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Leap the Gap is a book–game hybrid designed to help individuals, teams, and organizations move from sustainability as an abstract intention to sustainability as concrete, transformative action. Drawing on over twenty years of professional experience in sustainable construction, ESG strategy, and resilience planning, Alicia Silva Villanueva offers a practical, emotional, and philosophical framework for understanding why sustainability efforts often fail — and how they can succeed.
The central premise of the book is that the greatest barrier to sustainability is not technical or financial, but cultural, emotional, and psychological. People resist change, fear uncertainty, misunderstand costs, underestimate risks, and often feel disconnected from both responsibility and possibility. Leap the Gap makes these invisible barriers visible and provides a participatory methodology — a card-based game — that enables teams to identify obstacles, understand their consequences, activate strategic levers, and unlock opportunities.
The book reframes sustainability not as a “nice-to-have,” an expense, or a compliance exercise, but as a core strategy for resilience, value creation, and long-term survival — for companies, communities, and humanity as a whole.