The director of the University of Cumbria’s Institute for
Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) has been selected to
join a group of world leaders in business and politics to study the latest
leadership approaches at Harvard University.
Professor Jem Bendell |
Professor Jem Bendell, named a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World
Economic Forum, will attend the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century programme in
Cambridge, USA in March.
Young Global Leaders are chosen by the forum for having demonstrated
leadership for the common good on a global stage, and include people such as
Kumi Naidoo (Greenpeace CEO), Hannah Jones (Head of Sustainability at Nike),
and Chuka Umunna MP. The Forum of Young Global Leaders meets on Monday,
January 20 in Davos, Switzerland, ahead of the Davos Summit.
Professor Bendell is the first academic from the UK to be accepted
onto the programme.
He said: “I am delighted to be accepted on to this Harvard programme, which gives me the chance to experience the latest approaches to leadership education, and also to share our own approaches in the Lake District.
He said: “I am delighted to be accepted on to this Harvard programme, which gives me the chance to experience the latest approaches to leadership education, and also to share our own approaches in the Lake District.
“Harvard provides elite education to some of the world’s most
influential people, in a class-based setting. In Cumbria we have a tradition of
experiential learning, and a liking for taking our executive students into
nature and to local heritage sites, to stimulate their reflection. I think in
future we will see more combinations of such approaches.”
Through a partnership between the Harvard Kennedy School, the
Center for Public Leadership and the World Economic Forum, the programme has
been developed to expand and enhance the leadership skills of Young Global
Leaders, necessary to address the world’s most serious problems. The curriculum
considers critical global policy areas such as education, environment, global
health, international development, and security, and is provided free of charge
due to sponsorship.
As the world’s first professor of sustainability leadership,
Professor Bendell recognises the need to blend insights from leadership
development and the challenge of sustainable development.
“Ultimately
we need to better understand how to lead across borders, for the greater good,
not only for our organisation,” he explains.
For more information about IFLAS and the courses it offers, visit www.cumbria.ac.uk/IFLAS
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