Curriculum overview
Throughout the seven-month Fellowship Program, our fellows participate in weekly workshops, retreats, sustainability projects and networking opportunities. They also receive individually tailored support through our coaching and mentoring programs and enjoy ongoing peer-to-peer learning and community building through our online platform and forums.
The Fellowship Program curriculum is underpinned by key competencies that have been identified as fundamental skills for successfully addressing the challenges faced by leaders who are tasked with facilitating the emergence of a sustainable future.
Focus Competencies
- Philosophy of leadership: gaining an improved understanding of key moral and philosophical aspects related to leadership
- Sustainability leadership: understanding the success and diversity of the world’s most effective sustainability leaders and developing a vision and plan for yourself as a sustainability leader
- Dynamics of change: understanding different theories of change and their application and relevance in sustainability
- Thinking strategically: developing strategic thinking capacity Making things happen: developing, implementing, evaluating and learning from practical sustainability initiatives
- Communications and advocacy: making a positive impact with presentations and utilising the media to convey effective sustainability messages
- Emotional intelligence: understanding yourself and others and optimising interpersonal relationships
- Teamwork and relationship building: building interpersonal skills to improve relationships and maximise collaborative team outcomes
- Creative thinking: building capacity to tackle challenges and find creative solutions
- Personal development and self-inquiry: indentifying your personal strengths and weaknesses that underpin your unique leadership style; creating and executing strategies to build your leadership capacity
- Personal effectiveness: effectively managing time, prioritising competing demands and maximising wellbeing
Support Competencies
- Mentorship.
- Envisioning sustainability
- Changing hearts, minds and behaviours
- Networking
- Understanding societal and political structures
- Being a sustainable individual and societal change agent
- Accessing financial and other resources
- Career development