I’ve noticed a difference in the corporate conversations around sustainability recently. As cofounder of a strategy consultancy focused on helping corporates through transformation, I used to spend a lot of my time delivering the “burning platform” speech about sustainability to corporate boardrooms. I spent time — and would sometimes make people cry — convincing them about the urgency to go green.
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