Change Agent/Sustainability Director: How to Keep a Sustainability Effort on Track

Many of the organizations best known for their commitment to sustainability are those with passionate and outspoken leaders at their helms. Ray Anderson of Interface, for example, tours the world telling his dramatic story of getting a ‘spear through his heart’ after reading Hawkens’ The Ecology of Commerce and realizing the damage his company was doing to the Earth. Leaders are certainly in a prime position to drive change through their organizations; however, for most organizations change can sprout and grow in any number of places.