Lisa is a global leader in Communications. She’s the managing director of Sector Specialty Agencies (SSAs), DJE Holdings and also oversees Edelman’s Canadian and Latin American operations. Lisa sits on Edelman’s Executive Leadership Team and has played a leadership role in Edelman’s Trust Barometer initiative. In this episode we discuss the difference between trust and reputation, the true meaning of taking responsibility as a leader and much more.

Related links: 

• Robert I Sutton - The No Arsehole Rule

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Sophie Robinson-Tillett is a Senior Associate at the University of Oxford, a Contributing Editor at Investment & Pensions Europe, and Founder of Real-Economy-Progress.com. She’s the former Editor of Responsible Investor and also worked for the Guardian. Sophie is an award-winning journalist with deep experience covering green finance, responsible investment, ESG, and sustainability. In this episode, we discuss the drivers of major shifts in responsible investment, policy, actions leaders can take to avoid greenwashing, and much more.

Related links: 

• Sophie Robinson-Tillett - Heatwaves remind us climate finance is more than net zero 
• Read more of Sophie’s work in Responsible Investor
• Mariana Mazzucato - The Value of Everything 

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Kathleen Finlay has been a leader in regenerative agriculture for most of her career. As President of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, she’s s refined the organization’s mission and become a national figure in the United States in the world of progressive agricultural nonprofits. Under her leadership, Glynwood has become a premier learning hub for food and farming professionals. 

She’s also been instrumental in organising women who work for environmental progress and is the founder of Pleiades, a Network for Women Changemakers.

In this interview, Kathleen helps clarify the connection between food and human health, how to navigate the challenges of imperfect metrics, provides guidance for business decision-makers, and much more.

Related links: 

The Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming
Pleiades
“All We Can Save” (Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, 2020)

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Harvey Locke is a Canadian conservationist, writer, and photographer. He is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness, wildlife, and large landscape conservation. He is a founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative and Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Beyond the Aichi Targets. 

In this episode, Harvey clarifies a powerful concept he’s helped to define at a global level – ‘Nature Positive’ – and helps us understand the implications of this concept for business and investment.

Related links: 

Nature Positive (Nature Positive Org, 2022)
Beyond the Aichi Targets (IUCN, 2022)
UN Global Framework for Managing Nature (UN, 2021)

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Alex Robart is the Worldwide Strategy Leader for Energy & Sustainability at Microsoft. He guides Microsoft’s viewpoint on energy and sustainability, drives Business Unit strategy, and works with customers to develop transformation and sustainability strategies. 

In this episode (recorded at COP26) Alex shares his insight on climate leadership, tying strategy to sustainability, carbon offsets, and much more.

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Related links: 

Bill Gates - How To Avoid A Climate Disaster
Microsoft Net Zero commitments (Microsoft, 2022)
Microsoft Carbon Removal (Microsoft, 2021)

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Re:Co founder and host, Jenn Wilson shares her highlights from series one of The Future In Sound podcast and explains how it’s helped her clarify her thinking on three main topics: business purpose, tools for strategic decision making, and system-level trends. 

Thank you to all of our guests from series one for your invaluable insights, including Dr. Sarah Kaplan, Professor Colin Mayer, Amory Lovins, Dr. Noelle Selin, Charmian Love, Saadia Madsbjerg, Jason Mitchell, Gillian Tett, and Anywhere Sikochi. 

Stay tuned at the end of the episode to find out what’s in store for series two, coming early 2022!

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Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School where he teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course to MBA students. 

In this episode, Siko shares his insights on the limitations of ESG ratings, how ESG trends are viewed by leaders in Africa, the kernels of wisdom he aims to share with his business students, and much more.

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Related links: 

Read the paper Anywhere Sikochi co-authored alongside Dane M. Christensen & George Serafeim here: Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of the Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings 

Sakis Kotsantonis and George Serafeim - Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

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Gillian Tett is the Co-Founder of Moral Money and Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large of the Financial Times (US). In this episode, she discusses how tools from anthropology can help leaders see future trends more clearly, avoid unnecessary shocks, and much more.

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Related links: 

Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision 

Karen Ho, Liquidated, An Ethnography of Wall Street 

Pierre Bourdieu

Joseph Henrich, The Weirdest People in the World

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Jason Mitchell is Co-Head of Responsible Investment at Man Group. In this episode, Jason discusses the definition of Responsible Investment, common misconceptions about ESG, the frontier of ESG data analytics, the role of regulation in this nascent practice and much more.

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Saadia is a global leader in the field of sustainable and impact investing. She and Judith Rodin co-authored the book “Making Money Moral: How a New Wave of Visionaries is Linking Purpose and Profit”.  In this episode, Saadia discusses the drivers of recent momentum in sustainable investment, the importance of considering long term ‘resilience’ when investing and much more.

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