I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of CEOs about their work recently. What are the big headaches they're grappling with?

If you understand what's on the CEO's mind, you are better informed when you take a sustainability idea to them. If you understand the big problems they're trying to solve, you may be able to help them and achieve a sustainability benefit too.

So what are the things CEOs are grappling with?

What to do about office space - especially if there are leases up to renegotiation.
How to bring on new team members - induction, training, team building, communicating culture in a virtual space.
Replacing lost income.
Restructuring and redundancies, forced by reducing income.
Bringing forward things in months which would otherwise have been done over years.
Rethinking strategy - what assumptions to make about Covid, the economy and people's behaviour.
Replacing the random glue of 'bumping into people'.
Understanding the needs and preferences of different groups of staff, when it comes to working from home, workplaces and travel.

If this is your CEO, or your client's, what can you do to bring a sustainability lens to the problems and the solutions?

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