Building a vision on sustainability principles requires innovation, courage and authenticity. Cultural change involves more than meeting specified standards and going just beyond compliance.

Helping shape a better tomorrow by embracing sustainability, managers of the future will need to be able to live in a world of conundrum and paradox, where wealth contribution, social progress and contributing to a better environment are equally important.

"As long as we focus on the desire to generate information about the future, we will tend to see the future itself as a neutral, objective space… In practice we treat [the future] very much as a psychological space, into which we project our hopes and fears, our dreams and experience." Tibbs H. 2000, Making the Future Visible: Psychology, Scenarios and Strategy

Our hopes for the future

• Humans will act with foresight, rather than react in hindsight.
• Being ‘carbon neutral’ will be a thing of the past and being ‘climate positive’ will be just the normal way of doing things.
• Workplaces will be more than just places that house people; they will be spaces that enable people to be the best they can be and nourish the natural environment.
• 'Networking' will be where heart-to-heart conversations occur.
• To respect and embrace all aspects of our natural, rural and urban ecologies, there will be recognition beyond the one objective ecology to that of three ecologies: objective, subjective and intersubjective.