Want a Sustainability Strategy? Take me to your leaders…
I'm currently developing two proposals for Sustainability Strategies for different public bodies. Public bodies being public bodies, they're always quite prescriptive, not only on what...
How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer with Anna Krotova
Jul 5, 2024
This week I talk to Anna Krotova about her fantastic new book, How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer (co-authored with Jennifer Geary), digging into...
Shaun McCarthy OBE on Supply Chain Sustainability, ISO20400 and the London Olympics
Mar 15, 2024
This week's episode of The Net Zero Business Podcast should not be missed. I talk to Shaun McCarthy OBE who Chaired the Sustainability Panel for...
Does Sustainability Success breed Success or Complacency?
Mar 6, 2024
Two recent news stories made me ponder this question. Firstly, it was reported that the UK's Climate Change Committee was recommending that the UK Government...
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...
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...
Pushing at an open door on Sustainability pt 257
Jun 21, 2021
Friday saw the apex of my biggest current project – developing an umbrella regional Sustainability Strategy for 20 largely autonomous organisations belonging to a much...
The State of Sustainability in UK Politics
Oct 9, 2020
Every autumn, without fail, I watch the leaders' speeches at the big three political party conferences. Until this year. I don't know if it's my...
Being seen to do the right thing…
May 27, 2020
British politics has been aflame for the last few days following the revelation that the Prime Minister’s ‘Special Advisor’ (read Chief of Staff) Dominic Cummings,...
Doing the right thing (and being seen to do the right thing)
Apr 6, 2020
I’m sure many of us are having our hearts warmed by the many positive actions we see in these dark days. The volunteers taking supplies...