Accounting for good, what is true financial leadership, Sydney Climate Action Week 2024
Paula Kensington
Talking about the need for business to go beyond sustainability, net zero is not going to be good enough.
How do we think about creating new systems, new measures and new thinking. when I say new systems I don't mean just new accounting/ERP systems, I mean the fundamentals of how we do business and our economic models that need disruption.
Working in a system that drives endless growth is not one that will serve our business world. I used to think that without growth we are dying, now I know the opposite is true, growth is killing us.
What can finance professionals do to support a better world to do business. How do we rebalance, restructure and renew our systems to ensure we start to regenerate rather than extract and exploit.
We cannot wait for the regulators and finance system to enforce change upon us, we need to empower ourselves to drive better outcomes within our organisations.
Asking our Board, our executive and our leadership the hard questions. What metrics are our decison making focusing on and how do we breathe new life into our spreadsheets. I am certain that if our spreadhseets do not change then nothing really changes....
Watch my video below to learn more: