"This book directly helps decision-makers and change agents in companies, NGOs, and government bodies become more proficient in transformative, collaborative change in realizing the SDGs. This practitioner's handbook translates a systemic - and enlivening - approach to collaboration into day-to-day work and management. It connects the emerging practice of multi-stakeholder collaboration to easily understandable models, tools, and cases. Numerous, concrete cases not only bring this methodology to life, but help identify the challenges and avoid common mistakes. The book can be used as a guide to apply a breakthrough approach for navigating the complexity of your stakeholder systems, designing results-oriented Process Architectures, ensuring the success of cross-sector change initiatives, and enlivening collaboration ecosystems for SDG implementation. It is designed to enhance high quality stakeholder engagement, dialogue, and collaboration. A must-read, the book sets a new standard for the collaborative implementation of Agenda 2030 and is a foundational guide for leading sustainability transformations collectively to achieve climate change mitigation, social integration, equitable value chains, and broad sustainability challenges"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of acronyms
• List of tables
• List of figures
• List of case examples
• List of boxes
• Acknowledgments
• Preamble
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Getting started: understanding collaborative action for transformative change
  • Multi-stakeholder collaborations in SDG implementation
  • Leading collectively at all levels: from global to local
  • Formats of multi-stakeholder collaborations that fit purpose
  • Understanding cross-sector settings
  • Creating conditions for transformative change
  • The Collective Leadership Compass for the collaborative journey
• 2 Getting active: making multi-stakeholder collaborations work
  • Stewarding collaborative change: the Dialogic Change Model
  • Examples from the field: leading transformative change
• 3 Ensuring success: the role of dialogic process facilitators in enlivening collaboration ecosystems
  • The purpose of dialogue in multi-stakeholder collaborations
  • Dialogic process facilitators: stewards of aliveness in collaboration ecosystems
• 4 Becoming transformative: process architectures for building impactful collaboration ecosystems
  • Planning impact in multi-stakeholder collaborations
  • The purpose of process: cultivating aliveness in collaboration ecosystems
  • The purpose of structure: governance for sustaining aliveness in collaboration ecosystems
• 5 Becoming reflective: cultivating a culture of learning
  • From success factors to collaboration catalysts
  • The role of process monitoring in multi-stakeholder collaboration
  • Trouble shooting guide: managing difficulties in multi-stakeholder collaboration
  • Communication: the fastest route to a learning culture
  • Methodologies for leading transformative change collectively
• 6 Epilogue
• Annex 1 Collective Leadership Compass
• Annex 2 The Dialogic Change Model
• Annex 3 SDGs
• Annex 4 Glossary
• Index