Sarah Humphrys speaks to Courtney Holm about shifting mindsets and rethinking our role as sustainability professionals as negotiators, influencers and sales people for a sustainable future.

Discussing:

• How to support companies to move beyond reporting towards actually implementing impactful change

• The need for practitioners to change the way that they engage with their leadership across the organisation to enable them to be more impactful

• Short termism - and the need for 20 - 30 year planning as investors, businesses and communities

• Leadership legacy - Emotive and creative approaches to challenging conversations with executive leadership teams

• How to support others to be futuristic and embrace uncertainty by backing up the business case for systemic change

• The critical importance of negotiation skills for any sustainability professional's influencing toolkit - and how to develop these

• Commercialising the Science and building trust via authenticity, consistency, flexibility

• Good questions to have in a sustainability professional's toolkit - "why?" and "what if?"

Resources Mentioned:
The Holm Edit
Case study on Patagonia, 'Patagonia shows how turning a profit doesn't have to cost the Earth' -
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth
The Great Schlep
Coursera e-learning on Negotiation Skills
Harvard Business Review online course, 'Negotiation Mastery'
Franklin Styers Nursery (now Terrain at Styers)
2degrees Business Services case study with Tesco
Rob Hopkins: From What Is to What If (book)
Rob Hopkins: From What If to What Next (podcast)
AimHi Earth

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