I help leaders collaborate to solve our toughest environmental challenges. My passion is uniting diverse perspectives under a shared vision for a sustainable future.
We can do more together than we can do alone
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OUR NEXT EVOLUTION
Transforming Collaborative Leadership to Shape Our Planet's Future
Learn the mindsets, skills, and strategies for effective collaboration
The environmental crisis is advancing at an unprecedented pace and scale.
It will outpace us if we don’t turn our attention to an even deeper concern regarding the future of humanity: we need to work together to create change.
Our current approach to collaboration is outmoded. To transform our world, we must transform the way we lead. We collectively share the power and responsibility for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future. Leaders who hope to shape that future must develop the ability to embrace relationships—to ourselves, to one another, and to the natural world—as our most impactful, influential tool.
Our Next Evolution delivers a framework for 21st century collaboration through four interlinked leadership practices: Cultivating Presence, Creating Space, Leveraging Diversity, and Sustaining Dialogue. These four practices enable us to take collective action in new ways, carving a path toward a future we crave but can’t yet see.
We have the capacity to create vibrant communities, build thriving economies, and sustain our natural resources—but only when we learn to do so together. Only when we evolve.
“Our Next Evolution offers clear strategies for drawing on our humanity and truly collaborating on the interconnected system vulnerabilities that are bringing us to the brink of a collapse of civilization. In short, it unveils the essential role of deep personal civility in building a just future for all.”
“This book draws upon the best advice and frameworks on leadership, diversity, collaboration and more, so you don’t have to. This is a timely manual on authentic leadership by someone for whom the topic is not just what she does, but who she is.
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“A unique take on the problem of environmental sustainability highlighting the ‘transformational change’ needed to persist on our planet. Calandrella addresses these wicked environmental challenges from a unique and intuitive lens of relationship building or turning ‘inward and toward each other.’”
“A new approach to environmental leadership is needed to address the critical issues that confront us. Our Next Evolution is a ‘must read’ for leaders in business, government, and the environmental community tired of conflict who seek a path forward to solving our most difficult environmental problems.
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WHAT'S NEXT FOR YOU?
90% of executives believe collaboration is essential to sustainability success, but only 47% say their organizations collaborate strategically
I work with clients who want to make collaboration part of their strategic agenda
Build strong collaborations
Strategy consulting and facilitation for partnerships at any stage of growthBecome a better leader
Training on collaborative leadership for facilitators, individuals, and teams
Inspire and ignite change
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