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Volans is excited to be working closely with partners in Germany, BMW Stiftung, Impact Solutions and Enorm in organizing a 'Breakthrough' lecture by John Elkington… More
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Last week was possibly one of the key highlights of our annual calendar - being a part of the Skoll World Forum and Oxford Jam.… More
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Our latest report, Breakthrough: Business Leaders, Market Revolutions, was launched last month along with friends and partners at the offices of Generation Management Investment here… More
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Volans just turned five years old (on the auspicious day of 1st April). With early support from partners and clients including the Skoll Foundation, Allianz… More
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Breakthrough report launch We launched our sixth report, Breakthrough: Business Leaders, Market Revolutions, on 7 March at the London HQ of Generation Management Investment. We… More
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Grit in our oyster
A phenomenally busy week, including a session with Singapore’s Economic Development Board on Monday, a highly successful joint SustainAbility-Volans evening event at The Hub (one of our Trailblazer organisations) on Wednesday, a brown-bag lunch with Monica Araya of Climate Change Capital and members of the Volans SustainAbility teams, a filming session for a client on Wednesday, a meeting of the Trustees of the Environment Foundation (another Trailblazer) at 2BP on Thursday – developing the theme of democracy and sustainability, and a visit from The United Bank of Carbon, who asked me what Volans was about? One phrase I dredged up from previous days was that we aim to be grit in other people’s oysters. And sometimes the grit lands in our oyster, as it did this week – spurring an extraordinary bout of creative thinking, which has produced a new book idea, a theme for a research programme and a bunch of other things.