Sustainability Leadership: A Swedish Approach to Transforming your Company, your Industry and the World

Sustainability is essential for CEOs and business leaders to navigate a world of complex global challenges. This book offers a three-step model for leading an organization on a sustainability transformation journey, from establishing a solid foundation to integrating sustainability into the core business and executing a vision that can change an entire industry and even the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 297 pages
Publication date: 24 September 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

As CEOs and business leaders navigate a world of complex global challenges, sustainability has become an essential business imperative. In this comprehensive book, two renowned sustainability leaders with decades of experience, Henrik Henriksson, CEO of Scania, and Elaine Weidman Grunewald, Co-founder of the AI Sustainability Center, and former Chief Sustainability & Public Affairs Officer at Ericsson, offer a straightforward yet transformative three-step model for leading organizations on a sustainability transformation journey aimed at achieving ambitious, world-changing goals.

The authors candidly address the dilemmas while remaining optimistic about the opportunities. They provide valuable guidance to leaders on how to accelerate sustainability within their organizations, offering insights through a Swedish lens, where the country's values and culture permeate the boardroom and the C-suite, bringing a unique clarity and conviction to leading with integrity.

Through practical insights drawn from their own experiences, the book guides.

The book takes leaders through the three phases of sustainability leadership: from establishing a solid foundation rooted in purpose, culture, values, principles, and consistent, credible leadership, to integrating sustainability into the core business, and finally to executing a vision that not only shifts the direction of the company but can change an entire industry and even the world.

Throughout the book, more than 25 interviews with other leading CEOs of Swedish companies, successful start-ups, investors, economists, and other experts provide diverse perspectives on the path to sustainability leadership. These interviews are complemented by case studies that showcase how companies have achieved success or turned themselves around after facing setbacks.

This hands-on insiders guide empowers CEOs and C-suite leaders to take sustainability to the next level, driving positive change and creating a more sustainable future for their organizations and the broader society.

Weight: 498g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030422936
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020