Biodiversity loss has entered mainstream awareness, yet meaningful action continues to lag. Since the IPBES (2019) and Dasgupta (2020) reports, biodiversity has gained recognition alongside climate change in business, policy, and public discourse. However, the transition from awareness to action remains slow.

This workshop builds on insights from a transdisciplinary research project BIODIFUL (2021–2025) focused on fostering biodiversity-respectful leadership across society. We define leadership not only through formal roles in business, politics, and beyond, but also as the ability to inspire and mobilize others within personal networks, from communities to workplaces.

We propose that exponential change begins with individuals acting as biodiversity agents in their own spheres of influence. By equipping participants with tools and strategies to educate and activate their networks, we aim to catalyze chain reactions of biodiversity-positive behavior.

In this 180 minute-session we will share practical insights from our project on enabling biodiversity leadership, facilitate co-creation of strategies to empower participants as change agents, and explore how communication can make biodiversity relevant to business, policy, and individual choices. Participants will leave with actionable tools to influence biodiversity-respectful behavior in their networks, and practical ways to communicate biodiversity knowledge into everyday practice.