Sustainability meets Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Sustainability meets Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Sebastian Straube, Passion driven Sustainability Expert

Copyright by Sebastian Straube

Creativity is the most important leadership quality

Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value

The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide










Creative Leaders experiment to improve the status quo


Creative Leaders experiment to improve the status qup

The next generation of leaders

Source: Inheriting a complex world - Future leaders envision sharing the planet, IBM Institute for Business Value

Students are more focused on sustainability than CEOs

Source: Inheriting a complex world - Future leaders envision sharing the planet, IBM Institute for Business Value

The Biosphere Economy

Nine planetary boundaries

Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans

Adapted from: ‘A safe operating space for humanity’, Nature, by Johan Rockström,Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Asa Persson,F. Stuart Chapin et al, September 23, 2009


Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity

Adapted from ‘The Ecological Power of Nations: The Earth’s Biocapacity as a New Framework for International Cooperation’, Global Footprint Network, 2009.



Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation & growth


Ecological footprint

Source: http://www.worldmapper.org/

Wealth


Population growth


Poverty


Outlook to 2050 - Population


Outlook to 2050 – Growth

Source: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision, 2008


Source: Goldman Sachs, BRICs and Beyond, 2007


Source: World Bank, Global Economic Prospects, 2007

Happiness does not completely depend on GDP

Source: Deutsche Bank Research, Measures of Well-being, 2006

Reconsidering sucess and progress

Source: Deutsche Bank Research, Measures of Well-being, 2006

Value Based Leadership

Source: Responsible Entrepreneurship, EBBF 2009

Post Industrial Economy is based on knowledge & information

Traditional management concepts are no longer responsive to new challenges of globalisation, deregulation, rapid technological change, greater complexity and increasing competition -> increased importance of intangible capital.

Materialistic Leadership Model Value Based Leadership

• High Profile Leader • Dominant objective of goal

achivement • Self-interested & individualistic

outlook • Male model of life • Materialistic perspective

• Collaboration • Social Responsibility • Sustainable Development • Critical Dialoge • Consensus oriented decision making

Sustainability on the business agenda

Which sector has a business case for sustainability?

Source: Sustainability: The Embracers seize advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011

Organizational benefits of adressing sustainability

Source: Sustainability: The Embracers seize advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011

CEO’s views on Sustainability

Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)

CEO’s views on Sustainability


Most critical challenges to the future of business


Consumers are driving business sustainability


Tipping point for embedded sustainability


The new agenda for business

Source:WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010

How many Earths do we use in 2050?

Source:Global Footprint Network and WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010

Source:WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010

A sustainable world in 2050

Innovative Leadership for Sustainability

Source: IBM Institute for Business Value analysis, 2008

Let’s get started with business as un-usual!

Nature-Inspired Innovation

Biomimicry, Cradle to Cradle, Natural Capitalism, Blue Economy


Janine Benyus Michael Braungart William McDonough

Paul Hawken Gunter Pauli

Unreasonable Institute

Vision: Accelerate ventures that future generations will remember as having defined progress in our time.

Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ 50 Fellows


Giving the World’s Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Wings

Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/


Objectives

• Create effective, internationally scalable solutions to the biggest global challenges of our time.

• Support the international collaboration of the world’s most promising entrepreneurs.

• Educate Unreasonable Fellows in the most innovative principles of entrepreneurship & equip them with integral skills, support, & financing.

• Elicit an international community of the world’s most innovative investors, entrepreneurs and thought leaders… what we like to call the International League of Unreasonables.

• Ensure that Boulder, Colorado is recognized an international hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

• Work relentlessly and have fun doing it.



Financial founding


Skoll Foundation

Mission: Drive large scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems

Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/ 70 Fellows

Skoll Foundation

Issues

• Economic and Social Equity benefits all segments of society, not a select few. • Environmental Sustainability is an integral part of long-term economic

development and growth. • Everyone has access to basic Health care. • The Institutional Responsibility of corporate, governmental, and other powerful

interests can be upheld through standards for transparency, citizenship and sustainability.

• Forging cross-cultural understanding and respect for human dignity can lead to Peace and Security.

• Tolerance and Human Rights win over discrimination and persecution.

Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/

Skoll Foundation

Financial founding

Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/

Richard Reed, Adam Balon & Jon Wright

Founders, Innocent Drinks

Source: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/

Innocent Drinks

Business Idea

Source: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/

Yvon Chouinard

Founder, Patagonia

Source: www.patagonia.com

Patagonia

Patagonia's Mission Statement „Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.”


Patagonia

We use 1% of our sales each year to support environmental work around the world.


Ray Anderson

Founder, Interface

Source: www.interfaceglobal.com

Interface

The Sustainability Journey – Mission Zero: To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits — by 2020 — and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence.


Interface

The Sustainability Journey – Mission Zero

We’re now sixteen years into our journey and a decade away from the date we predicted for achieving our vision – 2020. Company-wide commitment to Mission Zero has unleashed innovative thinking and connected us to a higher purpose. We're simultaneously pursuing sustainability along three paths - innovative solutions for reducing our footprint, new ways to design and make products and an inspired and engaged culture.,


Big business going sustainable

Marks & Spencer - Plan A

Source: Marks and Spencer Group plc, How We Do Business Report 2011



CEO, Stuart Rose

















CocaCola - Live Positivly

Source: 2009/2010 Sustainability Review, CocaCola Company

Live Positivly









PepsiCo - Performance with Purpose

Source: 2009 Sustainability Report Overview, Pepsico









PepsiCo - Refresh Everything

Coca Cola vs. PepsiCo

Bottom of the pyramid innovation

M-Pesa

Nokia Open Studios

D.Light Design

Let’s play entrepreneurship!

Sustainability minded Entrepreneur