For more than four decades, I’ve been asking why business sustainability has produced so much activity—and yet so little transformation.
Today, I write, speak, and advise leaders exploring what comes next.
For many years, I believed the greatest barriers to sustainability were technological, economic, or organizational.
Experience gradually led me somewhere else.
I began asking a different question.
Why has business sustainability produced so much activity—and yet so little transformation?
That question became the foundation of Our Common Future—Now.
Drawing on more than forty years of work with businesses, governments and organizations around the world, the book explores why sustainability appears to have reached a ceiling—and what leaders can do next.
It is not simply another book about sustainability.
It is an invitation to reconsider the assumptions that shape the future before strategy begins.
Ideas come alive in conversation.
I speak with leadership teams, conferences, boards and professional communities exploring the future of business, stewardship, sustainability and artificial intelligence.
Every keynote begins with a question.
Every audience leaves with a different way of seeing.
Recent and upcoming engagements include executive leadership forums, international conferences and the September 2026 launch keynote for Our Common Future—Now in London.
The Inquiry is the public continuation of a question that has guided my work for more than forty years.
Each essay explores one aspect of that inquiry—asking better questions before proposing better answers.
Recent essays, podcast conversations and interviews are published regularly.
My work currently centres on four interconnected areas.
How can organizations create enduring value without undermining the conditions their future depends upon?
What happens when sustainability and circular economy are understood as one integrated challenge rather than two separate conversations?
What can enduring living systems teach us about resilience, renewal and long-term value creation?
A three-dimensional framework for understanding creation, maturity, decline and renewal across living and organizational systems.
My books explore the questions.
My speaking brings those ideas to audiences around the world.
My advisory work helps leadership teams apply them.
That work takes place through Circularity Edge®.
What are you trying to sustain?
And for how long?
Those two questions have become the foundation of my work.
They may also be the beginning of yours.