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Volans Board Meeting & Tenth Birthday Party

John Elkington · 24 July 2018 · Leave a Comment

Yinka prepares, with fans struggling to hold down the temperatures
Team and Board members intermixed at the Bedford Hotel
Water feature in the Hotel gardens
Kavita’s hand
From memory, Kavita’s, Geoff’s Sam’s and Paul’s hands
The party winds down, with the remnants on the staircase

Sideswiped by Louise (Kjellerup Roper) having to head off to Copenhagen to look after her dying mother, and then deal with the aftermath, I found myself having to pick up the threads with the Board meeting and 10th anniversary event.

That said, and though everyone else was responsible for the outcomes, both the Board meeting at the Bedford Hotel and the party at the Wellcome Collection Reading Room were, well, runaway successes.

Particularly wonderful to see two of our Board members who had flown in from the US, Paul Bunje of the XPRIZE Foundation and Conservation X Labs from the West Coast (LA), and Kavita Prakash-Mani, Global Markets Lead for WWF International from the East Coast (NYC).

More details in my 25 July entry.

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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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