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Lisl Pullinger
Most of what I know about this work came from doing it, not from reading about it. The 100 Day Challenge is my way of making that visible.
Every entry is a fragment from the field: a question I could not answer cleanly, a principle I had to test against the real situation, a moment when the frameworks held and one when they did not. The people in situations in these entries are composite portraits, drawn from more than two decades of work across multiple engagements. No single entry reflects any one client, project or individual. I do not tidy it up after the fact. What you read is what I was actually thinking at the time.
That is the point.

Inviting the kid with the crayon back into the boardroom
Reflections on creativity, discipline and sustainability leadership Early in my career, a colleague once described me as “a kid with a crayon” — someone who brought colour and creativity into complex projects. I wore that description…

100 Portraits from a Sustainability Career
Stories of the people and forces that shape our work Author’s Note This post marks the beginning of my 2026 contribution to the global 100DayProject — a commitment to show up daily for a creative practice. For the next 100 days, I…

Postcards to my future self
There are moments in life when you realise that the way you have been moving through the world is no longer sustainable. Not because anything dramatic has happened, but because something quieter has shifted. A kind of internal signal that asks you…