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Agile Sustainability: Transforming Organizations to Thrive in the Age of Climate Change aims to
provide the reader with a robust framework for driving transformational change within their organizations. The primary objectives of this book are to:
Integrate Sustainability and Business Agility: Offer a comprehensive understanding of how combining sustainability science with business agility principles can create resilient and adaptable organizations capable of thriving in the face of climate change.
Empower Sustainability Leaders: Equip sustainability leaders with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to effectively navigate the complexities and challenges of implementing sustainability initiatives within their organizations.
Promote Cultural and Behavioral Change: Highlight the importance of cultural and behavioral shifts required to achieve resiliency, providing practical guidance on fostering a sustainability-oriented mindset across all levels of an organization.
Facilitate Strategic Decision-Making: Provide insights into lean portfolio management, strategic funding, and investment decision-making processes to ensure sustainability initiatives align with and strengthen organizational strategy.
Encourage Collaboration and Innovation: Explore the benefits of cross-organizational collaboration, emphasizing the importance of networked value streams and collective
efforts in achieving sustainability goals, such as the circular economy and carbon reduction.
Support Executive Leadership: Guide executives on leading by example, decentralizing decision-making, and organizing around value to create a growth culture that supports
sustainable practices.
Provide Practical Steps and Resources: Offer actionable next steps, including training, coaching, celebrating successes, and embedding sustainability into company culture, along with tips for engaging with C-level executives and creating compelling business cases for sustainability initiatives.
Readers will gain:
- A deep understanding of how to integrate sustainability and business agility to build more resilient and adaptable organizations.
- Practical tools and strategies for implementing and managing sustainability initiatives.
- Insights into overcoming common challenges and leveraging opportunities in the sustainability and agile industries.
By engaging with Agile Sustainability, readers will be better prepared to lead their organizations through the complexities of climate change, driving sustainable success and long-term resilience.
Dr. Maya Jaber is a management professor, author, researcher, and organizational strategist whose work focuses on sustainability, organizational transformation, leadership, and innovation. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in business, strategy, and organizational development, she explores how organizations can move beyond sustainability commitments to build the leadership capacity, culture, and adaptive practices needed to achieve meaningful and lasting change.
As the founder of M3D Consulting LLC, Jaber has advised executives and organizations on sustainability management, ESG strategy, organizational design, and change. Her work bridges academic research and real-world practice, with particular emphasis on human-centered approaches to complex organizational challenges.
Jaber is also the author of Integral Design Thinking for Sustainability Management: A Framework for Organizational Culture Change and Innovation. Across her research, teaching, consulting, and writing, she challenges organizations to rethink traditional approaches to change and develop more integrated, agile, and adaptive ways of leading sustainability transformation.
https://mayajaber.com
Diego Groiso is an execution management and organisational transformation leader with more than 30 years of experience working at the intersection of strategy, technology, organisational design and delivery.
His work focuses on how large organisations turn strategic commitments into successful execution, particularly when change involves complex systems, multiple stakeholders and emerging uncertainty. He has worked across telecommunications, automotive, financial services and other industries in roles spanning enterprise transformation, business agility, coaching, training and large-scale delivery. He is a SAFe® Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and AI-Native trainer.
Diego is also Chair of the Sustainability Alumni Network of the University of California in Europe. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a degree in Electronic Engineering. His current work explores Execution Reliability, examining how decision makers can assess in advance whether the management system responsible for execution can adapt and deliver under uncertainty.
https://diegogroiso.com