Leadership Briefings

The Sustainability Function is at a Crossroads
This article explores the growing gap between climate ambition and business planning, and why sustainability teams find themselves caught between the two. It introduces a practical way to move from reporting on progress to shaping the decisions that drive it.

Personal Transition: A Leadership Reflection
A short leadership reflection on what a child learning to ride a bike reveals about the role of confidence, early experience and personal transition in making organisational change stick.

The Hidden Blockers to Climate Execution
3 reasons managers fail to get behind business climate transition initiatives and what to do about them.

Inside Integrated Value Planning
Integrated Value Planning adapts the planning and governance processes organisations already rely on so that strategy, finance and sustainability operate as one decision system.

People Driven Change
Leveraging the participation and engagement of individuals from all levels of the business in the design, piloting and roll out of strategy and organisational change.

The Split at the Heart of the Enterprise
Most leadership teams now have two serious agendas. One governs growth, margin and capital allocation. The other governs emissions, reporting and sustainability commitments. Both matter. Both are well intentioned. But they rarely meet at the point where the most consequential decisions are made.

Planning for the Future of Business
Many leadership teams already know what needs to change for net zero. The harder question is how - how to make progress while running the business day-to-day, balancing short-term delivery with long-term transition.

Evolving the Way Businesses Plan for the Future
Why Climate-Integrated Planning is Central to Business Transformation.: To achieve lasting impact, businesses will need to evolve how they plan and govern themselves.