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Sian Sutherland
Sustainability
CSR
Climate Change
Transform plastic reduction strategies with Sian Sutherland, speaker and environmental campaigner. Sian works with businesses and legislators to implement sustainable practices and plastic-free initiatives, delivering global impact through A Plastic Planet's influential partnerships with industry leaders and the UN.
World Earth Day
World Environment Day
Business Leader
Women in Business
Founder
Inspirational
Environmentalist
Sian Sutherland is a remarkable person who believes that life is not about discovering oneself but rather about shaping one's own identity. She is known for her strong determination and ability to accomplish tasks.
When Sian needed a different type of skincare during her pregnancy, she took it upon herself to create it. Additionally, when she felt the urge to make a difference in plastic and the environment, she co-founded A Plastic Planet, a global campaign organization with a singular objective: to inspire and motivate the world to reduce plastic usage.
Sian possesses a diverse background in various industries, including advertising, Michelin Star restaurants, film production, and brand creation design agencies. In 2016, she joined forces with others to establish A Plastic Planet, introducing a fresh and business-oriented approach to addressing environmental concerns. This organization has been highly influential in the media, actively collaborating with industry leaders, retailers, legislators, and the United Nations to expedite change on a global scale. Presently, Sian works closely with businesses and organisations, sharing her expertise to help them minimise their plastic consumption.
Topics, sessions and talks
60 minutes to delve deep into why the plastic crisis gives us the opportunity to rethink how we live.
Climate considerations for running your business in a genuine way that avoids the greenwashing whilst enhancing your overall efficiency
The imperative to reinvent how we take, make and waste has never been more urgent. Yet industry is stuck, waiting for strong governance or radical new inventions. How can plastic be the gateway to the radical rethink we need.
Internal and external environmental causes are on everyone's agenda. Organisations aspire to advance these initiatives, and employees have come to expect it. Truth, myths, risk, responsibility, hope and opportunity are six words to explain the plastic crisis and our legacy in fixing it. Join Sian Sutherland, Co-Founder of A Plastic Planet, as she provides her unique expert perspective on how we can be the catalyst for change at speed and scale to help the world turn off the plastic tap.
Sian Sutherland offers your team insights from a pioneering leader in sustainability. Her diverse background fuels innovative strategies for reducing plastic use, inspiring actionable change. Benefit from her expertise in navigating environmental challenges, enhancing your brand's reputation, and committing to a healthier planet.
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Sian Sutherland structures her sessions around the plastic crisis as a lens for examining broader systemic change, using her experience co-founding A Plastic Planet to frame practical, business-oriented arguments for rethinking production and consumption models.
Sian Sutherland's sessions address the plastic crisis as a catalyst for systemic change, planet-friendly and genuinely sustainable business practice, and the role of industry in driving environmental reinvention. She co-founded A Plastic Planet in 2016, a global campaign organisation that has worked with industry leaders, retailers, legislators, and the United Nations to accelerate the reduction of plastic usage worldwide.
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