I wanted to share something I’ve been quietly building, Over the past few years, I’ve been researching, writing, and coaching around how businesses can be part of the solutions — to local and global challenges, yes, but also to creating workplaces that are energizing, purposeful, and built to last. This work weaves together my experiences across sectors — nonprofit, corporate, coaching, and facilitation — and my long-standing belief that good business can (and must) be a force for good.
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Category: Sustainability
Graduations, Vacations, Handling Big Cha...
Hello Readers, Welcome to this time of simultaneous big changes and slowing rhythms. It’s exciting and bewildering. It’s graduation season. The grads may or not have jobs yet, all of us are thinking about a summer break and wrapping up deadlines, we might be feeling nervous, and there are things to look forward to. It’s a […]
RP on Resilience -🌍 Earth Month edition-
Hello Readers and Happy Earth Month! I hope you get some time to be outside, or to interact with nature this week (and most days; have you heard of shinrin-yoku?). It’s soothing to the spirit, and helps reconnect us to a perspective of the broader world, the ecosystem we are part of. In this RP […]
Finance-For-Good Confusion? Part 1 — His
The article explores the historical context and key players in the finance-for-good sector, including portfolio managers and impact investors. It covers the importance of ESG, SRI, and various corporate citizenship concepts, emphasizing their strategic value beyond ethics. The series provides insights and guidelines for developing an authentic corporate sustainability culture.
How Do We Best Communicate Our Company’s
The article discusses corporate citizenship and the importance of effective communication regarding a company’s sustainability and ESG practices. It highlights various examples, historical context, and motivations for small and medium businesses to embrace these initiatives. By sharing goals and impacts transparently, companies can foster trust and reap the benefits of their efforts.
Greenwashing — Value Signaling, Tricky D
Is it Greenwashing? Who or what needs to change? 10 questions and 8 examples for your inner Ethicist and Private Investigator 🕵🏽♀️ Greenwashing, in its pure case, is making showy statements about a generous and/or responsible action, while suppressing information on the much larger, negative impact of other corporate practices. It is a form of […]
Greenwashing — The Concept And A Few Cle
Cynical marketing, naivete vs. intentional misinformation, and finding a way to openly discuss mistakes and missteps Companies are making efforts at doing better, and embracing corporate citizenship in all its alphabet soup glory (CS, CSR, CW, DEI, ESG, SDG, PPP, etc). It’s not perfect, nor are all efforts authentic — exaggeration, compromising on values, and even greenwashing […]
China’s “Common Prosperity”, Corporate S
The Broad Group’ and Starbucks-China’s efforts and tradeoffs In this series of articles on the “alphabet soup of corporate citizenship”, I’ve pondered the changes in how we make impact; laid out some history & definitions of some concepts; shared a few examples of small and large companies leading the way; and delved into how individuals, companies […]
Alibaba – China’s “Common Prosperity”, P
Part 1 Context of China’s economic development, and one company’s social responsibility initiatives (Part 2 includes brief case studies of Broad Group and Starbucks-China’s sustainability and CSR work). In this series of articles on the alphabet soup of corporate citizenship, I’ve pondered the changes in how we make impact; laid out some history & definitions of some […]
Effects of Setting Minimum Wage or Minim...
Capitalism, socialism, systemic thinking and creating a society we want to live in Have you noticed in the last 5–15 years, that prominent folks are talking about the intersections of things a lot more? And how some “non-business” practices are increasingly regarded as indispensable to the executive and the company’s success? Business is successfully being […]