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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 …
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?’
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.
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 …
Leadership Vanguard’s Low Carbon Cities team travelled to Bangalore to explore partnership opportunities with a local impact enterprise, Vogo, that works to reduce the city’s pollution and congestion challenges.
Senior leaders from Mastercard, Energias de Portugal, Baker Hughes, HSBC, Shell, ICRC, Tata and Unilever meet with promising impact enterprises and a global community of experts and leaders.
Senior leaders from Baker Hughes, Tata, HSBC, Mastercard, Unilever, EDP, ICRC and Shell, the Leadership Vanguard travelled to Bangalore to meet with entrepreneurs innovating for a low carbon and sustainable city.
India generates around 5.6 million tons of plastic waste annually. 70% of the plastic consumption is discarded as waste and around half of this waste is single-use plastics.
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, …