The New Earth Leaders program aims to develop sustainability leaders in large corporations based on the principles of the Earth Charter. [1] The program runs in Brazil and the Netherlands, with participants working on business cases and sustainability challenges in both countries. [2] The three phase program concludes with participants implementing solutions to sustainability issues in their own companies. [3]

1. New Earth Leaders Leadership towards sustainability Creating leaders our future needs

3. The program The New Earth Leaders program runs in Brazil and Holland simultaniously, supporting young talents in large corporation to become sustainability leaders based on the Earth Charter Principles. The three phase program started around the EC+10 celebration in june and is now in it’s third phase, incompany implementation

5. The participants Participant Company Celine Pessers ABN AMRO Berend Onnes Schiphol Airport Wendeline Besier Volker Wessels Elianne Demolin Municipality of Heerlen Paul Miltenburg Advisor for municipality of The Hague Ariane Odebrecht / Biomass Carolina Johnson&Johnson Andreza Pepsico Vivianne Independent Advisor Lucianna Eletropaulo Electricity Daniella Allianz Natalia Natura Wanessa Worldbank

7. The pilars Earth Charter Framework U-theory to come to deep understanding of interconnectedness and innovate from there Leadership development supported by two experienced facilitators Working on businesscases in each phase Supportive key-speakers

9. First phase – Holland and EC+10 Brazilians came to Holland. In a diverse team of 13 people we emerged into the many themes, but mostly into the Earth Charter. During the 5 day program the group worked on a case of The Hagues ‘most sustainable community’ Erasmusveld, delivering an advise looking at the social aspects of sustainability. This was presented at EC+10

11. Second phase – Learning journey to Bahia (Brazil) (1/2) The second phase brought the Dutch to Brazil and as a team they mainly took up a challenging business case. The challenge was to see how Bahia could strengthen a sustainable development strategy while there is a huge risk of strong unsustainable develop-ment through the development of a harbour in the tropical forested coast.

13. Second phase – Learning journey to Bahia (Brazil) (2/2) After going through a deep multi-stakeholder proces based on the Utheory they delivered advise on three levels; - A systemic model to work from (based on EC) - An advise on how to strengthen sustainable tourism as a key factor for development A brand plan for the cocoa coast to attract investors for the region

14. At the end We had a satisfied customers (the local NGO to implement the advise and satisfied participants with the results and the learning experience…

16. Third phase – in-company case Presently we’re in the phase where the learnings are translated into the company cases each participant delivered to the program. They make use of coaching, extra hosted sessions, the webspace and external EC-advisors. November 26 th they present their result/learning

18. Next steps and needs After the succesful pilot of this program we aim to replicate it to keep building a generation of EC leaders. In order to do so we need extra (financial) support for following programs and to create a handbook with methodologies, interviews, lessons learned and best practices. Please contact us for your support

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