DAWN BAGGALEY‘s Accreditation paper explores how partnership brokering is central to creating sustainable change, and how the emerging professions of partnership brokering and sustainability compare.
In her role as Head for Sustainability for the NZ Post, Dawn draws her own experience as a sustainability professional and internal partnership broker and she invites the perspective of others in the field through a survey questionnaire.
She applies the concept of “Tempered Radical” – someone who “works within the system to change the system” – to examine how partnership brokering principles could help the sustainability profession to mobilise knowledge and skills to address systemic, cultural and organisational challenges.
Dawn’s paper sheds light on the skills, tool and strategies they use and how brokering is essential to creating sustainable change.
“This paper explores how partnerships and internal brokering is key for creating sustainable change within organisations in particular business. Through the lens of Tempered Radicalism, the author is analysing the skills and strategies that have guided her work as a sustainability profession and identify similarities between partnership brokers and sustainability managers. A peer survey shows that over 80% are brokering as part of their day-to-day work. There is huge potential for both professions to learn from each other and collaborate.”
Download Dawn’s paper here. What are you observing about sustainability and partnership brokering in your collaborative context?