Soft skills for hard targets: Why leaders need IDGs to reach the SDGs
Progress towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals has been slow. Leaders need Inner Development Goals to become true sustainability champions....
Heather Cairns-Lee is Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Communication at IMD. She is a member of IMD’s Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Council and an experienced executive coach. She works to develop reflective and responsible leaders and caring inclusive cultures in organizations and society.
January 27, 2025 • by David Bach, Natalia Olynec, Heather Cairns-Lee in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
Progress towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals has been slow. Leaders need Inner Development Goals to become true sustainability champions....
December 18, 2024 • by Nancy Lane, Anand Narasimhan, Heather Cairns-Lee in Human Resources • 6 min read
Anand Narasimhan, Heather Cairns-Lee, and Nancy Lane explain how an executive at SAP in California made it his mission to spread mindfulness around the world....
December 9, 2024 • by Heather Cairns-Lee in Brain Circuits • 3 min read
Activism is about bringing about change – and we can all do it, in our different ways. See if you can recognize yourself in the typography below....
October 14, 2024 • by Heather Cairns-Lee, Ramon de Haas , Meike Kolthof in Sustainability • 7 min read
Offshore infrastructure firm Heerema took an unconventional approach to communicating its net-zero ambition to win buy-in from employees and stakeholders....