Book

Leading Transformative Change Collectively

A Practitioner Guide to Realizing the SDGs

This book marks the cornerstone of CLI's work. To fulfill its aim, it is freely accessible online.

Published Jun 15, 2026
Language English, French, Arabic
Format Book
Author Elisabeth Kuehn, Dominic Stucker, Douglas F. Williamson
Author Dr. P. Kuenkel

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 also 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 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.

This book is the standard reference material for Collective Leadership Specialists.

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French

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Arabic

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The Book Launch

On 2 March 2021, CLI organized a big online book launch event with experts and guests from all over the world.

This was an event for registered guests only. 80 participants from 23 countries joined the live session.

Agenda:

  • 6:00 Welcome and Guidance
  • 6:10 Publishers welcome: Routledge senior editor Rebecca Marsh
  • 6:20 Keynote Dr. Petra Kuenkel “Leading Transformative Change Collectively” – Why we need to expand our capacities in transformation literacy
  • 6:35 Breakout Sessions with the authors and practitioners: What does it mean to lead transformative change in practice?
  • 7:10 Short report back from breakout sessions
  • 7.20 Panel discussion with the authors on major insights from the breakout session including questions and answers: How can we scale the practice of transformative change?
  • 7:45 Outlook
  • 8:00 Closing of book launch

All times mentioned were CET.

You can watch the recording of the keynote speech and the panel discussion here: https://youtu.be/rM7V5ZVPI9c.

Book launch "Leading Transformative Change Collectively"