Regarding
the Missing Link

Using questionnaires and other qualitative interviews, we studied what people who are involved in transformation and learning for sustainability deem important to learn and which skills they find relevant to become more able to tackle today’s multicrises. Our lead partner in this was the Ekskaret Foundation with the Inner Development Goals Initiative.

We bring practitioners in the field of adult & transformational learning together to engage in discourses, to cohere, and to develop and create novel methodologies. Since May 2021 we have hosted regular salons to highlight various practices. We co-founded a regularly meeting Scientific Advisory Board for the Inner Development Goals research and gather in CADRA multiplier events to share insights and perspectives.

Applying Otto Laske’s constructive developmental framework we explored the leadership maturity of 40 mostly european leaders from across political, social and private sectors. We created individual leadership profiles for each participant, looking into their cognitive and social - emotional potential. At the same time we learned how leaders in our western paradigm are thinking and relating to their worlds. Thus we become more able to describe the missing link between truly regenerative futures and the way we lead.

Some of the leaders we interviewed went on a journey of individual coaching, education and training as well as peer group consulting. Now, from February to April 2023, a second leadership profile is being done in order to better understand how leaders are maturing in their thinking and relating across time.

The same 40 leaders cohort undergoes a second leadership profile. The two interviews (cognitive and social-emotional) take approximately one hour. Afterwards the produced text is thoroughly analyzed. Based on the frameworks developed by Otto Laske and Iva Vurdelja, we describe the capacity to lead in complex situations. After the second round of profiles we can look into the maturing of leaders during a period of challenging global crises and hopefully become able to draw insightful conclusions and recommendations for transformative learning.

Together with our partners we collect, curate and create formats and interventions that enable leaders to meet the challenges we are facing.The results are published in a toolkit and intervention guides to be used for sustainable development.

After collecting data from diverse groups of people we are building an online platform that allows everyone to explore their own leadership maturity. In the future this will be enhanced by a platform where people can find practices and trainings that meet their learning and leadership needs.