Solitaire Townsend

Sustainability, Business & Radical Optimism

Solitaire Townsend is a renowned sustainability expert, entrepreneur and author who has spent almost three decades helping some of the world’s most influential organisations turn environmental ambition into meaningful action.

As Co-Founder and Chief Solutionist of global sustainability agency Futerra, Solitaire has worked with organisations including Google, IKEA, Formula 1, L’Oréal, Unilever and the United Nations. Rather than approaching climate change through fear and pessimism, she has built her career around a compelling alternative: solutions, optimism and the power of business to create change.

Named a UN Global Compact SDG Pioneer for the UK and a Leader of the Year at Adweek’s Sustainability Awards, Solitaire has also been recognised by Vogue Business among its leading innovators. She is a Forbes contributor, TED speaker and author of The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the Future.

Energetic, provocative and relentlessly optimistic, Solitaire challenges leaders to move beyond sustainability commitments and ask a more powerful question: what can we actually solve?

Signature Keynotes

  • How business leaders can move beyond problems and become part of building the solutions

  • Replacing fear, fatigue and pessimism with optimism, creativity and meaningful progress

  • Why sustainability can drive innovation, relevance, growth and competitive advantage

  • How storytelling, culture and creativity can turn sustainability ambitions into action

The Townsend Effect

Solitaire brings energy and optimism to a subject too often dominated by warnings and complexity.

Audiences leave ready to:

  • Replace sustainability fatigue with possibility

  • Focus on solutions rather than problems

  • Turn ambition into meaningful action

  • Communicate change in ways people actually care about

Why Book Solitaire

Solitaire combines deep sustainability expertise with exceptional communication and infectious energy.

She understands the realities facing major organisations because she has spent decades advising them. But rather than delivering another conventional climate keynote, she challenges audiences to think differently about their own ability to create change.

For organisations looking for a sustainability speaker who is substantive, provocative and genuinely engaging, Solitaire brings an unusually positive perspective: the future is not something simply happening to us. We have a role in creating it.

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