Lee Stewart
How to Build Sustainability into Your Business Strategy, a new book by sustainability expert Lee Stewart launches today. The book aims to guide Australian business leaders on the path to integrating sustainability into their core strategies. Drawing from more than 20 years of industry experience, Stewart’s self-published work offers a pragmatic, step-by-step approach to embed sustainability within your organisations.
Designed to demystify the complexities of sustainability, the book breaks down the process into manageable steps that business leaders can follow to develop and implement best practice strategies.
“Taking a sustainable approach to business activity is no longer a nice-to-have sideline. Demanded by customers, essential for supply chain connections and requisite for future growth, now is the time to develop your corporate ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) plans,” explains Lee.
In the book, Lee introduces the Triple C Framework for Sustainable Strategy:
Confidence: The first step in developing an ESG strategy is to consider the global and local sustainability issues. Trust your knowledge of the relevant issues, such as carbon emissions, waste, diversity, community, and consider your company’s impact on these areas and how you can enact positive change. A key question Lee asks his clients is “If your business didn’t exist would the planet and society be better or worse?” The answer may surprise you and this helps identify your unique ESG threat or opportunity.
Commitment: Focus on what matters the most to your business. This is done through materiality assessments and stakeholder engagement. The next step is setting goals and developing your communication strategies and core values.
Consistency: Finally, maintain relevance and consistency by integrating these changes into your daily operations.
Drawing on his extensive experience in sustainability roles across Australia, the UK, Japan, and New Zealand, Lee shares his personal insights and lessons learned from working with global companies like Fujitsu and Fonterra. He underscores the importance of perseverance in the face of adversity, encouraging leaders to stay the course even when the journey is challenging.
“In How to Build Sustainability into Your Business Strategy, you’ll quickly learn how to prepare, define your objectives and targets, and assign roles and responsibilities across your organisation,” Lee says. “You’ll also learn how best to integrate sustainability into broad-reaching business operations, how to communicate and get buy-in at the board-level, and how to develop your program for ongoing continuous improvement and adaptation as the market landscape evolves.
Endorsed by industry leaders such as Amanda Steele, Group Executive Head of Property at ISPT, and James Shaw, former Climate Change Minister for New Zealand, Stewart’s book has been praised for its accessibility and practicality.
For business leaders ready to take the next step in their sustainability journey, How to Build Sustainability into Your Business Strategy presents a comprehensive, easy-to-follow blueprint. As Lee says, “Making your business more sustainable can seem overwhelming but it doesn’t need to be.”
Praise for Lee Stewart’s Book:
“Lee has simplified and synthesised decades of sustainability knowledge and practice to provide an accessible and informative guide.” –
Amanda Steele, Group Executive Head of Property, ISPT
“I wish Lee had written this book 25 years ago when I was a budding young sustainability manager in a large corporate. It would have saved us a lot of wasted effort to have had this totally comprehensive (and yet tightly written) how-to guide on hand, rather than making it up as we did.” – James Shaw, Operating Partner Morrison and former Climate Change Minister for New Zealand
“A practical, comprehensive, and highly readable guide for business leaders to integrate sustainability, written by a seasoned professional.” – Mike Burrell, CEO, Sustainable Business Council of New Zealand.
With How to Build Sustainability into Your Business Strategy, Lee Stewart has delivered a timely and essential resource for any business leader looking to make sustainability a core component of their corporate strategy.
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