Measuring the Wrong Things and Calling it Progress

We celebrate disruption by how fast it moves, but rarely ask what it destroys along the way.

Drawing on economist Partha Dasgupta's natural capital framework and his own experience driving digital transformation in one of the world's most traditional industries, Kolin Schunck argues that the way we measure progress is fundamentally broken. We optimise for flow like GDP, revenue and career titles, while the capital underneath, nature, institutional knowledge, health and relationships, erodes invisibly.

This session offers a simple, transferable framework to make better trade-offs at any scale. Because the biggest risk of the future is not what changes, it is what we fail to protect while celebrating change.