Blog - Glocal Consultants Group

A Quick History of Corporate Sustainability- Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup

In my last post, I talked about the mindset of corporate citizenship, and my own path to working to support and expand it. In this one I’ll share a bit about the history and pieces of that field of work. The concept of sustainability has been widely discussed since the 1950s, albeit primarily in the international development and agricultural arenas. As it...

The Way We Make Impact is Changing

It’s a wild and exciting thing to see the corporate and non-profit mindsets coming together– embracing a little complexity in analytics and realities, and doing well, while doing good. Folks are seeing that doing business better, listening to all stakeholders, managing for the long-term, and doing good… can be good for business.

FAQ on the Mental Fitness foundations program

This post is a work-in-progress, and currently addresses 2024 program details. The FAQ covers the course structure, fees & guarantees, testimonials, how to enroll, defining a POD & how to manage it, and other topics. If you see anything you’d like me to further clarify, or if you have additional questions, drop me a line […]

Notes from Rachel & Glocal – embracing change – #1 of 2

So… after a few projects and before my upcoming vacation, I’m seizing the opportunity to share some updates on what Glocal and I have been up to. I’ll start with the summary, and share some details below for those with a few extra minutes. SUMMARY: Lots of developments in the last few years. When you get […]

Implementing and Sustaining CSR ESG Initiatives

I had an interesting discussion about how business leaders move from reading the statistics and liking the concepts, to actually designing and maintaining initiatives. There's a lot that can be said, but the short answer is...

Where Have You Been the Last Two Years? Glocal’s Evolution and New Focus

There’s a more-than two year break in the blog postings, what’s been happening? The answer is… a lot, actually — at the global, organizational or Glocal level, and personally for our founder. It includes what everyone has experienced — the pandemic and the life and work changes it imposed- and how we’ve internalized it at […]

How to keep hope amidst such heartache – be careful about fake news- part 2/2

May 31, 2020 we have reached the 76th day of shelter in place, and there is so much bad news of deaths, injustices, and fake news exacerbating it all. This is not an easy post to write, nor to read. So, you can choose, whether or not to engage. I don’t propose a quick solution […]

How to Keep Hope Amidst Such Heartache & Disparate Treatment, part 1 of 2

Not what they seem – statistics and understanding multi-layered issues.

The Corona-era reveals or uncovers a lot -- about humanity, about our society. Much of it is beautiful, like shared music on balconies, and generous donations, etc; unfortunately, some of it is not. This pandemic has really laid bare some of the inequalities in our system (driven by systemic, often unconscious -isms)