Challenging My English Italian Identity & Why It’s Make or Break for Climate Strategy | 51toCarbonZero Founder

“I had to embrace my identity, and try to define it. And it’s been a journey of acceptance, in a way. And it’s a never ending piece - to say that I finally got to a realisation that my identity is myself.”

About Richard Davis:

- Co-Founder & CEO of 51toCarbonZero, a platform designed to help media, marketing and advertising companies create accountable transition plans to accelerate their journey to achieve net zero.

- 20+ years of executing sustainability & corporate transformation

- Ex Global Chief of Business Strategy at dentsu

- Sustainable Business Degree from Cambridge

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We discuss:

• The search to reconnect with his father.
• Growing up in Italy with an English name.
• The pros and cons coming from a mixed identity.
• Why real hardship is required for innovation.
• A valuable life lesson from the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'
• How to know when a risk is worth taking.
• The 2 views on what happiness is.
• Have we become complacent about the risks of climate change?
• Starting 51toCarbonZero.
• Do the younger generation care about climate change?
• What are the values required for successful future leaders of climate change?

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