Challenging My English Italian Identity & Why It’s Make or Break for Climate Strategy | 51toCarbonZero Founder
“I had to embrace my identity, and try to define it. And it’s been a journey of acceptance, in a way. And it’s a never ending piece – to say that I finally got to a realisation that my identity is myself.”
About Richard Davis:
– Co-Founder & CEO of 51toCarbonZero, a platform designed to help media, marketing and advertising companies create accountable transition plans to accelerate their journey to achieve net zero.
– 20+ years of executing sustainability & corporate transformation
– Ex Global Chief of Business Strategy at dentsu
– Sustainable Business Degree from Cambridge
WATCH FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/kamivZEuQig
We discuss:
- The search to reconnect with his father.
- Growing up in Italy with an English name.
- The pros and cons coming from a mixed identity.
- Why real hardship is required for innovation.
- A valuable life lesson from the film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
- How to know when a risk is worth taking.
- The 2 views on what happiness is.
- Have we become complacent about the risks of climate change?
- Starting 51toCarbonZero.
- Do the younger generation care about climate change?
- What are the values required for successful future leaders of climate change?
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