Tom Greenwood, CEO of Wholegrain Digital talks about:

• The importance of ensuring your business focuses on customer need

• The power of business as a force for good

• Why it’s key to ensure that all employees, projects and clients are aligned with your values

• Why doing business from your values takes courage and bravery

• The steps you can take to make your website more sustainable

Marit Imeland Gjesme from Culture Catch shares:

• Why misunderstanding culture in an organisation is bad health economics
• How multi-cultural teams can lead to sustainable high performance
• What leaders can do to lead successful multi-cultural high performing teams
• The importance of understanding the cultural difference of organisational values
• Why you need to understand different cultures to be a successful leader

Inventor and entrepreneur, Peter Tsu talks about:

• The inspiration behind his invention, the Ecological Artificial Barrier Reef
• How the Ecological Artificial Barrier Reef generates energy
• What the benefits of this are for local coastal communities
• How it can help create new economic opportunities
• The challenges of taking this from conception to fully working

By harnessing the untapped potential of the ocean, Peter Tse, has invented a way to generate and store renewable energy while protecting coastal areas.

His Ecological Artificial Barrier Reef – is a game changer which can both help reverse the impact of climate change and meet an ever-increasing global demand for energy.

The founder and CEO of CPE Global Limited is a successful UK-based restaurant entrepreneur. Growing up in Hong Kong, he lived and worked on the family’s coastal farm and it was this sustainable way of life that inspired his invention.

His ground-breaking patented process combines tried and tested existing technologies in a new way.

Claudine Blamey from The Crown Estate shares:

• The Crown Estate’s 2030 vision for sustainable success
• The need to measure positive and negative impacts on all forms of capital in the business
• Why monetising impact can help drive sustainable success
• The challenges of doing financials differently
• Why you need to put finance first for sustainable success

Claudine has been Head of Sustainability and Stewardship at The Crown Estate since April 2015. She is responsible for the sustainability strategy for the business and champions The Crown

Estate’s Total Contribution approach, a methodology to measure the economic value of the impact the business has on its ‘capitals’.

Claudine joined from SEGRO where she was Head of Sustainability.  Prior to this she was Director of Corporate Responsibility at British Land

Alan Mahon from BrewGooder shares:

• The story behind BrewGooder’s mission to bring one million people clean drinking water
• The ballsy way in which they approach BrewDog to get a partnership with them to brew beer
• Why it’s essential to start with a sound business model if you want to do good
• Why BrewGooder changed their marketing approach from nicey-nice to warrior
• How we can make consumerism altruistic

Alan is the Founder of Brewgooder, the craft beer brand on a mission to bring 1,000,000 people clean drinking water. Brewgooder became the first social enterprise brand to gain a national listing with Asda in October 2016, just 3 months after launching their flagship style Clean Water Lager with a successful £60,000 crowdfund. Brewgooder now has over 1,000 stockists in the UK, and has delivered clean water projects for over 40,000 people. He is a passionate believer in the power of 'altruistic consumerism' where everyday people can change the world for the better through everyday spending habits and is on a personal mission to bring social enterprise brands into the mainstream.

Sarah Begum shares:

• The power of immersive investigative journalism and how it can help us understand other peoples’ perspectives
• Why her time in the Amazon with an indigenous tribe helped her become more aware, conscious and connected to the planet
• The impact of Sarah’s work for the individuals and communities she reports on
• Why we need to challenge the way people think about the world
• The challenges of carving your own career and how to overcome them

A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Sarah Begum is an Immersive Investigative Journalist, Anthropologist-Explorer and Public Speaker.  Sarah has been exploring the world, studying tribes and different ways of life whilst investigating current affairs and making a humanitarian effort to help people along the way through her work.

Sarah’s first film “Amazon Souls” premiered at Cannes in 2013.  She has received a number of awards for her work including the “Spirit of Adventure Award” from the Captain Scott Society in 2014 for her expedition “Life in the Darien Gap” and was named one of the “World’s top 17 trailblazers” in 2016.

Sarah trains in martial arts and is an activist for environmental, human and women’s rights; fighting to shine light upon issues internationally.

Andrew Hunt from Aduna shares:

• How an existential crisis from a lack of meaning and purpose in work led Andrew to the ‘smiling coast of Africa’ and the eventual creation of Aduna

• The positive role business can play in creating a viable sustainable market for small scale agriculture in Africa

• What the Baobab tree is and why it’s such a simple important food source in rural Africa

• What a demand creation business model is and why its essential to Aduna’s success

• The innovative way Aduna marketed their product to create demand and the current impact of their success

The host of Sustainable: The Podcast, Tabi Jayne, guides you to:

• Use your upcoming summer break as a tool to help you plan your time more effectively
• Identify the projects you need to be working on right now
• Clarify the stage these projects need to be at to enjoy your summer break
• Discover the one new habit you need to introduce to ensure this happens

Bio:

Tabitha Jayne is an applied psychologist, coach, author and consultant and the founder of EarthSelf, who specialises in developing nature connected well-being and performance in leaders and organisations for sustainable success.  With nearly a decade of delivering nature connected solutions in a variety of public, private and third sector settings, Tabitha is the creator of Nature Connected Professional Coach Training Program, the founder (and author) of The Nature Process, a simple way of deepening your connection to nature by being in the body and experiencing nature through the senses. Tabitha is also the creator of the Tree of Transformation Coaching Program, which uses trees as a map and metaphor to help you work smarter and make a greater impact.

Stephen Dunn, COO of Ecosse EV explains:

• The inspiration behind creating a 100% electric car (TESLA!) chauffeur service
• The benefits of using TELSA cars
• Why it’s essential to combine high quality service with electric cars
• How this can help companies enhance their CSR strategies
• Why education is essential in the adoption of Electric Cars

Bio:

Stephen is COO of Edinburgh based ground transportation company Ecosse EV.  He has 20 years involvement at senior management levels in the chauffeur industry, customer service and hospitality trade. 

Glasgow born, but living in East Lothian, he combines working from home and days at the office - which is situated within the Rural Centre at Ingliston.

Stephen has a passion for the service industry and when the opportunity presented itself to offer this unique (to Scotland) service, in an industry he loves, he had to take it!