Hello and welcome to the Strand Review of Books. Today I am delighted to be joined by Sandhya Sabapthy, author of Burn Bright, Build Slow – How to build a just climate future. Sandhya is founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope, which describes itself as a sustainability and business resilience foundry that helps scale profitable, purpose-driven products and services.
The style of the book is both polemic and story. For example, Sandhya writes the Chief Sustainability Officer, and how in many ways the title shows failure rather than success – and Sandhya also comments that a successful Chief Sustainability Officer could be seen through the lens of driving commercial strategy, capital allocation and operating decisions. The three main sections of the book - Business, Planet and Human - cover enormous ground, from carbon credits to marketing and margins.
Burn Bright, Build Slow – How to build a just climate future: a thought-provoking book written in a very different style – constantly challenging thought patterns woven in with stories and properly referenced sources. Burn Bright, Build Slow was beautifully published by Epic on 1st July this year, available of course from Amazon and all good bookshops.