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Small Business Wellness and Sustainability LTRM #4

How can a small or medium sized business do corporate sustainability or wellness programs? Why would we? Can we afford not to? Corporate wellness might bring to mind dimly lit meditation rooms, playful furniture and spaces throughout, ready access to certain foods, dry cleaning and massage services, a gym, and other expenses (investments?). While it […]

The alphabet soup of corporate citizenship; moving from confusion to purpose LTRM #3

Some ingredients to keep your company’s fans in the workplace and marketplace. If a company wants to be attractive to good employees and to retain an innovative edge, it has to have strong CW and DEI policies, practices and culture. A company will also want good relations with the hosting community, and to be a respected, […]

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...

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.

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)