Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 8
June 25, 2026
Nature Is Not Short of Importance. It Is Short of Investment-Grade Propositions.
Blog, Newsletters & Executive Papers
On this page you can view each edition of my monthly newsletter Sustainable Strategy Brief, regular blog articles, and Executive Papers.
Sustainable Strategy Executive Paper
April 25, 2026
Why Boards Need a Decision Architecture for Sustainability
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 5
March 25, 2026
The Kill List: What High-Performing Boards Stop Funding First
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 4
February 27, 2026
How to Make your Sustainable Value Proposition through Sprints
Blog – No. 4
February 27, 2026
Most Sustainability Strategies do not Fail Because the Goals are Wrong
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 3
January 28, 2026
Turning sustainability growth ambition into credible business cases
Blog – No. 3
January 28, 2026
ESG 2.0: If your ESG Plan can’t Survive an Investment Committee, it isn’t a Strategy. It’s a Story
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 1
November 23, 2025
Turning ESG noise into boardroom outcomes in 90 days
On this page you can view each edition of my monthly newsletter Sustainable Strategy Brief and my regular blog articles.
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 8
June 2026
Nature Is Not Short of Importance. It Is Short of Investment-Grade Propositions.
Last month’s Sustainable Strategy Brief argued that sustainability proposals must survive CFO scrutiny. This month, the agenda takes that argument into a harder and more commercially urgent space: nature, natural capital, AI-enabled sustainability, capability building, and market execution. Read more >
Blog – No. 8
June 2026
Sustainability Has Moved On. Have Your Decision Systems Kept Up?
Boards are approving sustainability budgets that their decision systems are not built to execute. The money is moving. The capability is not. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Executive Paper
June 2026
Pass, Develop Further or Redesign
The Board’s Guide to Testing Sustainability Proposals.
From the Five Test Standard to the decisions that follow.
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Blog – No. 7
May 2026
What Happens If We Do Nothing?
Why the counterfactual is the missing evidence in many sustainability proposals.
Every sustainability proposal makes a case for action.
Most fail to argue against inaction. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Executive Paper
May 2026
Investment Grade or Just Language?
The Five Test Standard for Sustainable Strategy
From narrative to board-ready decision discipline.
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Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 6
April 2026
From Ambition to Governed Choice
This month’s issue focuses on that gap between ambition and governed choice. If leadership cannot say what should stop, it has not set a strategy. It has simply protected a portfolio of worthy activity. Read more >
Blog – No. 6
April 2026
Where Companies Go Wrong with Sustainability Data
Most organisations have three types of sustainability data.
Reporting data satisfies disclosure. Management information monitors activity. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Executive Paper
April 2026
Why Boards Need a Decision Architecture for Sustainability
This Sustainable Strategy Executive Paper argues for a material shift in how boards govern sustainability.
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Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 5
March 2026
The Kill List: What High-Performing Boards Stop Funding First
If leadership cannot say what should stop, it has not set a strategy. It has simply protected a portfolio of worthy activity. Read more >
Blog – No. 5
March 2026
Why Sustainability Proposals Fail
Most sustainability proposals are not rejected by the board. They fail in the first 10 minutes of the investment discussion. That is where the real test begins. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 4
February 2026
How to Make your Sustainable Value Proposition through Sprints
Credible business cases aren’t built on aspirational projections or industry benchmarks alone. They’re constructed on verifiable evidence and rigorous financial methodology. This is where most sustainability proposals fail—they rely on narratives instead of numbers. Read more >
Blog – No. 4
February 2026
Most Sustainability Strategies do not Fail Because the Goals are Wrong
Sustainability problems are messy, complex, and uncertain, and they involve multiple stakeholders with legitimate (and conflicting) incentives who are all closely watching. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 3
January 2026
Turning Sustainability Growth Ambition into Credible Business Cases
Demand for technologies that support climate resilience and adaptation could create a $1 trillion opportunity for private capital by 2030! Read more >
Blog – No. 3
January 2026
ESG 2.0: If your ESG Plan can’t Survive an Investment Committee, it isn’t a Strategy. It’s a Story.
Stories don’t get funded. Evidence does. Boards don’t fund ambition. They fund proof—evidence that holds up under scrutiny, links to P&L, and can be governed with discipline. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 2
December 2025
Strategy Eats Compliance for Breakfast
McKinsey asserts that, after a decade of expansion, ESG, as a framework for measuring a company’s societal impact, is undergoing a rethink. Read more >
Blog – No. 2
December 2025
The Sustainability Investor Lens for 2026
In 2026, the CEO cannot simply state, “We have a sustainability strategy,” and expect it to influence capital providers, boards, or investment committees. The bar has shifted: less rhetoric, more cash-flow logic, quantified risk, and executable delivery plans. Read more >
Sustainable Strategy Brief – No. 1
November 2025
Turning ESG Noise into Boardroom Outcomes in 90 days
Boardroom question to open with. Are you acting in the 12% that deliver or the 88% that don’t? We looked at our last 90 days; what sustainable strategy outcomes would drive the P&L? Read more >
Blog – No. 1
November 2025
Tomorrow’s Winners will Run ESG like a Product
The era of lengthy, glossy sustainability reports is coming to an end. In boardrooms across the globe, the conversation is shifting from how to engage with policy to enhancing performance. Read more >