L. Sustainability and Culture: The Art of Cultivating Generative Relationships
Zach Smith and Chad Stewart
In this highly interactive workshop we will experience how a few organizations are cultivating relationships that create profoundly positive ripples in the world around them. They are strengthening communities and families, restoring habitat and biodiversity, and nurturing healthy, happy people. Together, we will explore how their success is rooted in their respect for and understanding of the importance of culture. We will also explore how each of us, as interculturalists, can use our knowledge, expertise, and experience to create generative, sustainable change in the world around us.
Zach Smith is a principal at Interkannections, a consultancy that focuses on global leadership and talent development. He is also the executive director of Abound, a not-for-profit organization that supports leaders and organizations focused on sustainability. He currently serves as a co-director and co-founder of Eco Nikko, an organization in Nikko, Japan, that uses yoga to foster personal and community development. Zach also developed the Ikan Sustainability Value Web and Ikan Sustainability Framework to help embed sustainable thinking and practices into communities and organizations.
Chad Stewart is a principal of Interkannections (Japan CEO). He has led change management, developed global talent management programs, created learning and development centers, and guided organization evolution projects with global corporations, local governments, not-for-profits, and the United Nations since 1995. Chad also serves as a global executive coach, co-created the Leading Evolutionary Change training program, and has lectured at the Kyoto University MBA School.
