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.
Download the guidebook in handy PDF format and get started on your transformation!
Materials
Swivel to Sustainability Handbook PDF
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Your instructor
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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