All the latest news and updates from Thinking the Unthinkable.
Podcast | 20 min
Feeling secure? Think again. 90% of your company's value rides on tech, but only 2% of insurance covers cyberattacks. That's a trillion-dollar gap leaving businesses exposed.
Our TTU podcast with Ryan Dodd reveals this unthinkable and shocking truth. He is CEO of Intangic who can be described as cyber risk validation champions. He highlights vividly and graphically how the resilience gap against ever-evolving cyber threats must be bridged urgently.
Podcast | 19 min
Rachel Kyte is a global authority on climate finance and the energy transition. Listen to her compelling arguments to re-mobilise and re-boot.
This is because the public is increasingly anxious about deepening climate realities. That’s why new communications and a new narrative are needed so urgently.
Podcast | 20 min
Preeti Srivastav is Group Sustainability Director of the global food and beverage giant Asahi.
Hear her dramatic explanation of how being uncomfortable as a leader is vital to having new vision, asking new questions and succeeding.
Podcast | 20 min
Meet Richard Nugee, a former 3-Star General in the British Army.
Singlehandedly, with no staff, he has convinced the reluctant top brass in the Ministry of Defence that they must embrace climate change. Hear his remarkable explanation of how he won the battle.
Podcast | 20 min
Shevaun Haviland, is Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce. She represents 67,000 companies globally, employing six million people. She is determined to convince all leaders of the business positives from embracing Net Zero. These create new opportunities for innovation and growth. Leaders should be encouraged and emboldened by what she says. There is no alternative.
Podcast | 22 min
Paul Polman is the Former CEO of Unilever. He is now on a relentless, single minded mission to ensure leaders tackle the climate, biodiversity and nature emergencies with the urgency, scale and innovation needed.
Most current leaders are missing the mark. But at last there are positive signs. A new generation of courageous leaders is being created. You will hear Paul detail how.
Podcast | 18 min
Businesses must consider how to recalibrate their purpose urgently. To justify making profits they must solve problems not assume they can get away with creating them.
Professor Colin Mayer is a leading and radical thinker on profit. Here at TTU we urge that his alerts and new thinking are taken seriously. The future viability of capitalism hinges upon this essential shift, and here he explains why.
Podcast | 18 min
In this new and riveting analysis Seb Munden explains why advertising must dramatically revolutionise attitudes to green. Advertising could do it fast and decisively. Its survival is threatened if it doesn’t.
Podcast | 18 min
How radical must we all become to be more sustainable? Each of us needs to re-examine everything we do in order to realise the huge changes we must make. Here we share the insights of a remarkable, fast growing company that shows us all how sustainable conferences and events can be. Then how company leaders must, and can, lead the way for change.
There is a starker and ever deepening trend. Ignoring unthinkables carries new peril. The mountain of awareness has begun to move. But leaders still need to challenge themselves relentlessly. They must do so ever more boldly.
Work out the new positives and opportunities in this deepening era of disruption, then embrace them. Andrew Liveris, the former CEO of Dow Chemical, says leaders must “toss out the rule book” and replace the old toolbox.
After COP28, the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) significantly changes how businesses must report the impact of their activities on the environment and society. Starting in 2024, reporting and collecting up to 1200 data points will be mandatory. Ray Nulty, Managing Partner of Centigo UK and Ireland, discusses what needs to be done and how it will affect you.