EXECUTIVE INSIGHT
“ I ’ m really excited to just start to tap into that passion a little bit more because we really haven ’ t unleashed the power and the excitement across the organisation ”
Q . WHAT IS IT ABOUT YOUR NEW ROLE THAT MOST EXCITES YOU ?
» As a CSO , I help companies bring their environmental and social sustainability ambitions to life in their workplace every day . I think we have been mostly focused on the environmental side and you ' re starting to see , particularly coming out of the pandemic , that focus on the social side .
It ' s a sector where there ' s lots of opportunity . Companies are very much motivated to address all of these issues . It ' s also the ability to influence and embed sustainability into all the services that we deliver – and I have great colleagues from around the world who I get to partner with to bring it all to life . So whether it ' s a transaction or a project or the day-to-day management of facilities and properties , we ' re able to integrate sustainability throughout the property life cycle and take advantage of all those touch points .
Q . WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES FOR YOU AND FOR CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD ?
» We have ambitions to achieve net zero for Cushman & Wakefield , but 99 % of our footprint comes from Scope 3 , category 11 , which is the products and services we deliver , which is managing facilities and properties on behalf of our clients .
So unless we can help our clients reduce their footprint , we can ' t actually make the biggest and most meaningful impact . And so what that all kind of ties into is , as we ' re going through this interesting regulatory transition for sustainability around the world , I think our challenge is to not allow all the regulatory requirements around data and reporting to stop us from taking meaningful action .
20 June 2024