Rooted: The Human Side Of Sustainability Leadership

This one's about ignoring the naysayers, feeling the fear, and doing it anyway. Hannah Leggatt, Director of Environment & Sustainability at The Clancy Group, joins me on my yellow bench to share the lessons she's learned over a 17-year environmental and sustainability career in construction and major infrastructure programmes. We talk about about career courage, authentic leadership and the po...

This one's all about career pauses, both intentional and unintentional. Martin shares the lessons he learned following redundancy (essential listening for anyone going through something similar), and the ambitions he has for his next role, as he becomes Arriva’s first ever director of sustainability.   We’re exploring the moments Martin's most proud of over 20 years in sustainability, and the diff...

From sparkly eyeshadow to underground cables Abby Chicken has been powered by a  strong sense of activism through her career. She now heads up sustainability at Openreach, one of the UK’s biggest infrastructure organisations. As always, we go beneath the shiny headlines and delve into how this work really feels. Abby shares how she came to sustainability part way through her career, describing a j...

Lisa Tennant, who I’m calling the “queen of governance”, joins me on my yellow bench for this episode of Rooted. Alongside the usual Environmental and Social focus, we’re really leaning into the G of ESG in this episode. This episode is for you if you work with boards, are considering a portfolio career, or have ever wondered what it’s really like in a boardroom. This is a wide ranging conversatio...

Elisa Moscolin, Executive Vice-President, Sustainability & Foundation at Sage, joins me on my yellow bench to talk about influence, power and building long-term relationships with executive teams. We go right back to her roots, exploring formative early experiences which shaped her drive to tackle social injustice and poverty. We hear about what makes her most proud, repeating a recurring them...

In this episode of Rooted , I am joined on my yellow bench by Tara Schmidt, Executive Director of Transition Finance Scotland, part of the Green Finance Institute’s mission for Scotland. Tara shares the roots of her sustainability career, from growing up on the Texas coast and witnessing environmental damage first-hand, to a global career spanning engineering, strategy, finance and policy. That co...

Nick Valenzia, co-founder of Leafr, joins me on my yellow bench. Nick shares what led him to start Leafr, and the mission that now includes over 1,000 sustainability consultants. We explore the motivation behind building a business that not only connects organisations with expertise, but actively helps people move into consultancy and thrive once they are there. What really stood out for me from t...

With nearly two decades in finance, Maria Nazarova-Doyle has built an impressive career at the intersection of money and purpose. After leading responsible investment at Scottish Widows, she now shapes global sustainability strategy at IFM Investors, which manages over £115 billion in assets. In this episode of Rooted: the human side of sustainability leadership, Maria describes her role in sustai...

In this episode of Rooted: The Human Side of Sustainability Leadership, Liv welcomes Gemma Lannon to her yellow bench. After starting her career at Unilever and working on grassroots sustainability projects around the world, Gemma founded Treo House - a new community supporting sustainability professionals to navigate the human side of this work. In this conversation, Gemma shares the moment she r...

Liv welcomes Becky Heaton to her yellow bench. What does it really take to keep your balance when your job is literally saving the planet? In this episode of Rooted: the human side of sustainability leadership , former corporate sustainability leader turned coach Liv Cropper sits down with Dr Rebecca (Becky) Heaton to explore the realities of leading change in some of the toughest boardrooms. A se...

Matteo Deidda takes a seat on Liv’s yellow bench. What happens when your passion for innovation and technology collides with the urgent need to tackle climate change? In this episode of Rooted: the human side of sustainability leadership , Liv Cropper sits down with Matteo Deidda - now Global Net Zero Lead at Tide and a familiar face across the UK sustainability community. From early days studying...