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  • Writer's pictureGustavo Bernal Torres

The Omertà of Consultancy

“I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • After two decades in sustainability consulting what I fear is that we are not only failing to change much, but that as consultants we are actually part of the problem, providing a polished positional cover for what is broadly business as usual incremental change, whilst simultaneously eroding both the edge and substance of the essential radical shift that is really needed.

  • What NO consultancy has yet to do empirically as far as I am aware is tackle it’s scope 3 emissions in any meaningful way. Yet. And here’s the rub — scope 3 includes addressing the ‘use of sold products’, and for agencies this is seismic if taken on board meaningfully. If your ‘sold product’ — the counsel, support, advice and propaganda you provide — is still causing emissions to grow you are not just blocking change, you are causing real harm.


Source: https://edgillespie.medium.com/the-omert%C3%A0-of-consultancy-bf26b116e3e0

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