Meet our Team
Joanna Stanberry, Co-lead Investigator
Joanna Stanberry is a postgraduate researcher at the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria, Ambleside, UK. Her research and practice explore the possibilities for informal learning towards sustainability leadership enacted in collaborative settings between diverse actors. In particular, considering critical approaches to emancipatory exchanges in the context of 'informed agitation’ for the 2030 Agenda. She has published on business ethics, sustainable development, cross sector governance, as well as related approaches to sustainability leadership. Joanna is the podcast editor for the Journal of Tropical Futures as well as a Research Fellow with Earth System Governance serving on the SDG Private Governance working group.
Previously, Joanna worked for 15 years in New York City in non-profit marketing, tech, finance, and philanthropy. Her field research among the indigenous Aymara and Quechua at a global health NGO in Bolivia and in Brazil with religious organisations explored decolonising leadership practices and was funded by the Kravis Leadership Institute. She has taught at the MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University and has an MA in Organizational Leadership from Eastern University, PA, and a BA from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, CA where she was awarded the Edward J. Sexton Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Fellowship.
Publications
Balda, J. B., Stanberry, J., & Altman, B. (2023). Leadership and the Regenerative Economy - Concepts, Cases, and Connections: Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals to move toward sustainability leadership. New Directions for Student Leadership, Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/yd.20574
Stanberry, J., & Balda, J. B. (2023). A Conceptual review of SDG 17: Picturing politics, proximity, and progress. Journal of Tropical Futures: Sustainable Business, Governance & Development, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/27538931231170509
Stanberry, J., Balda, J. B., & Balda, W. D. (2022). Xenophon to the Sustainable Development Goals: An interweaving of collective engagement. In S. K. Dhiman, J. Marques, J. Schmieder-Ramirez, & P. G. Malakyan (Eds.), Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership: Integrating the Best Leadership Theory and Practice. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75831-8
Balda, J., & Stanberry, J. (2022). Finding Good Work in COVID-19: Legal and ethical challenges for sustainability. In C. Patton & E. Egel (Eds.), Ethical Implications of COVID-19 Management: Evaluating the Aftershock. Ethics Press.
Balda, J. B., & Stanberry, J. (2021). The art of MA leadership: A brief introduction to wayfinding for a sustainable future. Journal of Leadership Studies, 15(3), 63–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21787
Stanberry, J. (2010, April 23). Millennials Seek Meaning. Comment. www.cardus.ca/comment/article/millennials-seek-meaning/
Stanberry, J. (2010) Wielding the Meeting: How the manager’s tool can advance tomorrow. 2010. Finalist, Peter Drucker Essay Challenge, Peter Drucker Society of Europe. https://www.druckerchallenge.org/retrospective/2010/
Stanberry, J. (2009). Servant Leadership [strikethrough] Development: Observations on leaderless leadership. Mutuality, 16(4), 16.
Stanberry, J. (2009). Tomorrow’s Tomorrow: Millenials and the self-knowledge imperative. Drucker Workshop for Studies of Peter F. Drucker’s Management Philosophy, Annual Report 2009 Civilization and Management Japan Drucker Centennial Commemorative Issue, p. 513-514.