1. Sustainability meets Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Sebastian Straube, Passion driven Sustainability Expert
Copyright by Sebastian Straube
2. Creativity is the most important leadership quality
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
3. Creativity is the most important leadership quality
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
4. Creativity is the most important leadership quality
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
5. Creativity is the most important leadership quality
The study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1500 CEOs worldwide
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
6. Creative Leaders experiment to improve the status quo
Creative Leaders experiment to improve the status qup
Source: Capitalising on Complexity, Global Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Study 2010, IBM Institute for Business Value
7. The next generation of leaders
Source: Inheriting a complex world - Future leaders envision sharing the planet, IBM Institute for Business Value
8. Students are more focused on sustainability than CEOs
Source: Inheriting a complex world - Future leaders envision sharing the planet, IBM Institute for Business Value
9. 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
10. The Biosphere Economy
Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
Adapted from ‘The Ecological Power of Nations: The Earth’s Biocapacity as a New Framework for International Cooperation’, Global Footprint Network, 2009.
11. The Biosphere Economy
Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation & growth
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
22. Value Based Leadership
Post Industrial Economy is based on knowledge & information
Materialistic Leadership Model Value Based Leadership
• High Profile Leader • Collaboration
• Dominant objective of goal • Social Responsibility
achivement • Sustainable Development
• Self-interested & individualistic • Critical Dialoge
outlook • Consensus oriented decision making
• Male model of life
• Materialistic perspective
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.
Source: Responsible Entrepreneurship, EBBF 2009
24. Which sector has a business case for sustainability?
Source: Sustainability: The Embracers seize advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011
25. Organizational benefits of adressing sustainability
Source: Sustainability: The Embracers seize advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011
26. CEO’s views on Sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
27. CEO’s views on Sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
28. Most critical challenges to the future of business
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
29. Consumers are driving business sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
30. Tipping point for embedded sustainability
Source: A New Era of Sustainability, UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (based on 766 completed responses)
31. The new agenda for business
Source:WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010
32. How many Earths do we use in 2050?
Source:Global Footprint Network and WBCSD Vision 2050, 2010
36. Nature-Inspired Innovation
Biomimicry, Cradle to Cradle, Natural Capitalism, Blue Economy
Janine Benyus Michael Braungart Paul Hawken Gunter Pauli
William McDonough
Source: The Biosphere Economy: Natural limits can spur creativity, innovation and growth, Volans
37. Unreasonable Institute
Vision: Accelerate ventures that future generations will remember as having defined
progress in our time.
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/ 50 Fellows
38. Unreasonable Institute
Giving the World’s Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Wings
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
39. Unreasonable Institute
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.
Source: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
41. 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
42. 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/
43. Skoll Foundation
Financial founding
Source: http://www.skollfoundation.org/
44. Richard Reed, Adam Balon & Jon Wright
Founders, Innocent Drinks
Source: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/
45. Innocent Drinks
Business Idea
Source: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/
47. Patagonia
Patagonia's Mission Statement
„Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and
implement solutions to the environmental crisis.”
Source: www.patagonia.com
48. Patagonia
We use 1% of our sales each year to support environmental work around the world.
Source: www.patagonia.com
49. Ray Anderson
Founder, Interface
Source: www.interfaceglobal.com
50. 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.
Source: www.interfaceglobal.com
51. 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.,
Source: www.interfaceglobal.com
