Manuel Manga Center for Evolutionary Leadership evolutionleader

1. Evolutionary Leadership for a Just, Flourishing, and Sustainable World Manuel Manga Manuel Manga Center for Evolutionary Leadership www.evolutionleader.com

2. Regenerative Economy Diminishing resources Available offer Sustainable Demand Increasing resource demand Sustainable Society Time The Evolutionary Crisis The Evolutionary Crisis leading toward Collapse The Critical Path toward Sustainability Manuel Manga The Funnel Model by The Natural Step. Robert, K-H. 2000

3. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now. Wangari Maathai Manuel Manga

4. The Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: Seven Unsustainable conditions • Climate change/ rising seas. • Population growth • Poverty • Unsustainable economic systems and addiction to consumerism • Biosphere destruction • War, Terrorism, WMD • Hubris. Our Modern World view Manuel Manga

5. How did we get here ? • What are the historical narratives that got us here? • What are the assumptions that got us here? • What are the paradigms that got us here? Manuel Manga

6. The Purpose of Evolutionary Leadership is to facilitate a conscious cultural evolution toward a socially just, ethical, flourishing and sustainable global society. Evolutionary leadership is based on a new worldview that integrates the biological, ecological, and social dimensions of life. Manuel Manga

7. The Work of Evolutionary Leaders. Evolution of Self- Mind-Complexity of Consciousness Manuel Manga The Evolutionary Crisis: An Unsustainable World. Institutional Evolution- Systemic Sustainability Sustainable World Cultural Evolution The Great Transition Toward Sustainability

8. 1 billion 30 1 Major Conflicts Social Equity Hunger 1980 2020 2060 1980 2020 2060 1980 2020 2060 Climate Ecosystems Water 550 4.5 billion 5 billion CO2(ppm) People in stress Forests (ha) 300 3 1980 2020 2060 1980 2020 2060 1980 2020 2060 Bending the Curve Development Peace Freedom Manuel Manga

9. Population Technology Economy Governance Knowledge and Understanding Values and Needs Power Structure Culture Proximate and Ultimate Drivers –Tellus Institute) Proximate Drivers Manuel Manga Ultimate Drivers

10. Three types of Evolution toward a Just & Sustainable World • An evolution of mind- consciousness An ecological mindset. An evolutionary mind. A systems-oriented way of seeing the world. • Institutional evolution Business and other institutions need to evolve to become “living institutions” that support the sustainability of the whole planet. • Cultural evolution New values that promote a sustainable life style, ecological harmony, social justice, respect, and a focus on love and quality of living. Manuel Manga

11. Sustainable Development • Forms of development that satisfy the needs of the present, while at the same time safeguarding the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs. Manuel Manga

12. Sustainability Sustainability is the possibility that human and other forms of life will flourish on the Earth forever. John R. Ehrenfeld Manuel Manga

13. What Do Evolutionary Leaders Do ? • Evolutionary Leaders are people that declare possible what other people do not • They declare a vision for a future, they generate worlds and actions through language and conversations. • Work on adaptive challenges • Think big, systemic and strategic • Promote learning, change, evolution • Make choices , Mobilize people & Action Manuel Manga

14. Seven Competencies of an Evolutionary Leader : A System forPersonal and Social Evolution • Emotions & • Generative • Language 3.Systems Being & Thinking 7.Evolutionary Principles & Scenarios 1.Personal Evolution/ Evolution of Consciousness 6.Adaptive Work & Collaboration 4. Ontological Designing Manuel Manga 5.Systemic Sustainability

15. Personal Evolution An evolutionary leadership competency • Commits to transforming your personal ontology/understanding of self : as a systemic being, emotional, linguistic and relational/cultural being. • Commits to transform the type of observer that you are: transform your mind, develop an evolutionary mind/consciousness, your assumptions, mental models, narratives. Become a new observer of the world. • Commits to taking a stand/ a declared purpose for social evolution, to contribute to bring forth a just, flourishing, sustainable world. • Commits to learn to learn for life. Including reading and reading the world. This learning will expand your evolutionary mind and the type of observer that you are. • Commits to becoming an evolutionary leader, applying the competencies of evolutionary leadership to take action, mobilize people, make a difference either locally and or globally. Manuel Manga

16. Emotions, Language & Generative conversations An evolutionary leadership competency Historical Narratives Conversations and Vocabularies Manuel Manga Speech Acts Emotions and Words

17. Language, Conversations • It is through language that we observe and bring forth our world. It is through conversations that we coordinate our actions, create relationships, and elicit commitments to produce results. • Everything human takes place in language and conversations. • Collaboration is about a shared vision and is based on networks of conversations. Manuel Manga

18. Systems Thinking An evolutionary leadership competency • Understands the four types of systems, • Understands the dynamics and behaviors of systems. • Understands the systemic structure of our global problems • Designs systems in harmony with nature and systemic sustainability. Manuel Manga

19. Types of Systems Social Systems Technological Systems Living Systems Manuel Manga Natural Systems

20. The Systemic Nature of our Global Problems Most of our world problems are systemic in nature: poverty, population growth, ecological destruction, global warming. Yet we react to them in a way that is fragmented and often counter-productive. There is a crisis of perception - in our culture, we don’t see systems. Manuel Manga

21. The Evolutionary Crisis:A Systems Perspective Environmental destruction & Climate change Resource wars & WMD’s Unsustainable Economic Systems Need for oil supplies & energy Culture & lifestyle of consumerism Obsolete worldviews & Patterns of leadership Manuel Manga Population Growth Poverty AIDS Oppression of Women Hunger

22. Leadership Evolutionary Leadership Competencies Science Systems Manuel Manga Multi-Sector Institutional Application Sustainability Knowledge

23. Natural Capitalism and an Ecological Culture Natural Capitalism. Designing with sustainability Ecological culture and institutions. Natural ontology. Manuel Manga Population stabilized /social justice +R

24. Systemic Sustainability An evolutionary leadership competency • Understands sustainability as composed of three dimensions: Human, Institutional, and Environmental. All contribute to flourishing. • Human sustainability supports the basic needs of human beings. • Institutional sustainability are the structures and systems that support a sustainable society, such as business, government, education, religion, the family. • Environmental sustainability conserves the biosphere and the ecology on earth on which human beings depend for their well-being. Manuel Manga

25. Systemic Sustainability • A new paradigm in which human beings reclaim their sense of their place in the natural world. It is the ethical domain of doing the right thing. • Entails understanding the biological and ecological principles that sustain life and seeing the organization embedded in a complex living network. • Must include designing technology, artifacts, and organizations with principles derived from ecosystems properties and dynamics. Manuel Manga

26. SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY Manuel Manga ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

27. Identity Freedom Affection Participation 9 Fundamental Human Needs Protection Leisure Understanding Creativity Subsistence Human Sustainability : human needs met in a just society Manuel Manga Source:Manfred Max-Neef, 1991

28. Institutional Sustainability Our key institutions ( Economics, Government, Education, Religion, Media) transform their purpose toward the caring and well being of humans and biosphere, promoting a culture-civilization of flourishing, prosperity, and sustainability. Organizations and Institutions can evolve to become Living Institutions that are responsible and care for the whole. Manuel Manga

29. The Work of Evolutionary Leaders • Mobilizing people to transform our politics, institutions, and culture, inspired by a vision of a better society, a sustainable society. • Creating networks of leaders and organizations that support each other in the evolution toward a sustainable world. • Changing the game from an unsustainable economic system, a culture of conspicuous consumption, a culture that glorifies material consumption as the road to happiness, to a value system based on quality, human dignity, learning, love, spiritual wisdom, and ecological sustainability Manuel Manga

30. Ontological Design:Ethics And Sustainability An evolutionary leadership competency • Ontological Design is the conscious design of the Self , Our Mind, and Becoming Human by Design. • Ontological Design is being conscious that everything we design should be done with ethics and sustainability in mind, in this sense paying attention to the systemic consequences of our design, artifacts, etc. • We are all designers. • Ontological design is also recognizing that what we design also comes back to shape us/ designs us, in conscious or unconscious ways. Manuel Manga

31. The Work of Evolutionary Leaders “The key challenge of this new century- for social scientists, natural scientists, and everyone else- will be to build ecologically sustainable communities, designed in such a way that their technologies and social institutions-their material and social structures - do not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. The design principles of our future social institutions must be consistent with the principles of organization that nature has evolved to sustain the web of life.” -Fritjof Capra The Hidden Connections Manuel Manga

32. Designing with Sustainability • Design is one of the most powerful concepts available to humans, social architects, and leaders. • We can design technology, artifacts, constitutions, rights, the self, culture, organizations, and social systems. • It is the art of creating something that did not exist before. Manuel Manga

33. The Resources and the Opportunities • We have the scientific and technological knowledge to solve our major world challenges. • We also possess biological, psychological, and sociological knowledge to educate and transform humans. • Our organizational knowledge and sustainability principles will allow us to design institutions that could support evolution toward sustainable societies. Manuel Manga

34. Designing a Sustainable Organization Planet Atmosphere & climate Water Fisheries & Forestry Agriculture Biodiversity/biosphere Energy & Transport Waste People Humanistic Management and Human Development Learning organization Human rights Sustainable consumption Sustainable communities Learning society Sustainable Organization Manuel Manga Profit Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainable products and services Qualitative growth

35. Adaptive Challenges- Work An evolutionary leadership competency • An adaptive challenge is a situation that requires new knowledge, new learning, and even a change in values, behaviors, and worldviews. • Adaptive challenges requires both an assessment of the current reality as well as a vision of a new reality. • Leaders identify the adaptive challenges and then evoke the collective intelligence of the group or organizations to come up with answers and commit to doing the work. • A key question is adapt to what, and for what purpose? Manuel Manga Adapted from Leadership without easy answers. Ronald Heifetz.

36. Collaboration among organizations within each sector of society and between each sector of society, as well as between societies as part of a Global collaboration movement. Collaboration Evolutionary Leaders work with all three Culture/ Civil Society Polity Manuel Manga Economy society

37. Evolutionary principles and Scenarios An evolutionary leadership competency • Understands our evolutionary history: Cosmic, Biological ( we are one human family, we are 99.9 the same by DNA, we all came out of Africa), Cultural. • Thinking longer, deeper, and wider about our place in nature, this moment on earth, and future civilizations • Envisions sustainable scenarios for humanity • Concerned with the conservation of life/biosphere on this planet Manuel Manga

38. A Vision of a Sustainable World Living Institutions: Business and an ecological economy. Sustainable technology. Education for sustainability. Conservation of Human beings: Human beings as loving beings, as part of nature. Creating a socially just world. A Humane and Ecological Culture : focus on quality, learning, loving, diversity, respect, ecology, enough. Conservation of Biosphere, Ecology: water, air, land, species, ecological systems, biosphere. Manuel Manga

39. FUNNEL Science Learning 2012 Current Unsustainable World Systems 2012 and beyond . . . Sustainable Society Learning to Create Sustainable Societies Manuel Manga

40. The Evolutionary Journey: Jonas Salk The most meaningful activity in which a human being can be engaged is one that is directly related to human evolution, this is true because humans now play an active and critical role not only in the process of their own evolution but in the survival and evolution of all living things. Therefore, human beings have a responsibility for their participation in and contribution to the process of evolution. Acceptance and acknowledgement of this responsibility and creative engagement in the process of meta-biological evolution consciously would bring forth a new reality. Manuel Manga

41. Bibliography • The Hidden Connections. Fritjof Capra. • Becoming Human by Design. Tony Fry. • Great Transition. Paul Raskin et al. wwwGTInitiative.org • The Real Wealth of Nations. Riane Eisler. • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. William McDonough & Michael Braungart. • Natural Capitalism. Paul Hawken, Amory & L.Hunter Lovins. • Envisioning a Sustainable Society. Lester.W. Milbrath. • Sustainability by Design John R. Ehrenfeld. R • Design Futuring. Sustainability, Ethics, and New practice. Tony Fry. • The Necessary Revolution. Peter Senge, Sara Schley, others. Manuel Manga