Elaine Daly

Elaine works as an educator and researcher with a focus on transformational higher education programmes to equip graduates with the leadership skills, tools and capacities to navigate complexity and support our planet’s transition to a sustainable society. She considers herself a changemaker and really enjoys partnering with her students and clients to create mental shifts of awareness but also to empower them with knowledge and skills around systems thinking, strategic sustainable development, leadership in complexity and personal development.

Her work is grounded in transdisciplinary science and transformative learning pedagogies. whereby she leans into a holistic understanding of current systems (nested economic, social and environmental systems) and a holistic understanding of how humans learn and change.

She has now started her PhD studies with a focus on creating the conditions for employees to become active changemakers in their companies transformations towards sustainability. She hopes to learn with and from her corporate partners so she can support their corporate transformations and build on current theories of corporate change to include specific support for empowering and engaging employees to become divers of corporate shifts towards sustainability.

She holds a Bachelor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering along with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and a Master’s degree in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology where she now works as a University Adjunct Lecturer. She has worked as a consultant in the private and NGO sectors in Ireland, Uganda and South Sudan, in the areas of finance, systems design, modelling and business process analysis. She also ran her own practice as a coach and holistic health practitioner. Her passion is in creating spaces for catalysing change and prototyping new behaviours and ways of being in order to create a healthy, harmonious and vibrant planet.

Specialities: Sustainability Education, Systems Thinking, Leadership in complexity, The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), Transformative Pedagogies, Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Corporate transformations, Strategic planning and Change, Corporate Sustainability, Holistic Health, Wellness Practices, Meditation, Enneagram, Journey Work, Sustainability, Systems Design, Project Management, Financial Modelling, Accounts, Consultancy, Training, Mentoring, Coaching.

Elaine works as an educator and researcher with a focus on transformational higher education programmes to equip graduates with the leadership skills, tools and capacities to navigate complexity and support our planet’s transition to a sustainable society. She considers herself a changemaker and really enjoys partnering with her students and clients to create mental shifts of awareness but also to empower them with knowledge and skills around systems thinking, strategic sustainable development, leadership in complexity and personal development.

Her work is grounded in transdisciplinary science and transformative learning pedagogies. whereby she leans into a holistic understanding of current systems (nested economic, social and environmental systems) and a holistic understanding of how humans learn and change.

She has now started her PhD studies with a focus on creating the conditions for employees to become active changemakers in their companies transformations towards sustainability. She hopes to learn with and from her corporate partners so she can support their corporate transformations and build on current theories of corporate change to include specific support for empowering and engaging employees to become divers of corporate shifts towards sustainability.

She holds a Bachelor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering along with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and a Master’s degree in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology where she now works as a University Adjunct Lecturer. She has worked as a consultant in the private and NGO sectors in Ireland, Uganda and South Sudan, in the areas of finance, systems design, modelling and business process analysis. She also ran her own practice as a coach and holistic health practitioner. Her passion is in creating spaces for catalysing change and prototyping new behaviours and ways of being in order to create a healthy, harmonious and vibrant planet.

Specialities: Sustainability Education, Systems Thinking, Leadership in complexity, The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), Transformative Pedagogies, Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Corporate transformations, Strategic planning and Change, Corporate Sustainability, Holistic Health, Wellness Practices, Meditation, Enneagram, Journey Work, Sustainability, Systems Design, Project Management, Financial Modelling, Accounts, Consultancy, Training, Mentoring, Coaching.