The proceedings volume provides an account of the pandemic-inspired policy changes in  leadership, entrepreneurship, and  sustainable development. The volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2022 International Leadership Conference hosted by the Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK), Czech Republic. The focus of the conference was to outline positive changes for  leadership in business and economics based on the lessons learned during the pandemic. The enclosed selection of papers describe the digital surge in business, economics, and education, as well as the development of frontier technologies caused by the COVID-19 lockdown periods. They also provide new insights into the concepts of leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development post the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the papers define the new place and role of leadership within the context of global initiatives in sustainability such as the European Union'sGreen Deal and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs).

Wadim Strielkowski is Managing Director of the Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK) and Professor at Prague Business School, Prague, Czech Republic. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States. Professor Strielkowski pursues a multi-disciplinary approach with a number of research topics such as leadership in business, economics, and higher education, energy economics and policy, and tourism economics. He is among 2% of the world's most cited scientists in 2019 and 2020 (a list of over 100,000 top-scientists with a percentile rank of 2% or above) at the prestigious Stanford University ranking which covers all disciplines included in the Scopus database.​