Books
Find books and workbooks around the Sustainability Mindset Indicator here.
with chapter 4 by Beate Klingenberg, Isabel Rimanoczy, and Albachiara Boffelli
The Sustainability Mindset Indicator®: A tool to assess and develop the Inner Development Goals
At a time when the world demands profound change, transformation begins within. This volume explores the personal journeys that fuel collective leadership, weaving together research, art, case studies, and practices from the global Inner Development Goals (IDG) community. Through deep reflection and shared wisdom, it invites readers to embrace a new paradigm of interconnectedness.
With a chapter co-authored by Beate Klingenberg:
Paradox Skills and the Sustainability Mindset: Frameworks and Tools to Develop Sustainability Skills in Higher Education
This chapter explores the role of Higher Education Institutions in equipping future leaders with the competencies needed for sustainable development. It introduces frameworks, tools, and impact assessment approaches designed to develop paradox skills—the ability to navigate tensions, ambiguity, and competing goals, all of which are central to sustainable transformation.
With a chapter by Mary Grace Neville & Isabel Rimanoczy:
Shifting Mindsets: Sustainability Agenda’s Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education
This chapter explores how hidden assumptions in higher education can hinder deep learning and sustainability thinking. Through student narratives and systemic reflections, it highlights how awareness and small shifts in mindset can foster a new generation ready to collaborate, innovate, and lead with a long-term perspective.
This book supports faculty and education leaders in redesigning business curricula for a sustainable future. With practical ideas from 28 global experts, it offers actionable strategies to integrate sustainability into existing courses or develop new ones—responding to the growing demand from students for business education that reflects today’s social and environmental challenges.
Mobilising the Capital Needed to Combat Climate Change.
Cultivating a Sustainable Mindset in Finance explores the behavioural challenges and opportunities to cultivate a sustainable mindset amongst financial professionals that could accelerate capital allocation to combat climate change. It draws on real life examples of institutional investors.
The german version of Sustainability – We Need To Talk.
Join a conversation between people who have an inquiring mind about sustainability. How did we get here and how are we going to find solutions? You will be guided through discussions based on the idea that we already have the key to solutions: our mindset.
The spanish version of Sustainability – We Need To Talk.
Join a conversation between people who have an inquiring mind about sustainability. How did we get here and how are we going to find solutions? You will be guided through discussions based on the idea that we already have the key to solutions: our mindset.
Transforming Business Education for a Sustainable Future
As the impact of climate change becomes more evident and dire, business leaders, educators, students, and academic leaders are deciding what they need to change and do to survive and thrive in a new and dramatically different environment. This book sets out how to transform business education and integrate sustainability practices into curriculum and a wider academic culture.
Handbook of Climate Change Leadership in Organizations
Bringing together the foremost experts in climate change leadership from business, leadership, psychology and coaching backgrounds, this book addresses the failures of current leadership practice and proposes a variety of models of how climate change leadership capabilities can be effectively developed in organisations. The book is edited by Doug MacKie and published by Routledge.
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We need to talk
Join a conversation between people who have an inquiring mind about sustainability. How did we get here and how are we going to find solutions? You will be guided through discussions based on the idea that we already have the key to solutions: our mindset.
You can explore the twelve principles of the Sustainability Mindset that offer a path to link head, heart and hands for a flourishing planet.
The Resource Workbook for Educators
The Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI) Resource Workbook for Educators Series presents 108 activities to support the development of specific aspects key to a Sustainability Mindset, with a focus on academic/educational environments.
In four volumes, available through Amazon worldwide, in print or eBook. Go to your country´s Amazon webpage if ordering from the US is not possible (search for: SMI resource workbook educators).
The Resource Workbook for Coaches
The Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI) Resource Workbook for Coaches Series presents 108 activities to support the development of specific aspects key to a Sustainability Mindset, with a focus on coaching/corporate environments.
In four volumes, available through Amazon worldwide, in print or eBook. Go to your country´s Amazon webpage if ordering from the US is not possible (search for: SMI resource workbook coaches).
The Sustainability Mindset Principles

Learn about the framework of the Sustainability Mindset Principles.
Developing a Sustainability Mindset

Learn about the foundation of the Sustainability Mindset Principles.
Sustainability Mindset and Transformational Leadership

Learn about using the Sustainability Mindset for Management Education.
Principles and Practices for Sustainable Management Education

Learn about the pedagogical framework for Responsible Management Education.
Critical Reflections on Innovative Flourishin Businesses...

Collection of student essays from a collaborative online learning class.
Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Management Education

Learn about the application of the Sustainability Mindset to Leadership.
Stories and Tools of Mindset Transformation

Learn how educators use the Sustainability Mindset Principles in Education.
Educating for Responsible Management

Learn how educators teach responsible management practice.
Handbook of Sustainability in Management Education

Your reference book teaching Sustainability and Management.