Becoming a Leader of Sustainability
Will has spent his career to date helping organisations build new capabilities and solve strategic challenges. ----------------------------------------------------------- If you want to receive monthly advice, ideas and recommendations that will help you gain a commercial edge and get ahead, why not join our exclusive newsletter: https://zcmp.eu/e6AM ----------------------------------------------------------- Working both as a consultant and as part of the management team for operationally complex businesses like Siemens, trainline.com, Intercontinental Hotels, Will's roles were typically focussed on weaving together the activities from cross functional teams to build solutions that increased customer engagement, spend and profitability. In 2016, based on the hypothesis that the levers to drive sustainability focussed outcomes were the same as those he had build his career on, he started his pivot towards sustainability. Since then he has helped a tech business leverage data to reduce food waste for a budget airline, digitise the UK’s largest tech skills apprenticeship provider to materially reducing their carbon footprint, he was ESG programme lead the for Wagamama’s owner, The Restaurant Group and now is Head of Sustainability at Whitbread PLC, owners of Premier Inn who have over 850 Hotels in the UK and Germany and over 200 UK restaurants with brands such as Beefeater and Brewers Fayre – where he leads their ESG programme called Force For Good. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Foxleigh Commercial Website: https://foxleigh.net/ -Chris Webber's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-webber-uk -Will Silverwood LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-silverwood-8656ab/