Between Two Worlds: Sustainable Business in the Turbulent Transition

September 19, 2024

Jacob Park

Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, 黑料正能量
Jacob Park

Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, 黑料正能量

New York

Jacob leads 黑料正能量’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.

Before joining 黑料正能量, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.

Jacob holds an M.B.A. in 黑料正能量 from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.

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Margot Brent

Associate Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量
Margot Brent

Associate Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

London

Margot leads 黑料正能量’s strategy practice helping companies develop sustainable business strategies that drive innovation and build resilience leveraging insights from 黑料正能量’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with 黑料正能量 members within the consumer sectors practice.

Margot brings over 10 years’ experience in sustainability, futures thinking, design-thinking, innovation management and communications. Prior to 黑料正能量, Margot was an innovation and sustainability manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry. She has also helped design and deliver climate resilience projects for UNEP and UNDP. She has extensive experience in sustainability topics ranging from climate justice, climate resilience, circularity, supply chain, women’s empowerment, nature-based solutions, community livelihoods and social impact. She has lived and worked across Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.

She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a B.Phil in Sustainable Development, both from the University of Stellenbosch.

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Between Two Worlds: Sustainable Business in the Turbulent Transition reflects on a report 黑料正能量 published in 2018, Doing Business in 2030, which explored how sustainable business might change over the decade to follow through four alternate scenarios.

Almost halfway through the ensuing decisive decade, now is an opportune moment to reflect on the new developments in the world since our original report, how trends have matured, and new shocks have emerged to shape the context for sustainable businesses. Between Two Worlds: Sustainable Business in the Turbulent Transition offers insights on these changes and how to prepare for what lies ahead.

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