Greenlands Masterclass - Making Sense of Sustainability for Impact - NEW

This event is exclusive to members of The Henley Partnership.

To book please contact your HR or Learning and Development team at your organisation.

Unsure who to contact? Please do not hesitate to contact us at thp@henley.ac.uk

In the face of today’s climate crisis, leadership requires more than strategy – it demands personal and systemic transformation. This immersive one-day programme invites you to uncover your unique role in driving sustainable change by first looking inward. Through guided reflection and interactive dialogue, you will explore the deep interconnection between yourself, others and the environment. This inner awareness becomes the foundation for clarifying your purpose as a sustainability leader and adopting a systemic approach to complex challenges.

We’ll explore how to apply this systemic approach to real-world sustainability challenges, as well as how this inner shift in mindset can fuel creativity, build shared purpose and inspire collective action to address them. By embracing a systems perspective and a renewed sense of responsibility, you will leave equipped to galvanise teams, influence meaningful change and co-create solutions to the most urgent issues facing business and the planet.

This event will help you:

• understand your individual relationship to sustainability and what your role can be in driving sustainable change
• learn a systemic structure to approach complex challenges
• appreciate how your mindset can inspire fresh thinking and generate innovative ways of working
• find renewed energy to create new solutions to old problems

Leaders who are tussling with how to lead in a world that requires them to think and act differently from before and those who are ready to try out new ways of seeing the world and experiment with approaches which can catalyse change.

Odharnait is a coach, adviser and founder of Solas, a consultancy that develops leaders who want to build thriving organisations that have a net positive impact and are fit for the challenges of the 21st century. She brings considerable expertise in leadership, organisational development and innovation to help leaders tackle complex problems and unlock the creativity and resilience of their people.

She has worked across the non-profit, commercial and public sectors, with partners such as MIT and UNICEF. She is a founding member of the leadership team of Being Patient (a social enterprise transforming reporting on health issues) and T-minus (an agency specialising in leadership for environments of high growth and change). As Chief Learning Officer at T-minus, Odharnait helped hundreds of leaders in start-ups and global corporations, such as Unilever, to drive positive change in themselves and their organisations.

She was lead author of the Disruptive Leadership Report (2020), which identified the core leadership capabilities needed in an age of disruption. She also partnered with The B Team to produce their flagship report Business Education for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future.

Odharnait is currently a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an adviser with Gotara, is an associate faculty member at Henley Business School and co-founder of WomenUnbound, an initiative to develop women leaders.

Kevin is a chartered psychologist and Director of Henley’s John Madejski Centre for Reputation. He teaches on the MBA programme in the areas of reputation, responsibility, teams and leadership. He is also Director of the Positive Psychology Forum – an organisation that applies advances in psychology to help individuals and organisations improve their performance through a process of reflection on success and failure. Interventions include high-performance coaching, organisational and personal 360-degree feedback, and behavioural mapping.

*Up to 2 places per member organisation. 'Up to' indicates the maximum number per member organisation. All places are subject to availability at the time of booking.*