The road map to sustainable transformation is not always clear. This guidebook demystifies the transformation process, and is available in either PDF download or printed format.
Embracing full systems sustainability offers the major business innovation opportunity of our time — but the road map to sustainable transformation is not always clear.
This guidebook demystifies the transformation process by laying out what sustainability is (and isn’t), sharing the tools needed to overcome organizational change barriers and providing tactical approaches to infusing sustainability into the organizational DNA through its operations, products and experiences.
Contents
What’s inside this guidebook?
Activities: Work through the extensive Guidebook content with activities that will help you get on the right track to transformation with your team.
How-To Worksheets: Take all the knowledge and put it into action with these quick, clear and practical how-to worksheets sheets that clearly apply what you just learned to take into your next projects immediately.
Practical Tools: Get the context, understanding and knowledge you need to rapidly upskill yourself, your team, your employees, your colleagues and make progress on your transformation to a circular economy.
In the context of business, sustainability is about ensuring that workers, workplaces, and business structures are operating in an ethical, equitable, ecologically benign and economically viable way (whereas from a personal perspective, sustainability is more about the choices we make when consuming goods and services).
Sustainability is about having foresight and being future ready now. By seeing the opportunities that big challenges and disruptions create and being willing to adapt (rather than maintain the status quo), you can create a positive culture around approaching sustainability, all whilst growing your business, creating value, and retaining excellent workers.
Modules
2.1 A Future Positive Approach
2.2 Cultures of Change
2.3 Human Nature and Barriers to Change
2.4 Activating Organizational Change
2.5 Tools for Enabling Change
Materials
6 Activities
Every action taken has an impact, and many of the social and environmental issues that we are seeking to design out of the system through sustainability are locked in through everyday decisions made in business. Thus, in this section, we’ll first dive into the best-practice methods used to assess your business’s impacts, and then we’ll define techniques used for designing policies to change them toward full systems sustainability.
Modules
3.1 The Sustainability in Business 3D Framework
3.2 Operational Impacts
3.3 Product Level Impacts
3.4 Experiential Impacts
Materials
4 Worksheets
2 Activities
Remember that transformation is a process of continual improvement, building on the things
you have done before and embracing the
bigger changes that need to occur. This requires commitment to identifying your impacts, developing new standards and adopting significant and progressive actions to reduce and rewrite your impacts entirely.
Modules
Epilogue
Materials
4 Worksheets
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The author
Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. Leyla’s main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, she is the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method. As as a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, she runs workshops around the world and designs unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Leyla is sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design.
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Work through the extensive Guidebook content with activities that will help you get on the right track to transformation with your team.
Take all the knowledge and put it into action with these quick, clear and practical how-to worksheets sheets that clearly apply what you just learned to take into your next projects immediately.
Get the context, understanding and knowledge you need to rapidly upskill yourself, your team, your employees, your colleagues and make progress on your transformation to a circular economy.
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