02. The evolving role of CEO

CEOs have a major question to address: how can you put your company back on track to growth, and at the same time create long-term, sustainable value for a broader set of stakeholders? To tackle that question, you must first acknowledge that your new growth strategy cannot be built on the same assumptions and principles that drove results in the pre-pandemic era. Success will no longer be measured with profit and operational metrics alone. 

 

To rebound to sustainable growth, you need to reframe your strategic agenda not as a return to business as it once was, but as a new platform from which to create and protect value.

 

In this episode I am joined by Dr Andrew White, director of advanced management at Oxford University's Said Bus School, Nicolas Lefevre-Marton, MD and head of sustainability at ENGIE Impact and Paul Stobart, CEO at Zen Internet to discuss what is required from the modern CEO to drive a sustainability agenda while maintaining profitability.