In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. However, progress is not happening fast enough, and we urgently need to increase our collective abilities to face and work effectively with complex challenges.

This is why we are co-creating the Inner Development Goals (IDG) – a non-profit, open-source initiative committed to fostering inner development towards more sustainable futures. We research, collect, and communicate science-based skills and qualities that help us to live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives.

"We research, collect, and communicate science-based skills and qualities that help us to live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives."

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IDG Summit 2025

In 2025, we invite you to join us at the last big IDG Summit in Stockholm. After we started the journey in Stockholm in 2022, we “connected” the first emerging IDG “dots” in 2023 and explored the “space in between” these growing ecosystems, together with thousands of participants on-site, online and at watch parties all over the world. Book your ticket Now!

IDG Ambassador Programme

Applications are now open for 20 passionate changemakers to join our co-created pilot IDG Ambassador Programme on Ekskāret Island from 8-10 November.

Organizations need leaders who are equipped for the many challenges they face. The Inner Development Goals can help individuals become true sustainability champions.

Explore how policymakers set an ambitious course for progress towards a more sustainable and inclusive world by 2030 with the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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We bring the power of inner development to global challenges faced by humanity.

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CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Our partnership offers a platform to exchange best practices, scale up skill-building initiatives, and shift the narrative on sustainability. Stand out in the realm of sustainable leadership.

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

Support the IDG Initiative by becoming a philanthropic partner. Lead in sustainability and human development and join conversations that matter.

ACADEMIC CO-CREATION

Join a global academic network where country and language-based research teams help to co-create and develop the IDG Framework and toolkit

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

Participate in a fully-funded global leadership programme to accelerate sustainable development across civil society, academia and public and private sectors in your country.

HUBS & NETWORKS

The glocal IDG Hubs & Networks are a self-organised emerging ecosystem of groups of people and/or organisations supporting the IDG initiative

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS

We welcome activities and events that are organised in support of the IDGs. Explore how to use the open-source Framework and Toolkit with your clients or at events.

Let’s stay connected. IDG is more than an initiative; it’s a movement in the making.

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Rooted in interdisciplinary research, the IDG Framework consists of 5 dimensions with 23 skills of human inner growth and development.

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We bring the world's leading experts on leadership development and sustainability into a constructive dialogue on scaling collective inner development

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Imagine a Summit designed by and for a global community committed to inner development for outer change…

Grounded in the 5 dimensions of the IDG Framework, experience a fusion of global perspectives from science, business, academia, and the arts as we collectively step into The Space in Between—a place of unlimited imagination and possibility.
Add your voice, passion and purpose to a growing global movement of changemakers harnessing the power of inner development to drive meaningful change in the world of business and beyond.

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