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John Elkington

World Authority on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development,

John Elkington is an award-winning world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling.

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John Elkington is an award-winning world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief- pollinator of Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock the potential of their organization.

Volans tackles some of the world’s most challenging problems, helping key actors move from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration through strategic advisory work. John’s thought leadership is brought to bear in Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry and the Green Swans Observatory.

John has helped create and incubate movements including the B Team, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK and he was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008, In 2009 John was named 4th in an international survey Top 100 CSR leaders, after Al Gore, Barack Obama and Anita Roddick.

John has addressed over 1,000 conferences globally and has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the latest being Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.

In 2021, John won the World Sustainability Award.

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Topics

Topics

  • Climate Change: The Decisive Decade
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Green IT
  • Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Development
  • Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility

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Taking Sustainability Exponential - John Elkington, Co-Founder of Volans
BUTTERFLIES IN THE BOARDROOM | John Elkington | TEDxGlasgow

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