From being a changemaker at a very early age, through 17 years at Greenpeace, Femke walks through the modern day tensions of leadership, and makes the case for this new type of leadership - a creative, complex, and collective leadership.
THE IMPACT. Femke Bartels:
- Is Managing Director of THNK School for Creative Leadership, a purpose-driven social enterprise with transformative programs to develop leaders to solve the world’s greatest challenges
- Worked for Greenpeace for 17 years in many roles, including Campaign Director, Global Forest Network Director, Global Director of Strategy and Planning, and Executive Director of Greenpeace Mexico
- Served as a policy advisor to the European Parliament and the Dutch Ministry of Environment
- Studied Political Sciences and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, and has a Master of Public Administration at the University of Twente
THE JOURNEY. In our conversation, we explore:
- Origins as a changemaker: “chicken is chicken?”
- Joining Greenpeace as a campaigner: “they were looking for me”
- Societal change: “what are your motivators?”
- Collective leadership: “ordinary people doing extraordinary things”, “connection over polarization”
- Complex leadership: “comfortable not knowing”, “courage is not the absence of fear”
