Business of Sustainability Podcast
The Business of Sustainability podcast from FuturePlus discusses the latest trends, challenges, and advancements in the Sustainability and ESG landscape.
Co-hosted by Alex Smith and Mike Penrose, the co-founders of FuturePlus, the podcast series is for anyone looking for valuable insights on sustainability in business. We’ll be hearing from a range of experts in the ESG and sustainability sectors including investors, innovators, and regulators.
Each episode looks to provide you with expert analysis and opinions on the future of sustainability in business, including some of the challenges facing all of us.
Our scores
To maintain accountability and transparency, we too use the FuturePlus framework to track our impact.
Total Actual and Ambition scores on a 500-point scale, along with a breakdown of scores for each theme, scored out of 100 points each. To find out more about our scoring system, click here.
Meet the hosts
Alexandra Smith
Co-founder & Partner
Prior to co-founding The Sustainability Group, Alex was the Commercial Director for Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Alex is a seasoned business development and operations expert with an unparalleled track record of developing collaborative, strategic and commercially successful partnerships for businesses and brands around the world.
Leveraging her extensive background in creating high-impact partnerships in commercial sport, Alex has led and managed sustainability and social impact projects for brands, government departments, and sporting organisations around the world.
Michael Penrose
Co-founder & Partner
Mike is a world-renowned expert on risk, crisis and disaster management, and has worked in this field in more than 60 countries.
Prior to co-founding The Sustainability Group, Mike was Executive Director of Unicef UK, CEO of Action contre la Faim in Paris and Global Humanitarian Director at Save the Children.
As a former advisor to the FTSE on their ESG trading index (FTSE4Good), he works with a number of investment firms and family offices on matching social and environmental impact with high return investment strategies.
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