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Niklas Kaskeala: "The climate crisis is also a leadership crisis"

Who’s responsible for solving the climate crisis? That was the question in the first slide and the opening of Niklas Kaskeala’s LFC Lecture, organized by the first-year students of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change. Quite a shocker, but that was precisely the point – to incite debate as well as to provoke communication and critical thinking among the participants. In his talk, Niklas Kaskeala discussed the role of leadership – and lack of it – in the climate crisis. He also told about the initiative of Compensate, which aims to offset carbon emissions by compensating for unavoidable emissions and directing funds to high-impact carbon projects. Previously, Niklas Kaskeala has worked as Funding Coordinator for the Crisis Management Initiative and Executive Director of the Finnish Foundation for Media and Development. He is also a Founding Board Member of a non-profit organization Protect Our Winters Finland.

Ismo Ulvila: "Climate, energy, and security politics go hand in hand"

The Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change had the honor of welcoming Ismo Ulvila as one of the guest lecturers of the LFC Lectures series. His background is admirable: he has worked globally in diverse negotiating tasks and issues connected to climate and trade policies. Currently, he is the Head of Communications at the European Commission's Representation in Finland. It is fair to say that our speaker had many valuable insights on the UN climate process, global climate finance and the EU's energy security issues, from which we got to learn during the LFC Lecture. 

Lea Rankinen: "Sustainability is always a moving target"

We were utmost delighted to pilot this year’s the Leadership for Change Lecture series with our first guest speaker Lea Rankinen, Director in Sustainability and Public Affairs at Paulig Group. In her lecture, Lea Rankinen focused on sharing valuable practical learnings that she has gained over her impressive 20-year career in sustainability within the food, retail, and service sectors, as well as introducing practical tools that support her while managing sustainable business strategies and overseeing their successful execution.

Case studies by LFC students: Examining leadership and sustainability challenges

The second-year LFC students have just finished the 2021 edition of the course "LFCS04 Case Study: Examining Leadership and Sustainability Challenges" which is traditionally carried out in close collaboration with business and public organisations. During the course, the students design and conduct research projects on the basis of tasks assigned to them by a partner organisation; the course, thus, is aimed at developing students’ capabilities and know-how in multi-disciplinary research teams. Read the blog post and have a closer look at the description of 8 projects the students performed in the autumn semester 2021!

Video: LFC Lecture with Venla Roth, Anti-trafficking Coordinator

Click on the blog post to watch the third Leadership for Change Lecture in 2021 hosting Anti-trafficking Coordinator Venla Roth. The LFC Lecture was titled 'Human Trafficking and Anti-trafficking'. Trafficking in human beings has become a major international concern in the last two decades. It has been subjected to intense political debate and ambitious legal regulation on international, regional and national levels.