Executing Sustainability Strategies

Frank Brueck  

Lead of Leadership Lab, Leonardo Centre on Business for Society

Frank Brueck has more than 25 years of experience as a consultant, trainer, lecturer and researcher in the fields of CSR and sustainability, cultural change, cross-cultural management, team building and leadership development. 

Frank cofounded the GOLDEN for Impact Foundation and is a founding member of the International Association for Cross-cultural Competence and Management. His research focuses on the methodologies of CSR, cultural comparison, value-based management, sustainability and intercultural management and training. Frank holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. 

Kim Dabbs

Kim is a global leader in the area of belonging and purpose. As a thought leader, cultural researcher, author and speaker, she has been leading social impact, innovation, and education initiatives throughout the globe. She presents internationally on belonging and purpose at venues such as TEDx, MIT, the Guggenheim, the Aspen Institute and The Drucker Forum. Dabbs has also received numerous recognitions in the process, including a Joyce Fellowship, an executive residency at the d.school at Stanford, and being selected as an innovation coach at IDEOU. 

Today, she is the Global Vice President of ESG + Social Innovation at Steelcase—a publicly traded company that leading businesses, organizations, and educational and medical institutions have trusted for over 100 years to unlock the promise of their people. They are one of the global leaders in architecture, furniture, and technology solutions with 11,000+ employees, 800+ global dealers, and 70 offices in 30 countries with over two billion dollars in annual revenue. She leads Steelcase in setting a bold, global ESG strategy to build a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable world.

Gbemi Oluleye

Gbemi is an assistant professor at the Centre for Environmental Policy and a member of the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering. She leads a research group/activity on Modelling for the Adoption of  Alternative Technological Systems (MAATS Lab). In MAATS Lab we synthesise cost-effective and innovative ways to accelerate the uptake of alternative technological systems for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors like industry. Gbemi's transdisciplinary research experience and expertise at the interface of Engineering, Policy and Economics places her in the best position to address technology adoption for climate change mitigation.  

Gbemi received a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; MSc in Advanced Chemical Process Design at the University of Manchester and; PhD in Process Integration from the University of Manchester. She has over 10 years of combined experience in academia and industry.

James Robey

James has led the Capgemini Group sustainability agenda since setting the first carbon reduction targets in 2008. He is a long-term advocate of ambitious and transparent targets as a mechanism to drive innovation to ensure continual improvements. He led the development of and is driving the Group’s global net zero program to reduce environmental impacts across its most material impacts towards the goals of Capgemini becoming carbon neutral no later than 2025 and net zero by 2030.  
 
In addition, James also brought a client focus to Capgemini’s sustainability vision, working with the leadership to establish a target for the Group to help its clients with their sustainability and carbon reduction goals. During his 23-year career at Capgemini, James has held a number of roles, primarily in business development, and programme and change management. In addition to leading Capgemini’s Net Zero Board, he is also a member of the Country Board of Capgemini UK.

Livio Scalvini

Livio is Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre and CEO and co-founder of Golden for Impact, an international organisation developing alternative models of enterprise for economic and human value creation.

Before joining Imperial College Business School, he was Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance at East Piedmont University. He was Global Director of Corporate Innovation for Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s leading banking group, and has held leadership roles in international financial institutions, with a focus on innovation, strategy and venture capital. He is the author of publications on strategic planning and the dynamics of markets.

Ed Daniels

Ed is the former Strategy, Sustainability and Corporate Relations Director for Shell Plc. In this role Ed was a member of Shell’s Executive Committee had accountability for the company’s existing Strategy, Sustainability and Corporate Relations organisations.

Ed joined Shell in 1988 and has held roles in Shell’s Upstream, Integrated Gas, Downstream and Projects & Technology businesses. He previously served as Shell’s UK Country Chair, prior to becoming a Director, he was the Executive Vice President Strategy, Portfolio & Sustainability, he led the development of the company’s ‘Powering Progress’ strategy to drive the decarbonisation of the energy system and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

A British national, Ed grew up in Wales and is married with three daughters. Outside of Shell, he has served as the Technical Vice President for the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), is a Fellow at both the IChemE and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and has an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Imperial College London.

Maurizio Zollo

Professor Zollo is the Scientific Director of the School's Leonardo Centre on Business for Society. His research aims to understand how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence and how managers can guide these evolutionary processes.

His research has been published in several leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal. His work has been covered in mainstream publications including Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Professor Zollo is Editor-in-Chief of Organization & Environment and a past editor of the European Management Review. He served for a decade on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Business in Society, which he helped establish in 2002.

Kevin Corley

Dr. Corley is a Professor of Management and co-director for the Centre for Responsible Leadership. His expertise lies in the understanding of how individuals and organisations approach change, and how leaders can use times of uncertainty and ambiguity to the benefit of their organisation and followers. As a teacher and coach, his focus is to provide leaders with the tools to successfully implement organisational change utilising strategic thinking, adaptability, power/influence/persuasion, and negotiations.With both academic and industry experience, and a career-long interest in leading organizational change, Kevin brings value to a broad cross-section of industries and organizations.

Eduardo Andrade 

Eduardo is a professor of marketing at Imperial College Business School and the Co-Director of the MSc Programme on Climate Change, Management & Finance. As a behavioural researcher, he is interested in how individuals feel, think and make decisions in contexts related to sustainable consumption, inequality, and health.

His articles have appeared in marketing (Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing Research), medicine/public health (Lancet, Public Health Nutrition, Preventive Medicine, JAMA Network Open), and psychology journals (Psychological Science, Nature Human Behavior), among others.