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Andrew Winston

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Winston Eco-Strategies

Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is a globally recognized expert on how companies can profit from solving the world’s biggest challenges.

Andrew Winston is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends, sustainable business, and how to build companies that profit by contributing to a thriving world. He was ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 list of the most influential management thinkers in the world. Andrew’s books on strategy – including Green to Gold, The Big Pivot, and Net Positive, which was co-authored with legendary CEO Paul Polman – have sold over a quarter million copies in 15 languages. The Financial Times selected Net Positive as one of the Best Business Books of the Year. Andrew writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. His views on strategy have been sought after by many of the planet’s leading companies, including 3M, DuPont, J&J, Kimberly- Clark, Marriott, PepsiCo, and Unilever. Andrew is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, reaching audiences of thousands at executive meetings globally. He received degrees in economics, business, and environmental management from Princeton, Columbia, and Yale.

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Are We Seeing Glimmers of a Healthier, Even Regenerative, Economic System?

Last week at SB’22 San Diego, over 1K sustainability practitioners converged to share insights, tools, inspiration and opportunities for collaboration with the goal of building a regenerative future for all. Here, we hear highlights from our day fo... View More

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Engaging Your CFO - Insights from the Field

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Opening Remarks: Gigatrends and Drive to Net Positive

Keynotes during this morning’s plenary program will focus on laying out some of the most promising types of innovation for regeneration we are currently observing. From new business models based on regenerative agriculture, to carbon-negative produ... View More

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'Bringing Humanity Back to Business': 10 Insights from Paul Polman

Carol Cone — internationally recognized Purpose pioneer and host of the Purpose 360 podcast — spoke with the former Unilever CEO and fellow Purpose pioneer on the eve of the release of his new book, Net Positive. ... View More

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Leading Brands Share Mix of Success Stories, Cautionary Tales at SB’21 Madrid

While showcasing brands leading the charge toward sustainability — including Interface and Tony’s Chocolonely — SB’21 Madrid gave equal weight to just how much work we have left to do: Only 13% of companies can accurately deem themselves “s... View More

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The COVID Covenant: Don’t Go Back — Go Big and Go Now!

We know that we can buy less, use less, work from home, drive less, collaborate more; and have business, society and government move faster — because we just did all of that. How can we respond as powerfully and courageously to other super-critical... View More

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What's Wrong With the World and How Do We Fix It? - Q&A

All of a sudden, the world seems to have erupted into chaos. Coronavirus captured the attention of the world, and all of us, including the companies we represent and support, are scrambling to understand how to respond. There is no more perfect time ... View More

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What's Wrong With the World and How Do We Fix It?

...with the World and How Do We Fix It? All of a sudden, the world seems to have errupted into chaos. Coronvirus has captured the attention of the world, and all of us, including the companies we represent and support, are scrambling to understand h... View More

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Are We Capable of Enacting Lasting, Positive Change After Disruption and Crisis?

The shadow of the unknown due to COVID could derail progress we’ve made toward a more sustainable future or it can motivate us to do better, faster. Now is the time for stakeholders throughout every organization to dig deep and figure out what they... View More

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What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality

To buy into a new vision of business, CEOs need to connect to it as people and write it into their own personal narrative of how their work fits into the world. They need to ask: What’s my legacy? ... View More

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Transformational Goals in Corporate Strategy: A Review of the ESG Goals of 50 Global Companies

Transformational ESG goals seek to make changes across companies’ entire value chain and even society. But in a recent review of 50 of the Fortune 250 companies, incremental ESG goals are still the norm. ... View More

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The World in 2030: 9 Megatrends to Watch

Look, we could all just wait and see where these historic waves take us. But I prefer that we all work proactively to ensure that a better, thriving future is the one we choose. ... View More

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#NewMetrics18: The ROI of Sustainability Strategy — and 6 Ways to Get There

Last week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share their latest tools and findings regarding measuring the risks an... View More

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`Materiality Is Broken. But It Doesn’t Have to Be.

In formulating strategy, shaping communications and improving their impact in the world, companies, and their sustainability teams, must answer two big questions: "What is important to our business?” and "What is important to our stakehol... View More

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The Rise of Corporate Sustainability Goals: Some Hard Data

For the last 5 years, my firm has tracked the sustainability goals of the world’s largest companies. These thousands of targets commit multinationals to do many important things, such as slashing carbon emissions in half (or to zero) or bringing th... View More

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Focusing on What 90% of Businesses Do Now Is a Big Mistake

I was driving through rural Pennsylvania recently and saw a fascinating billboard. Sponsored by an organization that promotes coal and natural gas, the sign declared, “The truth is that 90 percent of our energy comes from fossil fuels.” Technical... View More

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The Same, But Different: Some Thoughts on Japanese Business

I recently visited Tokyo on a business trip and had the chance to meet with a number of Japanese companies. At the end of a three-hour meeting with sustainability professionals from a dozen or so multinationals, the host asked me for my impressions o... View More

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16 Ways Your Company Can ‘Walk the Walk’ on Climate Change

The People’s Climate March is coming to Washington, DC on April 29th. Businesses and their employees can take part and show their support for climate action. ... View More

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