This special issue seeks interdisciplinary research exploring how managers can develop sustainability leadership capacity across interconnected levels. The focus spans macro outcomes related to compassionate flourishing and planetary health, meso-level organizational and community goals, and micro-level personal values and behavioral inputs of managers. The issue aims to identify connection points in the entire sustainability leadership development system.
Through contributions from diverse scholars, the special issue will examine how sustainability leadership capability can serve as a positive force in addressing global challenges, how it can be applied systematically within organizations and communities, and how managers' personal values and morals translate into sustainable behaviors and decisions. Recommendations emerging from the issue are intended to benefit academics, practitioners, and broader environmental outcomes.