Recently I attended a conference hosted by the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF) at the Institute for International Education in New York. I can’t remember the last time I was in a room with so many smart, and driven women (well, and a few men!). Much of the work we do in executive search and leadership consulting at MontaRosa involves sustainability and chief sustainability officers...

Chief Sustainability Officer is suddenly a term that is popping up all over the business media. Yet while awareness is growing about the CSO role and what it’s meant to do, some questions remain: where are good CSOs found? And what, for that matter, does good look like? Unlike established C-level roles the blueprint is not set for CSOs. Nor is it possible to find many candidates who have, say, ten...

The emergence of the new role of Chief Sustainability Officer signals the elevation of sustainability to a central strategic concern in the executive suites of leading companies in the United States. The majority of U.S. companies, however, still mistakenly see sustainability as an additional cost rather than a revenue driver. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Executed correctly a sustainability...