Posts tagged “Change agents”

I wrote this workbook for the IEMA, whose members are largely in-house environmental specialists, external environmental consultants, or environmental policy-makers.

The book assumes that they know about sustainable development, and that what they need to understand better is the process of organisational change.

It contains bits of theory that I and my clients have found useful over the years – if it wasn’t useful, it didn’t get in.

It really is a workbook – there are boxes you can fill in, and people can also download pdf versions of some of the exercises from IEMA’s website, to use with colleagues.

You can buy it here.

I’d love to hear what you think about it.

I love it when I can cross-fertilise.  When I can bring a gem of insightful knowledge from my work on organisational change, learning and development and pass it on to my passionate, committed and somewhat geeky colleagues in the world of environmental management, policy and general eco-knowledge.

This article about OD – organisational development – explores how some different practitioners have drawn on ideas about change to help them push the environmental boundaries.

This is a slide show that I gave to the EABIS Colloquium in 2008.  It presents the results of a survey I conducted of organisational change agents, and asks how we can better support ourselves, and each other, at a time when we’re getting better informed (and many of us more anxious) about the sustainability crisis.

There’s also a paper and a  journal article (originally published in Greener Management International) that accompany the slide show.