Designs for a Cooler Planet
This fall, the festival celebrates innovative and collaborative designs addressing the impossible sustainability challenges. Experience tomorrow in Otaniemi on 6 Sept – 3 Oct 2024!
Embrace the Future – A Responsible Multispecies Leadership Agenda
Is it possible to apply multi-species and biodiversity-respecting approaches to the development of leadership and business practice? The answer is yes! These novel approaches to management studies enhance the holistic well-being of both human and non-human beings and are worthy of further exploration.
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Undergraduate Centre
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Lecture hall A215 / A2
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Event language(s)
English
How can we revolutionize the way leaders – and individuals – think about leadership in the era of the Anthropocene? In a world where sustainability and ethical business practices are increasingly critical, this seminar inspires a paradigm shift by integrating multispecies and biodiversity-respectful perspectives into the core of leadership and sustainable business practice. It aims to cultivate multi-disicplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration by integrating multispecies engagement, animal welfare, and leadership.
By bringing together scholars, students, and practitioners, the event delves into the transformative potential of multispecies and biodiversity-respectful approaches to leadership, business, and management. This event aims to challenge conventional notions of leadership, prompting a shift from a human-centered approach to more ethical and biodiversity-respectful ‘more-than-human’ perspectives.
The seminar is part of the Design for Cooler Planet event. A link is distributed to online participants after registration.
14:15
Welcome and opening of the seminar
Astrid Huopalainen, Assistant Professor, Aalto University
14:15 – 14:45
One Health & One Welfare – Insights on Animal Welfare for Future Leaders
Anna Hielm-Björkman, Assistant Professor, Docent of Clinical Research in Companion Animals, University of Helsinki, Finland
What is One Health & One Welfare, and what do future leaders and business practicitioners need to know about this approach? Given that One Health & One Welfare integrates the interconnections between animal welfare, human well-being, and the physical and social environment, future leaders and business practitioners can play a pivotal role in fostering a more sustainable and equitable world, where the health and well-being of humans, animals, and the environment are all prioritized.
14:45 – 15:15
Nonhumans as Stakeholders: Fostering Ethical Leadership in a Multispecies Agenda
José-Carlos García-Rosell, Professor of Business Ethics, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland
Although stakeholder theory has traditionally been anthropocentric, an emerging stream of literature is expanding stakeholder thinking to include nonhumans. Who are nonhuman stakeholders? How does stakeholder status contribute to the inclusion of nonhumans in organizations? What role do research and education play in promoting multispecies leadership? By using the case of sled dog kennels as a multispecies organizational context, this presentation will shed light into the meaning of ethical leadership and business practices that consider the well-being and needs of both human and nonhuman tourism workers.
15:15 – 15:45
Biodiversity Respectful Leadership – Shaping the Future
Satu Teerikangas, Professor of Management and Organization, University of Turku, Finland
What is Biodiversity Respectful Leadership, and how can this approach foster a paradigm shift in leadership? Addressing biodiversity decline and loss calls for transformative change. This presentation explores how leadership can enable such transformative change. Building on interdisciplinary conceptual and empirical research, the presentation offers insights into biodiversity-respectful leadership. Moreover, the challenges and opportunities involved in such conceptualization are discussed.
15:45 – 16:15
A Q&A session with the speakers
Astrid Huopalainen, Assistant Professor, Aalto University, will chair the session.
16:15 –
Snacks and networking
Speaker bios
Anna Hielm-Björkman is a Docent of Clinical Research in Companion Animals and leader of the DogRisk research group at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her group works in a multidisciplinary manner, as part of the Helsinki One Health as well as the Research Centre for Animal Welfare research communities. Their main target has been studying nutrition, disease, and environment related welfare aspects in pets’ lives. In the PAWWS project she combines their groundbreaking scent detection dog work with welfare both dogs and humans, easing the integration of dogs as social, physical, and mental co-workers in a more open-minded future society.
José-Carlos García-Rosell is Professor of Business Ethics in the Department of Marketing, Management, and International Business, at Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland. He also holds associate professorships in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Tourism at Tampere University, Finland, and the University of Maribor, Slovenia. His research interests are in CSR, human-animal relations in tourism, and responsible management education. His work has been published in journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Management Learning, and Tourism Geographies.
Satu Teerikangas is Professor and Unit Head, Management and Organization at Turku School of Economics as well as Honorary Professor at University College London. Her research centres on strategic change and change agency. She is editor of the Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency (2021). Her approach to scientific inquiry is collaborative and interdisciplinary. In 2022-2027, she is co-director of the Strategic Research Council funded research project BIODIFUL - Biodiversity respectful leadership, while also involved as one of the co-PIs in the Finnish Academy's Profilation 6 (2021-2026)-funded BIODIFORM consortium connecting Biodiversity & business in an interdisciplinary setting across University of Turku.
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