Future Ready - by Tom Lewis & Alastair MacGregor (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Whether readers are starting out on the sustainability journey, looking to build institutional support, or working to accelerate action against ambitious commitments, Future Ready will serve as an essential guide to setting (or upleveling) strategy, driving implementation in complex operating environments, engaging stakeholders, measuring impact, and communicating the results. Grounded in nearly 150 years of experience, this book will equip readers with unprecedented insights into headline grabbing mega-projects and a behind-the-scenes look at unsung efforts that are revolutionizing the very concepts of sustainability and resilience."--

Book Synopsis

Rethink climate, resilience, and sustainability for your organization

In Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments. Through practical examples and proven insights, readers will learn to proactively engage with stakeholders, successfully plan, implement, and measure the impacts of their initiatives, and effectively communicate the results.

In the book, the authors draw on hundreds of completed projects across a full range of client organizations, markets, sectors, and scales to equip readers with unprecedented insights and the behind-the-scenes work that went into making the projects successful. The authors also include:

• Strategies for identifying, cataloguing, and reporting risks--from the operational to the physical and transactional--as well as explanations of how climate risk scenarios can reveal hidden opportunities and unexpected vulnerabilities
• A Future Ready mindset and the specific examples of organizational sustainability and climate adaptation commitments and the paths companies have taken to meet their goals
• Critical questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations before they begin a climate, resilience, and/or sustainability initiative

A must-read guide for executives, board members, ESG professionals, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders, Future Ready belongs in the hands of anyone who finds themselves responsible for helping an organization achieve their environmental, social, and governance goals.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR FUTURE READY

"Collaboration is key to the global transformation we need to address the climate crisis. Business and infrastructure leaders must be at the center of this cause, working together across sectors. Future Ready provides powerful tools and real-world examples for companies as they work to achieve environmental, social, and governance goals and make a lasting impact in their networks."
--Seth Schultz, CEO, Resilience Rising

Let's commit to making real changes and shifting the needle toward sustainability

Why has it taken people so long to begin addressing climate change? How can we, as business leaders, avoid false steps, counterproductive incentives, and ineffective projects? Future Ready answers all these questions and many more.

Whether you're just starting out on the sustainability journey, looking to build institutional support, or working to accelerate climate action, Future Ready will serve as an essential guide to setting strategy, driving implementation, engaging stakeholders, measuring impact, and communicating the results.

Contributors

Foreword by Professor Spiro N. Pollalis, Harvard Design School and Anthony Kane, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure

Epilogue by Stacy Swann, CEO and Founding Partner of Climate Finance Advisors, a Member of WSP

About the Author

TOM LEWIS, international consultant and business leader, advises global organizations promoting sustainable and resilient infrastructure and technologies, environmental and climate stewardship, and disaster preparedness and recovery.

ALASTAIR (ALY) MACGREGOR's industry-leading career in high- performance design has ranged from individual net zero buildings to strategic portfolio decarbonization, and spans four continents.