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edie Sustainability Leadership Forum

John Elkington · 10 March 2022 · Leave a Comment

In full flow, photo taken by my friend Professor David Grayson

Up early yesterday to head across to the Business Design Centre in Islington for my first major face-to-face speech, after over 250 virtual ones through the lockdowns of the last couple of years. This was the edie Sustainability Leadership Forum. Chaired by Soli(taire) Townsend of Futerra. She kicked off by talking about the need to let emotion into our work, so I gave her a very public as she brought me onto the stage.

Went rather well, I think, with three of our team in the room: Sophie, Josh and Álvaro. edie.net’s summary here.

Then, with others, we went on to the House Commons to launch the next round of the Bankers for Net Zero initiative that we have been co-evolving for the past couple of years. Bumped into Nick Robins, a former colleague and friend, now a Professor at LSE, as we were walking across to Parliament – and, unexpectedly, very much enjoyed the evening.

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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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