
Listen In: The Sustainable Business Handbook, by David Grayson
Professor David Grayson CBE is Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield and is one of the authors of a new book called The Sustainable Business Handbook, designed to be a comprehensive, practical guide for business leaders aiming to improve the key levers of business success.
The book has been called the go-to manual for how to future proof your business and a practical guide to transforming companies for the challenges of the 21st Century.
David Grayson has had a thirty-year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development. This included founding Project North East which has now worked in nearly 60 countries around the world; being the founding CEO of the Prince’s Youth Business Trust and serving as a managing director of Business in the Community. David has an Honorary Doctorate of Law from London South Bank University and was a visiting Senior Fellow at the CSR Initiative of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (2005-10).
This lecture was sponsored by Unipart Group in conjunction with leading business networks B4 National and Oxfordshire Business First.
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