Regenerative Economies & Green Swans with John Elkington

John Elkington is my guest on Episode 155 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.    John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief pollinator at Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock tomorrow’s market value.  Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors expand their focus from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration. Much of the work is at Board or C-suite level. John's thought leadership is evident in ongoing Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry, and the Green Swans Observatory.  John has helped create and incubate movements including the global sustainability movement and powerfully shaped initiatives like the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002 to 2008. And in 2009, he was named fourth in an international survey of top 100 CSR leaders, after Al Gore, Barack Obama, and the late Anita Roddick.   John has addressed over 1,000 conferences globally and served on over 80 boards and advisory boards. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the latest being Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.  In 2021, John won the prestigious World Sustainability Award.  https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw https://johnelkington.com/ https://www.innovatorsmag.com/is-regenerative-capitalism-the-answer-to-the-worlds-problems/ https://twitter.com/volansjohn https://volans.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/volans/ https://twitter.com/VolansHQ https://medium.com/@volansjohn https://theobservatory.volans.com/ https://capitalinstitute.org/course-introduction-regenerative-economics/ https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw #bcorp #regeneration #greenswans #uglyducklings #capitalism #triplebottomline #recall #volans #regenerators #harvardbusinessreview #exponential #neweconomicmodel #friedmanera #sdgs #