Systems change in action: Discovering the future of sustainable leadership in Mumbai

Mumbai—a city known for its vibrant culture, resilience, and complexity—served as the dynamic backdrop for this year’s Leadership Vanguard Exchange. Within this vibrant setting, participants immersed themselves in systems thinking and sustainability, learning firsthand how collaborative innovation and purpose-driven initiatives can tackle global challenges. Through visits to one of Vikaasa’s Waste No More sites and Godrej Construction, a member of Xynteo’s Build Ahead coalition, they witnessed …

Purpose-driven Productivity: Achieving Balance in Modern Business

In today’s world of work, leaders are constantly challenged to drive productivity whilst embodying purpose. The modern business environment often pits short-term gains against long-term impact, creating tension for leaders who strive to deliver both. At Xynteo, we have been asking the question: can a relentless drive for productivity coexist with a deep, meaningful sense of purpose? Purpose-driven organisations inspire …

Regenerating for the people and at scale: A tale of three cities, part 3

Across the last nine months the Leadership Vanguard cohort of change makers have travelled the world to investigate the big challenges we face as a global society and the threat to the planetary ecosystem in which we live. In this final Field Report, we travel to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) where the catalysts explore ‘how we can go from these small seeds to initiatives that do truly scale up, wide and deep?’

Regenerating for resilience: A tale of three cities, part 2

What does this idea of ‘regenerative business’ mean in practice, both for individual leaders, their organisations and those they serve? In the second of three Field Reports, our cohort of Leadership Vanguard change-makers travelled to Cebu in the Philippines to investigate a very different perspective on ‘place’, regeneration and resilience.

Experiencing Purpose-Led Regeneration: A Tale Of Three Cities

In recent years there’s been a shift in the way some people think and talk about sustainability and the role of business in society. The ambition has moved beyond merely reducing harm, or achieving a healthier balance, to the notion of business regenerating the health of the wider communities and ecosystems their activities affect during their commercial activities. But what …

Xynteo’s Leadership Vanguard: Investigating Johannesburg’s Plastic Recycling

Plastic Waste Dump with Machine

Participants (catalysts) of Xynteo’s flagship programme, The Leadership Vanguard, recently travelled to South Africa to explore the plastic waste problem in Johannesburg on the ground. “Although our research had given us a good understanding of the plastic waste issues, being in Johannesburg provided us with insights about the impacts and complexities at stake – history of apartheid, illegal immigrants, corruption, …