Shift understanding
NPL equips leaders with the mindset and know-how to engage in practices based on future-readiness, sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and digital trust.
NET POSITIVE LEADERSHIP
Generating sustainable impact
by giving more than you take
WHY NET POSITIVE LEADERSHIP
In a world of converging crisis, many demands are put on organizations.
Globalism, totalitarian threats, supply challenges, fast-paced technological innovations and labor market disruptions with intense war for talent are changing the structures of societies worldwide—and the changes are happening quickly.
Leaders need to empower their people and organizations to make a positive impact on the fundamental challenges of our time: climate change, social inequalities and discrimination, the dynamics of the labor market and a rogue digital world.
It is time for leaders to step up and start leading with a positive impact!
WHat is A net posItive Organization
Puts back more into society, the environment, and the economy than they take out.
Embraces that re-shaping the future regeneratively requires a transformation of the entire organizational landscape.
Cultivates a Net Positive culture and business practices.
Aspires to take full ownership of their actions (online and offline)to pursue their purpose, attract talent, ensure resilience and deliver strong financial performance.
This requires nothing less than systemic change.
WHAT IS NET POSITIVE LEADERSHIP
Net Positive Leadership prepares organizations for a future which has become increasingly volatile, unpredictable, complex, and agile.
Net Positive Leadership enables employees to pursue the organization´s purpose, making a positive impact and finding self-actualization.
This requires nothing less than systemic change.
HoW TO ACHIEVE NET POSITIVE LEADERSHIP (NPL)
NPL is a systemic approach to rethinking business using three key levers
Shift understanding
Change behaviors
NPL allows leaders to reflect on their own patterns and learn concrete ways to shift toward a net positive model of value creation based on a future-fit set of tools.
Build community and culture
NPL builds community and shapes the organization culture towards a more inclusive, agile, trustworthy, healthy and liveable community we all participate in.
THE FOUR Dimensions
Future-fit Leadership
The Future-Fit Leadership program is designed to develop leadership capacity to thrive in the ever complex, transformative environment and to close the gap between traditional leadership approaches and future-proof practices that enable customer-centricity, innovation, collaboration, agility, equity and sustainability.
Inclusive Leadership
The Inclusive Leadership program is designed to
build leadership and organizational capacity based on innovative and impactful
diversity, equity and inclusion pillars to cultivate equitable work cultures and principles,
psychological safety and employee wellbeing.
Sustainability Leadership
The Sustainability Leadership program is designed to prepare leaders to take on a holistic sustainability mindset within a new future-fit business model and lead the way out of environmental silo discussions to a regenerative approach.
Digital Leadership
The Digital Leadership program introduces the idea of digital trust and how a succesfull digital transformation helps to win AND build trust this digital age while introducing the fundamentals of digital technologies that are transforming the world
OUR SERVICES
The culture, mindset, competencies, and capabilities of Net Positive Leadership can be acquired through:
Leadership Development programs
Coaching
Systemic change initiatives
Consulting services
OUR Team
We are dedicated to making a positive impact to this world.
Dr Christine McCarthy
Facilitates personal and organizational growth that fosters the agility necessary to master the challenges of today’s digital and networked environment. She brings over 20 years of coaching experience, a PhD in Organizational Psychology, and a deep commitment to helping leaders adapt personally and organizations adapt structurally across cultural and technological divides so they can thrive in the changing business world.
Kai Hermsen
Believes all people need to understand current digital topics and how they impact their lives, to enable trust in technology and good stewardship of our societies. Kai is a trust expert and has worked in the digital trust domain for several years, as an intrapreneur in large corporations, as a founder in smaller startups as well as an entrepreneur in civil society. Kai is an advocate for more trust and resilience in the digital space - forming the basis for sustainable, inclusive development.
Else Krueck
A dedicated and results-driven leader with over 20 years of Sustainability & CSR management experience for a Global Brand and the ability to translate issues into actions that make economic, operational and sustainability sense and the skill to negotiate into successful strategies with multi-stakeholder groups.
Dr Rolf Huwyler
A chemist who has found his passion in sustainability and music with two decades of European and international experience in Sustainability & CSR across food, packaging and consumer brand, specializing in climate strategy, circular economy and packaging sustainability.
Future-fit Leadership
The Future-Fit Leadership program is designed to develop leadership capacity to thrive in the ever complex, transformative environment and to close the gap between traditional leadership approaches and future-proof practices that enable customer-centricity, innovation, collaboration, agility, equity and sustainability.
Before the Covid pandemic, companies had begun to reinvent themselves in response to the digital, networked, knowledge-based economy. To seize opportunities, and counter the ambiguity and uncertainty in the current business climate organizations require leadership that is fluid and exhibits future-ready characteristics with attention to employee wellbeing, social impact, and sustainable business growth. The FFL program provides consultancy and L&D in organization change, leadership and talent development.
The Future-Fit Leadership program is based on a scientifically validated leadership framework that comprises the eight core competencies that leaders need to embody to successfully navigate today's transformative environment and evolve their organization culture, systems, structures and working practices to enable personal and organizational resiliency.
Inclusive Leadership
The Inclusive Leadership program is designed to build leadership and organizational capacity based on innovative and impactful diversity, equity and inclusion pillars to cultivate equitable work cultures and principles, psychological safety and employee wellbeing.
The program supports the development of a DE&I strategy and roadmap to embrace diversity, counter unconscious biases and create a safe and inclusive workplace that embraces and leverages all aspects of diversity and enables innovation and performance . The program inspires leaders to build a socially equitable and inclusive culture that puts diversity on the hiring agenda, embeds inclusion throughout the employee experience, promotes inclusive talent management, makes everyone feel valued, and encourages people to be authentic and contribute their diverse talents.
The Inclusive Leadership program provides consultancy and experiential learning in designing the DE&I strategy and promoting and cultivating inclusive leadership across the organization.
Sustainability Leadership
The Sustainability Leadership program is designed to prepare leaders to take on a holistic sustainability mindset within a new future-fit business model and lead the way out of environmental silo discussions to a regenerative approach.
Instead of engaging in short-sighted, fire-fighting survival mode management, net-positive leaders will be able to tune their organizations for resilience and transformative innovation, ultimately leading themselves and their stakeholders to success.
The Sustainability consultancy solutions include analysis and guidance on agile sustainability leadership, future-proof sustainability projects and innovations that will guide the organization in the authentic deployment of SDGs.
Digital Leadership
The Digital Leadership teaches the fundamentals of digital technologies that are transforming the world – taking a holistic view at the challenge, from an organizational transformation perspective, to people and processes as well as technologies and trustworthy behavior. The programme demonstrates the pace of change and the imperative it creates for businesses. Most importantly, the Net Positive Leadership Digital Leadership module introduces the idea of digital trust and how a succesfull digital transformation helps to win AND build trust and resilience in this digital age. By the end of the program, participants will be familiar with the core processes, strategies, and technologies as well as equipped with appropriate behaviours.
Trust in technology will be as important as any innovations in technology itself. For the question of our time is no longer if „technology can do this“ but if „technology should do this“. The Digital Leadership programme enables leaders to master this challenge.
Network Partners
A network of (sustainability) service providers, agencies and experts & professionals helping to create successful solutions for specific sustainability challenges to your business, organization, product or issue.