Dave Young is the Global Leader of the BHI Center for Climate & Sustainability. Based in BCG’s Boston office, Dave is Managing Director & Senior Partner. Dave was named a BHI Fellow in 2019, with a focus on Sustainable Business Model Innovation.
BHI Center for Climate & Sustainability explores the needed pivots, scaling, speed, limits, and breakthrough in climate and sustainability within a systems perspective for large-scale systems change and adoption.
In 2022, Dave was named the #1 Sustainability Leader in Consulting by The Consulting Report. He is a frequent speaker, at events such as the UN Global Compact’s Leaders Summit and the World Humanitarian Forum, in addition to C-suite events of Fortune 500 clients. His work has been published in leading publications, including Harvard Business Review and the World Economic Forum.
Outside of work, Dave enjoys astronomy and travel.
"We've got to be Net Zero and Nature Positive at the same time. That requires extra capability, extra learning, extra knowledge, and extra tools to be parallel processing climate and nature together.”
Coming resource constraints threaten the successful business models of today's companies. To find success in a new environment, businesses must find new abundance.
"The sustainability dialogue is not just about the environment locally, it's become about the environment globally. People are starting to put value on doing [sustainability] right and that is going to drive another round of innovation."
"If I'm buying a billion units a year, but 30% of them create no economic value, I could buy just the 66-70% and create the same amount of economic value and eliminate the carbon footprint and all the waste associated with that."
Peter, Ron and Dave reflect on the challenges and opportunities that corporate boards and managers are presented with when establishing sustainability strategy.
"Sustainability isn't something to do because it gets a lot of attention right now. For us, it's a key differentiator, it is a strategic driver to where it is going to enhance our bottom line."
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