Our Common Future—Now
Ken’s book explores why sustainability appears to have reached a ceiling and what leaders can do next.
About Ken
Forty years of asking the question behind transformation.
For more than four decades, Ken Alston has been asking why business sustainability has produced so much activity and yet so little transformation.
Today, Ken writes, speaks and advises leaders exploring what comes next. His work asks better questions before proposing better answers.
He is the author of Our Common Future—Now, founder of Circularity Edge®, and an international speaker working with leadership teams, conferences, boards and professional communities.
At the Real Circularity Summit, Ken brings a deep systems view of sustainability, circular economy, stewardship and long-term value creation.
His work
Author, founder, speaker and advisor.
Ken’s work helps leaders reconsider the assumptions that shape the future before strategy begins.
Circularity Edge®
Through Circularity Edge, Ken’s advisory work helps leadership teams apply the questions his writing and speaking explore.
Speaking and inquiry
Ken speaks with leadership teams, conferences, boards and communities exploring business, stewardship, sustainability and AI.
“Why has business sustainability produced so much activity—and yet so little transformation?”
This inquiry, drawn from Ken’s work, is exactly the kind of grounded question the Real Circularity Summit is built to hold.
At the Summit
Ken helps sharpen the questions behind Real Circularity.
As one of the hosts, Ken brings decades of experience across sustainability, circularity, leadership, stewardship and systems thinking.
Better questions
Ken’s work helps leaders move beyond familiar sustainability language into the inquiry that sits underneath real change.
Sustainable circularity
He explores what happens when sustainability and circular economy are understood as one integrated challenge.
Long-term value
Ken’s work speaks to resilience, renewal, stewardship and the conditions that businesses depend on for the future.