Inspiring stories of business transformation
Podcast | 20 min
Preeti Srivastav is Group Sustainability Director of the global food and beverage giant Asahi.
Hear her dramatic explanation of how being uncomfortable as a leader is vital to having new vision, asking new questions and succeeding.
Podcast | 20 min
Meet Richard Nugee, a former 3-Star General in the British Army.
Singlehandedly, with no staff, he has convinced the reluctant top brass in the Ministry of Defence that they must embrace climate change. Hear his remarkable explanation of how he won the battle.
Podcast | 20 min
Shevaun Haviland, is Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce. She represents 67,000 companies globally, employing six million people. She is determined to convince all leaders of the business positives from embracing Net Zero. These create new opportunities for innovation and growth. Leaders should be encouraged and emboldened by what she says. There is no alternative.
Podcast | 22 min
Paul Polman is the Former CEO of Unilever. He is now on a relentless, single minded mission to ensure leaders tackle the climate, biodiversity and nature emergencies with the urgency, scale and innovation needed.
Most current leaders are missing the mark. But at last there are positive signs. A new generation of courageous leaders is being created. You will hear Paul detail how.
Podcast | 18 min
Businesses must consider how to recalibrate their purpose urgently. To justify making profits they must solve problems not assume they can get away with creating them.
Professor Colin Mayer is a leading and radical thinker on profit. Here at TTU we urge that his alerts and new thinking are taken seriously. The future viability of capitalism hinges upon this essential shift, and here he explains why.
Podcast | 18 min
How radical must we all become to be more sustainable? Each of us needs to re-examine everything we do in order to realise the huge changes we must make. Here we share the insights of a remarkable, fast growing company that shows us all how sustainable conferences and events can be. Then how company leaders must, and can, lead the way for change.
There is a starker and ever deepening trend. Ignoring unthinkables carries new peril. The mountain of awareness has begun to move. But leaders still need to challenge themselves relentlessly. They must do so ever more boldly.
After COP28, the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) significantly changes how businesses must report the impact of their activities on the environment and society. Starting in 2024, reporting and collecting up to 1200 data points will be mandatory. Ray Nulty, Managing Partner of Centigo UK and Ireland, discusses what needs to be done and how it will affect you.
Lord Nicholas Stern details his deep alarm that governments are “rolling the dice” and “backsliding” on confronting climate realities. He urges leaders at all levels to take their own decisive action to counter this regression.
What fuels resistance, and why? The science of climate change is ever more worrying. But communicating the enormity of what must be done still faces significant obstacles. Liz Bentley is CEO of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS). She reveals big frustrations during an intense year conveying the message.
Tens of millions of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME’s) make up the majority of the global economy. But most struggle to understand what they must do to combat the climate crisis. Ali Heppenstall, MD of Climate Action for Associations (CAFA) highlights the bind they are in.
A ‘marzipan’ layer blocks many leaders from thinking boldly. How can they be persuaded to meet the challenges and urgency of achieving Net Zero? Here Christine Diamente, Managing Director of Business Transformation at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) details how she does it.