Jan Artem Henriksson is the Executive Director of the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) - a global initiative that develops inner abilities, skills and other qualities for people and organizations to contribute to a more sustainable global society. He also initiated ‘MindShift: Growth that Matters’ - a global conference bringing academia, public sector and business together to focus on the link between human growth and sustainable development. In the past, Jan has been a public speaker and adviser for several global organizations and governments, and he also founded two companies: 1) Self Leaders - a Nordic leadership development company that has put 70 000+ people through leadership development programs and, 2) Relate - a relationship building app and thought leader for healthy relationships. Jan is also a faculty member and senior lecturer at Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education and a board member at Ekskaret Foundation.
In this episode, Jan explains how we lack the inner capacity to deal with our increasingly complex world and why human, leadership and organizational development are necessary to address today’s global sustainability challenges. He talks about how the IDGs is a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills we need in order to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were established by the United Nations in 2015. Jan explains how the IDGs are the result of a massive global effort involving two surveys with over 1000 participants as well as the co-creation and collaboration of some of the world’s leading scientists, researchers, experts, and organizational partners. This effort resulted in the development of a framework comprising five categories of higher order capabilities - Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting - and twenty three specific skills that are critical for supporting the SDGs and our transition to a sustainable planet.
Jan shares examples of how the IDG framework is already being used by fast agents and leading companies such as IKEA, Ericsson, and Spotify, as well as forward-thinking national governments such as Costa Rica. He explains that the guiding principles of the IDGs is to remain a not-for-profit initiative and to continue to develop the framework (and associated tools and resources such as an IDG field-kit to be released in April 2022) through co-creation and an open source format. This enables organizations and leaders from around the world to easily access the IDGs and put them into practice, reflect objectively on their leadership and cultural dynamics, gain clarity on what is expected of them and what may be missing, and integrate the skills and qualities that are most congruent with their organization, leadership and culture. The IDGs truly has the potential to become THE guiding resource for sustainability leadership of the future.
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE IDGs, please visit: www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org
****For those interested in contributing to the research and field-kit to be released during the IDG Summit on April 29, 2022, please take the IDG survey listed on the website. If you would partner with the IDGs or participate in the Summit, please reach out to Jan****
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