**7. Conclusion**

The chapter has presented and analysed a variety of seminal and influential frameworks and models of sustainable leadership to primarily illuminate potential pitfalls, which can easily scupper any unsuspecting leader or scholar. Additionally, the chapter has highlighted insights to enhance an accurate and deep understanding of the nature and practice of effective, sustainable leadership, which is pivotal for practitioners who enact sustainable leadership.

There is no scholarly consensus on the meaning of sustainable leadership. However, what is clear from this review is that sustainable leadership is complex, multi-dimensional and parsed into individual and organisational-level capabilities, which integrate into the pursuit of DAC. Sustainable leadership does not have a singular focus on the organisation as it pursues DAC typified by the long-term perspective, holistic and systemic balance in the triple bottom line, which embraces broader society.

The proposed integrative framework of sustainable leadership brings together the individual, organisation, society and sustainability context, which shape sustainability-oriented DAC. This framework is crucial in providing tools for leaders grappling with embedding sustainability in their organisations. It is also a catalyst for future academic research on sustainable leadership. Scholars need to develop more pragmatic and theoretically-informed frameworks that adopt a systems lens to integrate the individual, organisation and society while taking cognisance of the multi-dimensional nature of sustainability and the challenges of pursuing a sustainability-oriented DAC.
