Professor Paolo Taticchi and fellow researcher Melina Corvaglia-Charrey have been shortlisted for the 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award for their book How to be Sustainable: Business Strategies for Leading Change. 

Presented biennially, the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards recognise outstanding contributions to management thinking. The Strategy Award in particular celebrates work that delivers clarity, insight and impact in the field of strategic decision-making, with past recipients including leading writers and thinkers from some of the best universities around the world. 

How to be Sustainable addresses the growing gap between sustainability ambition and execution in business. While the majority of leaders acknowledge the importance of sustainability, many lack effective strategies to deliver meaningful change. Drawing on interviews with Chief Sustainability Officers from organisations including Enel Group, Microsoft, Canon and Sage, Professor Taticchi and Corvaglia-Charrey’s book offers practical tools and real-world examples to help leaders embed sustainability into core business strategy.

The winners of the prestigious award will be announced at the Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala, held at Guildhall on 3–4 November 2025. This year’s theme, regeneration, will explore how organisations and leaders can rethink growth, leadership and purpose in response to global challenges.

Thinkers50 is widely recognised as a leading authority on business and management ideas, with its awards described by the Financial Times as “the Oscars of management thinking”.

After receiving the nomination Paolo Taticchi said:

“We are incredibly honoured and humbled to have been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award alongside so many influential and distinguished thought-leaders. Our work aims to show that sustainability is not a side activity but a driver of strategy, innovation, and long-term value creation. Seeing this perspective recognised in the global strategy conversation is deeply meaningful.”

Read more about the Thinkers50 Awards here