ESG Mindset Business Resilience and Sustainable Growth

Businesses who take environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) seriously can transform entire markets, industries and economies worldwide. Learn how to think critically about ESG to ensure your company remains profitable long term. ESG goes beyond decarbonization commitments, corporate goals, industry awards and the balance sheet. It cuts at the core of business. Managing this effort requires courage, imagination and careful analysis to supplement what is already working at a company and change what isn't. This change involves open communication surrounding environmental sustainability, people and processes. It requires that key decision makers think about ESG across and outside the business, including in daily business practices, communication with stakeholders, financial considerations, the integration of new technologies and products. The ESG Mindset guides business leaders, ESG specialists and CSR strategists through the nuanced and most thoughtful ways to focus on these core business issues. Equipping readers with an enhanced way to tackle complex business decisions, the book provides accessible perspectives and case studies from Fortune 500 companies that have implemented a meaningful approach to ESG. Readers will learn how to think about pressing ESG challenges in new ways and determine the best ways to future-proof a business.

Matthew Sekol is an ESG and sustainability advocate at Microsoft, based between New York City, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He guides companies across industries by unpacking their ESG and sustainability challenges along the intersection with technology. In his current role, he also sits on the LP Advisory Committee of Morgan Stanley's Next Level Fund. In 2023, Onalytica named him to its "Who's Who in ESG" list.