About us
The professional home for sustainability leaders
CSO Futures' mission is to empower, inform, and connect the Chief Sustainability Officer community and other enterprise stakeholders driving sustainable change.The mandate of the CSO is evolving fast – with focus not just on managing the world’s growing number of sustainability risks, but also on creating opportunities for businesses to thrive in a sustainable world.
We believe business has a pivotal role in transforming and leading the economy through the climate transition.
CSO Futures supports sustainability leaders in becoming enterprise changemakers with lasting and meaningful positive impact on the way companies do business.
Independent news and analysis
Through independent news and in-depth analysis, we help sustainability professionals navigate corporate, regulatory and public opinion dynamics around climate action and sustainable development goals.In our exclusive CSO interviews and guest articles, heads of sustainability share insights about their work and challenges and inspire others to take action.
Our daily news and weekly summaries highlight the most important topics in a diffuse and rapidly evolving sustainability sector.
Invitation-only community and events
Our invitation-only community and events are an opportunity for CSOs, their teams and their partners to collaborate, network, exchange knowledge, and enhance their skills for the transition to a sustainable business model.
The CSO Futures peer-led community of practice model is designed to elevate sustainability in business and provide today’s and tomorrow’s sustainability leaders with everything they need to drive knowledge, influence and impact.
Partnerships
We strictly limit the number of partners/advertisers and ensure they provide value to our community.
If your business aims to support the sustainable transition, we can help you connect with our senior sustainability professional community to meet your marketing and business objectives.
Whether that’s ensuring sustainability leaders know who you are, sharing your expertise or generating new conversations and leads for your pipeline.
Meet the team
Melodie Michel
Melodie is chief reporter at CSO Futures. She has over a decade of experience writing for finance and trade publications across EMEA and LATAM, holds an MA in CSR and speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Melodie hopes to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive world with her reporting, including by empowering CSOs to do more.
Daryl Willcox
Daryl is co-founder and CEO of CSO Futures, which combines his passions for both media and sustainability. As the founder of ResponseSource, he created the number one journalist enquiry software-as-a-service platform. Daryl led a successful exit of the business in 2018. He has a background in business journalism and has taught journalism at Goldsmiths. He recently oversaw the design and construction of his own low-energy home, built to passive house principles in rural East Sussex.
Ed Targett
Ed is co-founder of CSO Futures. His first job was working for a UNEP award-winning company building grey water recycling systems, and he has been engaged in sustainability initiatives ever since. Ed has been working as a journalist since 2007 and is the founder of The Stack, a successful business technology publication for Chief Information Officers and peers that sees more than 20 million impressions annually.