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Qantas Foundation Lecture

John Elkington · 12 October 2010 · Leave a Comment

i Waiting to land on our tables ii Half the view from the Museum of Contemporary Art roof iii Anne Measday, Elaine, Esther Lefas (Anne and Esther both from CSI) iv Landed v Ready for Peter Shergold and I

Wonderful evening at the Museum of Contemporary Art, overlooking the Harbour, where I gave the third annual Qantas Foundation Lecture, entitled ‘Helping the Future Take Flight’. Had had a slight hiccup when I tried to use Apple Keynote ahead of a recent National Grid presentation, but have now worked out how to ride the beast.

Shirley Davies, CEO of the Foundation, kicked off. Then after my lecture, and another phase of the meal, Peter Shergold (who heads the Centre for Social Impact) and I took to the stage for half an hour’s discussion, then opening out to the audience. Strong sense of ‘The Spirit of Australia’ – and of an underlying company with a very strong set of values. I had used the latest set – ‘Care’, ‘Contemporary Australian’, ‘Forward Thinking’ and ‘Wisdom’ – as the structure of my talk. We plan to repeat the process in Melbourne next week.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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