Renuka Thakore, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) PIEMA AFHEA, Founder of the Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnerships, UK, provides leadership to a global Network, administering multidisciplinary activities and research partnerships development platform. Renuka is the winner of several Awards, including the "Star Volunteer Award 2023", "Entrepreneurial Thinker 2023", and the "Development Leadership: Governor Enrique Tomás Cresto Award 2022". Renuka has embarked on an innovative challenge of building the capacities of the Global South nations, organizing unique Summits structured not only to increase the national capacities but also to build the capacity of Global South countries simultaneously to respond to climate change while bringing prosperity to their people. She is recognized for her vision, connecting academics, businesses, and individuals, bringing together Global South and Global North to involve them in climate adaptation resilience and transition. She has created a vibrant, strategically performing community that attracts enthusiastic, like-minded coordinators worldwide. The network welcomes diverse sections and societies worldwide and is committed to ‘leaving no one behind’ while contributing to sustainable development goals (SDGs). Renuka loves to dig into real-world problems and solve them by applying systems thinking and transdisciplinarity, bringing together technologies, emerging trends in data, skills, education and employment, and future scenarios, and evaluating strategic realities through the multi-level and multi-dimensional integrated framing of sustainable development. Her personal and professional journey over the last 35 years has taught her the key to this lies within every individual and organization and how they are empowered through their external and internal support system. Building sustainable futures based on traditional systems is impossible. They could be co-created based on shared values and common goods.