Model and Strategy
Accelerating the resource revolution needs 2 things in scarce supply: sharp thinking on how and why we are failing to manage resources effectively and a cadre of leaders skilled at coaxing a balky system towards better practices.
The focus of this project is to solve both of these challenges by identifying, powering up, and supporting the new generation of resource managers already working in the field to co-create and implement 10 prototype resource management models, tools, and ideas over the next two years.
Our big goal is creating a scalable modern change equation: emerging diverse young leaders + connected thinking + peer and action learning = the new mindset, skills, ideas, projects, and ability to manage resources for the maximum common good.
The center of this effort is a “Connected Leadership Lab” that fills a gap in the current ecosystem of education, training, and leadership development options available for resource managers who focus on food, farming, and water issues.
Impact
The project’s goal is nothing less than changing the culture of how we tackle resource challenges in California. Ultimately success will be achieved as the cadre of leaders who have experienced the Lab create hundreds of prototypes that rewrite California’s resource management manuals, and model collaborative leadership in their field.
To accomplish this we need systems change leaders embedded in major decision-making settings across the State. With a goal of 500 leaders engaged, scaling change and tipping the state culture is possible.
The key to success will be the changed attitudes and approaches championed by the leaders themselves. This is not a massive comprehensive plan, but a distributed model of change based on (1) increasing awareness of and responsiveness to the inefficiencies of the current food and resource management system, and (2) the relationships and community support that enable bold thinking and collaboration.
Each cohort will focus on a major food resource challenge; water in the food system in year 1, land use in year 2,and other critical areas in years 3-10. At the end of the decade we aim to change mindsets in 10 key resource management areas.
Leadership
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Joseph McIntyre
President and Principal Facilitator