Introducing AND is the future
AND is the future is a podcast hosted by Solvay CEO Ilham Kadri that brings together great minds to address the opportunities and challenges of making businesses both sustainable AND profitable.
The podcast is a tribute to our founder Ernest Solvay, whose lifelong purpose was to bring people together to deliver new forms of progress for society. It gathers thought leaders across the globe to discuss how businesses can profitably reach sustainability goals, ensure that innovation is at the service of humanity and its progress, protect biodiversity, transform the value chain, unleash peoples’ full potential through diversity, equity and inclusion, and much more!
Leadership AND finding your True North
According to leadership expert Bill George, “Your true north is the essence of who you are, and before you can go on an outer leadership journey, you have to go on an inner journey.”
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Meet the host
Solvay CEO Ilham Kadri is a purpose-driven business leader, scientist, optimist and world citizen who is passionate about making businesses sustainable AND profitable, science-based AND human, daring AND caring.
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Season 3, Episode 3 | Leadership AND finding your True North
According to leadership expert Bill George, “Your true north is the essence of who you are, and before you can go on an outer leadership journey, you have to go on an inner journey.”
Season 3, Episode 2 | The SDGs AND the Trillion Dollar Shift
According to sustainable leadership expert Marga Hoek, there’s a $12 trillion business case for implementing the SDGs. Ilham and Marga discuss these incredible business opportunities!
Season 3, Episode 1 | ESG AND Profitable Investing
Ilham sits down with CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Nicolai Tangen to discuss how ESG and investing go hand in hand and so much more!
Season 2, Episode 10 | Chemistry AND Cooking
Ilham joins Christophe Lavelle – one of the foremost experts on molecular gastronomy – in the kitchen to learn about the chemistry of cooking, molecular gastronomy, and so much more!
Bonding for a better world
Solvay’s founder Ernest Solvay is the inspiration for this podcast. He was one of the first business leaders to incorporate ESG in the late 19th century. He was also in the business of bringing people together. This year we’re celebrating the 100 year anniversary of his first chemistry conference in 1922, which gathered many scientists who would become Nobel Prize laureates. Ernest’s conferences convened some of the brightest scientific minds like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré, and Max Planck. Here is a photo of the 1927 conference, which included 17 Nobel Prize laureates - it has been called “the most intelligent picture ever taken in human history”.
*Pictured on the banner: Solvay's founder, Ernest Solvay