Deadline: 29-Jul-22
Join a transformative leadership development program designed for leaders working towards sustainably addressing the impact of climate change in Pakistan.
In the new program, Leadership Essentials for Climate Resilience Innovators in Pakistan, they’ll prepare a cohort of leaders working toward addressing climate change by equipping them with invaluable leadership skills needed for navigating uncertainty and change, and a powerful network of like-minded peers.
What Will You Learn?
Their core curriculum is made up of three key components:
- Adaptive Leadership: Based on the work of Ron Heifitz, Adaptive Leadership is a practical leadership framework that helps organizations and individuals adapt and thrive in challenging environments. The content supports your ability, both individually and collectively, to catalyze and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change.
- Managing Polarities: Developed by Barry Johnson, Polarity Management empowers you to embrace competing goals and navigate the tensions between them, a crucial skill in an increasingly interconnected world.
- Good Society Readings: The Good Society Readings explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical foundation of social change through a series of curated readings by thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Nelson Mandela. You’ll reflect on core human values, seek common ground, and cultivate a richer understanding of your social change work by situating it in a broader historical context.
Benefits
Through the 10 week Leadership Program, you will:
- Join a diverse cohort of climate-change leaders building resilient solutions
- Experience Acumen’s flagship leadership
- training embedded in their multinational Fellowship program
- Improve your capacity to innovate and drive change by practicing essential systems leadership skills
- Bring examples from your work into the program to guide your learning — then take new learnings from the program back to your community to guide your work and increase your impact
- Be challenged to examine your fundamental beliefs and responsibility as part of the system
- Develop the muscle of leading your team, department, organization or community through challenging environments with confidence and empathy
- Learn diagnostic and decision-making methodologies to bridge opposing views and find new opportunities in opposing tensions
- Refine your purpose through the exploration of critical literature that gets to the core of human values and just societies
Eligibility Criteria
- They’re looking for participants who are building climate resilient solutions across sectors that serve the poor, including corporate leaders disrupting traditional environmental and sustainability initiatives, innovative public sector pioneers, and nonprofit builders.
- Participants are typically on one of the following paths:
- Social Entrepreneur: scaling innovative business models that tackle climate issues to reduce poverty and inequality
- Public Sector Leader:leveraging the government influence to address climate change
- Nonprofit Leader: building solutions to ensure those most in need are supported to be more resilient to climate change
- Corporate Intrapreneur: driving initiatives within large corporations to create sustainable and positive environmental impact
- The program is for you if:
- You have at least 6-8 years of experience working in climate-related spaces in Pakistan
- You currently lead or are part of building an organization or initiative that exists to tackle the ongoing climate crisis
- You are in a position of leadership where you work and have the capacity to influence change
- You want to become better at leading through uncertainty and navigating the systems around you
- You are ready to show up for yourself and for others, and to challenge yourself to learn and think in new ways
- You have the ability to read and write texts of medium complexity in English and have a basic handling of social platforms (e.g. WhatsApp) so that you can be an active member of the community
For more information, visit https://app.acumenacademy.org/pakistan-climate-leadership-accelerator