Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation

by Kevin Wilhelm

This book provides the blueprint for implementation, breaking down barriers, and the steps required to integrate sustainability successfully into any business. It is laid out in easily digestible chapters, with action steps backed up from interviews with sustainability thought leaders, case studies, and the real life experience of the author, as well as over 40 interviews with CSR and Sustainability Directors at various companies on how to “get things done” based on their successes and temporary setbacks. It provides the step-by-step roadmap for implementing sustainability successfully and focuses on “how” companies can realize the benefits of sustainability by engaging the head, heart, and hands of their employees. Also included is a checklist for implementation and tips on how to regain momentum or get “un-stuck” at the end of each chapter as well as additional helpful resources and exercises to overcome the most common barriers towards implementation.

Genres: Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2013

About the author

Kevin Wilhelm is an expert and thought leader in the field of business sustainability and climate response. He recently authored Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability & Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy . He is the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting, a Seattle-based consulting firm that works with multinational businesses on practical solutions that deliver profit improvement through the use of sustainable business and climate reduction practices.

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Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 1 out of 5]

Had to read for class, waste of money and time. Information is obvious and not very informative and definitely not grad school level material as it were assigned.

[Hajar · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute must-have for people that want to make a difference in their groups and organisations!!

[Edouard · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book containing a huge amount of information on how to implement sustainability measures in your company or oganization. This book sits perfectly at the crossroads of both Management and Sustainability.

The author, Kevin Wilhelm is a Pinchot (formerly known as Bainbridge Graduate Institute) graduate who founded a sustainability consulting firm, simply named Sustainable Business Consulting. The firm is based in Seattle.

The book comprises several chapters repleate with checklists, tips and tools to make sustainability stick. One truly sees the huge amount of experience that is at the core of this book.

Here are the chapters :


1. The Business case
2. Defining sustainability
3. Understanding your stakeholders
4. Baselining Sustainability to measure what matters
5. Goals / vision and your sustainability North Star
6. Management support is essential
7. Understanding Change Management to Guide Implementation
8. Engaging Employees Around Sustainability
9. Systems, Decision Making, and Internal Alignment
10. Institutionalizing Sustainability
11. Communicating Sustainability Internally

My only grief is not with the book itself : short of time I bought that book on Kindle and really wish I had it in paper so that I could turn to it easily in the next two or three decades.

This book is a keeper for anyone who is trying to get Sustainability into the Management world.

Grade : 10 out of 10.