Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability
About this audiobook
In Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement a resilience, sustainability and ESG strategy in complex project and operating environments. Through practical examples and proven insights, readers will learn to proactively engage with stakeholders, successfully plan, implement, and measure the impacts of their initiatives, and effectively communicate the results.
In the audiobook, the authors draw on hundreds of completed projects across a full range of client organizations, markets, sectors, and scales to equip readers with unprecedented insights and the behind-the-scenes work that went into making the projects successful. The authors also include:
- Strategies for identifying, cataloguing, and reporting risks―from the operational to the physical and transactional―as well as explanations of how climate risk scenarios can reveal hidden opportunities and unexpected vulnerabilities
- A Future Ready mindset and the specific examples of organizational sustainability and climate adaptation commitments and the paths companies have taken to meet their goals
- Critical questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations before they begin a climate, resilience, and/or sustainability initiative
About the author
Alastair (Aly) MacGregor, Senior Vice President, leads the Property + Buildings national business line for WSP USA. Aly’s 25 years of experience in high-performance design has ranged from individual net zero buildings to strategic portfolio decarbonization. His expertise includes sustainable, low carbon and passive building design; renewable energy and decarbonization strategy; operational resilience planning; smart buildings and smart cities; and digital solutions development. Aly has led sustainability strategy for global real estate portfolios, NASA’s Net Zero, LEED Platinum “Sustainability Base,” Beijing’s LEED Platinum World Finance Center; Spaceport America (the world’s first commercial Spaceport); Jurong Lake eco-city and Tianjin eco-city; and many of the world’s most sustainable sports venues, including Golden1Center, Intuit Dome, Al Wakraj Stadium, and the Los Angles 2028 Olympic bid.
