# Trellis: The sustainability profession has been given a mulligan. Let’s take it

0 April 8, 2026 ![Trellis logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/2024-07/news_icon_on_website_2.png?itok=Y5WMk9KA)Amy Skoczlas Cole, the new director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, breaks down how to accelerate embedding sustainability into business in a byline in Trellis. Key takeaways include:

- Corporate sustainability has been granted a “rare mulligan” to re-imagine itself.
- To be strategic, sustainability must move beyond a “special snowflake” status and prove its return on investment using financial metrics.
- Leaders can accelerate embedding sustainability into business by understanding and quantifying sustainable value creation fluency.

Read the full article [here](https://trellis.net/article/the-sustainability-profession-has-been-given-a-mulligan-lets-take-it/).

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