Impact Journey with Julia

Creative complex collective leadership - Femke Bartels, THNK, Greenpeace

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From being a changemaker at a very early age, through 17 years at Greenpeace, Femke walks through the modern day tensions of leadership, and makes the case for this new type of leadership - a creative, complex, and collective leadership.

THE IMPACT. Femke Bartels:

  • Is Managing Director of THNK School for Creative Leadership, a purpose-driven social enterprise with transformative programs to develop leaders to solve the world’s greatest challenges
  • Worked for Greenpeace for 17 years in many roles, including Campaign Director, Global Forest Network Director, Global Director of Strategy and Planning, and Executive Director of Greenpeace Mexico
  • Served as a policy advisor to the European Parliament and the Dutch Ministry of Environment
  • Studied Political Sciences and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, and has a Master of Public Administration at the University of Twente

    • THE JOURNEY. In our conversation, we explore:

    • Origins as a changemaker: “chicken is chicken?”
    • Joining Greenpeace as a campaigner: “they were looking for me”
    • Societal change: “what are your motivators?”
    • Collective leadership: “ordinary people doing extraordinary things”, “connection over polarization”
    • Complex leadership: “comfortable not knowing”, “courage is not the absence of fear”
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