Ideas change everything

The complex path to sustainability

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Olivia Tyler |

TED@Westpac

• December 2017

Do you know where everything you buy comes from? Olivia Tyler illuminates the daunting challenges companies face when enforcing sustainability across their supply chains.

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Want to use TED Talks in your organization?

Do you know where everything you buy comes from? Olivia Tyler illuminates the daunting challenges companies face when enforcing sustainability across their supply chains.

Want to use TED Talks in your organization?

About the speaker

Olivia Tyler

Sustainability futurist

As a sustainability practitioner with 17 years’ experience, Olivia Tyler aims to do herself out of a job. She believes that everyone, no matter their role in society, can make decisions that help to create a better future -- and that businesses can, too. Tyler joined the financial services sector after a 10-year career in manufacturing and retail. Drawing upon her MBA as well as Bachelor’s degrees in Science and Environmental Engineering, she leads the creation and adoption of responsible, sustainable and inclusive practices across the supply chain and identifies ways to reduce the environmental impact of an organisation’s operations.

About TED Institute

Every year, TED works with a group of select companies and foundations to identify internal ideators, inventors, connectors, and creators. Drawing on the same rigorous regimen that has prepared speakers for the TED main stage, TED Institute works closely with each partner, overseeing curation and providing intensive one-on-one talk development to sharpen and fine tune ideas. The culmination is an event produced, recorded, and hosted by TED, generating a growing library of valuable TED Talks that can spur innovation and transform organizations.

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