Systems leadership among nutrition and dietetics professionals: Facilitating transitions to sustainable dietary patterns

NDPs have a high social impact potential to support transitions to more sustainable dietary patterns. The greatest impact potential was found in physical environments such as hospitals and schools. This potential is strongest where there is policy infrastructure to support the work. The contributions of many across socioecological systems generate a cumulative effect. Archetypal qualities of high-impact practice included systems thinking and the ability to deviate from the norm in the face of rapid change and uncertainty.