Podcast appearances and mentions of chris laszlo

Patricia Jean Fleming shares about her card readings, how she reads through you, being guided knowing that she is not alone. Patricia Jean and jeannette meier continue sharing about the importance of experiencing to tune into others and into yourself, letting yourself flow into your uniqueness and creativity. Listen to this Positive iMPACT Talks episode created with love and in togetherness. With lots of love and gratitude. ***The book that we mentioned in this episode is "Quantum Leadership" by Frederick Chavalit Sao and Chris Laszlo.

When Chris Laszlo gives the keynote address at the Greater Cleveland Partnership's Sustainability Summit next Tuesday, Jan. 24, he wants people to understand that "sustainability" isn't just a buzzword for large companies to include in their annual report. The professor of organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management talked with The Landscape about how sustainable practices can add value to both society and a company's bottom line, no matter the size of the organization. This episode of the Landscape is sponsored by Delta Dental of Ohio. With offices in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dublin, Delta Dental of Ohio is proud to be an industry leader in dental benefits. Together with their customers, providers and employees, Delta Dental of Ohio builds a higher standard of oral health care in Ohio communities. Delta Dental of Ohio also works with entrepreneurs, innovators and change-makers who are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of all Buckeyes. Together, they are building healthy, smart, vibrant communities for all. For more information, visit deltadentaloh.com.

Julia Storberg-Walker is Chair of the Human and Organizational Learning Department, Program Director of the Organizational Leadership and Learning Program, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Learning in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. After serving in various leadership capacities at Deloitte & Touche and Deloitte Consulting (1985-1999), she shifted to the non-profit sector and received her PhD in Work, Community, and Family Education from the University of Minnesota in 2004. She has been recognized for her critically-informed teaching, research, and activism/service as the recipient of multiple awards including the R. Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award by the Academy of Human Resource Development (2019), the Laura Bierema Critical HRD Award (also from the Academy of Human Resource Development) in 2017; and the Outstanding Research Award from the International Leadership Association (2015). Julia was inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension by North Carolina State University—during her tenure there, she was the recipient of over $1.2 million dollars in grants, and submitted almost $7 million dollars in grant proposals. She is a former Vice President and Board member of the Academy of Human Resource Development, former Editor-in-Chief of JCI and SCOPUS-ranked Human Resource Development Review, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group of the Academy of Management. Currently, Julia's activist/scholar work is generative and aims to develop equitable and compassionate frameworks, models, and processes for the purpose of catalyzing whole planet interdependence and flourishing. This work is transdisciplinary and grounded in contemporary philosophical perspectives including posthumanism, new materialism, quantum field theory, and wisdom traditions spanning diverse cultures and historical moments. As one of the originators of the concept of sustainable value, Chris Laszlo, PhD, reframes sustainability as a business opportunity, turning environmental and social risks into drivers of innovation, greater employee engagement, and a new, inimitable source of competitive advantage. Laszlo is the author of six books, including Quantum Leadership: New Consciousness in Business (2019), Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (2014), Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (2011), and Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), all from Stanford University Press. An earlier book, The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005), was published by Island Press. He has numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the general editor of The Business of Sustainability, the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability (2010). Professionally, Laszlo was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Management. His book Flourishing Enterprise was chosen as one of the top sustainability books by Sustainable Brands. In 2012 he was selected by his peers to be a “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America™. In 2018 he was elected incoming chair of the AOM MSR Interest Group executive committee. As a co-founder and managing partner of Sustainable Value Partners LLC, he provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world's largest companies. Laszlo has led hundreds of seminars and spoken widely on sustainability for strategic advantage both at companies and at leading business schools such as INSEAD, Darden School of Business, Cornell University, and Kenan-Flagler Business School. In addition to his academic experience and consulting work, Laszlo spent nearly 10 years as an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in building materials; he held positions as head of strategy, general manager of a manufacturing subsidiary, and vice president of business development. Prior to that, he spent five years with Deloitte Touche, where he consulted on strategy to global industry leaders. Laszlo received his doctorate with distinction in economics and management science from the University of Paris. He holds a MPhil in economics and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University, and a BA with honors from Swarthmore College.

In this episode, Jeremie and Indrani discuss their own challenges with reflection and share some of their personal reflection practices. Episode Time Codes 00:00 Intro00:20 Jeremie introduces the topic and the team.01:19 Jeremie asks, "Why do you find it difficult to reflect on things that have happened?"01:36 Indrani shares how her attitude toward reflection has changed.02:36 Søren Kierkegaard: "Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forward."02:51 Jeremie and Indrani discuss uncertainty and failing fast and forward.04:07 The difference between reflecting on the behavior of others and yourself.06:49 Why Jeremie finds it difficult to reflect.08:32 Schedule time to reflect.08:58 Reflection and connection to work and leadership.10:04 The book Jeremie can't wait to read in 2022, "Flourishing Enterprise."10:49 Indrani shares why it's important to reflect.12:57 Reframing experiences as part of a reflection practice.17:32 Visual and physical methods for reframing.21:25 Reflection Practice: Gratitude Journal.23:27 Indrani's Gratitude Practice.30:14 Reflection Practice: Consolidate notes into a journal and review on a consistent basis.31:42 Reflection tool from Charlie Gilkey of Productive Flourishing: The Quarterly Review.36:58 Reflection tool from Charlie Gilkey of Productive Flourishing: The 10/15 Split.45:04 Indrani's closing thoughts on reflection.47:11 Indrani wraps up with Søren Kierkegaard quote47:29 Outro Resources Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business by Chris Laszlo and Judy Sorum Brown"The Quarterly Review: 9 Questions to Help You Stay the Course and Adjust with Confidence" by Charlie Gilkey"Build Daily Momentum Using the 10/15 Split" by Charlie Gilkey

While business is the biggest source of some of the world's most challenging problems, it's also one of the greatest hopes and potential for solving them. Therein lies an amazing new conscious business model that creates prosperity and flourishing for all. To do this, it's essential for business to develop both the awareness and skills to consciously evolve their organizations. In this podcast, "Conscious Business Evolution," we will hear from some of the leading global conscious business leaders about key principles and practices they have implemented to reinvent organizations.  Dr. Lance Secretan is one of the most insightful and provocative leadership teachers of our time. He is a former CEO of a Fortune 100 company, university professor, award-winning columnist, and author of 15 books about inspiration and leadership and a recent memoir, A Love Story.  Ozioma Egwuonwu is a bestselling author, internationally celebrated speaker, writer, teacher, and transformational leader. She is the CEO of BurnBright International, a global consultancy dedicated to helping individuals, businesses, and communities reach their full potential.  Dr. Marilyn Tam is a speaker, author, consultant, board-certified executive, corporate leadership coach, and founder and executive director of Us Foundation. Formerly the CEO of Aveda Corporation, President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group, Vice President of Nike Incorporated.. Dr. Raj Sisodia ​is a thought leader and founding member of the Conscious Capitalism Movement. With John Mackey, he co-authored the book Conscious Capitalism, and has a TED Talk called Reimagining Capitalism with Higher Consciousness. Kristin Vesa specializes in integrating systems of people, information, equipment, and technology. Her corporate experience ranges from international consulting assignments in Sweden for Volvo to Silicon Valley for Ernst & Young and Apple.  Tune in to hear these global conscious business leaders talk about… The Conscious Business Declaration Conscious Community Reaching for the Realm Leadership Theory Ethics in the supply chain And much more! ***Note: this is a special rebroadcast and any websites, links, programs, or events mentioned may no longer be active (or dates may have been changed). Thank you!*** Explore Humanity's Team and the timeless truth that We Are All One.  For a free Conscious Business online video program with leading business leaders including Ken Wilber, Elisabet Sahtouris, Michael Beckwith, Chris Laszlo, Lance Secretan, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and many others, please visit our website here. Learn more about the Humanity's Team free education programs. Try Humanity Stream Plus on us with a 7-Day Free Trial and an additional 1-Week Guarantee after purchase! Now available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Google Play, and more! Enjoy 24/7 access to our most popular Masterclasses with Certificates of Completion and 550+ hours of additional conscious programming including Global Oneness Summit Upgrades with world-renowned thought leaders. You'll also receive VIP invitations to Livestream Events including Masterclass Mentoring and Weekly and Monthly community calls.

Nick Jovanovich & Chris Laszlo break down the greatest movies ever made. The Godfather and On the Waterfront make the list.

Nick Martin is a senior sustainability consultant at Antea Group and the executive director of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER). Nick is dedicated to supporting clients with assessing, prioritizing and managing sustainability-related business risks and opportunities. He has extensive experience supporting private and public organizations with translating sustainability aspirations into successful strategies and collaborative approaches. Nick has leveraged this experience to support a wide range of companies with accelerating their sustainability journey and defining practical roadmaps for implementation.  Much of his strategic support involves researching leading practices in sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) and utilizing this knowledge to assist clients with benchmarking against peers and developing viable and differentiating strategies.  Specific areas of expertise include: global water stewardship, monetization, context-based decision making, collective action, and corporate transparency. He previously worked in the non-profit sector with the Global Environmental & Technology Foundation (GETF) in Washington, DC and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan.  Nick Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: Achieving precompetitive collaboration to advance sustainability in a competitive industry. TCFD and climate scenario planning. Prioritizing efforts as a sustainability professional. Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders. Interview Highlights:  You mentioned climate scenarios, climate disclosure and TCFD reporting. I'd love to get your thoughts on that as BIER has been discussing these topics. If you could tell our listeners, because it's still relatively new thing in the sustainability world, what TCFD, how you're seeing large multinational beverage companies addressing it and the importance of things like TCFD and the emergence of the ESG social investing movement. That's an evolving topic and it's one we could probably have a devoted podcast to, if not more than one. You know, TCFD is the Task Force for Climate Related Disclosures. It was a group that came together to really help frame some set of core recommendations in terms of what companies really need to think about if they want to embed climate scenario thinking into their strategy, their governance, their metrics etc. They pulled from a number of stakeholders to really consolidate that set of recommendations, where companies can then endorse that concept and endorse the importance of climate scenarios without really committing to a recipe or a particular framework. They've left the door open to have it be really company and/or industry specific. They believe that is really important because every industry has a different operational footprint, a different supply chain, changing markets and consumers etc. We actually had a representative, a VP with Bloomberg, come in and join our group and really engage our members to talk about what is the latest and greatest science in this space, what have been the leading companies (especially those oil and gas that have been first or early movers on doing climate scenarios) and what does he and TCFD really recommend. You could spend an incredible amount of time looking at scenarios and getting in that whole paralysis by analysis rut if you're not careful. What we wanted to do is step back and say, "How do we bring together our technical knowledge or our business knowledge or policy knowledge and really start to help bring the beverage sector together to organize around a common process, maybe a common set of scenarios?" That'll help everybody better understand the risks and the opportunities. If it is a common language and we're all speaking to stakeholders, to investors and to our own corporate leadership. That can go a long way of moving from analysis into resiliency. That's really what it's all about, how do we become more resilient as a person, a company or a country? So that's kind of where it stands and I definitely hope that it's going to be a core area of BIER but it's going to take up more than BIER. There's a lot of different groups that are working in this space, so we want to try to capture the greatest experience and knowledge and try to make it relevant to the beverage sector, as we do with a lot of our work. You cover a lot of important issues in the Beverage industry and I'm wondering how you prioritize this work? And maybe you can talk about, in general as a sustainability professional, how should we prioritize what we do and where we focus our efforts? It's one of those questions that I think is becoming even more relevant in the world we live in, in terms of just the pace of information and technology and this whole concept around radical transparency. The topics of the day can change within a day, a minute, an hour and I think that's even more concerning for a company and for a company's sustainability strategy. A lot of these topics that companies are taking on within their strategies really require a longterm commitment. A company is trying to make really transformative changes, whether it's with how they take their products or services to market, their packaging or their innovation. I think one of the risks is that it's easy to get distracted. It's kind of human nature to get distracted by the shiny object or the latest kind of topic or pressure that is being placed on a company from a stakeholder. It's really more important than ever that companies have to remain agile. They've got to evolve their thinking is as things change, but they really have to figure out how to stay committed to what they know is right for their company. Long story short, I've become a big believer in materiality assessments. You can't have everything be a priority. You can't make everybody happy. As a company, you've got to really check yourself through internal reflection, but also reflection with some key external stakeholders, to determine what is most material, where can we get the most business value and where can we differentiate ourselves within the market, within the eyes of investors and others. What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I give this kind of advice a lot. I've got a lot of colleagues. I get a lot of inquiries externally asking about how do I get into the sustainability field and where to start. The advice I give is find a topic or a short list of topics that you really are passionate about. What you need to do is to get to a point where you're a go-to for that topic. You're one of the first people somebody wants to call or thinks about. That's where you really start to get involved in sustainability and you can use that as a foundation. For me, water was definitely that topic. When a lot of people think about me. They naturally think about water first, which is something that I love and I've just found that it's a topic that fits me well. Whether its materiality, whether it's water, whether it's energy and carbon and climate change, just find those topics that you can really invest in because becoming a jack of all trades and sustainability is almost impossible. It's too dynamic and complex. You really got to try to focus. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I think that it's just becoming more mainstream. Finally. I feel like we've kind of gotten over a bit of a curve where I think there's just a much wider acceptance that it is the right thing to pursue sustainability. We do have needs and it's only going to get worse if we don't really take it on. So, I see it obviously with my kids. I think it's almost inherent with them. They just understand it. It's just the right thing to do. So, I feel like we're kind of at that point, finally. We will see. Things can change. What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read? The one that sticks in my mind, I've actually got a copy here in my office, is a book called Embedded Sustainability. It was written by Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva. It's a book that stuck in my mind. I can't remember when I first read it. It's a few years old now, but it was one of those first books that I felt like really kind of drove that it's okay for businesses to think about profit when they think about sustainability, as long as they're doing it for a greater reason, a greater purpose ultimately. One of the things I loved about the book is that it had these three connected trends - declining resources, radical transparency and increasing expectations. It was just fascinating because those are kind of the three things that really come down on a company and the three reasons that they should really take sustainability seriously. The combination of those three and it just really resonated with me. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in the work that you do? There's quite a few of these days. I think it really depends on what I'm in need of. There's some really good common platform resources out there like Environmental Leader, GreenBiz and various associations. I like WRI, Ceres and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Those three I feel like put out some really good meaningful work and analysis. So, I definitely keep an eye on those three. I also just depend upon Linkedin and different networks I'm involved in. You get a lot of really, really timely and relevant information, more so than five or 10 years ago. At times it feels like maybe too much information, but you really get some good tips on emerging topics and on new initiatives pretty quickly these days. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work that you're leading for the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable? Well, feel free to call me for one. I'm always willing to have a good discussion. Anteagroup.com/us. So, we do have a different sister organizations, but I'm part of the US group and you can find a lot about our sustainability practice. I am on Twitter: @anteasustain. I'm not very active on Twitter compared to LinkedIn and some other areas, but I am on there. Then definitely connect with us. Connect with me on LinkedIn either personally or we do have a BIER Linkedin page as well. We'd love to have you connect there and keep up on what we're doing with the beverage industry. Learn more about BIER: https://www.bieroundtable.com/ Learn more about Sustridge: https://www.sustridge.com/

Chris Laszlo, PhD is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, where he leads the Quantum Leadership initiative, which conducts research and practice into elevating consciousness as the highest point of leverage in transforming leaders into agents of world benefit. He is the author of Flourishing Enterprise (2014), Embedded Sustainability (2011), and Sustainable Value (2008) Chris Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: Embedding sustainability into a company's core strategy Moving from sustainable to flourishing  Transforming consciousness for sustainable change Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Final Five Question Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? Get a solid grounding in business operations as well as whatever knowledge you might have about environmental sciences or sustainability communications. All of those are important. If you can get a couple of years of experience in a more of a line management position early on in your career, you will never regret it because you will always be able to speak to people who are running a business or a division or our heads of a functional heads such as head of marketing or head of sales and business with a kind of equal footing that you won't have if you are only in a sustainability background. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability and regenerative development? Direct intuitive learning is a catch phrase that speaks to moving beyond the typical kind of cognitive analytic, cognitive learning that we have, whether it's in business school or in training programs in the workplace. I think business leaders need to engage in practices. Practices of connectedness or narrow sense or mindfulness practices. Whether it's mindfulness meditation or nature immersion. Yoga is popular, but art and aesthetics, appreciative inquiry. There are range of different kinds of practices of this kind. It's even beyond these sort of more esoteric eastern type practices. It's a high quality relationships with friends. It's having a glass of wine with a friend. It's for some people it might be a fishing or going horseback riding. I was speaking to a colleague of mine who said that that's really where they feel, able to feel whole and connected to themselves and to nature and others. The point is that we live in a multitasking world where we're jumping from one electronic screen to another and heavily dependent on analytic cognitive, way of being all the time. To change this consciousness that we spoke about earlier. We need to introduce in the workplace practices that heal people, make people feel whole, that's the next frontier for sustainability professionals will be to emphasize and encourage a lifestyle for all organizational leaders at every level so that before they can focus on flourishing organizations in service of a flourishing world, they themselves as individuals are also able to flourish.  How about a book recommendation? What's the one or two books that you would recommend every sustainability professional read? I really liked Frederic Laloux Reinventing Organizations. It's quite popular. I'll point out that the subtitle of that book is a guide to creating organizations inspired by the next stage of human consciousness. It has had a very big impact on certainly on to their PHD students and executives that I've worked with in the last couple of years since it came out. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you out in your work? It could be anything, websites, software, technologies, guidebooks, any type of resources. I would like to recommend a website called AIM2Flourish.com. There you will find thousands stories were more businesses that are doing well by doing good. These are sort of the untold stories from around the world of businesses that are agents of world benefit. With all the negative news that we have in the world, for those of us that are looking at the role of business, it's encouraging to see just how many businesses, the variety of businesses that have found ways to succeed, financially and economically, by doing good in terms of environmental restoration or social community well-being and personal well-being.  I also have a number of tools in embedded sustainability. I have a new book. I have a co-author, Fred Tsao in China. He's the chairman of a multi-billion dollar shipping and real estate company in Asia based in Shanghai and Singapore. And he and I have coauthored based on his experience as a leader at this company. A new book called Quantum Leadership: New Consciousness in Business. It will be coming out probably later to see from Stanford University press and we will have many of the points we've covered in this podcast in-depth book. Look for it will be Tsao and Lazlo, Quantum Leadership, a new consciousness in business. Where can our listeners go to learn more about your work? Follow you, a website or any type of information where they can follow what you do. I would welcome being connected to this community of like-minded professionals. You can read, I met the Weatherhead school of business at Case Western Reserve University. The link there is a https://weatherhead.case.edu You can find me on LinkedIn. My twitter handle is @embedsustain.

Wickedly complex problems such as the ones companies face and we face globally (climate change effects, poverty, economic inequality, health) demand a frank and yet hopeful look at how being better as humans can balance emerging application of AI and other disruptive tech. Host Dawna Jones brings forward a conversation with Michael Mainelli and Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva who each bring a perspective that provide insight into what you can do and what business can do to stop throwing money and human potential away and start contributing to being better in and for the world.The topic is timely given the selection of semi-finalists for the Global Challenges Foundation contest in designing better governance and decision making models to handle the complex issues globally. Though my submission was not selected, I still see the value of merging narrative (with Dr. Thomas Juli) with decision making and elevated consciousness, to support nations in being able to work with issues having many fast moving parts.Guests:Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen boasts a core team of respected professionals as well as numerous associates, and is well-capitalised due to successful spin-outs and ventures. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. His PhD was on the application of risk/reward methodologies involving chaotic systems. Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, followed by a decade in finance, then two decades at Z/Yen. www.zyen.comDr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker & author -- specializing in reinvention. She oversees a group of companies active in real estate, investment, & consulting. As a consultant, Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Kohler, L'Oreal, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation & many others to reinvent their products, processes, & leadership practices.Nadya has personally contributed to the development of more than 5,000 executives from over 60 countries & 20 industries teaching courses in leadership, strategy & sustainability at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she also served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has been teaching in business schools around the world, including Case's Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE Business School (Mexico), and CEDEP (France), where she also contributes to the Academic Committee of the school. Nadya and her co-author Chris Laszlo coined the term embedded sustainability which has caught on to differentiate authentic commitment from superficial efforts to look responsible. You'll also find Nadya's insights via three TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia & the US.Show host Dawna Jones provides transformational insights to decision makers leading change in complex environments or issues. You'll find her at FromInsightToAction.com She has written or contributed to two books: Decision Making for Dummies and The Intelligence of the Cosmos and written for Business Expert Press on Moving Successfully to an Executive Role.Intro music is by Mark Romero. Mark's music restores physical coherence to the body. MarkRomeroMusic.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

March’s podcast highlights how the Weatherhead School of Management is leading a global movement to harness the power of business as a force for good in society. Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit representatives Chris Laszlo and Roberta Baskin discuss how AIM2Flourish, the world’s first global initiative steering future business leaders toward achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the Fourth Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, to be held at CWRU in June, are leading the way to a better world. CWRU Alumni groups of 10 or more receive a 35 percent discount with code SPOTLIGHT. CWRU Alumni registering as individuals receive a 10 percent discount with code CWRUALUMNI10. Register: https://globalforum.case.edu/

In a unique conversation, Dr. Chris Laszlo, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit joins his father, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, who is internationally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. In this interview we talk about the conversation that took place in Lucca, Italy in the summer of 2016.The New Paradigm Leadership Retreat and Summit, held in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, on July 12 – 15, 2016, brought together over 40 scholars and practitioners from four domains: (1) the physical and biological sciences, (2) consciousness research, (3) medicine and well-being, and (4) business and management. Chris Laszlo,The goal was to learn how to create a world that works for 100 percent of humanity and all life on earth, now and for future generations. Questions asked included: What is reality? What is consciousness and why is it the highest leverage point for human survival? What lies at the core of health and wellbeing? How can we strengthen our collective capacity to transform business into an agent of world benefit, one whose purpose is creating prosperity and flourishing for all life on earth!In this conversation you’ll hear:What if business switched from ‘self-serving’ to higher service?About the shift toward a unified consciousness where we are more coherent in our interactions with each other and NatureWhy “consciousness is the determining factor of how you see the world, of who you are, what the world is, and what we can do in the world” as Dr. Laszlo frames it.Rethinking what the bottom line really is.Why higher consciousness is the highest leverage point for transformational leadership in business.What is different?: Moving beyond a strategist perspective to view the macro, meso and micro foundations of leadershipCrossing the ontological divide. (the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality.)You’ll also hear the terms NDE (near death experiences) and OBE (out of body experiences) when we talk about the quantum field.Ervin Laszlo, Doctorat d’Etat Sorbonne (1970) is Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (Italy), Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the recipient of the Goi Peace Prize (2002), the International Mandir of Peace Prize (2005), the Conacreis Holistic Culture Prize (2009), the Ethics Prize of Milano (2014) and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Laszlo has Honorary PhD’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary and is the author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into twenty-four languages. He lives in Tuscany. Ervin Laszlo’s most recent book, What is Reality? Is now on AmazonHis son, Professor Chris Laszlo, provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world’s largest companies on sustainability for competitive advantage. He is an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and has taught at INSEAD, CEDEP, Darden, Cornell, and many other leading business schools. He was an executive at Lafarge, a world leader in building materials. Prior to that he spent five years with Deloitte consulting.Chris is the co-author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (2014) Stanford Business Press, Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (2011), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008), Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press, and The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005), Island Press. Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music.comHost Dawna Jones specializes in insights for decision-making transformation and leadership. #author #facilitator, #speaker See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Dr. Chris Laszlo, co-founder and managing partner of Sustainable Value Partners LLC as well as Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and author of four business books, talks about a new paradigm that is emerging for businesses. Dr. Lazlo shares the science supporting the emergence of this new paradigm as well as some examples of businesses that are benefiting from the new paradigm. == Subscribe to the Quadrant II newsletter at www.fulcrumconnection.com to get a free white paper on 5 ways to improve creativity for innovation and bi-monthly social secrets to help you succeed in work and life.  

In part two of Dawna's interview with Chris Laszlo they explore how to engage the C-suite in sustainability initiatives, moving past it is either the economy or the environment and look at the value of disruptive innovation to take advantage of improving stewardship of ecological capital.

Embedding sustainability into business operations offers a competitive advantage that is finally catching on with mainstream business. This is part 1 of this interview with Chris Laszlo, author of "The Sustainable Company".