Petra Kuenkel

Petra Kuenkel is a full member of the Club of Rome and leading strategic adviser to pioneering international multi-stakeholder initiatives that tackle sustainability issues. She is the founder and executive director of the Collective Leadership Institute (CLI), a German not-for-profit social enterprise building competency for collaborative change and advocating for high-quality dialogue and cooperation. As a lead faculty member, she designed and conducted high-potential international leadership programs in the United States and the United Kingdom. Based on successful change processes, she developed dialogic change methodology and the Collective Leadership Compass, a guiding tool for navigating change in complex multi-actor settings. Kuenkel’s writing has appeared in the Guardian Sustainable Leadership hub, numerous professional journals, and she is the author of the acclaimed publications: "The Art of Leading Collectively", "Working with Stakeholder Dialogues", "Mind & Heart", "Führung mit Sinn" and more...

Petra Kuenkel has gained extensive experience in consulting complex partnering processes internationally (e.g. in Germany, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Cambodia, Laos, Egypt, Yemen), in particular multi-actor collaboration processes around common goods (land, water) or economic development (public-private dialogue, responsible supply chains). She is an expert for complex cross-sector and cross-institutional partnering, multi-stakeholder dialogues and standard development for value chains.