{"id":1144,"date":"2012-04-11T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2012-04-11T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:15:18","slug":"nine-personal-capacities-of-sustainability-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Nine Personal Capacities of Sustainability Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learn at least one &#8220;something new&#8221; every day, usually before 9AM as I go through my morning emails.\u00a0 This morning it was about a company,<a title=\"Sustainability Learning Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabilitylearningcentre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Sustainability Learning Centre<\/a>, referenced in a post on the LinkedIn group, Chief Sustainability Officers, and shared by Kathryn Cooper.\u00a0 They have a two part learning series on &#8220;<em><strong>Facilitating Transformational<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>Change <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1145\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1145\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1145\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-04-11 at 10.45.08 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-11-at-10.45.08-AM-300x283.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2012-04-11 at 10.45.08 AM\" width=\"192\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-11-at-10.45.08-AM-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-11-at-10.45.08-AM.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Toward Sustainability<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; the headline that caught my attention.\u00a0 So, I clicked through and found this very grounding information on the <em>nine personal capacities<\/em> that embody successful sustainability leaders.<\/p>\n<p>1) Being Present, 2) Suspension and Letting Go, 3) Intention Aligned with Higher Purpose, 4) Holding Paradoxes\/Ambiguities and Multiple Worldviews,\u00a0 5) Compassion , 6) Personal Power, 7) Whole System Awareness, 8) Whole Self Awareness and 9) a Sense of Humour.<\/p>\n<p>Hard work ahead!<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t experienced this online training, but the capacities are right on in my opinion and the presentation of them in this circle with &#8220;Being Present&#8221; at the core is a graphic one should carry around in a pocket closest to the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Th<a title=\"Sustainability Learning Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabilitylearningcentre.com\/About-Us\/mission-a-values.html\" target=\"_blank\">e Sustainability Learning Centre<\/a> expresses its values as &#8220;an ecologically intelligent, values-based group that operates on  the \u201cprinciple of abundance\u201d and believes that \u201cwhole\u201d employee  engagement releases unimagined potential for \u201cmaking a difference in the  world\u201d and brings forward an untapped capacity for innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nine Personal Capacities of Sustainability Leaders as referenced in an online training program provided by The Sustainability Learning Centre as referenced in a LinkedIn post on the group Chief Sustainability Officers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[161,436,162,437],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-leadership","tag-personal-capacities","tag-sustainability-leaders","tag-sustainability-learning-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}