Leading sustainable change with Paolo Taticchi and Melina Corvaglia-Charrey

While over 90% of business leaders recognize the importance of sustainability, only 60% have a strategy in place. And many of these strategies are inefficient, ineffective or simply don't go far enough to address the global challenges we are facing.

In our September xChange Caroline Taylor, OBE, former CMO of IBM Global Markets and Chair of Oasis Community Learning, hosted and interviewed Paolo Taticchi and Melina Corvaglia-Charrey​, co-authors of⁠ How to Be Sustainable: Business Strategies for Leading Change⁠ and hosts of the Chief Sustainability Heroes podcast.

We started by defining sustainability and talking about the need for long-term shared value. We covered the drivers for sustainable action including the financial risks and the increase in climate litigation. And we explored how to build a strong business case for sustainability.

We also discussed the political influence from the US and Paolo shared that anti-ESG sentiment is more talk than fact and there is a recent study that shows investment funds in anti-ESG states perform less well than in ESG states.

Paolo is Professor in Strategy and Sustainability and the Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at University College London, School of Management. He is a prominent sustainability expert, speaker and consultant working with corporates and governments around the world.

Melina is a Researcher at University College London, School of Management. She has over 15 years of experience as a senior marketing leader in the media industry, and also works as a consultant supporting small-to-medium size businesses with their sustainability reporting efforts.

You can listen to the full podcast replay here or watch it below.