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My Last GRI Meeting
A time of resignations
03 May 2012

Simon Longstaff and Amsterdam map

Malini (Mehra) and Nelmara (Arbex)

An emotional week, in which I resigned both from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Board and from the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). My reasons for doing so are complex, but mainly to do with the fact that the Volans team alerted me to the fact that I currently sit on 32 boards, advisory boards and judging panels, and I feel a growing need to focus my efforts -- and those of our team -- on initiatives and ventures that link to 'Breakthrough' change, rather than 'Change-as-Usual'. These are two of the three scenarios I develop in the new book, The Zeronauts.

Much encouraged by the new members of the GRI Board. A wonderful dinner on 2 May, with wildly generous farewell speeches from Herman (Mulder, new chairman of GRI), Ernst (Lichteringen, CEO) and Nelmara (Arbex, deputy chief executive) -- felt like family and had me pondering, yet again, whether I am doing the right thing here? But various invitations to help GRI move forward in various ways. So The Eagles song Hotel California came to mind repeatedly, as in you can check out, but you can never leave.

Not that I want to do either: I remain convinced (as I have been since I first began writing about corprate auditing and reporting in 1976, for New Scientist) that new forms of transparency, accounting, reporting and assurance are central to addressing the sustainability challenge, but my sense is that I can support the cause as well from the outside as from the inside, particularly with the new book I am developing with Jochen Zeitz of PUMA.

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