How the Leonardo Centre engages with strategic partners
Corporations
Transition to a purpose driven corporation demands deep transformation in any organisation and is a continual journey requiring inspiration, long term vision, a wise mindset, clear curiosity, open collaboration with peers, creativity, experimentation and new managerial tools and systems.
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Corporations joining Leonardo Centre programmes will benefit from:
Vision: Foresight in technological, environmental, social and behavioural trends and engagement with thought leaders.
Assessment: Global and sector benchmarking through leveraging the Golden dataset of corporate sustainability initiatives.
Mindset shifting: Executive training on different sustainability issues can be co-developed, using experience and non-cognitive learning methods.
Strategising: Re-envisioning the purpose of the enterprise and developing a road map with stakeholders to realise the new vision.
Institutions
Use a systemic change platform to deliver sustainability commitments at local, national and regional levels.
National and international government institutions - as well as the business community - are producing an unprecedented set of commitments to transforming the way they will govern, produce, innovate, invest, consume, collaborate and learn.
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Government and Institutions joining the Leonardo Centre can maximise the impact of policies in:
Problem identification: Work with global research networks to co-develop cutting edge research programmes on business transition with ecosystem players towards a regenerative society.
Agenda setting: Applying assessment, benchmarking and road mapping tools to develop and refine sustainability policies.
Testing innovative solutions: Testing alternative sustainability solutions to identify the solution with the largest impact for policy intervention.
Donors
Contribute to realising sustainability goals through a systemic change platform for experimenting with a sustainable approach to business.
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Individual and non-profit foundations can maximise the impact of their activities through the Leonardo Centre’s unique research platform with:
Research programmes: Research programmes co-developed with cross disciplinary experts on selected societal challenges coherent with the donor’s guidelines.
Stakeholder engagement: Co-designed Co-Laboratories on selected societal challenges develop the generative impacts of alternative models of enterprise with stakeholder engagement, for individual, organisational and societal well-being
Impact innovation pilots: Experiment with innovative solutions on specific issues using rigorous methodologies and measurable impacts in line with the donor’s priorities.
Research
Through knowledge co-creation and field experiments, join a global community of research centres in a transformative business agenda towards sustainability.
Job opportunities
Research Fellow - Corporate Sustainability
Are you looking for an opportunity to study and experiment with innovative models of business enterprise for the creation of economic and social value? The Leonardo Centre is seeking a Research Fellow to join its collaborative platform for knowledge specialists.
For further details and to apply, please see the Imperial College Jobs website.