On 14th May, project professionals from across Ireland gathered at the PMI National Conference in the Aviva Stadium for a day focused on insight, learning, and connection.

The event brought together leaders and practitioners navigating increasingly complex project environments, where the demands of sustainability, innovation, and delivery must be balanced in real time.

Among the discussions, the panel on Capital Projects and Sustainability, featuring Colectivo’s CEO & Founder Laura McDermott, alongside industry experts like @Stephen D. (@EirGrid Group) @John Kelly CEng FIEI, Exec Coach (@ESB), and @Jay Sattin (@Mason Hayes & Curran LLP), offered a timely perspective on how infrastructure delivery is evolving.

As part of Colectivo’s Innovation Spotlight Series authored by Lena Boudart, we focus on climate solutions that are not speculative but ready, scalable, and system-shifting. This week’s spotlight builds on Project Drawdown’s evidence-based framework to explore one of the most powerful tools for cutting building emissions: electric heat pumps.

If lighting efficiency reduces demand, heat pumps transform the energy source itself.

At Colectivo, we believe that meaningful change happens through people: through shared ideas, conversations, and collaboration across disciplines, geographies, and perspectives.

That’s why we’ve launched the Colectivo Fellows Programme.

A growing community of individuals who are curious about sustainability, behavioural science, and systems change. 

This week, Colectivo joined the Sustainable Enterprise Webinar Series hosted by Enterprise Ireland to explore one of the most pressing challenges organisations face today:

How to communicate sustainability in a way that is credible, compliant, and meaningful.

The session brought together perspectives from policy, technology, and practice, with our founder Laura McDermott chatting with Sean Boyle, founder of UnitMode, and Carlota de Paula Coelho, Policy from B Lab Global. Together, the discussion unpacked what responsible communication looks like in an increasingly regulated and scrutinised landscape.

At Colectivo, we believe sustainability must be actively practiced to be truly FutureProof.

Earlier this month, I attended B Ag Caint – Let’s Talk B Corp! in Dublin on behalf of Colectivo, joining Ireland’s expanding community of businesses committed to positive impact.

Inspired by the Irish phrase “Bí ag Caint” (Let’s Get Talking), the event fostered honesty, openness, and practical insight, qualities often missing from sustainability discussions.

What stood out was not just the scale of ambition in the room, but the energy behind it. With Ireland now surpassing 100 certified B Corps, this is no longer a niche movement. It is a signal of where business is heading.

At Colectivo, we focus on turning insight into action. Measuring carbon is not the main challenge; the critical factor is what follows.

A Carbon Footprint Assessment typically begins with a key question: What exactly are we measuring? Defining the boundaries of the business, including operations, subsidiaries, and the value chain, is a critical first step. This ensures the results reflect the full scope of activities rather than a limited subset.

In a world defined by volatility, fragmentation, and rising expectations, progress is happening, though it is not always visible.

At Colectivo, we work closely with organisations navigating complex sustainability and transformation journeys. We consistently observe not overnight reinvention, but steady, intentional progress driven by targeted actions, collaboration, and long-term thinking.

In 2026, we are launching a new video series to bring these stories to light.

This series is focuses on capturing the compound effect: the accumulation of decisions, behaviours, and system changes that reshape organisations over time.

When organisations set out to drive change, whether in sustainability, culture, or employee engagement, the focus often lands on what is most visible: behaviours, actions, and outcomes. But what if those behaviours are only a small part of the story?

During our recent webinar “Behavioural Science for Employee Engagement”, our founder Laura McDermott revisited a simple but powerful concept: the Iceberg Model.

At Colectivo, we help organisations move beyond compliance toward resilience. Carbon measurement is one of the clearest examples of this shift in action.

For years, emissions reporting was treated as a peripheral sustainability or communications task. This approach is no longer viable.

Across Europe, regulatory pressure is increasing. Disclosure requirements are becoming stricter, environmental claims are under greater scrutiny, and businesses must now prove their impact. Simultaneously, investors, customers, and supply chain partners demand transparency that requires credible carbon data.

But regulation is only part of the story. The deeper shift is economic.

There are just 2 days to go until Resilience by Design: An AI Toolbox Talk for High-Impact Collaboration.

If you are working in sustainability, social innovation, design, or impact, this upcoming session offers a timely opportunity to explore how teams can collaborate more effectively in increasingly complex environments.

Hosted by Laura McDermott of Colectivo and Marco van Hout of Metodic.io, this 45-minute Toolbox Talk will focus on what it means to build resilience into the way teams work, not just into the outcomes they are trying to achieve.

At Colectivo, we believe sustainability must be measurable to be effective. Explain’d is our series focused on clarifying the concepts that influence business operations in a carbon-constrained world.

Today, we examine one of the most widely used and often misunderstood tools in sustainability: the Carbon Footprint Assessment.

A Carbon Footprint Assessment measures a business's total greenhouse gas emissions. It accounts for all activities required for operations, including energy use, supply chains, and product use. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol typically guides this process, categorising emissions as direct, indirect energy, and value chain emissions.

As sustainability expectations evolve, so too must the way organisations communicate.

What was once considered a branding exercise is now becoming a matter of compliance, risk management, and trust.

With the introduction of the EU’s Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive, the landscape has fundamentally shifted. Businesses are entering a new phase where sustainability communication must be not only compelling, but provable.

This raises a critical question: Are your communication systems designed for this new reality?

At Colectivo, we believe the next decade will not be decided by who talks the most about transformation, but by who learns fastest from working solutions already in motion. That’s why we launched the Innovation Spotlight Series. Each edition focuses on concrete innovations that respond to systemic risk, translating them into strategic signals for leaders.

Real solutions. Real scale. Real implications.

Best known for convening leaders across business, government, academia, and civil society, the World Economic Forum operates at the intersection of public-private cooperation, economic foresight, and innovation. Its mission is simple: to improve the state of the world by turning dialogue into coordinated action across industries and regions. 

Sustainability is a team sport, but most teams are playing without a playbook.

Across impact, sustainability, and innovation work, many teams are experiencing collaboration fatigue. They are navigating fast-changing policy landscapes, an overabundance of digital tools, and the persistent gap between good intentions and scalable action. At a time when the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges demand joined-up thinking, more meetings alone are not the answer.

During our recent BS for Employee Engagement webinar, we explored a challenge that almost every organisation faces when trying to drive change: The gap between what people intend to do and what they actually do.

In behavioural science, this is known as the Intention-Action Gap. It’s not a new concept, and most of us have experienced it ourselves. We set goals, we care about outcomes, and we fully intend to change, yet our behaviour often stays the same. The same thing happens inside organisations.

This month, the Colectivo Book Club explored Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley, a book that challenges one of the most persistent barriers to innovation: the belief that creativity is reserved for a select few.

At Colectivo, we see this assumption play out across organisations navigating sustainability and transformation. Teams are often rich in expertise, ambition, and intent, yet struggle to translate ideas into action.

What’s missing is not creativity, it’s the conditions that allow creativity to operate.

At Colectivo, we believe that for sustainability to be FutureProof, it has to move beyond theory and into lived experience.

Earlier this month, I attended the GEC Sustainability Cluster Meet Up in Dublin on behalf of Colectivo, joining a cross-sector group of practitioners, founders, and sustainability leads exploring what it really takes to drive change within business.

This wasn’t a panel talk or a slide-heavy seminar. It was something far more challenging: a workshop designed to make participants feel the tension between business as usual and the future we need to build.

WEF Global Risks Report 2026: Short-term Risk #4 | Long-term Risk #1

Welcome to the second deep-dive of our 2026 series. Each month, we explore a critical global risk; unpacking its scope, key insights, and potential takeaways for your organisation. This month, we focus on the risk that has reclaimed the top spot for the coming decade: Extreme Weather Events.