Petra Kuenkel, Ph.D.
Collective Leadership Institute
Germany, South Africa and USA
Email: petra.kuenkel@collectiveleadership.com
Dr.
Petra Kuenkel is an accomplished author and leading strategic advisor
to pioneering international multi-stakeholder initiatives that address
complex sustainability issues. As the Executive Director and Co-Founder
of the Collective Leadership Institute in Potsdam/Germany (www.collectiveleadership.com)
– an international not-for-profit organization, she promotes the
scaling-up of collaboration skills for change agents from the private
sector, public sector and civil society that have the sustainability of
this world and the future of humankind as their focus. With more than
2800 Alumnis globally the institute has built collaboration competences
for sustainability change agents around the globe. The main focus of Mrs
Kuenkel’s work is to identify and disseminate knowledge about success
factors for individual and institutional collaboration at scale – to
find solutions to complex challenges such as water scarcity,
environmental degradation, climate change impact, social tension, or
unsustainable value chains. She raises awareness for the potential of
collaborative inventiveness and invigorates the human competences to
change the current state of affairs towards an agenda of sustainability
and resilient societies. She is a pioneering thinker on re-inventing
leadership as a collective competence of a group of leaders that
catalyse positive change for the common good. She fosters mind-set
change among decision-makers and has developed a methodology for
invigorating human competences that foster result-oriented and
value-based collaboration for the common good. Petra Kuenkel is part of
an international think tank on large system’s change. Prior to the
founding of the Collective Leadership Institute she facilitated
value-based leadership development programs for executives from
multinational companies and held an management position at an
international development organization. She received her doctoral degree
from the University of Twente, The Netherlands.