Emerge: Leadership Lessons and Net Zero Carbon with Jonathan Higgs, Chief Executive of Raven Housing Trust
15th March 2023
Emerge – Leadership Lessons from Berwick Partners focuses on the key issues that today’s leaders are facing. In each episode we speak to a prolific leader from a range of different businesses on issues such as sustainability, mental health and inclusion & diversity. They share their real world experience, how they have navigated their career to date, as well as their advice to the next generation of leaders.
In our fourth episode, Tom Neely, Housing Sector Lead at Berwick Partners was joined by Jonathan Higgs, Chief Executive of Raven Housing Trust. Raven Housing Trust was one of the first Housing Associations to share its anticipated costs of moving to net zero carbon and we caught up with Jonathan to find out how Raven is thinking differently towards the net zero carbon target and how leaders and sectors need to think differently if they going to achieve this goal.
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