One Step Ahead Leadership & Sustainability with Sarah Blake

Revolutionizing Leadership: Embracing Sustainability in the Modern Business World
Dive into the transformative world of sustainable business practices, where we unravel how regulations, employee expectations, and ethical leadership are reshaping the corporate landscape for a greener future.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
👉 Sustainability's Rise in Business Strategy: Understanding its growing importance.
👉 Employee Expectations: The driving force behind sustainable initiatives.
👉 Leadership in the Age of Sustainability: Adapting to new business norms.
👉 Diversity and Inclusion: Their crucial role in sustainable solutions.
👉 The Role of HR in Sustainability: Integrating green practices in workforce management.
👉 Agency and Empowerment: Encouraging individual contributions to sustainability.
👉 Performance Management: Including sustainability in employee evaluations.
👉 Cognitive Diversity: Leveraging varied perspectives for innovative solutions.
👉 The Ethical Shift: Moving towards more responsible business practices.
About Sarah Blake
✅ Sarah Blake, founder of Earthology and a Cambridge-trained sustainability expert, combines her HR (CIPD Associate) and Horticulture (RHS) knowledge to guide businesses and individuals. Through workshops and strategic consulting, she advocates for sustainable practices that enhance revenue, staff retention, and risk reduction, proving that profitability and planet positivity can coexist.
✅ Website: www.earthology.ie/team
✅ LinkedIn: ie.linkedin.com/in/sarahblake-earthology
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Today we have Sarah Blake from Earthology with us on the Leadership Zone and we're going to be discussing all things sustainability and picking Sarah's brain about things that we need to think about in organisations and as leaders. Sarah has a lot of different resources that we will then point you towards that will help you save a lot of time and effort in terms of trying to think about these things.
But before we get into all that, I'd like to invite Sarah to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you before we kick off. Great. Oh, thank you. Thanks so much for having me on. Very delighted to be here. And it's going to be great, a great, great chat. So a little bit about me is that my background is HR and horticulture.
So quite an interesting combination, but spent a lot of the years doing talent management and doing kind of organisational kind of recruitment and leadership. And then moved into horticulture, had a mid life crisis, thought I wanted to be a garden designer, and then discovered that, oh my goodness, the planet is in trouble, these plants really need help, and that's kind of how I came to it.
I didn't lick it off the ground, as they say, because my parents brought me up to grow my own, and to fix and mend, and all those kind of things. But somebody pointed out that I should really marry these two synergy kind of areas, and pull them together, because when you say HR and horticulture, people go. How does that work? But we pull them together in what we do at Earthology, which is a lot of carbon literacy education. Brilliant. Thank you.