Episode 18

How to create and deliver your business's first sustainability strategy

Discover how Dee made the case for a global sustainability strategy, created Deluxe's first global sustainability role, and then developed and delivered their first sustainability strategy.

Deluxe Media & Entertainment is a leading media services company with over 4,500 people across the world.

Dee talks with Leadership for Sustainability host, Osbert Lancaster, about:

  • Moving from localised CSR to a global sustainability strategy
  • Making the business case to leadership groups, again and again
  • Finding the right approach for different people
  • Building a network to make change happen
  • Getting into the detail of climate risk
  • Pulling together a team for climate risk assessment

And much more…

For full show notes visit https://realise.earth/how-to-create-and-deliver-your-businesss-first-sustainability-strategy/

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About the Podcast

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Leadership for Sustainability
Helping sustainability directors, managers & pioneers make change happen.

About your host

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Osbert Lancaster

Facilitator, consultant and trainer. 20+ years of helping leaders and managers of organisations large and small deliver change for people and nature. Led the development of the University of Edinburgh’s pioneering sustainability strategy. Co-created a UNESCO recognised leadership programme. Aspiring improv performer. Facilitation mantra: Talk less, listen more.