Corporate sustainability, honestly
Transition planning that actually gets funded. Making CSRD work for you. The business case in a post-anti-ESG world. How CFOs and CSOs talk to each other when the stakes get real.
Writing
Essays, long reads, and a book in the works.
Most of my new writing appears first on Substack. Commissioned pieces, interviews and longer work elsewhere are gathered below.
What I tend to write about
Thread one
Thread two
The two threads
Changing the stories underneath
Hope as a strategy. Why doomism keeps funding itself. Cooperation, competition, and the bad evolutionary biology we still teach. Music, art and the climate imagination.
Elsewhere on the web
Where my writing lives
My new work appears first on Substack. Older pieces written under previous roles — at Kearney and Aldersgate Group — are gathered below, alongside major reports I authored at Freshfields and Aldersgate, hosted here so they stay reachable.
Reports I've authored
Impactful reports
Here are two examples of content I created and wrote that helped shift narratives at the national — UK — and local NYC level.
Aldersgate Group · 2022
An Economy That Works: Strong Today, Great Tomorrow
How Britain can make the transition to an economy that delivers prosperity, competitiveness and sustainability for companies and citizens — written during my time with the Aldersgate Group.
Freshfields
Circular City — New York
A study of how circular-economy principles can reshape a major global city, written during my time at Freshfields. Originally published on the Freshfields-hosted Circular City site.
Editors and producers — see contact or email oliverdvh@posteo.net.
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