Sustainable Strategic Management

Leadership with Purpose

Embedding Sustainability in Strategic Management for Long-Term Value

What you’ll be able to do after reading

Sustainable Strategy Toolbox – Uncover five toolkits that blend sustainable strategic management with cutting-edge innovative approaches, empowering readers to drive forward-thinking changes

Sustainability Implementation – Gain insights into strategy and tactics gaps to help overcome the implementation deficit. Learn how to integrate sustainability considerations into every facet of strategic decision-making, creating resilient and ethically responsible organisations.

Real-world Insights – Gain actionable insights from real-world case studies that spotlight organisations at the forefront of sustainable strategic management and globally showcase successes and challenges.

Create sustainable strategies to strategy → execution → leadership:

Align purpose, strategy choices, and measurable outcomes
Build a sustainable value proposition that survives scrutiny
Translate sustainability aims into KPIs, baselines, and decision gates
Create an operating cadence that makes delivery stick
Lead stakeholder value creation without losing performance discipline

Three ways to put the book to work

Book a short call to identify the right next step.

Use it as a shared strategy language

Ideal for MBA and MSc programme directors, executive education leaders, and executive leadership teams seeking a clear framework for sustainable strategic management, decision-making, and prioritisation.

Book-to-Board Workshop

(Half-day or full-day)

A facilitated workshop for executives, directors, and leadership teams that translates the book’s ideas into your organisational context — linking purpose to performance, strengthening risk thinking, and clarifying the metrics that matter.

Includes:

60 illustrations with key assumptions
Five practical toolkits
Chapters with mini-cases and strategy nuggets

Book-to-Execution Sprint

(1-6 weeks)

A structured sprint that turns the book’s ideas into a board-ready sustainable strategy, a credible business case pack, and a practical governance cadence for delivery.

3 steps:

Readiness scan
Value proposition and investment-ready business case sprint
Execution cadence and governance support

Choose Your Focus Area

We organise our work around two questions: where are you starting from, and what are you trying to change?

Boards & Executive Leadership
Governance that withstands scrutiny: decision gates, portfolio logic, board reporting, and risk controls.
CFO & Finance-Led Sustainability
Translate purpose into capital logic: business cases, value bridges, risk-adjusted returns, and assurance-ready evidence.
Transformation & Operating Model
Build execution systems: sprint methods, KPI and OKR wiring, accountability, benefits realisation, and stopping rules.
Business & Enterprise
Shape strategy that survives margin pressure: product and portfolio shifts, pricing, cost-to-serve, and supply chain trade-offs.
Universities & Education
Support curriculum change, executive education, practice, and proof-based sprints for institutional transformation.
Research & Evidence for Action
Develop metrics, methods, and cases that leaders can use and academics can publish.

Dr Paul A. Phillips

Dr Paul A. Phillips Professor of Strategic Management and practitioner with CEO/board-level delivery experience
Founder and CEO of Investment-Grade Strategy Partners
Author of Sustainable Strategic Management: Leadership with Purpose (with Routledge)
Founder and Host of Sustainable Strategy Brief Live

About Dr Paul | The book | Speaking

Acknowledgements

“This book opens essential conversations on the most complex and pressing issues of sustainable strategy. Its global perspective adds immense value, enabling practitioners and institutions to approach sustainability challenges with clarity and depth. By combining conceptual rigor with practical examples, it creates space for multiple voices to engage in this critical debate.”

Roberto Vassolo

Full Professor in Strategic Management and Long Range Planning Co-Editor-in-Chief, AE Business School, Universidad Austral, Argentina

“Professor Phillips puts sustainability at the heart of strategic management. His latest book provides relevant insights for practitioners and students. It is a timely and welcome addition to the literature.”

Catherine Robinson

Professor, Dean of the School of Business and Law, University of Brighton, UK

“Phillips delivers a disciplined account of sustainability as key element of a company’s strategy – not just lofty CSR talk. With precise constructs, analytic frameworks, and intriguing cross-industry cases, he demonstrates how stakeholder outcomes translate into goals, capital allocation, and governance. A welcome playbook for executives and directors that links purpose to performance, improves risk posture, and provides credible metrics.”

Roland Deiser

Senior Drucker Fellow, Chairman of the Center for the Future of Organization at the Drucker School of Management, USA

Want to turn the book into action in your organisation?

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