Dreier, LisaNabarro, DavidNelson, Jane2025-10-212019-09Dreier, Lisa, David Nabarro, and Jane Nelson. “Systems Leadership for Sustainable Development: Strategies for Achieving Systemic Change.” Corporate Responsibility Initiative Report No. 80. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, September 2019.https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42720450The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda includes 17 inter-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), each representing complex systems - such as climate, food, health, cities - with myriad stakeholders. Achieving progress on this agenda requires a departure from traditional top-down, hierarchical and linear approaches to implementing change. Instead it requires innovative and adaptive approaches that engage broad networks of diverse stakeholders to advance progress toward a shared vision for systemic change. This approach is called Systems Leadership.Technical Report