Mike Saks is Emeritus Professor at the University of Suffolk and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln and the University of Westminster, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also Chair of the United Nations-endorsed Institute for Responsible Leadership. He has published extensively on health, professions, regulation and research methods.

With a range of well-respected voices from across the business, political, third sector and research spectrum, this important book provides an accessible insight into responsible leadership. It represents the most comprehensive and informed work on responsible leadership linked to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) produced to date.

This carefully edited volume, based on a collaborative partnership between the Institute for Responsible Leadership (IRL) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), contains twenty chapters in seven parts which address the relationship between responsible leadership and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These original and accessible contributions discuss progress in a variety of areas relevant to the goals, including climate change and biodiversity, global health, cybercrime, human trafficking, corporate social responsibility, gender, education and social cohesion. The world-leading expert contributors are drawn from a wide range of societies and continents and cover key aspects of responsible leadership in a lively and impactful fashion.

This book is for leaders at every level in the public, private and third sectors, students concerned with responsible leadership, academics and researchers studying leadership in different disciplinary fields, and all those committed to sustainable development and progressing the UN SDGs.

Part I: Challenges of Responsible Leadership in a National and International Context

1. Responsible Leadership: Following the Spirit of Nelson Mandela

Mike Saks

2. Responsible Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

Alex Mejía

Part II: Leadership and Social Responsibility

3. Constitutional Ethics, Human Rights and Responsible Leadership

James M. Durant III

4. Innovation and Responsible Leadership in Business and Industry

Sa'ad Sam Medhat

5. Cybercrime, Digital Technology and Responsible Leadership

Christiane Wuillamie

Part III: Responsible Leadership in the Private and Public Sector

6. Responsible Leadership and Good Governance

Colin Coulson-Thomas

7. Privatization, Poverty and Responsible Leadership

Guy Standing

8. Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Leadership

Michael Hopkins

Part IV: Communication and Responsible Leadership

9. Emotional Intelligence, Social Cohesion and Responsible Leadership

Mike Eldon

10. Intercultural Communication Competence for Responsible Leadership

Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi

11. Co-Responsible Leadership and Partnership

Rhiannon Lloyd and Brigid Carroll

Part V: Education, Professions and Responsible Leadership

12. School and College Education and Responsible Leadership

Julie Search-Whittaker and Adrian Sladdin

13. Responsible Leadership and Higher Education

Enver Yücel

14. Professions and Responsible Leadership

Mike Saks

Part VI: Responsible Leadership, the Environment and Global Health

15. COVID-19 and Global Human Health

Miwako Hosoda

16. Responsible Leadership, the Climate Crisis and Preserving Planetary Health

David Zakus

17. Biodiversity and Responsible Leadership

Edward Milner

Part VII: Diversity, Challenge and Change

18. Responsible Leadership Development: Gender, Diversity and the Route to the Top

Mahima Mitra, Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Sue Dopson and Michael Smets

19. Human Trafficking and Responsible Leadership

Louise Shelley

20. Youth, Social Media and Responsible Leadership

Sebastian Hofbauer