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The

Roadmap to
Sustainability
The demands and expectations that businesses
face will keep increasing and are likely to become
even more complex than they are today.

Organisations and executives must develop a


deep understanding of these social and
environmental issues and continuously monitor
their impact on society, on policy and on the world
of business.

ENVIRONMENTAL
PRESSURES

PRESSURES
WILL CONTINUE
TO GROW

SOCIAL
PRESSURES

How will they


What are these How are they ultimately
issues? evolving? impact the world
of business?

Sustainability Leaders are fundamentally better


positioned to thrive financially while at the same time
having a positive social and environmental impact.

However, two
broader
questions
remain open:

Have we framed and


Are we truly committed understood these
as a global society to a challenges in a way that
sustainable future? will propel action and
enable us to effectively
deal with them?

To tackle the first question, the


best course of action is to Threat? Opportunity?
commit to framing sustainability
both as a threat and as an
opportunity. This will propel us to SUSTAINABILITY
take immediate action and to
strategically identify the Immediate
and radical
Investing in
infrastructure for
substantial growth opportunities action sustainable
development
that a sustainable future brings.

To tackle the second question, companies need to


conceptualise Sustainability as an unprecedented
adaptation challenge.
The companies that
start making
What is the magnitude strategic
of the disruption, how is investments to
it likely to affect our address social and
value-creating potential, environmental
and what can we do issues today will be
about it now? best positioned to
adapt to the
disruption and
subsequently thrive!

Sustainability Leadership entails a profound


transformational experience. It's about:

Re-thinking and changing the identity of the organisation

Changing the culture, norms and values of the organisation

Delivering financial returns and positive social impact, by


accounting for risks, opportunities and obligations

Needs to be led by executives who are committed to


building a better and more sustainable world

These organisational transformations are usually led


by executives who understand a few basic principles.
Business organisations at their core are problem solvers.
They find a problem or gap in the market and then innovate
products and services to fill this gap or to meet these needs.
So
lu
tio
n

Business Problem

organisations are
problem solvers

Businesses can scale up


solutions effectively,
efficiently and profitably

Sustainability Leadership is fundamentally based


on an expanded and forward-looking understanding
of the role of the corporation in society, with respect
to all stakeholders and society at large.
The best of companies and leaders frame this as the
overall challenge for organisations today.

IN
NO
SE V
O
P
AT
R
PU

IO
N

SUSTAINABILITY
LEADERSHIP
CHALLENGE
T
US
SO

TR
CI
AL

IM
E
R

PA - T
CT G
LO N

Sustainability leaders do
not only pay attention to
social and environmental
issues, but also:

1. Implement distinct governance mechanisms

• Directly involve the board in sustainability issues and


link executive compensation to sustainability objectives

2. Display higher and deeper level of stakeholder


engagement

• Coupled with mechanisms for making it as effective as


possible, including reporting

3. Adopt a longer-term time horizon in their


external communications which are….

• In their external communications which is matched by a


larger proportion of long-term investors in their stock

4. Pay attention to non-financial measures


regarding employees and monitor suppliers

• A greater emphasis on external environmental and


social standards for selecting, monitoring and
measuring the performance of their suppliers

5. Are more transparent in the disclosure of their


non-financial information

• Gather and disclose ESG metrics as well as financial


ones

These are the key distinguishing


features of
“The sustainable organisation”

Sustainable
organisation

Transparency
Corporate Stakeholder Long-term
and
Governance Engagement Time Horizon
Accountability

As we learned in this course, these have huge implications on how


an organisation functions, innovates, builds trust and long-term
relationships with its stakeholders, what the brand stands for, and
how an organisation perceives itself and its role in society.

As problem-solvers,
Sustainability Leaders
can and do contribute
towards the resolution
of some of the world's
biggest problems

Profitably

Effectively
Efficiently

“Sustainability Leadership will


fundamentally lead to better companies
that are able to balance out the need to
thrive financially while at the same time
have a positive social and environmental
impact.”
Ioannis Ioannou

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