How can you lead authentically and effectively engage groups in collaborative processes towards sustainability? The Lotus - A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development - presents nine personal leadership capacities that authentic leaders, change agents and facilitators find essential in their work when facilitating large-scale, complex, transformational change in organisations and communities. Furthermore, it suggests practices (ranging from contemplative and spiritual to physical, engaging both head, heart and hands) that help in developing your personal leadership capacities.

Leadership: a vague, ill-defined buzzword, or the ‘blind spot’ of our time? By being part of the MSLS programme, we get in touch with some of the finest leadership literature, research and practitioners, while at the same time, in the ‘outer world’, there seems to be a serious lack of leadership in institutions of every kind, whether they are public, private or in civil society. As a student in the MSLS programme it is easy to forget the ‘real world’ outside of campus, while being surrounded by so many inspiring peers and professionals in and related to the programme. Two prominent thought leaders that provided guest lectures over the last months include Göran Carstedt, former CEO of IKEA and Volvo, and dr. Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT and founder of the Presencing Institute. What has their thinking contributed to my view on and connection with leadership?

Since a good two months, I am pursuing a long-lived dream. I am partaking in a Master's programme on Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, a small town in the south-eastern corner of Sweden. This year, this weblog will be the place of reflections, thoughts, and articles related to this programme, related to topics on organisational learning and leadership, strategic sustainability, and the learning journey we're all part of.

Since a good two months, I am pursuing a long-lived dream. I am partaking in a Master's programme on Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, a small town in the south-eastern corner of Sweden. This year, this weblog will be the place of reflections, thoughts, and articles related to this programme, related to topics on organisational learning and leadership, strategic sustainability, and the learning journey we're all part of.

There's no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to tackling climate change, says Mike Hulme. That’s why we need to stop looking for scapegoats and start engaging in honest discussion