Sustainability leaders are on the collective hunt to find, engage, and motivate the elusive ‘consumer’. They know that if they want to achieve their ambitious sustainability goals, or win round their senior teams, then consumers need to be at the heart of their plans. But what...
Changing our behaviour and our habits is hard. There are still no extra hours in the day to get done everything we absolutely must do, let alone making time to contemplate making changes to our lives. Unless we’re going through something life-changing, like moving house, or having...
The scandal engulfing FIFA in recent weeks has served as an important reminder about the crucial role business ethics play in sustaining business success, as well as the hugely harmful repercussions that follow when companies get it wrong. Business ethics are often overlooked and under-resourced, losing...
Here’s my take on Unilever’s newly-published Human Rights Report, which outlines the type and scale of the challenges it faces and how it organises itself to manage them. The numbers 3 billion – people living in extreme poverty 21 million – victims of forced labour 76,000 – suppliers ...
The way we live, work, and communicate with each other has changed beyond recognition over the last decade, driven by the growing role smartphones and social media have come to play in our lives. Life before smartphones is remembered hazily, incredulously: sometimes nostalgically. Our phones...
When Lord Freud, the Government’s Welfare Minister, appeared to suggest that people with disabilities might not be “worth” the minimum wage, the news instantly became a headline, started trending on Twitter and sparked multiple debates on and offline. The controversy has gathered around two opposing views....
Here’s my summary of the IBE’s latest survey on ethics, which centres on attitudes to, and perceptions of, ethics in the workplace in Europe. The numbers 81% of employees in the UK believe that honesty is practised daily in their organisation, with a small percentage (8%) feeling pressured...
Words matter. They can make us laugh, or cry; change our point of view, or move us to act. Yet the sustainability movement still rarely uses the power of language to bring people to the cause. In-fact, just as often as not, the way we...
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard I’m writing this blog in a café. To my right a middle-aged couple are scrolling through their phones. They make no conversation or eye contact until their breakfast arrives, momentarily...