VolansAgent for the CEO
Jul. 2017 - Sep. 2017London, United Kingdomwww.volans.com www.projectbreakthrough.io Project Breakthrough - a joint-venture between Volans and the UN Global Compact. By shifting the focus on sustainability from one of risk to one of opportunity, Volans aim to set an ambitious and future-ready change agenda, seeking to understand and promote innovation that has the potential to disrupt entire industries and enable truly sustainable business models. So as the UN Global Compact begins work on turning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into tomorrow’s market realities with its 8,300 member companies, Project Breakthrough will showcase and profile how the necessary business transformation will come not from linear, incremental improvements, but from radical, exponential disruptions – Giving life to the most extraordinary business opportunities. Volans was founded in 2008 to help social innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to do more, better, faster – bridging their work into the mainstream worlds of business and finance. Co-founders included John Elkington (co-founder, former Chairman and now Non-Executive Director of SustainAbility), Pamela Hartigan (former Managing Director at the World Economic Forum and now Executive Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, University of Oxford) and Geoff Lye (former Executive Chairman of SustainAbility).