A bird's-eye perspective: 
Emotional Intelligence & Sustainability? 

The bridge between emotional intelligence in leadership and the professional field of Sustainability?
 
We need to re-assess and reset our relationships with ourselves, society, life and nature: how we depend, how we relate, how we treat, how we leverage, enable, collaborate, listen, learn, hold, lead - how we are. Starting with looking at things with awe and respect. Re-introducing awe and respect. Rebuilding the understanding that we are part of, depend on, that we are nothing without.

Data can be important. And: what we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are part of is the foundation of how we decide about data. Our narrativ influences both, our behaviour and our judgement on insight-based decision-making. So we need to open up towards looking beyond hard targets and data of what, how, why (already pre-aligned with our story). 

Instead of rolling out number-reducing measures, asking ourselves: What is really useful for living futures?

Text and Foto: Ulrike Vött