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Our Next Evolution

Our Next Evolution

by Laura Calandrella

★★★★★ 4.7 · 38 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in Environmental Economics

About This Book

The environmental crisis is advancing at an unprecedented pace and scale. It will outpace us if we don't turn our attention to an even deeper concern regarding the future of humanity: we need to work together to create change. Our current approach to collaboration is outmoded. To transform our world, we must transform the way we lead. We collectively share the power and responsibility for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future. Leaders who hope to shape that future must develop the ability to embrace relationships-to ourselves, to one another, and to the natural world-as our most impactful, influential tool. Our Next Evolution delivers a framework for 21st century collaboration through four interlinked leadership practices: Cultivating Presence, Creating Space, Leveraging Diversity, and Sustaining Dialogue. These four practices enable us to take collective action in new ways, carving a path toward a future we crave but can't yet see. We have the capacity to create vibrant communities, build thriving economies, and sustain our natural resources-but only when we learn to do so together. Only when we evolve.
Leadership Law and Politics Environment

Laura Calandrella

Laura Calandrella is a leadership strategist and consultant and the author of Our Next Evolution: Transforming Collaborative Leadership to Shape Our Planet's Future. For two decades she has worked with organizations across the environmental community to design collaborative approaches to pressing issues. She began her career as a conservation biologist and international development practitioner, experiences that gave her firsthand knowledge of the power of collaboration. Today she guides the growth of sustainability and conservation partnerships, teaching the practices of collaborative leadership. Her book offers a framework for twenty-first-century collaboration built on four leadership practices: cultivating presence, creating space, leveraging diversity, and sustaining dialogue.

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