Strategy, Culture & Leadership: Overcoming the challenges to develop a culturally receptive organisation with sustainability integral to the organisation

Leadership strategies for truly embedding sustainability into business strategy, processes and decision-making:

• Clarifying what sustainability means to your company and sector
• Establishing regular and effective communication of sustainability goals and progress and finding the language to make it understandable and compelling
• Gaining stakeholder engagement and developing a collaborative approach to sustainability across the value chain to promote investment and impactful growth
• Moving beyond mandatory standards & reporting to proactive sustainability practices that are “business as usual”
• Using sustainability as a lens for effective decision-making
• Proving the business case for sustainability to secure budget

Fostering a culture of sustainability that permeates all facets of the company and is fully understood by all employees:

• Exploring the use of “sustainability champions”
• Changing the actions of employees - the role of rewards and incentives
• Getting buy-in and support at all levels from the C-Suite top-down
• Debating the changing role of the sustainability leader