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3. Capacity to Transform
Willingness to work with others, in a way that taps
their greatest potential, toward collaboratively finding
and implementing solutions to the inequities
What do bridging leaders need to
KNOW?
1. Systems Thinking
A new perspective, a specialized language, and
a set of tools that can be used to understand
reality as a whole – the relationships among the
parts of a system – rather than the parts
themselves
2. Multi-Stakeholder Processes
Setting up and facilitating dialogic processes that
bring together diverse stakeholders into
constructive engagement, dialogue and collective
decision making
3. Creativity
‘Emergent processes’ i.e. tools and capacities to
discuss how one can sense the future as it emerges
or sense it from the pieces of the future held by
other stakeholders
What do bridging leaders need to
DO?
1. Strengthen will to lead through self-awareness
Articulation of the leader’s set of values and
capital as well as the leader’s understanding of the
inequities being faced as input for verbalizing and
concretizing the personal response that the leader
commits to
2. Convene a multi-stakeholder group that
is built on trust
Engaging diverse stakeholders and building
trust among them toward reaching a shared
vision on how to address the current reality
of inequities
3. Change institutional arrangements
Leading the collaborative implementation
of innovative programs that will result to
societal equity and that are based on new
institutional arrangements that make
institutions responsive and empower
citizens