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Why Self-Care is Essential for Effective Sustainability Leadership

By Thomas L. Rosenberg — 2019

For activists and those who work on environmental, climate and sustainability issues, we might feel angst, grief, anger and/or frustration each time we hear about another climate domino falling. We also may experience these emotions in those moments when we don’t feel our urgency to change laws, business models, structures or processes is heard. I want to highlight that these feelings are completely normal. As a leadership development and executive coach, what interests me is how we deal with them.

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