Interview: Shailesh Kumar Tyagi on Corporate Sustainability

I’m joined by Shailesh Kumar Tyagi who is the Managing Partner for APAC for GIST Advisory, who are a Swiss Sustainability Consulting Firm. Shailesh sits across several boards and earned his stripes from almost 10 years at Deloitte, and prior to that Ernst & Young.

Topics

• What does a Sustainability Consultant do?
• Why your P&L needs to consider environmental and social costs
• And what are the responsibilities of ALL companies to do their part for Sustainability

Questions

1. What do you do? 
2. What is your educational background?
3. How did you get into the world of sustainability, ESG, sustainable energy and climate change?
4. In terms of sustainability and carbon reporting, how you see Australian companies performing? 
5. In an uncertain world, we operate, how you see COVID19 and other disrupters impacting the business and stakeholders?
6. What is your advice to Millennials and post-millennials when it comes down to sustainability?
7. What is the role of technology in sustainability?
8. Do you think the corporate sustainability leaders have the information edge they need to win and become “future-ready”?

How to contact Shailesh?
linkedin.com/in/shaileshtyagi/