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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Tag: Sustainability
RP on Resilience – Keeping your New year
Hello Readers , Happy New Year! We’ve made it past quitters day 🎉(fyi, the 2nd Friday in January). I admittedly cringe at that recognition we’re not so great at keeping resolutions. At the same time, it’s also funny, and a relief that we’re not alone. Whether your New Year’s resolutions are business or personal, about […]
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 […]
Corporate Social Performance and Financi...
This article series discusses the importance of corporate citizenship and robust environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices for organizations. It highlights the positive correlation between corporate social performance and financial performance, emphasizing that sustainability-focused companies are increasingly outperforming traditional ones by fostering market trust and managing long-term risks effectively.
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 […]
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 […]
Why Should Businesses Care About The SDG...
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 of the concepts; shared a few examples of small and large companies leading the way; and delved into how individuals, companies and governments are influencing others and […]
How Do I Know if a Company is Actually D...
And what can I, as an individual do? Practice and encourage increased energy efficiency, practice the 4Rs, believe in the power of small groups, and look for the quality certifications You might justifiably say, 100 companies emit 71% of the greenhouse gases, what can we as individuals possibly do to move the dial? This article is for […]