New Directions in Conservation Leadership symposium 2023
12 – 14 July 2023
Hosted by the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership in the David Attenborough Building, Cambridge, UK
A three-day gathering designed to bring together key actors offering training programmes around the world with a focus on conservation leadership capacity building, including those working in universities, NGOs and specialist training agencies. This event will build on the shared vision of this group for learning and non-competitive collaboration to establish a Global Conservation Leadership Community of Practice to improve our programmes and address unmet capacity needs around the world.
Meeting Objectives:
- Improve individual and collective leadership development practices and initiatives through peer learning and exchange.
- Enhance collaboration between individual organisations, capitalising on relative strengths to advance each other’s work and overall leadership development practices in the conservation field.
- Determine future structure, purpose, resourcing, and plans for the ‘New Directions’ group.
The first New Directions in Conservation Leadership symposium was held in Cambridge in 2019. Since this initial meeting, an informal network of roughly 25 organisations and conservation leadership practitioners has held quarterly online meetings to share information, explore opportunities for collaboration and support each other's programmes.