Values, thinking and practice “Leadership development must support businesses to reframe their purpose, strategy and approach to value creation to [make the net zero transition] at the pace and scale required” (CISL, 2018:2). CISL’s Rewiring Leadership report outlines a three-dimensional approach to develop effective leadership, with a range of specific individual “capabilities that are required to lead […]
Category: ESG
Embodied v Operational Carbon
Lindsay on Leadership Is a new kind of leadership required to drive decarbonisation in organisations?LINDSAY HOOPER: When we look at what’s going to be needed to really drive thedecarbonisation that’s needed – not just of organisations but of whole economies – thereare some particular leadership challenges that we need leaders and leadership to be ableto […]
The leadership needed to drive the net zero transition
Leadership refers to the formal, earned and informal positions given, with associated power, to a relatively small group of people in an organisation to direct the group and resources. Given the scale and the urgent pace of change needed to decarbonise whole industries, leadership cannot be left to a small number of individuals with formally […]
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Practical Steps to decarbonise
Map your carbon footprint Organisations looking to decarbonise face the challenge of having to balance long-term, sustained transformation with delivering short-term results and value (CISL, 2018). To reconcile the two, efficient monitoring systems are required. This is an important first step for an organisation to comprehensively measure its carbon footprint, particularly in terms of identifying […]
Overcoming barriers to organisational change
Sue Garrard discusses her experience as the Executive Vice Principle of Sustainable Business and Communications at Unilever and some of the steps necessary for driving organisational change. She also outlines the challenges she encountered and overcame as well as the lessons learned while driving sustainability across her organisation. Sue Garrard posed four key questions for […]