Executive Session
Moving beyond compliance towards stronger impact, engagement, and business value.
Sustainability has become increasingly complex and challenging. While detailed technical frameworks serve an important purpose, they can make it harder to focus on what matters most; the opportunities that improve engagement, innovation, growth, and competitive advantage, and that create the strongest impact for a truly safer, more peaceful, and flourishing future.​
What you gain
Our 90-120 minute Executive Session is tailored to your context and includes a pre-session diagnostic, a facilitated leadership discussion, and post-session summary. Designed for executive and senior leadership teams, the session creates space to step beyond compliance, gain key insights, and identify priorities towards:
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Achieving high-impact returns.
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Greater innovation and growth.
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Stronger engagement & purpose culture.
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Enhanced competitive edge.
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A clear compass to navigate complexity.
What makes it unique
Our approach is based on years of research into global best practices, our Forbes-praised tools and Cambridge University-endorsed insights. It does not focus on granular impact areas; instead, it unifies and simplifies rising demands, enabling your team to focus on what matters most for high-impact, high-value results.
Facilitated by
The Executive Session is led by Dr Melanie van de Velde, Founder of Big Tree Global, TEDx speaker, and author of Lead Like a Genius, described by Forbes Books as “A Powerhouse for Sustainable Growth". Melanie is recognised for her research into what sets global best-impact strategies apart, awarded the Adam Smith Prize for PhD Excellence, nominated by the Social Innovation Director at Cambridge University.
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​Her journey from tech leadership to empowering women in a Nairobi slum, and researching global best practices, has reinforced that many solutions to tackling the biggest issues we face lie in the hands of business. ​Drawing on her research and two decades of experience across business leadership and sustainability strategy, Melanie works with global organisations to move beyond compliance and unlock higher-impact, value-creating sustainability initiatives.​
Who it is for
​While rising compliance demands are crucial, it can lead to reduced engagement, and missed opportunities for high-impact, high-value. Our Executive Sessions are aimed at executive or leadership teams interested in how they can turn their efforts into stronger impact returns across the global goals, unlock opportunities for growth and innovation, strengthen a purpose culture that lives and breathes across the organisation, and develop a stronger competitive edge.
To arrange an exploratory conversation email us at Hi@BigTreeGlobal.net
“Melanie’s MPACT Wheel simplifies this immensely complex topic that we want to tackle together. It really helped to structure our thinking and which areas we want to focus on.
A framework is always a simplification of the truth. But we need it to grow and learn. That’s why people love it."
Jules Prick, Co-Founder Koos Service Design, The Netherlands
