1. Unleashing Leadership Learning from New Social Movements Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

2. These statements show that leadership does not belong solely to an individual Leadership is much more What is Leadership? “She was a courageous leader” “An innovative leadership culture flourished in the company”” “The company board showed great leadership” “Scandinavia takes a lead on social welfare” Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

5. Controller Leadership Discourse Scientific rationalism and efficiency The Controller Discourse underlying assumption is that leadership focuses on maximizing efficiency and control, to increase output. Employees are treated in a functional way as replaceable human resources, ‘cogs-in-the-wheel’ of the efficient organizational machine. Hugely successful but critiqued as de-humanising Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

6. Therapist Leadership Discourse Happy workers are more productive workers Therapist leadership works on human relations and motivation. By the 1960s the rise of individualism and therapeutic culture infiltrated the workplace, changing the culture from controlling employees to motivating them. ‘Therapist’ leaders encouraged workers to self-actualize at work. Employee’s ‘come to work to work on themselves.’ (N. Rose) Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

7. The Messiah discourse arose in the 1980s following an economic slump in the west. The fad of ‘transformational leadership’ offered hope in the face of despair, when people look for a saviour. Messiah leaders create strong loyal cultures, but expel difference, undermining creativity and independent thinking. Messiah Leadership Discourse Charismatic Leaders and Strong Cultures Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

8. Messiah Leadership Discourse Isolated elements swimming in the same direction for the purpose of understanding. Damien Hirst (1991) Individually cased, Hirst’s fish swim blindly in the same direction without interaction. It’s a cold and clinical metaphor for society without conflict. An utopian ideal of a harmony that comes at an unthinkable cost of sameness and emotional confinement. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

9. The Network Society undoes leadership and management theory of the past century. Linear hierarchies, fixed structures and roles are not ‘fit for purpose’ in this new environment. The organizational metaphor changes from a machine to an eco-system, organizations are inter-dependent networks requiring adaptive responses, with leadership from the edges as well as the centre. The Eco-leadership Discourse From Machine to Eco-system Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

10. Eco-Leaders look both ways Internally: Eco-leaders connect people in networks and encourage leadership to flourish everywhere in the organization. Externally: Eco-leaders focus on stakeholders, competitors, political and environmental trends, to ensure their organization adapts to changes in the external eco-system. Organizational networks External environment Eco-Leadership Connectivity, Inter-dependence and Ethics Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

11. Four Qualities of Eco-Leadership Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm Connectivity Interdependence Organizational Belonging Leadership Spirit Systemic Ethics

12. Four Qualities of Eco-Leadership 1. Connectivity and Interdependence: Eco-leadership is founded on connectivity, recognizing how the network society has transformed social relations, and our inter-dependence with each other and the environment. 2. Systemic Ethics: Eco-leadership is concerned with acting ethically in the human realm and protecting the natural environment. It goes beyond personal morality and addresses wider ‘systemic’ ethical issues such as the condition of outsourced workers, climate change and wider social issues. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

13. Four Qualities of Eco-Leadership 3.Leadership Spirit: Eco-leadership acknowledges the importance of the human spirit. It extends its values beyond material gain, paying attention to community, spirituality, the unconscious, non-rational, creativity and imagination. 4.Organizational Belonging: To belong, is to be a part of the whole, it is to participate in the joys and challenges faced by communities (local and global). All organizations belong to the social fabric of community, and cannot operate as separate bodies. Organizational belonging is to rethink organizational purpose and meaning. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

14. The Business Case for Eco-Leadership Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm Protecting the brand against social activism and negative consumer voices Efficiency savings Reducing energy bills and waste Talent attracted and retained Ethical practice and socially responsible companies are more attractive to bright minds Employee engagement and brand loyalty: Employees and customers respond to companies that align good business with doing good. Anticipating regulation as natural resources decline and climate change increases, international and national regulation will increase. Eco-leaders lead rather than follow these moves, anticipating change. Emergent capability Engaging all employees in tackling the big issues creates unexpected business opportunities. Emergence is to see the patterns and opportunities that emerge from the unexpected. Unilever are a leader in the field of sustainability There is no conflict between sustainable consumption and business growth. Quite the opposite, in fact. There is a compelling case for sustainable growth - retailers and consumers demand it and it saves us money. Paul Polman, Chief Executive, Unilever

15. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm Eco-Leadership integrates other leadership approaches to adapt to the context of the organization.

16. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm. New Social Movements

17. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm. Business and Organizational Leadership Trends Purpose beyond Profit & Productivity Values led, authenticity, connect with community Clear brand Identity that employees and clients/customers can identify with Form Move from: Heroic to post-heroic, management to leadership Control to influencing, hierarchy to network, dependency to autonomy Secretive to transparency Skill Sets Hard and technical skills need balancing with soft skills I.e. Motivation, influencing, delegation, communication, collaboration Mindset From closed system, and silo’s to open networks Develop connectivity, network mindsets, holistic, and integrated approaches with customers, clients outsourced work, and all stakeholders

18. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm. New Social Movements Purpose Individuals and collective movement wholly motivated by clear purpose (no material leverage). Values led, self-motivated, authentic engagement, creates supportive and dynamic networks. Self-identity and movement strongly connected. Form Non-hierarchical, Self-organising, Distributed and Autonomist leadership, egalitarian-democratised. Skill sets Influencing and communication skills, collaborative teamwork, conflict resolution, Expertise in social media/technology and viral communicating. Reliant on innovation. Mindset Network Mindset, open-source thinking, collective wisdom- e.g. crowd sourcing. Understand inter-dependencies with eco-systems

19. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm Can you guess which social movement this value statement comes from ?

20. Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm A trick question, this value statement is from a bank. As this demonstrates, commercial business have borrowed from the language of social movements and are also learning from their organizational forms and leadership approaches. The question is whether these are genuine attempts to change culture and purpose, or merely a cover story whilst behind the scenes its business as usual.

21. ‘In a highly original way, taking “Critical Theory” as a point of departure, Dr. Western helps us to obtain greater insight into the enigma of leadership.’ Manfred Kets de Vries Director INSEAD Global Leadership Center Eco-leadership Publications ‘I see a lot of books on Coaching, and this is without doubt the most stimulating, original, thoughtful and and well- founded account…’ Jonathan Gosling, Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Exeter Dr Simon Western Eco-Leadership: Toward a New Paradigm

24. A-NcP Five Frames Depth Analysis Relational Analysis Leadership Analysis Network Analysis Strategic Analysis See www.simonwestern.com for further informationwww.simonwestern.com We have developed a number of OD, leadership and coaching interventions, robustly researched and tried and tested to deliver Eco-leadership in organizations. For example the Analytic-Network Change Process©. A simple yet profound five- frame systematic process that delivers change in the business, in leaders and stimulates culture change. Implementing Eco-leadership in Practice