumni Discount.
Course Outline
In this course, you will:
- Explore collective leadership frameworks and your role in collaborative efforts
- Analyze collaboration amidst sustainability challenges through guest insights, case studies, and diverse resources
- Participate in asynchronous exercises, live sessions, and peer learning
- Engage in assignments, readings, videos, and active participation in online forums
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Critically explore the implications for a just transition to positive climate futures
- Engage with powerful frameworks and approaches for collaborating with stakeholders and engaging communities to achieve meaningful impact
- Identify collective leadership capabilities needed for transitioning toward positive climate futures
- Question the roles of power, diversity, and inclusion in leading collaborative climate action
- Apply the concept of biomimicry to foster and evaluate cooperative relationships
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Climate Adaptation Fundamentals Micro-credential : Elective Courses
- Professional Certificate in Management & Leadership : Elective Courses