Nature has been building trust across complex systems for 3.8 billion years — and sustainability leaders are uniquely positioned to apply it. "The Nature of Trust" is a collaborative project by Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry for Social Innovation that translates evolutionary intelligence into eight practical principles for establishing, growing, and maintaining trust in human relationships, organizations, and communities. The hardest part of sustainability leadership isn't the strategy — it's bringing internal teams, clients, and supply chain partners along the journey from business-as-usual to regenerative ways of operating, and that requires trust that can hold through uncertainty and resistance. Grounded in two years of biological research and field-testing, Nicole will share concrete, nature-inspired insights for building the cross-functional trust that turns bold commitments into shared action.