When the challenges to transformation occur outside of the capacity of single organizations to address, individuals who possess the skills to catalyze latent energies and coordinate dispersed knowledge and activity set will often lead the way and in their absence, change is much less likely.

This talk will explore the skill base and particular strategies employed by such leaders and discuss generic strategies often employed in successful cases.

About Professor Frances Westley
Prof. Frances Westley is Director of Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Prof. Frances Westley is a sociologist with research focus on sources and sinks of resilience, innovation, and transformation in individuals, organizations, and social systems.

She is also working on the role of individual leaders in creating, sustaining, or impeding transformation of the systems in which they are situated.

She has served on many boards of science-based environmental organizations: the IUCN-The World Conservation Union, the Science Board of the Resilience Alliance, the Canadian Biodiversity Institute among others.