THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES (UWI) OPEN CAMPUS (BELIZE) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CAVE HILL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (BARBADOS)

BELIZE COUNTRY CONFERENCE 2016

 

November 9 & 10, 2016

Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza

3 ½ Miles Philip Goldson Highway, Belize City

 

LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY: INNOVATIVE, ENGAGEMENT/DEVELOPMENT, AGILE AND RESILIENT.

 

 

The social construct of sustainability leadership has now been added to the hundred adjectives of leadership that describes individual intentions, outcomes and behaviours. “Leadership for sustainability requires leaders of extraordinary abilities. These are leaders who can read and predict through complexity, think through complex problems, engage groups in dynamic adaptive organisational change and have the emotional intelligence to adaptively engage with their own emotions associated with complex problem solving" (Metcalf and Benn 2013).  

 

The UWI, Open Campus, Belize in collaboration with the Cave Hill School of Business, Barbados will be convening a conference on Leadership for Sustainability in November of 2016 to discuss and derive solutions for sustainable development of the Caribbean region.  It is within this context that the UWI, Open Campus, Belize and the Cave Hill School of Business extend an invitation to all interested persons as well as national, regional and international organizations to contribute their knowledge to this exercise.

 

Topics to be considered (whilst not exhaustive) include but are not limited to the following:

 

·         Educating Leaders for Sustainability

·         Sustainability Leadership Promoting Diversity

·         Sustainability Leadership and Activism

·         Sustainability Leadership and Cross Cultural Blended Learning

·         Risk Reduction and Stability by Mastering Sustainability Change Management

·         Change Management for Sustainability

·         What Leading Companies are doing to embed Sustainability through Education

.         Education of Leadership tiers (top-down approach) in Sustainability through Education

.         Engaging in Meaningful Thought Partnership

.         Innovation for Sustainability

.         Environmental and Human Health        

.         Tapping Grass-roots Change Leadership Potential

.         Organizational and Decision Making Agility

.         Energy Resilience

.         Poverty Reduction

.         Climate Change

 

Interested presenters are invited to submit an Abstract of no more than 250 words by the deadline of May 6, 2016 which must include: Title of the Paper; Author’s Contact Information (mailing address, email and telephone numbers) and Bio-data of no more than 250 words.

 

Feedback on abstracts will be provided by:   May 20, 2016

 Final Abstracts to be submitted by:                 June 20, 2016

 Full Paper to be submitted by:                          October 6, 2016

 

Submissions to be sent to:  [log in to unmask]

  

For further information, kindly contact:

 

Jane E. Bennett (Mrs.) 
Head
The University of the West Indies
Open Campus
Belize

Phone:  501-223-0484 or 501-223-5320
Fax:      501-223-2038
email:    [log in to unmask]

 

Dr. Ann A. A. Wallace

Programme Director 

The Cave Hill School of Business-The University of the West Indies

P O Box 64

Bridgetown BB11000

Barbados

Phone: (246) 424-7731/3768/7652

Fax:246) 425-1670

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Website:  http://www.uwichsb.org