BOOKS RELEVANT FOR REGENERATIVE LEADERSHIP

Business & Culture 

  • Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability, Pamela Mang & Ben Haggard

  • Companies that Mimic Life, Jay Bragdon

  • The Nature of Business, Giles Hutchins

  • Regenerative Business, Carol Sanford

  • Designing Regenerative Cultures, Daniel Christian Wahl

  • The Living Organisation, Norman Wolfe

  • The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience, Toby Hemenway 

  • The Age of Thriveability, Michelle Holliday

Visions & Scenarios 

  • How soon is now? From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation, Daniel Pinchbeck

  • The Breakthrough Challenge, Jochen Zeitz & John Elkington 

  • Project Drawdown, Paul Hawkins 

  • Utopia for Realists - and how we get there, Rutger Bregman

Biomimicry & The Circular Economy 

  • Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature, Janine Benyus 

  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things, Michael Braungart & William McDonough 

  • The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows, Ken Webster & Ellen McArthur 

  • Waste to Wealth: The Circular Economy Advantage, Peter Lacy & Jakob Rutqvist

  • A Changemakers Guide to the Future, Anders Lendager & Ditte Lysgaard Vind

Nature 

  • Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams 

  • Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Martin Jordan 

  • The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science, Andrea Wulf 

  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Peter Wohlleben 

New Leadership Paradigm

  • The New Leadership Paradigm: Richard Barrett 

  • Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux

  • Theory U – Otto Scharmer 

  • The Necessary Revolution, Peter Senge, et al

  • Flourishing Enterprise, Chris Laszlo, et al

  • Synchronicity, Joseph Jawarski

  • Future Fit, Giles Hutchins

  • Shakti Leadership: Embracing the Feminine and Masculine Future of Business, Ray Sisodia & Nilima Bhat

  • The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future, John Gerzema & Michael D'Antonio

  • Presence, Peter Senge, et al

  • Still Moving, Deborah Rowland

Socio-economic, Cultural and Human Development

  • More Human, Steve Hilton

  • The Zero Marginal Cost Economy, Jeremy Rifkin

  • Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer

  • On Dialogue, David Bohm

Zeitgeist Paradigm Shift 

  • Stealing Fire, Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal

  • Dispelling Wetiko, Paul Levy

  • The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram

  • The Illusion of Separation, Giles Hutchins

  • The Fall, Steve Taylor

  • Spontaneous Evolution, Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman

Personal Development 

  • A Hidden Wholeness, Parker J Palmer

  • Touching Enlightenment, Reginald Ray

  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

  • Sky Above Earth Below, John P Milton

  • Insight Dialogue, Gregory Kramer