Diane Gilpin

Diane Gilpin is the founder and CEO of the Smart Green Shipping Alliance that aims to make UK shipping more sustainable through using renewable energy for propulsion. She has previously worked in marketing and technology transfer in telecoms, banking and motor sport. Quotes "Learning by making mistakes is the most effective way to progress." Diane Gilpin shares a piece of advice. November 6, 2018 "Listening without judgement and from there building strong relationships allows new ideas to come to fruition." Diane Gilpin shares a habit that has most improved your business life. November 6, 2018 If we tackle the entire global logistics chain as a whole and shift as much freight as we can from land and air to water we immediately transition to the lowest cost and lowest emission transport mode. There needs to be more courage, more pioneering spirit. There is a lot of it about in the waterborne sector. It may seem safer to wait to be a fast-follower but if no one leads we have a much harder time managing the inevitable transition and there will be more losses and failures as a result. Work collaboratively, build coalitions, share first mover risks. I think they lack ambition. The option of not reducing emissions in line with science means everything else we worry about is academic – there are few large scale business options on a frozen/flooded/burning planet – now is not the time for pragmatism but ambition. There is a huge growth potential in pioneering new sustainable solutions and putting the UK and EU at the forefront of the inevitable sustainability shift. Just because current rhetoric and hostility to global trade is top of our minds right now, it won’t always be so. Jaap is able to look past the current ‘noise’ and see opportunities. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now Glipin in Career talk 6Nov. 2018 External links Category:Living people Category:entrepreneurs Category:Businesswomen from England