In such uncertain times for the world, the launch of some initiatives gives you hope and energy. It is the case of the “Next Leaders’ University”, a new micro-trainings platform on sustainability and leadership issues coming to Europe from Japan.
As it is officially and humbly defined, NLU is going to be “a training platform aiming to transfer the skills of young sustainability experts to the young staff of global companies”. Nothing new -as I said to myself at first- in the already huge market of the sustainability training…
But I was wrong. I do believe that NLU is going to challenge the current state of the “world of sustainability”. Why?
1/ First of all, NLU is willing to end up with the so-called “global experts in sustainability”, whose only expertise is to make trainings worldwide every month, and who generally never test their strategies on the ground.
NLU is indeed including new people and ideas into the game of sustainability: their young sustainability experts are indeed local doers, who generally do not have time to realize such training and to share their -yet very valuable- expertise at a global level (because they are precisely… doing things!).
2/ NLU is also creating a “win-win” environment in which young local experts empower young staff of companies, and in which companies also empower those local experts. The objective of NLU indeed is to spread awareness to global companies while also allowing local doers to scale up their activities. This double-sided empowerment, in which the local finally can help the global -and not the contrary as always now-, represents a fresh breeze in the world of today.
3/ NLU, finally, wants to be the best promoter of the idea of “intrapreneurship”. I indeed noticed that NLU doesn’t provide skills: NLU provides a local2global environment that helps its clients to improve their skills. It is not the same. In the world of today, where the “truth” and “pre-designed” solutions can/do not exist anymore, and where uncertainty has become the norm, I believe that such kind of mindset can be a game-changer. The facts now: by this summer, NLU will be already providing 15 micro-trainings of 15 minutes each, on topics like “edible landscapes”, “cultural sustainability”, “arts and sustainability”, “citizenship expertise”, “upcycling”, “women empowerment in the Kenyan Masaï tribes”, “education 2.0 in the favelas of Brazil” etc.
Yes, all of those topics are very new. And that’s mainly why I liked it a lot.
Because, near the sustainability network, we need to be aware: a sustainable idea is a challenged idea. And sustainability is not an exception: by shaking the current points of view, mindsets, and people of sustainability, NLU might be making sustainability sustainable itself.
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Article by: Frantz Dhers.
CEO of Original’s — Cultural Responsibility — Post-Globalized Citizen
