The HeartWork Pulse

Every sustainability professional knows the paradox: the dashboards, the KPIs, the frameworks, the impact assessments—they’re necessary. They give structure. They help us communicate progress. But the truth is, they rarely tell the whole story. The real signals arrive differently. Not in charts or bullet points, but quietly. A first impression in a meeting. A sentence overheard in a corridor. A feeling in the body when leadership says, “We’re fully committed to sustainability,” and something inside quietly answers, “Not quite.” I’ve learned—sometimes painfully—that those whispers are not noise. They’re the compass. Ignore them, and what you noticed early will come back […]