Getting emotional about Sustainability (and elephants)
As someone born with no ball skills whatsoever, I never envisaged that a significant chunk of my parenting responsibilities would involve schlepping to various wind...
What’s the key to Sustainability engagement/communications?
Mar 4, 2024
Last Tuesday evening I was shivering on the touch line of my youngest’s football practice and scrolling through my e-mails. A message had arrived from...
Dr Paula Owen, Sustainability Gamification Pioneer on making saving the planet fun
Mar 1, 2024
Back in the mists of time, I bumped into Paula Owen at an event. She gave me a deck of playing cards designed to encourage...
Nobody ever said Sustainability was going to be easy…
Feb 5, 2024
Last week, I heard someone cite the old "the carbon footprint was invented by BP to put the blame on the consumer" meme. This drives...
Sustainability in a Leadership Vacuum
Oct 5, 2023
I wrote my second book, The Green Executive, to fill a clear gap in the market. Sustainability was fast moving from an incremental/ISO14001/managerial level up...
Why one sycamore tree gets more coverage than mass deforestation
Sep 29, 2023
I don't know how many times I've done the classic walk along Hadrian's Wall to Crag Lough, then looping back either just south or north...
Talking at someone about Sustainability is NOT engagement
Jul 18, 2023
This morning I had an interesting chat with an old business contact about Sustainability engagement. We got into the psychology of change and in particular...
Competition can put Spice into Sustainability
Feb 20, 2023
When I was younger and musing on what future family life might hold, I would never have guessed I'd have three sporty kids. The eldest...
Sustainability Engagement: Bottom up or top down?
May 16, 2022
In almost every sustainability strategy project I do, I find that the default client assumption is engagement is something that is done with front line...
The *only* way to get boardroom buy-in for Sustainability
Apr 4, 2022
In the last year I've supported the development of Sustainability Strategies for two very similar umbrella organisations. The main difference between the two is that...