Transforming Tomorrow
The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
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Sustainability is a key consideration for any contemporary business, from biodiversity to modern slavery, seabeds to factory floors. Transforming Tomorrow guides you through the complex, ever-changing and often exciting (yes, really!!) world of sustainability in business.
Alongside members of the Pentland Centre, international research experts, and business leaders, we cover the theory and practice of mainstreaming sustainability into purposeful business strategy and performance.
Whether you are leading change in your business, or just want to know more about how space weather, human trafficking or architecture may influence the future of sustainability, Transforming Tomorrow is the show for you.
Taking you through it all, hosts Jan and Paul bring insight, perspective, and more than occasional disagreement to their topics.
Professor Jan Bebbington is the Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University. Jan is an expert on accounting, benchmarking (to her co-host’s annoyance), and how business and sustainability intersect. She loves nature and wants to protect it – and hopes she can change the world (ideally for the better). She is also motivated to address inequality wherever it is found and especially to eliminate forced, bonded or child labour. Transforming Tomorrow is one small step on that quest.
Paul Turner is a former sports journalist who now works promoting the research activities in Lancaster University Management School – a poacher turned gamekeeper as his former colleagues would have it. He has always been interested in nature and the natural environment – it comes from growing up in Cumbria – and has been a vocal proponent of the work of the Pentland Centre since joining Lancaster University. He does not like rankings and benchmarking, and is not afraid to say so.
Join us every Monday to uncover new insights and become a little more inspired that you can make a difference in sustainability.
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Recent Episodes
S3E35 Regional Development, Inequalities and Entrepreneurship
How can businesses – and business schools – have a positive effect on their regions? And do we need to reconsider the connections between us all? Ellie Hamilton is Professor Emerita at Lancaster…
S3E34 The Net Zero Healthcare Mission
How can healthcare achieve net zero? Where do sustainability considerations stand in the long list of priorities for England’s National Health Service? And could your anaesthetic be better for the…
S3E33 How To Be a Socially Responsible Company
What can companies do to better look after their workers? What makes an ethical employer? And how can businesses do more to care for their communities? These are all things we consider as we welcome…
S3E32 Prioritising Planetary Health
Health is not just about us as individuals. It’s about the whole planet. It’s time we think about health on a worldwide scale. Professor Jemilah Mahmood is Executive Director of the Sunway Centre…
S3E31 Do You Know Your Employment Rights?
At a time when employment rights in the UK are evolving all the time, we look at how and why. Alice Martin, Head of Research at the Work Foundation thinktank at Lancaster University, joins us to…
S3E30 When Scientists Become Activists
Can you be a scientist and an activist at the same time? Where do you draw the line between being a detached expert and stepping on the front lines of climate change protests? Dr Samuel Finnerty,…
S3E29 Corporate Political Activism
Why would a global company take a public stance on racial equality? Why would your favourite ice cream brand be vocal on climate change? Lewis Nicholas is a PhD researcher in Lancaster University…
S3E28 Building a Sustainable Business
Find out how knowing more about your energy use can help businesses operate in a more sustainable way. It’s time for some sustainability analytics! Dan Lavinskas is the founder and CEO of Citera, a…
S3E27 Hop on the (Electric) Bus
WARNING: This episode includes some mild bad language. How do we get more people to leave the car behind and take the bus? When public transport can make such a positive difference to the planet,…
S3E26 A More Accessible World
You might find accessing the commercial world straightforward. Not everyone does. One in five people in the UK have a disability, so how do we make the marketplace more accessible for them? Dr…
S3E25 Transforming Uzbekistan's Cotton Industry
There is a big difference between doing things we might not like, being assigned a task at work not to your particular liking, and being forced into a job by your government. And there is just a…
S3E24 Making A Career in Sustainability
Once you go sustainable, you never go back. Careers in sustainability may not always be obvious, but once you get involved in the sector, it has its claws in you. Richard Mason is Positive Business…
S3E23 The EU, Sustainability Regulations, and the Green Deal
We’re boarding the EU Omnibus to see how European corporate reporting regulations affect businesses – tens of thousands of them – within the EU and beyond. The EU has been a major innovator when it…
S3E22 Do No Significant Harm: Taxonomies and Sustainability (AKA: The Stuffed Badger Episode)
What is a taxonomy? Why are they important? How do they touch upon sustainability? And why should anyone with an interest in financial markets pay them attention? Dr Charika Channuntapipat knows…
Transforming Tomorrow
Introducing Transforming Tomorrow, where we make the complex understandable, the theory practical, as we guide you through the ever-changing and often exciting world of sustainability in business.
S3E21 Sustainability and Innovation
Are innovation and sustainability natural bedfellows? Can you have one without the other – and would you even want to? We’re talking to Barbara Salopek, an innovation strategist; the founder and CEO…
S3E20 Sustainable Transitions and Leaders
You need individual accountability if you are going to be a good leader, but not everyone has it. Sanjay Rishi is a leadership coach with experience around the world, and the founder…
S3E19 How We Care for the Elderly
How much will it cost to look after old people in the future? What can we do to help plan for this expense? And what will happen if we don’t prepare? More than 1.1 billion people on Earth are aged…
S3E18 Building Greener Buildings
What can be done to make your building greener? How can centuries old castles and churches be sensitively adapted to the modern age – becoming more sustainable while retaining their historic…
S3E17 Keeping Sustainability in the Family
It’s time to rethink how family businesses think about and act on sustainability issues. It’s not always about being willing to act – but being capable. Professor Alfredo De Massis, of Lancaster…
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Transforming Tomorrow has published 124 episodes since September 2023, covering topics in Business, Earth Sciences.
Transforming Tomorrow is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 36m.
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