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Satish Pai takes over from Sanjiv Mehta as Chairman of the Vikaasa Executive Committee

Xynteo is thrilled to announce the appointment of Satish Pai, Managing Director, Hindalco Industries, as the new Chair of Vikaasa. Mr Pai succeeds previous Chair Sanjiv Mehta, who over the last five years has been instrumental in shaping Vikaasa’s people and planet-positive impact since its inception in 2017.

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Satish Pai takes over from Sanjiv Mehta as Chairman of the Vikaasa Executive Committee

Xynteo is thrilled to announce the appointment of Satish Pai, Managing Director, Hindalco Industries, as the new Chair of Vikaasa. Mr Pai succeeds previous Chair Sanjiv Mehta, who over the last five years has been instrumental in shaping Vikaasa’s people and planet-positive impact since its inception in 2017.

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Leadership

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.

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Collaboration

What we've learnt about collaboration from five years of Vikaasa

As Vikaasa, Xynteo and our partners celebrate five years of people and planet-positive impact, Vipul Kumar (Managing Director, Vikaasa) looks back and the key learnings the coalition has uncovered around effective cross-sector collaboration.

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Sustainability

We need a ‘greatest generation’ of business leaders to deliver net zero

The emerging generation of business leaders are going to be asked to do the impossible – deliver on their forebear’s net zero commitments. But in most cases their careers haven’t armed them with the knowledge, tools, teams and stakeholder support needed. We a new ‘greatest generation’ for the future. Let's help them create impact.

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Leadership

Experiencing purpose-led regeneration: A tale of three cities

What does this idea of ‘regenerative business’ mean in practice, both for individual leaders, their organisations and those they serve? Across the last nine months the Leadership Vanguard has taken 25 change-making business leaders through a programme of experiences in three cities, London, Cebu and Rio. In the first of three Field Reports, The Leadership Vanguard Team explore the revival of what is often referred to as the Commons: spaces and resources that are owned, shared and managed for the collective good, without privilege or exclusion.

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Xynteo announces majority investment by Leon Capital

Xynteo, a strategic advisory firm exclusively dedicated to providing sustainability and energy transition services to some of the world’s largest companies, today announced a majority investment by funds advised by Leon Capital LLP (Leon Capital). The family of the founder Osvald Bjelland remains a minority shareholder. The agreement includes the creation of an employee partnership model, with senior employees now becoming owners of the business.

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Sustainability

How can we create commercially viable clean hydrogen ecosystems?

Clean hydrogen has earned significant attention and investment in recent years as a critical component to the energy transition. With demand expected to grow at 6.5% CAGR through to 2050, Xynteo’s Shuayb Ismail asks: how can we create clean hydrogen energy systems that are not just low emission but also commercially viable?

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Sustainability

Helping business leaders drive planet-positive change

In this article from Xynteo's Managing Partner (originally published in our Enterprise Agility report), Jonah Grunsell discusses how business can better incorporate sustainability into its core strategy, the steps needed internally to drive change, and the importance of collaborating with other organisations to achieve impact.

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Sustainability

Vikaasa Leaders Inspire Session

Pollution caused by plastic is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. Globally, over 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced since 1950, and about 60 per cent of that has ended up in landfills or in the natural environment. India generates almost 9.5 Mn tonnes of plastics annually and almost half of it gets leaked polluting and damaging our environment.

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Innovation, leadership and culture expert, Nina Powell joins Xynteo

This November, Nina Powell joined Xynteo as senior partner and will drive our work within our Planet-Positive Growth and Leadership and Culture studios.

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Leadership

NEW REPORT - Enterprise Agility

Produced in conjunction with Raconteur and distributed in The Times (UK), our new report – Enterprise Agility - curates a range of content from sectors across the economy to discuss how a business culture that is flexible, responsive and proactive to outside collaboration is critical to success.

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Leadership

Be at the vanguard of tomorrow's purpose-driven business leaders

In the race to win over investors, customers, and importantly talent, a business’ future will depend upon their ability to play a meaningful role in the macro transitions we are passing through. The Leadership Vanguard enables business leaders to develop the skills and mindset they need to succeed.

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