Sustainable Leadership: the rainforest perspective is an immersive learning experience in which students engage with a the Amazon territory. Through dialogues with local actors, peer exchange in a culturally diverse cohort, and guided moments of self-reflection, students will learn and critically reflect on: (i) Sustainable Development as a formal topic; and (ii) Sustainable Development as a driver of responsible, contemporary leadership and decision-making. Based on that, the course objectives are: • To present and make tangible, through experiential, collective and theoretical learning, questions that permeate the concepts of sustainable development and leadership for sustainability. • To promote field research and reflection on development models present in the territory visited from the contact and relationship with different realities and social actors (companies, local communities, NGOs, etc.). • To develop critical thinking that integrates perspectives on the environment, society, economy, politics, ethics and human values to decision making and leadership abilities. At the end of the course students will be able: • To observe and identify the systemic impacts and influences of decisions / actions of public, private and nongovernmental organizations, as well as individuals, for local and global sustainability. • To understand and revise sustainable development concepts, connecting them with other disciplines from the field of Business Administration. • To understand the importance of coordination and dialogue in the search for convergence of interests between the different actors involved in each context. • To mobilize and carry out actions to incorporate sustainability into their reflections and practical actions. • To observe and understand different perspectives of Leadership, conceptualizing what it means to lead for sustainability.
NOTE: Program fee is expected to be $1500-1700 US. This covers airfare for a round trip ticket from Sao Paulo to Santarém, one night in Santarém hotel, 4 nights on boat, including breakfast and dinners. Participants will still have to pay for their flight from abroad to Sao Paulo as usual in GNAM network weeks.