Hello — I'm Oliver. I write, teach and advise on corporate sustainability, and on the cultural stories that quietly decide whether any of it works. After twenty-five years inside the system, I've come to think the stories matter more than the spreadsheets.
My consulting work and my writing pull on the same thread. One is about how companies actually change. The other is about why so many of us — leaders included — are quietly convinced they can't.
I help boards and executive teams find the business case that actually holds — and a transition plan that survives the politics. No jargon, no greenwash, no pretending that easy answers exist.
I write and speak about why we keep losing climate arguments we should be winning — and what changes when we challenge the deeper stories about growth, competition and human nature that keep us stuck.
A book about the stories we've been told about ourselves — that we're selfish, competitive, separate from nature, destined to keep growing — and why almost none of them are true.
For anyone who senses that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Out early 2027.
Roughly weekly essays on sustainability, narrative change and the politics of the transition — plus the occasional dispatch from the Highlands. Free to read.
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