Podcasts about un global compact

Die Themen im heutigen Versicherungsfunk Update sind: Nachhaltigkeitsabfrage aussetzen? VOTUM fordert Entlastung für Berater Nach der EU-Entscheidung, die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung (CSRD) und Sorgfaltspflichten (CSDDD) um ein bzw. zwei Jahre zu verschieben, fordert der VOTUM Verband nun auch eine vorübergehende Aussetzung der Nachhaltigkeitspräferenzabfrage in der Anlageberatung. „Es war von Anfang an ein Konstruktionsfehler, die Abfragepflicht vor der verbindlichen Unternehmensberichterstattung einzuführen“, sagt VOTUM-Vorstand Martin Klein. Die aktuelle Regelung schaffe Unsicherheit bei Kunden – und ein kaum tragbares Haftungsrisiko für Vermittler. Finanzierungsdefizit des Staates steigt 2024 auf über 100 Milliarden Euro Der Öffentliche Gesamthaushalt hat das Jahr 2024 mit einem Finanzierungsdefizit von 104,4 Milliarden Euro abgeschlossen – rund 12,7 Milliarden Euro mehr als im Vorjahr. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilt, wuchsen die Ausgaben um 7,1 Prozent, die Einnahmen legten um 6,8 Prozent zu. Neben dem Bund verzeichneten 2024 auch Länder, Gemeinden und die Sozialversicherung erhebliche Defizite – zusammengenommen übertrafen sie erstmals das Minus des Bundes. Provinzial bringt eigene globale Aktienstrategie an den Start Die Provinzial erweitert ihr Investmentangebot um den neuen Fonds „Provinzial Aktien Welt“. Die Strategie bildet einen weltweiten Aktienindex ab, wird intern durch die Provinzial Asset Management GmbH verwaltet und steht exklusiv in fondsgebundenen Lebensversicherungen zur Verfügung – auch für bestehende Verträge. Der Fonds verzichtet auf Handelskosten, bietet hohe Kosteneffizienz und erfüllt Nachhaltigkeitskriterien wie den UN Global Compact. Laut Unternehmensangaben liegt der CO₂-Ausstoß dreißig Prozent unter globalen Standardindizes. FERI: Britta Süßmann übernimmt Leitung des Family Office Im Zuge der strategischen Neuausrichtung im Geschäft mit vermögenden Privatkunden hat FERI die Führung des Family Office neu besetzt. Britta Süßmann übernimmt die Leitung von Oliver Matyschik und berichtet direkt an Bereichsvorstand Michael Jänsch. Die Juristin und Steuerberaterin war zuvor bei Hengeler Mueller tätig und gehört seit knapp vier Jahren zum Team. Künftig soll sie das Family Office der FERI AG weiterentwickeln und stärker generationsübergreifend ausrichten. Vorstandswechsel bei der Ammerländer: Christian Buschkotte tritt Amt an Seit dem 1. April 2025 ist Christian Buschkotte neues Vorstandsmitglied der Ammerländer Versicherung. Er folgt auf Gerold Saathoff, der sich nach fast 30 Jahren in den Ruhestand verabschiedet hat. Buschkotte bringt langjährige Branchenerfahrung mit und will die Position der AV im Maklermarkt weiter ausbauen. Besonderes Augenmerk legt er auf Digitalisierung, KI und eine stärkere Außenwirkung: „Wir wollen im Maklermarkt einen Sprung nach vorne machen.“ MLP verleiht Awards an Produktpartner Zum 14. Mal hat MLP seine Produktpartner mit Awards in den Kategorien Partner, Service und Investment ausgezeichnet. Hierfür wurden mit Unterstützung der Ratingagentur Assekurata mehr als 1.100 Personen aus den MLP-Geschäftsstellen und insgesamt rund 3.600 Kundinnen und Kunden der 63 einbezogenen Gesellschaften befragt. In der Kategorie 'Vorsorge' setzte sich Allianz vor LV 1871 und der Hannoverschen durch.

I'm very pleased to bringing you a chat with Victoria Whitaker. I was really excited to chat with Vic - she's another of the originals of the Sydney and Australian sustainability crew like Lee Stewart and Nicolette Boele I've had the chance to chat with on this show. I did some work with Vic the best part of a decade ago when she was at The Ethics Centre, and it was immediately evident how thoughtful, well regarded and insightful she was.Vic has held a number of different roles in various organisations over time. From being involved in the earlier days of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership and running Al Gore's Climate Project in the UK, to joining Choice, working on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in the initial Kevin Rudd prime ministerial years, she brought the Global Reporting Initiative and UN Global Compact to Australia, spent time at the Ethics Centre and was recently a partner at Deloitte doing all sorts of sustainability, human rights and social licence work.Vic represents the required breadth of knowledge, skills and capabilities of the sustainability professional. under that though is a person driven to make a difference. She has Always been looking to find a way to alter the trajectory of a problem or an organisation's contribution to it. It was a pleasure having Vic on the show to chat about the history of this work, her own stories and then the fundamental role of ethics, values and principles in decision making that is often the missing factor in a corporate sustainability machine that is now fixated on mandatory disclosures, mandatory ESG assessment and mandatory e-learnings. Change doesn't happen when you try to force it on people, and as we hear from Vic here, the reprisal and spreading of the original ontology of sustainability needs work, stretching back to what Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring from 1962 helped reveal.Chatting to Vic was illuminating. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the pursuit of more sustainable futures without different ways by which decisions are made which value and prioritise ethics, values and principles. The April newsletter is on the theme of unity, and in crisis it's easy to feel isolated and alone. Together though, we are far stronger, our unity is where our power lies. With Vic in mind, and the theme of unity, here's this quote from Thomas Paine which to me represents the situation of the sustainability professional “It is not in numbers but in our unity that our great strength lies.”Til next time, thanks for listening. Events are live and more are coming - follow on Humanitix.Follow on LinkedIn, Substack and Instagram. Today's show is delivered with Altiorem. Use the code FindingNature25 to get your first month free on their gold and platinum plans. Today's show is delivered with Climasens. Mentions Finding Nature when you contact them for 50% off your first asset heat risk assessment. Send me a messageThanks for listening. Follow Finding Nature on Instagram

In the latest episode of Sustainability Leaders, Melissa Fifield, Head of the BMO Climate Institute, discusses escalating water-related risks for businesses and the importance of public-private partnerships for water stewardship. She is joined by Jason Morrison, President of the Pacific Institute and Head of the CEO Water Mandate, an initiative of the UN Global Compact.

In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick and Gio welcome Andrew McBride. Andrew McBride is the CEO of Integrity Bridge LLC, a consulting practice offering strategic & operational compliance support for companies. Andrew has over 25 years of compliance experience, at an international law firm and several multinational companies in the Americas, Europe and Australasia. In his most recent role as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Albemarle Corporation, he built a new ethics and compliance program, and recruited a new team, against the backdrop of an FCPA investigation. The investigation was resolved by way of a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and Cease & Desist Order with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of the resolution, Albemarle secured a 45% reduction in penalty due to its co-operation with the investigation and the compliance program that was built, the largest FCPA % penalty reduction to date. In recognition of these efforts Albemarle was awarded Compliance Program of the Year by Compliance Week in May 2024. In parallel to the FCPA investigation and business ethics efforts, Andrew played a key role supporting Albemarle's commitment to sustainability including UN Global Compact membership, management of the company's human rights framework and support for the company's successful efforts to achieve certification against the Initiative of Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)'s Mining Standard. Prior to Albemarle, Andrew was Associate General Counsel Compliance at BHP, Senior Antitrust Counsel at BP and Managing Associate at Linklaters. Andrew is admitted to practice law in England, Western Australia & California. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

The UN Global Compact Network Singapore is turning 20 years old. Over the decades, it has been at the forefront of driving sustainable business practices and fostering partnerships that positively impact society and the environment. It's a celebration of those who have supported and advanced a more sustainable and inclusive future. Dr. Bicky Bhangu, President, UN Global Compact Network Singapore joins host Glenn van Zutphen and co-host Neil Humphreys on the Wide World Segment on the Saturday Mornings Show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Organisations should think beyond compliance and embrace sustainability as a driver of long-term value for Ireland's economy and society. That's the call from Nessa Whelan, Executive Director of UN Global Compact Network Ireland, the newly introduced Irish network of the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. Nessa joined Emmet this morning on the show.

How are women driving transformative change in climate action? In this episode, host Anita Kelava, co-founder of Voiz Academy highlights the journeys of Christine Cavallo and Michelle Li, two remarkable leaders creating global impact through corporate sustainability, education, and community building. Christine, a UN Global Compact leader and U.S. National Team rower, shares her journey of balancing corporate sustainability initiatives with her Olympic dreams. Michelle, founder of Clever Carbon and Women in Climate, reveals how she's creating accessible carbon education and fostering empowering spaces for women to lead in climate.

Marcel Engel ist Leiter des Deutschen Netzwerks des UN Global Compact und Experte für Nachhaltigkeit und unternehmerische Verantwortung. Mit seiner Arbeit fördert er die Implementierung der 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) und setzt sich für die Integration von Menschenrechten, Umweltschutz und sozialer Verantwortung in Unternehmen ein. Marcel Engel unterstützt darüber hinaus Unternehmen bei der Einhaltung des Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetzes (LKSG) und fördert den Austausch in Peer Learning Groups. In dieser Episode von "Grad Global" spricht Marcel Engel über die Herausforderungen und Erfolge deutscher Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit. Und darüber, wie Unternehmen dennoch soziale, ökologische und gleichzeitig ökonomische Nachhaltigkeit erzielen können. Er beleuchtet, wie Unternehmen in Deutschland, vom Mittelstand bis zu großen Konzernen, durch Lern- und Dialogformate unterstützt werden und wie gesetzliche Regulierungen wie das LKSG dabei helfen können.

In this second episode on the Maritime Just Transition Taskforce, Marcus Hand, Editor of Seatrade Maritime News, is joined by Alishba Zaman from the UN Global Compact and Natassa Kouvertari from the Lloyd's Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub. Together, they delve into the Maritime Just Transition Task Force's efforts to create a safer and more sustainable future for seafarers. Learn more about the Baseline Training Framework for Seafarers in Decarbonisation, and Just Transition Task Force report ‘Considerations of Training Aspects for Seafarers on Ships Powered by Ammonia, Methanol and Hydrogen' launched in November at Seatrade Maritime Crew Connect Global.Listeners can download the report - Considerations of Training Aspects for Seafarers on Ships Powered by Ammonia, Methanol and HydrogenThe podcast coversRole of UNGC in Maritime Just Transition TaskforceThe contribution of Lloyd's RegisterKey Milestones and workshopsInsight into the report and its disseminationFuture training materialsThe competency framework and future projectsListen now to learn moreIf you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to ensure you don't miss our latest uploads. Feel free also to recommend the show to a friend or colleague that you think would enjoy it. For the latest news on the shipping and maritime industries make sure you visit www.searade-maritime.com or subscribe to our newsletter.Connect with Marcus Hand, Editor of Seatrade Maritime News:Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcushand1 Connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-hand-b00a317/Don't forget to join the conversation and let us know what topics you want us to cover in future on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn

The cosmetics industry in Indonesia is growing exponentially. And one legacy producer is making a noteworthy impact across Indonesia, throughout Asia, and globally—because of its well-known brands, novel bioactive ingredients, extensive research partnerships, a broad retail presence, and more.  This week on the CosmoFactory podcast, we gain insight into Indonesia's market conditions, regional trends, and the power and potential of Indonesia's biodiversity as well as that of the country's business leaders. Our guest is Dr Kilala Tilaar, Owner and CEO of the Martha Tilaar Group. Now an impressively horizontally integrated company with global headquarters in Jakarta, the Martha Tilaar Group began with as a single salon in 1969. Today the company sells ingredients to beauty makers around the world, manufactures product for top cosmetic industry players, owns Indonesia's leading brands, and is an active participant in the UN Global Compact. If you appreciate this episode, SHARE it with a colleague, SUBSCRIBE to the CosmoFactory podcast & please LEAVE US A REVIEW today. With your help, even more cosmetic industry professionals can discover the inspiring interviews we share on CosmoFactory! ABOUT CosmoFactoryBeauty industry stakeholders listen to the CosmoFactory podcast for inspiration and for up-to-date information on concepts, tactics, and solutions that move business forward. CosmoFactory – Ideas to Innovation is a weekly interview series for cosmetics and personal care suppliers, finished product brand leaders, retailers, buyers, importers, and distributors. Each Tuesday, CosmoFactory guests share experiences, insights, and exclusive behind-the-scenes details—which makes this not only a must-listen B2B podcast but an ongoing case study of our dynamic industry. Guests are actively working in hands-on innovation roles along the beauty industry supply chain; they specialize in raw materials, ingredients, manufacturing, packaging, and more. They are designers, R&D or R&I pros, technical experts, product developers, key decision makers, visionary executives. HOST Deanna UtroskeCosmetics and personal care industry observer Deanna Utroske hosts the CosmoFactory podcast. She brings an editorial perspective and a decade of industry expertise to every interview. Deanna is also Editor of the Beauty Insights newsletter and a supply-side positioning consultant. She writes the Global Perspectives column for EuroCosmetics magazine, is a former Editor of CosmeticsDesign, and is known globally for her ability to identify emerging trends, novel technologies, and true innovation in beauty. A PRODUCTION OF Cosmoprof Worldwide BolognaCosmoFactory is the first podcast from Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, taking its place among the best B2B podcasts serving the global beauty industry.   Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna is the most important beauty trade show in the world. Dedicated to all sectors of the industry, Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna welcomes over 250,000 visitors from 150 countries and regions and nearly 3,000 exhibitors to Bologna, Italy, each year. It's where our diverse and international industry comes together to build business relationships and to discover the best brands and newest innovations across consumer beauty, professional beauty, and the entire supply chain. The trade show includes a robust program of exclusive educational content, featuring  executives and key opinion leaders from every sector of the cosmetics, fragrance, and personal care industry. Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna is the most important event of the Cosmoprof international network, with exhibitions in Asia (Hong Kong), the US (Las Vegas and Miami), India (Mumbai) and Thailand (Bangkok). Thanks to its global exhibitions Cosmoprof connects a community of more than 500,000 beauty stakeholders and 10,000 companies from 190 countries and regions. Learn more today at Cosmoprof.com   

 In this episode of the Dead America Podcast, host Ed Wattersconverses with award-winning author Rhonda Parker Taylor about her journey fromacademia to becoming a bestselling author. Rhonda delves into her work onemotional intelligence, highlighting its importance in personal andprofessional success. They discuss her bestselling book, 'Crossroads,' andexplore themes of balance, intentionality, and pursuing one's passions. Rhondashares insights into her life, her academic research for the UN Global CompactCommittee, and the profound impact of emotional intelligence on leadership andoverall well-being.  00:00 Introduction: The Power of Education  00:56 Meet Rhonda Parker Taylor: Award-Winning Author  01:31 Rhonda's Journey: From Academics to Writing  06:49 Emotional Intelligence: A Key to Success  16:20 Crossroads: Rhonda's Bestseller  20:23 Balancing Life: Insights and Advice  35:36 Conclusion: Embrace Your Unique Journey    https://www.facebook.com/rhonda.parker.967  https://twitter.com/RhondaParkerTa1  https://www.pinterest.com/rhondaparkertaylor/  https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC2RS1n3r_33_Ge90ivqtwpw  https://www.instagram.com/rhondaparkertaylor/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhondaparkertaylor/  https://www.tiktok.com/@authorrhondaparkertaylor  

Cristina Ritter is an attorney-at-law specialized in business administration with a professional career of 20 years in both the United Nations and the private sector. She is currently the Head of Governance and Anti-Corruption at the UN Global Compact. Prior to this position, Ms. Ritter worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since 2014, where she provided technical assistance in various continents on the international standards and tools to address corruption and money laundering, while engaging in international cooperation and asset recovery. Over the years, she was designated Global Coordinator of the Integrity Component of CRIMJUST, a UNODC flagship programme against drug-trafficking, she became responsible for the Americas at the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch (CEB) and served as Regional Anti-Corruption Advisor twice. In this context, she engaged with chambers of commerce, compliance associations, private sector entities and companies in over twenty countries to promote business integrity. She also fostered private-public dialogue, achieving the adoption of multiple policies, legal frameworks and national anti-corruption strategies.

"Gently shoving elephants" (in case you're scratching your head), is a metaphor for the work Phil and I are doing in supporting purpose-driven business transformation. But before we get into that, I'm excited to introduce you to my collaborator-in-purpose, Phil Preston. Phil helps leaders and teams navigate change with purpose so they can respond to the powerful forces impacting their organisations. After leading high-performance teams in corporate roles, he went out on his own and spent time in Boston with Harvard leaders in the business purpose field. Since then he's worked with more than a hundred clients across all sectors as a speaker, strategist and facilitator. Phil's the author of Connecting Profit with Purpose and was recently featured in The CEO Magazine, CPA's InTheBlack and the AFR report on purpose in business. In this episode, Phil shares his journey from corporate roles to becoming a strategist and speaker, working with over 100 clients across sectors to connect profit with purpose. He emphasises the importance of genuine care in business, reflecting on his own transition from a corporate career to pursuing purposeful work. Phil discusses the concept of Shared Value, illustrating how businesses can address societal challenges while benefiting commercially. He shares insights from his experience, including his time with Harvard leaders in the business purpose field, and highlights how organisations can leverage purpose to navigate today's fast-paced, change-driven environment. We touch on the UN Global Goals and the research the UN Global Compact has done on the market opportunity represented by these goals - valued at, at least US$12 trillion. Later in the episode, we share our collaboration, aiming to support purpose-driven leaders in transforming their organisations. We discuss the challenges these leaders face and share our vision to create a community where like-minded individuals can share experiences and strategies to accelerate their purpose journey. The episode concludes with Phil's vision for the future, focusing on expanding our impact and fostering the next generation of purpose-driven leaders.   Connect with Phil Phil Preston on Linkedin Phil's website  Learn about Phil and Carolyn's solutions for purpose-led leaders  

The United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, will officially launch its Ireland Country Network this November at an exclusive event. The event will gather senior representatives from business, government, academia, and civil society to explore how the Irish corporate sector can implement ambitious changes towards a more sustainable future. This launch coincides with the introduction of new sustainability compliance regulations in Ireland aimed at encouraging meaningful and sustainable business practices. The event will be headlined by Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Global Compact, and will take place on the afternoon of 28th November 2024 at Dublin's Exo Building. High-level representatives from prominent Irish organisations, including An Post, DAA, Smurfit Kappa, Ryanair, ICON plc, and AIB, will also be in attendance to discuss how businesses can align with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Founded in 2000, the UN Global Compact calls on companies worldwide to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption. To date, over 24,000 signatories across 160 nations have committed to responsible business conduct and strategic actions that advance the SDGs. In Ireland, the focus is on accelerating corporate engagement beyond regulatory compliance towards sustainability-driven actions that deliver true value through profitability and longevity. Nessa Whelan, United Nations Global Compact Ireland Country Manager, highlights the significance of the launch: "The official launch of the Network in Ireland marks a groundbreaking milestone towards driving positive sustainable change. New participants can expect to join like-minded organisations that will advance their business beyond mere compliance, creating lasting value and fostering profitability through sustainability." The launch of the Forward Faster initiative will also be announced at the event. This global platform provides businesses with clear guidance on where they can make the most significant and rapid impact towards the 2030 SDG deadline. With only 17% of the Goals currently on track, the initiative stresses the urgent need for both public and private sectors to accelerate purposeful change. Attendance at the Network launch event is by invitation only, but requests for attendance are being considered. Like-minded business leaders interested in making a meaningful contribution to sustainability are encouraged to express their interest by contacting ireland@unglobalcompact.org. For further information, visit unglobalcompact.org and follow UNGC Ireland on LinkedIn.

Abiodun Williams is Professor of the Practice of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and The Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.  He was Director of Strategic Planning to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon and is past Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).  His latest book is “Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations.” Annan was a proactive leader who launched monumental programs that improved the UN, such as the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Global Compact and the Millennium Development Goals, which were the precursors to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Annan was also a transformational visionary who strengthened UN peacekeeping and involved academia, NGOs and the private sector in helping overcome many international problems. Annan was quite accurate in his critique of President Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq.

This month on the Future in Sound podcast we speak to world renowned thought leader on corporate responsibility and sustainability, Georg Kell. Chairman of Arabesque Group, a technology company that uses AI and big data to assess sustainability performance relevant for investment analysis and decision making, Georg also advises business executives worldwide on sustainability and transformation issues. He was also the founding Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative.Drawing on his extensive experience, and almost three decades at the United Nations, Georg discusses the origins and lasting impact of the UN Global Compact, the importance of understanding both cyclical and enduring trends in shaping investment decisions, and the pivotal role of technology, particularly AI, in driving impactful change within businesses and investment strategies.Related links: Sustainable Investing A Path to a New Horizon, edited by Herman Bril, Georg Kell, Andreas Rasche Strategies of Commitment by Thomans SchellingHomo Ludens by Johan HuizingaClick here for the episode web page.For more insights straight to your inbox subscribe to the Future in Sight newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram This podcast is brought to you by Re:Co, a tech-powered advisory company helping private market investors pursue sustainability objectives and value creation in tandem. Produced by Chris AttawayArtwork by Harriet RichardsonMusic by Cody Martin

Dr Achieng Ojwang is the Executive Director of Global Compact Network South Africa, a position she has held since April 2018. During this time, Dr Ojwang has re-established the Network as a formidable independent organisation and continues to raise the visibility of the UN Global Compact brand in South Africa. Watch the full podcast on YouTube

Simon Davis is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of SEADLING, a seaweed biotechnology startup, that has been leading innovation in the seaweed sector in South East Asia since 2018. Simon has been active in the seaweed industry for 8 years, serves on the advisory board of UN Global Compact's Safe Seaweed Coalition and is a passionate advocate for the pivotal role that seaweed will play as a source of new materials for a sustainable future whilst combatting carbon and restoring abundance to our oceans. * Check out ⁠⁠Inside Seaweed Newsletter⁠⁠! Just one short email per month, no spam and you can cancel at any time. Would you like to get a super short email from me every month, with three actionable insights for your seaweed business? I will search the seaweed industry for the most important lessons, the most useful conclusions and relevant actions, condensed into a half page that I will share with you, each month. It's easy to sign up and just as easy to cancel. If you'd like to give it a try, head over to ⁠⁠insideseaweed.com ⁠⁠ * 01:01 - Simon's Career Break and Sailing Journey 02:05 - Discovering Seaweed During Travels 03:46 - Simon's Deep Dive into the Seaweed Industry 05:08 - The State of Seaweed Farming in Southeast Asia 07:44 - Innovation Gaps in the Seaweed Industry 08:05 - Comparing Asia vs. Europe/North America 09:37 - The Scale and Potential of Seaweed Farming in Southeast Asia 10:09 - Opportunities for Innovation 11:02 - Exploring New Seaweed Species and Applications 11:56 - The Role of Local and International Stakeholders 12:57 - Bridging the Gap between East and West 14:08 - Learning from China 15:24 - The Future of Seaweed Cultivation 16:18 - The Potential of Equatorial Seaweed Farming 17:10 - Lessons from Asia 18:00 - The Importance of Diversification in Seaweed Products 19:11 - Seedling's Focus on Pet Food Ingredients 20:36 - The Role of Seaweed in Animal Feed and Biostimulants 21:22 - The Future Directions of the Seaweed Industry 22:13 - Opportunities for Entrepreneurs 23:01 - Simon's Call for Talent at Seedling 24:05 - Avoiding Past Mistakes in Seaweed Industry Development 25:06 - The Need for Diversification and Resilience 26:02 - Potential Contributions from Global Entrepreneurs 27:42 - The Challenges of Innovating in Southeast Asia 29:30 - The Importance of Expanding into more Applications 30:14 - Quality Standards and Certifications 31:18 - Seedling's Approach to Innovation 32:06 - Developing Seaweed-Based Products 33:22 - Seedling's Farming Partnerships and Supply Chain 34:06 - Research and Innovation in Tropical Seaweeds 36:16 - The Importance of Building Relationships in Asia 37:37 - Seedling's Focus on Pet Food and Biostimulants 38:58 - Seedling's Product Development and Market Expansion 40:19 - Exploring New Seaweed Species and Varieties 41:07 - The Potential of Red Seaweeds 42:05 - Opportunities in Red Seaweed Applications 43:27 - Encouraging Global Entrepreneurs to Explore Red Seaweeds 44:08 - Seedling's Call for Talent Across Various Roles 45:21 - How to Connect with Seedling * Useful Links: Simon Davis on LinkedIn SEADLING: Website, LinkedIn and Email * Get in touch on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, or by emailing me directly at fed@insideseaweed.com - Please send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think!

Andreas Rasche, Professor at the Centre for Sustainability at Copenhagen Business School, joins host and Position Green Executive Chair Joachim Nahem for this latest episode. – How can companies turn the perceived burden of ESG reporting into a benefit? And does sustainability performance actually pay at the end of the day? Acclaimed thought leader Andreas Rasche shares unique insights on the shifting compliance landscape and how sustainability is being talked about behind boardroom doors. As ESG moves further into the hard law domain, can a proactive mindset in the boardroom be the key to unlocking long-term business value?   About Andreas Rasche Andreas is a Professor of Business in Society at the Centre for Sustainability, Copenhagen Business School, where he conducts research and teaching on corporate sustainability with a focus on ESG, governance and sustainable finance. He also serves as Associate Dean for the CBS Full-Time MBA program. Andreas has worked for and collaborated with the UN Global Compact on a number of projects, and he currently serves as Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly. Read more at http://www.arasche.com/

Jesteś małym przedsiębiorcą i czujesz ulgę, że raport ESG Cię nie dotyczy? My, trochę na przekór, chcemy tą rozmową zachęcić Was do tego, żeby podejmować eko-działania, nawet małe, i drobnymi krokami przechodzić na zieloną stronę mocy. Gościni: Aleksandra Majda - właścicielka agencji Go Green, specjalistka ds. zrównoważonego rozwoju, członkini stowarzyszenia ESG Impact Network i UN Global Compact. Wydawczyni: Katarzyna Pilarska Produkcja: Studio Plac Producentka: Dominika Tchórzewska Realizacja nagrania: Maciej Młynarczyk Montaż: Jędrzej Mierzejewski

The right to development enables individuals and communities to actively participate in and benefit from various forms of development — economic, social, cultural, and political — while ensuring their human rights and freedoms. It involves a range of responsibilities, including the roles of states, multinational companies, NGOs, businesses, and educational institutions. Central to this right are principles of self-determination, intersectionality, intergenerational equity, and fair distribution, aiming for inclusive, diverse, and sustainable development. The shift towards a rights-based development framework is evident in initiatives like the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Bridgetown Initiative. Additionally, the role of businesses in this context is guided by frameworks like the UN Global Compact and the Business and Human Rights Guiding Principles, moving beyond the traditional "do no harm" approach. Despite its significance, the right to development faces challenges and legal critiques regarding its implementation and necessity.Surya Deva is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development and a Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University, Australia. @ProfSuryaDeva @UNSRdevelopmentResources:Declaration on the right to development (1986)Reinvigorating the right to development: A vision for the future (report submitted to the Human Rights Council, August 2023)Role of business in realizing the right to development (July 2023)Key highlightsIntroduction – 00:24The right to development and its added value– 03:46The value of binding conventions versus non-binding declarations– 09:25Why the judiciary often prioritizes civil and political rights – 15:16Legalization of the right and the role of the courts in upholding binding conventions– 26:18Has the definition of the right to development been overly broadened or inflated? – 31:31The Global North perspective and the role of businesses – 40:23  HostProfessor Dan Banik (@danbanik @GlobalDevPod)Apple Google Spotify YouTubeSubscribe: https://globaldevpod.substack.com/

In this episode we got to sit down with David Cooperrider and Lindsey Godwin to hear about their work with the UN Global Compact and how they apply the Appreciative Inquiry approach. We take a deep dive into their experience using a dialogic process to bring leaders from across industries to work together towards a common goal – to create a sustainable world where all humans can flourish.    For more information on the initiative that Lindsay and David discussed visit the UN Global Compact. To learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, check out the AI practitioner journal, and find additional resources available through the Fowler Center at Case Western and the Cooperrider Center at Champlain.   Have a question, comment, or a recommendation for a perfect guest? Please email us at TransformationHorizon@gmail.com.    Enjoying the podcast? Subscribe to our Patreon: https://patreon.com/TransformationHorizonPodcast   #ODHorizonStories  

In this episode of the New York City Bar Association podcast, members of the United Nations Committee – Shubha Chandra, Yveline Dalmacy, Karl Fisher and Sophia Murashkovsky Romma – discuss the Association's recent membership in the UN Global Compact. The conversation touches upon the Global Compact's mission, its fundamental principles, and the broader implications of the partnership for the Bar Association and its members. Ensuring respect for justice, human rights, corporate sustainability, and adhering to the rule of law are important aspects underlined in the discussion. The episode also elaborates on the potential benefits for members such as access to diverse training on corporate sustainability. Access a transcript of this episode here: https://bityl.co/MSo7

The teams sits down with Johannah Christensen to discuss regulatory policies and risk mitigation for vessel owners switching to green fuels and what we can do to encourage that jump as well as ensure a Just Transition. About Global Maritime Forum (GMF):GMF is an international not-for-profit organisation committed to shaping the future of global seaborne trade to increase sustainable long-term economic development and human wellbeing.About the Getting to Zero Coalition (GTZ):GTZ is a collaboration-based platform committed to fully decarbonising the maritime industry by 2050. The industry-led coalition consists of leading stakeholders from across the maritime and fuels value chains, the financial sector and more. It is managed by the Global Maritime Forum and was founded together with the World Economic Forum and Friends of Ocean Action in 2019.About Johannah Christensen:Johannah is the CEO of GMF. In the past, Christensen worked as Head of Development at Danish Maritime Days and was an independent sustainability and partnership development consultant working for clients such as A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Global Reporting Initiative, MCI Group, Wonderful Copenhagen and UN Global Compact.--Links:GMF Website - https://www.globalmaritimeforum.orgGMF LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/globalmaritimeforum/Getting to Zero Coalition Website - https://www.globalmaritimeforum.org/getting-to-zero-coalitionInternational Maritime Organization (IMO) - https://www.imo.org/

Shane Totten Discusses Mannington Mills' Decision to Support the UN Global Compact by Floor Focus Magazine

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina ambapo Jacqueline Woiso, Mkurugenzi Mwendeshaji wa Multichoice Tanzania anafafanua ni malengo yapi ya Maendeleo Endelevu yaliyoipa Multichoice Tanzania Ushindi wa Tuzo ya UN Global Compact. Pia tunakuletea habari kwa ufupi zikiwemo ripoti ya hali ya hewa, jaribio la kutaka kutwaa madaraka kijeshi nchini Niger na uhifadhi wa bioanuwai barani Afrika. Katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili tunakuletea maana ya neno “NDOFYA". Kufuatia ripoti iliyotolewa leo na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Hali ya hewa WMO kwa kushirikiana na lile la Kamisheni ya Muungano wa Ulaya ambayo imethibitisha kuwa mwezi huu wa Julai utavunja rekodi ya dunia ya kuwa na joto kali ulimwenguni kote,  Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa Antonio Guterres amesema takwimu hizi mpya ni uthibitisho kuwa ubinadamu umeketi katika kiti cha moto na kwamba lazima hatua zichukuliwe haraka.Tukitoka Marekani tuelekee Geneva Uswisi ambako Kamishna Mkuu wa Haki za Binadamu wa Umoja wa Mataifa Volker Türk ameshtushwa, amehuzunishwa na kulaani vikali jaribio la kutaka kutwaa madaraka kijeshi nchini Niger lililofanyika hapo jana.Na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Chakula na Kilimo FAO limekaribisha mchango wa zaidi ya dola milioni 27 uliotolewa na Muungano wa Ulaya kwa ajili ya utekelezaji wa miradi ya uhifadhi wa bioanuwai barani Afrika.Na Leo katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili nampisha Dkt. Mwanahija Ally Juma Katibu Mtendaji wa Baraza la Kiswahili la Zanzibar, BAKIZA akitufafanualia maana ya neno “NDOFYA".Mwenyeji wako ni Assumpta Massoi, karibu!

Soji Apampa co-founded The Convention on Business Integrity in 1997. He is an Executive Director for the Convention on Business Integrity and also serves as a Consultant on CBi projects. Mr. Apampa has served as a Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact on the 10th Principle (anti-corruption) and consultant to the Inter-Agency Task Team of the Federal Republic of Nigeria tasked with the responsibility of developing a National Strategy to Combat Corruption. In his role as a consultant, Mr. Apampa has carried out numerous assignments for international organizations including the World Bank, DFID, UNDP, UN Global Compact, Heinrich Boell Foundation and many others. Mr. Apampa has also worked in various roles in engineering, business and computing between 1987 and 2007. He was Managing Director of SAP Nigeria Ltd, and Regional Manager (West Africa), for SAP where he worked for 8 years since early 1999 championing ICT-supported governance reforms. Mr. Apampa graduated with a B.Eng. (Hons) in Civil & Structural Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 1987 and holds an MSc. in Governance & Finance from Liverpool John Moores University (2008) where he was member of faculty on the Corporate Governance Masters Programme at the European Center for Corporate Governance for one year. His research interests are in the area of Corporate Compliance and Political Economy Analyses in which he has led numerous, successful research projects. We spoke to him on his thought on The Role of Integrity & Ethics in Nigeria's Governance.

For World Ocean Day, Gaia Vince finds out how the planet's seas could help us to generate clean power, capture CO2 and feed the world. Gaia is joined in the studio by science journalist and marine biologist Olive Heffernan. She dives into the controversy regarding the potential of mining in deep oceans and discusses whether the seas could become the location for Industrial Revolution 2.0. We're used to seeing seaweed wrapped around our sushi rolls but it's so much more than that. As well as being a tasty addition to what we eat, seaweed plays a vital role in absorbing CO2. Gaia speaks to Vincent Doumeizel, a senior adviser on oceans to the UN Global Compact; he's also the food programme director at the UK-based charity Lloyd's Register Foundation. He's confident that seaweed could enable us to sustainably feed a growing global population in the coming decades. Phytoplankton – microscopic species of algae that exist on the surface of the sea – also absorb huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Sir David King, founder and chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and former chief scientific adviser to the UK Government has the radical idea that artificial whale poo could boost phytoplankton growth, leading to an increase in fish stocks and, consequently, improved biodiversity in the oceans. He tells Gaia about his project and the potential it has for carbon capture. When we think of energy generation from the oceans, we tend to think of offshore technology such as wind turbines. But what about generating electricity using the water itself? Gaia speaks to Eco Wave Power's Inna Braverman who reveals how her project harnesses the power of the waves by attaching to existing coastal structures such as piers and jetties, to provide a source of clean, renewable energy. Presenter: Gaia Vince Producer: Hannah Fisher Content Producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Editor: Richard Collings

Prof. Ulrike Klinger, Professor for Digital Democracy at the European New School for Digital Studies at European University Viadrina, shares her latest research on negative campaigning on social media. We discuss some of the challenges in studying digital communication in the EU, as well as what explains a rise in negative campaigning across two European Parliament elections. Prof. Klinger also shares her research on the UN Global Compact for Migration, where extremist ideas from the Identitarian movement were picked up by the mainstream media. Lastly, we discuss Prof. Klinger's suggestions for increasing researcher data access ahead of the Digital Services Act. Here are links to the studies discussed in the episode:  Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns (2023)From the fringes into mainstream politics: intermediary networks and movement-party coordination of a global anti-immigration campaign in Germany (2022)Delegated Regulation on Data Access Provided for the Digital Services Act (2023)Political Communication Special Issue: Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres (2023)

Allein im Februar verzeichneten in Europa nachhaltige, sogenannte ESG-ETFs Zuflüsse in Höhe von 4,7 Milliarden US-Dollar. Nachhaltigkeit ist also ein Mega-Trend bei der Kapitalanlage – doch die Umsetzung ist alles andere als einfach. Diffuse Kriterien, Intransparenz und mangelnde Vergleichbarkeit sind nur einige Stichworte, mit den sich die Investorinnen und Investoren herumschlagen müssen. Seit Januar gelten nun mit der zweiten Stufe der EU-Offenlegungs-Verordnung noch strengere Regeln für nachhaltige Fonds. Was das alles für grüne bzw. nachhaltige ETFs bedeutet und was es mit den Artikeln 6, 8 und 9 bei der Fondsauswahl zu tun hat, hören Sie von Karl Matthäus Schmidt, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Quirin Privatbank AG und Gründer der digitalen Geldanlage quirion, in dieser Podcast-Folge. Dazu beantwortet er folgende Fragen: • Wie findet der CEO den nachhaltigen Trend? (1:15) • Was bedeutet ESG? Was sind ESG-ETFs? (2:09) • Wie funktionieren ESG-ETFs – anders als traditionelle ETFs? (4:13) • Arbeitet die Quirin Privatbank mit einem bestimmten nachhaltigen Anbieter zusammen? Welche ESG-Abstufungen und Punktesysteme gibt es in dem Bereich? (5:19) • Worin unterscheiden sich nachhaltige ETFs von herkömmlichen? (6:43) • Mittlerweile gibt es eine Klassifizierung der Fonds nach Artikel 6, 8 und 9. Wie kann das Anlegerinnen und Anlegern bei der Auswahl helfen? (7:55) • Wann gilt ein ETF als nachhaltig? Wie findet man gute, nachhaltige ETFs im riesigen Fonds-Universum? (10:17) • Wie wählt die Quirin Privatbank nachhaltige Fonds aus? (11:18) • Wie kann man sicher sein, dass in nachhaltigen Fonds nur saubere Unternehmen drin sind und keine Gas- oder Atomkonzerne? (13:07) • Wie bewertet Schmidt die nachhaltige Einstufung von Gas- und Atomkonzernen? (13:47) • Was gibt es für Ausschlusskriterien? (14:50) • Wirken sich die Ausschlüsse negativ auf die Performance aus? (15:45) • Wie geht die Quirin Privatbank mit dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Diversifizierung um? (16:56) • Wie viele Unternehmen hat die Quirin Privatbank in ihrem Portfolio? (18:07) • Geht grün und rentabel? Gibt es dazu Studien oder andere Erkenntnisse? (18:37) • Warum braucht es noch klassische ETFs, wenn man auch breit gestreut nachhaltig in den globalen Aktienmarkt investieren kann? (19:04) • Bleiben nachhaltige ETFs in Zeiten von Krieg, Inflation und hohen Energiekosten wichtig? (20:18) • Wie versucht Schmidt im Alltag nachhaltiger zu leben? (20:47) Weil wir trotz unseres Nachhaltigkeitsanspruchs eine breite Streuung für unabdingbar halten, bewegen wir uns mit unserer Systematik im Bereich der Artikel 8 Fonds. Konkret schließen wir auf Indexebene schon einige Unternehmen kategorisch aus. Wenn es um Atomwaffen, Landminen und Streumunition geht, machen auch wir keine Kompromisse. Das Gleiche gilt für Unternehmen, die sich dem sogenannten Global Compact der Vereinten Nationen verweigern. Anschließend schauen wir bei der Portfoliokonstruktion auf die ESG-Bewertung und den CO2-Ausstoß. Das Ganze wird dann so austariert, dass wir zwischen diesen beiden Nachhaltigkeitszielen einerseits und Risikostreuung andererseits eine optimale Positionierung finden. In unserem Nachhaltigkeitsportfolio mit Aktien sind aktuell gut 3.000 Unternehmen vertreten – ausreichend genug, um ein gutes Rendite-Risiko-Verhältnis zu erreichen. Mehr Informationen finden Sie unter: https://www.quirinprivatbank.de/nachhaltige-geldanlage Darüber hinaus empfehlen wir Ihnen den nachhaltigen Fonds-Check. Dieser beantwortet Ihnen u. a., wie hoch der CO2-Fußabdruck Ihres Fonds-Portfolios ist und ob Sie mir Ihrer aktuellen Anlagestrategie mehr Risiken eingehen als nötig. Jetzt kostenlos Gutachten anfordern: https://www.quirinprivatbank.de/fonds-check Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften zum Schutz und Erhalt unseres Klimas und unserer Umwelt ist und bleibt ein wichtiges, wenn nicht sogar DAS Top-Thema unserer Zeit. Dabei ist der Weg hin zu einer besseren Welt oft steinig und von kontroversen Diskussionen geprägt. Zudem gibt es immer mehr fragwürdige „grüne Angebote“, wie man sein Geld nachhaltig anlegen kann, sodass zunehmend der Begriff Greenwashing die Runde macht. Wie nachhaltiges Investieren funktionieren kann – ohne auf Greenwashing hereinzufallen, erfahren Sie in dieser Podcast-Folge: Folge 105: Nachhaltig investieren - wie umgeht man die Greenwashing-Falle? https://www.quirinprivatbank.de/podcast/podcast-folge-105 _______________________

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Christian Römlein, CEO und Managing Partner von Intelligent Fluids, über die erfolgreich abgeschlossene Series-B-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 10 Millionen Euro.Intelligent Fluids entwickelt grüne Chemie, um die toxischen Lösemittel in der industriellen Reinigung zu ersetzen. Die Lösungen des DeepTechs versprechen eine signifikante Reduktion von CO2-Emissionen, Energiekosten und Materialeinsatz. Dadurch werden die ESG-Bilanzen von Kunden aus instandhaltungsintensiven Branchen wie z.B. Mikroelektronik, Druckindustrie sowie der Öl- und Gas-Industrie verbessert. Die innovativen Produkte des Startups basieren auf einer patentierten Technologie, die sanfte Inhaltsstoffe zu hochdynamischen physikalisch wirkenden Fluiden kombiniert. Damit unterstützt Intelligent Fluids 10 Nachhaltigkeitsziele der Vereinten Nationen. Das Unternehmen ist Mitglied des BVMW und des UN Global Compact und ist vielfach ausgezeichnet worden. Zuletzt erhielt das DeepTech die Auszeichnung “Unternehmen des Jahres 2022” und den “Business Hero Award für Nachhaltigkeit 2022”. Intelligent Fluids wurde im Jahr 2006 von Christian Römlein und Dirk Schumann in Leipzig gegründet.In einer Series B hat das DeepTech-Unternehmen nun 10 Millionen Euro unter der Führung des US-Nachhaltigkeitsfonds Wave Equity Partners eingesammelt. Das Leipziger Startup möchte das frische Kapital dazu verwenden, das Team zu verstärken, Vertriebsstrukturen aufzubauen, sowie die Produktion auszubauen. Gleichzeitig plant das Unternehmen, sukzessive internationale Produktions- und Vertriebsgesellschaften zu gründen. Dabei stehen insbesondere die Regionen Europa, USA, Indien, MENA und Taiwan im Vordergrund.

Dr. Jill Goldenziel is a professor at the National Defense University-College of Information and Cyberspace and a speaker, consultant, and arbitrator. At NDU-CIC, she teaches courses in International and Constitutional Law, Leadership, Strategy, Lawfare, and Information Warfare to senior civilian and military leaders from the United States and allied and partner nations. She is a Forbes.com contributor on National Security. She has spoken at the United Nations and dozens of events throughout the world. Dr. Goldenziel's award-winning scholarship focuses on international law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law, human rights, refugees and migration, lawfare, and information warfare. Dr. Goldenziel is in the top 10 percent of most-downloaded authors on the Social Science Research Network, making her one of the most widely-read social scientists in the world. She is working on a book on how politicization of refugee crises threatens national security, an article on lawfare and Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing (IUU F), an essay on leadership and gender that builds on her popular TEDx talk, and several projects on the use of law as a weapon of war. In 2022, NATO ACO/SHAPE Legal Office awarded her the Serge Lazareff Prize for her work as a scholar-practitioner of legal operations (lawfare). Since 2016, Dr. Goldenziel has participated in High-Level Meetings related to the UN Global Compact for Migration and its implementation, including speaking alongside world leaders before 164 UN Member-States at the Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact in Marrakech, speaking at the 2018 Inter-Parliamentary Union/UN Annual Inter-Parliamentary Hearings, and submitting draft language for the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Global Compact for Migration. She spoke as the primary representative from academia at the 2022 UN International Migration Review Forum. We get into: Dr. Goldenziel's family background in law and her decision to pursue a legal career Her work teaching the Law of War at the Marine Corps University and National Defense University The importance of her current position for learning and growth Her research on the Iraqi Refugee crisis and its impact on national security The need for an international agreement to protect people fleeing war and violence not covered by the refugee convention Participating intenational policy making at the UN Global Compact for Migration The positive international view on migration versus the negative perception in the United States The power of data in combating fear around migration Dr. Goldenziel's advice for young adults on keeping an open mind and getting clear on what you want in your career Check out her website to learn more www.JillGoldenziel.com Follow her on Instagram @JillGoldenziel Follow her on Twitter @JillGoldenziel Connect with her on LinkedIn Jill Goldenziel ------------------------------------------- Follow us on Instagram @LifeCuriousWomen Follow our host @AshleyNadineLopez --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ashley-nadine-lopez/support

In their book Sustainability, Technology, and Finance: Rethinking How Markets Integrate ESG, Georg Kell and Andreas Rasche explore the swiftly emerging and crucially important nexus among sustainability, finance, and technology.Kell is Chairman of the tech company Arabesque, which uses AI and data to assess sustainability performance and guide investments. He is also founder of the UN Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. Rasche is a professor of business in society and Associate Dean of Copenhagen Business School. Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of BCG Henderson Institute, they discuss the bleeding edge of sustainability thinking.ESG investment, Kell and Rasche explain, should be viewed through three lenses as they relate to technology. First, technological innovations, such as chemical recycling for plastics, shape firms' ESG performance. Second, technological developments enable investors to assess ESG performance more accurately (for example, the use of blockchain tech to enhance supply chain transparency). Finally, the ESG investment agenda itself is influenced by technology; consider that Bitcoin mining creates significant emissions. Based on this three-lens framework, Kell and Rasche explain how technology can be a critical part of the sustainability solution.***About the BCG Henderson InstituteThe BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group's think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. For more ideas and inspiration, sign up to receive BHI INSIGHTS, our monthly newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Nchini Tanzania Mpango wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa kushirikisha kampuni kuzingatia será na misingi endelevu na inayojali jamii, au kwa kiingereza UN Global Compact Tanzania umeanza kuona mabadiliko katika kushirikisha kampuni kuzingatia misingi 7 ya kumwezesha mwanamke kwenye sekta ya biashara.Jijini Dar es salaam, mji mkuu wa kibiashara wa Tanzania nashiriki kwenye tukio la Gonga Kengele kwa usawa wa jinsia, mwezi huu wa Machi ambao unamulika masuala ya wanawake. Tukio limeandaliwa na UN Global Compact Tanzania na Mkurugenzi wake Masha Makatta akaeleza sababu. Akimaanisha gonga kengele kwa usawa wa kijinsia katika taifa hili ambalo takwimu za mwaka 2019 kutoka Ofisi ya Taifa ya Takwimu, NBS zinaonesha ni asilimia 18 tu ya wataalamu walioajiriwa katika Sayansi na Uhandisi ni wanawake. Bi. Makatta akaelezea walichojumuisha kwenye tukio la mwaka huu kwa lengo la kumjumuisha mwanamke. Na je kulikuwa na mafanikio yoyote? Kwa Women Empowerment Principles anamaanisha Kanuni za Uwezeshaji mwanamka ambazo kwa mujibu wa UN Global Compact ziko 7 na miongoni mwao ni kuendeleza elimu, mafunzo na ueledi kwa wanawake. Mratibu Mkazi wa Umoja wa Mataifa nchini Tanzania Zlatan Milišić, akanieleza hatua ya muda mrefu itakayomuinua zaidi mtoto wa kike, “Umoja wa Mataifa nchini Tanzania una miradi mbalimbali inayoelekea kwenye vipaumbele tofauti vya kazi zetu zinazogusa wanawake. Kuna ambayo ni mahsusi kwa wanawake kwa minajili kwamba hatutaki waachwe nyuma katika maeneo fulani. Lakini mingine ni ya jumla lakini bila shaka inapatia kipaumbele wanawake pale ambako idadi yao ni ndogo.” 

Hii leo jaridani tunaangazia hitimisho la ziara ya Baraza la Usalama DRC na UN Global Compact Tanzania. Makala tutasalia tunakurejesha hap makao makuu katika mkutano wa CSW67 na mashinani tunasalia hapa hapa makao makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa.Wajumbe wa Baraza la Usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa wametamatisha ziara yao ya siku tatu nchini Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC iliyolenga kujadili kwa kina majukumu ya ujumbe wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa kulinda amani nchini humo, MONUSCO halikadhalika kujionea hali halisi ya amani na usalama.Nchini Tanzania Mpango wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa kushirikisha kampuni kuzingatia será na misingi endelevu na inayojali jamii, au kwa kiingereza UN Global Compact Tanzania umeanza kuona mabadiliko katika kushirikisha kampuni kuzingatia misingi 7 ya kumwezesha mwanamke kwenye sekta ya biashara.Makala inaturejesha hapa Makao makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa ambako mkutano wa kamisheni ya hali ya wanawake duniani SCW iumeingia wiki ya pili na Flora Nducha wa Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Umoja wa Mataifa amepata fursa ya kuzungumza na mbunge anayewakilisha asasi za kiraia kutoka Tanzania Neema Lugangira ambaye anashiriki mkutano huo wa kikao cha 67 kuhusu mada kuu ya kikao hicho ubunifu na teknolojia katika kusongesha mbele maendeleo ya wanawake akitaka kufahamu suala hilo linapewa uzito gani Tanzania.Na mashinani tutasikia ujumbe kuhusu unyanyasaji wa kijinsia utokanao na  mfumo dume ambao bado  umesalia kuwa kikwazo cha maendeleo katika nchi nyingi duniani.Mwenyeji wako ni Assumpta Massoi, karibu!

Interview with Tim Harrison, Managing Director of Ionic Rare Earths Ltd. (ASX: IXR)Ionic Rare Earths Ltd. is an Australian mineral exploration and development company focused on advancing its flagship Makuutu Rare Earths project towards production. The project consists of approximately five licenses covering approximately 242 km2 and is located 120 km east of the capital city of Kampala in eastern Uganda. The project mineralisation is primarily clay-type Rare Earth Element (REE) mineralization. The company is a member of the UN Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative.

Bodhi Patil is a young ocean climate solutionist passionate about the interconnection between Ocean Health and Human Health. Here he talks to Kat Byles about his connection to the Ocean and how serving the Ocean is always serving ourselves.    More about Bodhi:   He is the founder of Inner Light, co-creator of @oceanuprise, co-founder of Sea Dragon Studios - One World Breath, co-winner of the UN Oceans Conference Youth & Innovation Forum, and United Nations esteemed young leader, supporting young people to create impact at scale. He is the Chief Impact Officer at OnDeck Fisheries AI, and a Youth Advisor at World Ocean Day and Break Free from Plastic Pollution. He is actively working on a Meaningful Youth Ocean-Climate Action strategy with various UN constituencies, UN Global Compact and youth partners. He is also a second-year student in the BA + Masters of Management program at the University of British Columbia studying oceans, climate action, and business. Here's how you can connect with Bodhi: https://linktr.ee/bodhip    

In this episode of The Business of Non-Profits, we speak with Holly Smithson, CEO of Athena, about approaching a non-profit as a business endeavor. She'll speak candidly about what works for her and what sharing proven philosophies to lead a successful business entity.   AthenaSTEMWomen.org  Blueprint For Success Podcast  Member Experience  Lifting While Climbing Summit Registration     00:29 Stacey Lund: Hello and welcome back to the Business of nonprofits. With me today is Holly Smithson, the CEO of Athena. Athena is an organization with a mission to advance women in STEM leadership to 1 million strong by 2030. Holly is a voracious supporter of strong business skills within nonprofits, and we are so happy to speak with her today. Holly, thanks for joining us. 00:53 Holly Smithson: Well, thank you, Stacey. I'm excited to be here. And congratulations on the launch of your new podcast. 01:01 Stacey Lund: Thank you. Holly, you've had leadership roles like Athena is not your first rodeo, so talk to us a little bit about your leadership at other nonprofits and kind of the journey that you think nonprofit leadership takes. You've had an evolution, so talk a little bit about that. 01:15 Holly Smithson: Yeah, I've been really fortunate here in the great state of California, where there's a high volume of advocacy groups and sort of community groups that bond together in pursuit of a common agenda. And I have been fortunate enough to lead a couple of those in the space of life sciences, clean technology, and now women's leadership, specifically in the fields of STEM. And each of those organizations have a pretty successful track record. We know that on average, 90% of nonprofits will fail within their first few years, in large part because there's not a strategic plan or there's just some leadership deficiencies. So been really blessed and really fortunate to have these opportunities and these platforms to support these industry clusters. 02:03 Stacey Lund: That's amazing. So would you say and I mean, you're in an organization now that really is teaching leadership in a lot of ways, right? Harnessing your inner leadership skills is your evolution, or do you feel like nonprofit leadership and the focus on strategy and business skills, do you feel like that's kind of a tandem path to teaching women in STEM how to be better leaders? Is it the same trajectory that nonprofit leaders just don't really realize kind of what skills they need? Or what do you think the deficiency is? 02:38 Holly Smithson: I like your question, and here's why. Because we in the nonprofit industry for a long time had this false narrative that we want to show that we have spent very little of your donor money on overhead when all that does is perpetuate this race to the bottom mentality. And they know that it takes money to make money. So, the idea that you are going to communicate a business philosophy that you can spend the very least amount of money to drive an impact. When in fact, what you actually need to do is take some of the donor's money and put it back into the mission. Into the organization. Into technology. Into talent development. Professional development. And so that's why you see these really nasty numbers where 90% of these nonprofits fail in the first few years. What donors really want is what is the impact based on your budget. 03:36 Stacey Lund: Talk a little bit more about that where you mentioned tools and technology. You're going to take your donor dollars and you're going to bolster your infrastructure. about the strategy behind that, and then about data, because I know you love data, and the way to show results is through measurement. And I think it's hard when you have a mission, and you love the mission to even kind of put KPIs in place for success. 04:00 Holly Smithson: For my mindset and because I professionally grew up working on Capitol Hill, working in public policy where accountability is scammed. And so, when I came out to California 15 years ago, my goal and my desire were to do the exact opposite of what they do in the federal government, I wanted to be a part of an organization that had an impact, that actually had outcomes that were measurable, and where everybody was on the same page, and everybody was rowing in the same direction. And we're guided by a set of data that informs us whether we're going in the right direction, whether we're going with the right people, and have the right tools in place to achieve success. And what I found was, obviously, the big data movement occurred within the last 20 years. So, if you in effect don't become a technology company, you will disappear. And the faster you understand and the faster that you're able to respond to those market dynamics, the more valuable you'll be. And that's something that's really been critical to my success, I believe, is being able to understand and see those market dynamics. You've got to have that constant excuse me, connectivity with your clients, right? Let me just give you an example. So, Athena, we've been around. We're celebrating our 25th anniversary next year. We now offer our 50 leadership development programs without boundaries. We were able to become a virtual organization. We need to understand being able to deploy a lot of the new technologies that would allow us to serve our community. We needed to hire in our very small and nimble team, those who have this new technology, proficiencies, and competencies so that we, in effect, can become a data company.  I need to see the data so that we can understand where our investment in our female leaders is leading us. And so being able to understand that that's where companies are today. If they're not investing in their female leaders, if they're not demonstrating that investment in material ways, then guess what? Those managers are going to be hit because of their performance evaluation, which is structured on how we are developing our talent. And so that's a cool opportunity for us to be able to generate the data, not just speak at it anecdotally, but come at it from a very clear dashboard that shows, here are the 50 women in your C suite or your management or your board that have come through our leadership programs. And then the conversation is just data-driven. The vision to be able to communicate using technology in a way that makes all the values and the impact so abundantly clear is where I believe Athena has been successful certainly in the last five years. 06:44 Stacey Lund: So, give me a little more on that. Athena, I know when you came in, right? You really focused. I'm going to call it on the customer success. The product, the data around it, and to show value. How did you do that? 06:58 Holly Smithson: What we did when we first when it first came on five years ago, the year was 2017, and that was the launch of the #metoo campaign. And so suddenly the board of directors at Athena is looking around and we're seeing this uprising and all these stories and all of these anecdotes of discrimination and harassment and biases that suddenly were not just one off. Because of, social media, we have this forever platform where these stories are compounded and become so pervasive that businesses everywhere it was hard to ignore. And so, we saw as an opportunity, as the voice of women in STEM, to not just join the echo chamber, but actually drive the conversation with data and really level set the conversation in a way that could address what we found to be the perception gap. So, if we don't think that women should only have 20% of STEM jobs, then that's not how we see things. Until we bring data to say, hey, if you're okay with 80% of some of the highest wage salary positions in the STEM world going to men, then that's a different conversation. And so, in that shift back in 2017, we started to have this Titanic shift at Athena. Where we wanted to get away from this sort of portfolio of programming on leadership, development, mentoring, networking, sort of the critical recipes for career advancement. When you come at the conversation with data, you're able to have a different conversation and you're able to arrive at more meaningful outcomes. 08:33 Stacey Lund: How much data did you gather yourself versus using studies that were already out? There was a combination. And did you have to bring in a data analyst or walk through that? 08:44 Holly Smithson: Well, so, at our 20th anniversary in 2018, we had our big annual STEM event of the year. And so we partnered with UC San Diego, which birthed Athena 25 years ago, and said, hey, we want to go in and produce an index. We want to have a women and STEM workforce index. We'd like to see how we are doing as a global STEM hub here in Southern California, and then how do we stack against the rest of the nation. And so we basically worked with them. They curated the data. We did it across all STEM fields. And then we broke it down by women in life sciences, women in technology, women in engineering, and then women in leadership positions. So that enabled us to kind of get a handle on where we stood and then how far we needed to go. And with that index, we did that product launch. And at that time we had also launched a partnership with the United Nations Global Compact. And the UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate social responsibility initiative. And in that initiative, it has 17 global goals, and one of them is to achieve gender equality. And so throughout those two initiatives, that was part of our biggest strategic outreach, to become more of an advocate to elevate Athena and obviously our corporate partners in ways that said, we don't have all the answers. We do have shared values. We have the data that tells us we have a ways to go, but we actually want to make this world sustainable. And we understand that the role of gender equality will play in that endeavor. And so now you suddenly have this movement, you have a set of people that are humble, that are informed, and, quite frankly, care more about the outcomes, the long-term outcomes, than just looking at their short-term gain. Some data-driven methodologies that would enable them to modernize their workforce. To recruit more women. To retain more women. To invest in their leadership growth. And then to ultimately drive. You know. The bottom line and their customers and their customer base and their customer loyalty. And so that whole process was, I would say, that was going on from 2018 to 2020 until the Pandemic hit. And so that was a huge evolution for Athena. And now we're this global entity that is widely respected and regarded as somebody that's on the ground, on the boots ground, in a global hub that wants to drive action. And if you're going to drive action and you're going to be bold enough to say, we want to advance a million women in STEM by 2030, you better be able to tell the story to keep the industry accountable. 11:20 Stacey Lund: So let's use that same chutzpah and put it towards diversifying women in STEM. That's so interesting because you really took it on almost like a for-profit product launch, right? You did your market research, you looked at other things that were happening, like the UN Council and what you could grab and pull and sort of cross-checked it with your mission, and then you sort of repackaged it. It's been an evolution, but you really did apply product principles to almost like transforming your mission or bolstering your mission to take it the next step. How's that sort of post-pandemic? So, that was before, and during and now after. How does that feel? What kind of resonance is there? What do you see next? 12:00 Holly Smithson: Well, that's interesting. So for us, for most of our history, we are focusing on the individual women that make up our membership portfolio. And obviously, the companies would be investing in those high performers, in those high potentials. And that was really our go-to market approach. But that shift, as I mentioned through our collaboration with the United Nations, was why don't we spend our efforts and our resources and reallocate them to support our companies? Because our 50 corporate partners employ over a million people worldwide. So I'm a nonprofit organization. I don't have a budget to get the emails of all women in STEM. But what I do have is I have onramp with my 50 corporate partners who have satellite locations worldwide and we know their total employee population. So by us focusing on how we can encourage and support those efforts by our corporate partners, we're able to lift the entire employee population far exceeding our individual support groups. And so everything that we do and the success that we've had is largely in part because of our corporate partners. And so we also have to come at it and recognize that there's a high degree of humility on the ones that do. This is Pfizer. It's Oracle. It's Qualcomm. It's Marauder Therapeutics. It's aTyr Pharmaceuticals. And so we know that we've got to partner with people that have been at it for a while to make sure to keep us accountable and to make sure that we're doing this in a way that's data-driven and reduce a lot of the trial and error time and get more actionable strategies that we can deploy today and start reaping the rewards. Understanding where the pain points are and where there's cracks in the foundation of the corporate cultures, helps us design products, as you would say in the private sector, helps us come up with these customized curriculums and content to help offset the challenges. And just to kind of give you an example the soft skills is where a lot of these women were falling short on. And had they been able to actually articulate their value proposition, to be able to recruit and activate male allies on their part, to offer them up to lead a special project, to be able to really build their social capital, these are obviously the social skills they're not teaching you at Berkeley or Stanford or MIT or any university or community college, for all I know. And so we saw that as a gap, a skills gap that we could fill and that would help them retain the women so that they could advance their careers.   14:36 Stacey Lund: Awesome. So if you were going to say, I'm going to summarize for a minute, it sounds like really from a recipe point of view for a successful nonprofit, understand your mission. And so many leaders do they feel it right? They wear it on their sleeve, and they really are champions of their mission. But they have to be able to distill it down to such a value prop that it's crisp and it's alive, but it's also quantifiable. And then you've got to be able to have data that supports wherever you came from that led you there and then wherever you're going. And you have to adjust that, right? And that can be tech. It could be Google Sheets. I don't care what you use, right? You could find some great kids at UCSD, whatever works for you. 15:25 Holly Smithson: If you don't embrace and leverage technology and don't have your finger on the market forces, that's a recipe for swift failure. 1.5 million nonprofits operate in this country today and very few of them operate under the million-dollar mark. We're talking the most highly funded are YMCA, Red Cross, United Way, and those are mission driven organizations that are bringing value to people and families and communities. And they obviously have a very rich history. They are very well funded. And when they are well managed, they're able to bring a lot of impact to the communities they serve. And when they are mismanaged, everybody knows. When you are trying to weather all of these different events, like, obviously we were mismanaged in our 20-year history. We were about to go under because we had a lot of volunteers who had really good intentions, but nobody had a line of sight on the budget, nobody had accountability, nobody ran a PNL. And so, you had a bunch of well-intended people trying to put together this big, huge turkey feast for Thanksgiving. And it was unfortunate. And so, I came in to do a turnaround, which is what I love to do and be able to reassess all of the disorganization, to reestablish the products, the value, the mission, reestablish the trust of our corporate partners, and then really to put a really bright spotlight on how important it is and how far we have to go and how far we come on our mission. And then we got the belt taken over a hiney by the Pandemic and all of that great work and the reestablishing and productizing and cleaning up our portfolio, cleaning up our database, really elevating our brand equity across through the UN collaboration. And then BAM. That was very sad and frustrating for everybody. But had we not reinforced our business model and reinforced the necessities to get this organization get back up and continue in its march, then we would have been taken out for good. 17:39 Stacey Lund: I had a CEO I worked for a million years ago named Alex Sun. He's phenomenal. He's with Enlight, and he used to talk about protecting the core. The first order of business is protect the core. And the first rule of that is you have to know what your core is, right? So it sounds like when the Pandemic hit, it could have crippled you, it could have killed you, and it didn't, because you were already taking your value proposition and streamlining it to the point where you could protect that core. Right, those volunteers, as well meaning as they were, and I've worked in lots of organizations where I'm one of them, right, where it's we're making Thanksgiving dinner, but we're really heavy on the turkey, and there's no mashed potatoes. You don't want to do that. You want a good balance, and you can't be out of balance, but you have to protect that core. And you've already taken that on, and now you're just taking that to the next level of what you know, now that we're out of it, and I don't need to be quite so pedantic about protection, what can I do now that we're out of it to get to the next level? Do you know what your stats are? Can you share those with us? Where are we in 2022? 18:40 Holly Smithson: So now that our program portfolio reaches, I think we have almost 99 different countries represented in our virtual programs. So now we have to double down on our investment in our technology and our capabilities to be able to track that data, upload it, and then be able to design it in a way that shows in real time to be able to bifurcate and extract the data insight, really get a normalization of our data, a cleansing of our data. Right now, we don't have that mastered. And we're on the precipice of being able to communicate the impact we're having in a much more compelling fashion than we are today. I would say we are halfway there to our mission, but our ability to do that in a much more disciplined manner is gonna require us to become a data analytics company. 19:35 Stacey Lund: Which makes total sense, right? 19:38 Holly Smithson I love the ability and the opportunity to actually bring all of the impact into a nice package that empowers our partners and positions our partners to demonstrate to their shareholders, to their customers, to their employees and all their stakeholders, their commitment by numbers. And so as we move into that, we obviously just recovered our financial from the Pandemic, and then we've got enough to support us. Now we're adjusting ourselves and we're going into hopefully clear skies. Now we got to double down into this data analytics phase that I want to take us into. And again, everybody is grappling with this. If you look at Accenture or PwC or HBR, everybody's talking about the need for companies to everywhere to upskill, right. Remote collaboration, technology, all of this. Everybody's turning this corner, like it or not. And so you've got to find the resources. I've got to find the resources to do this. It's not an option. 20:38 Stacey Lund: But it's there. And you know where to go. You know what you want the end result to sort of look like. And you know that it's possible. And I think that's important because, yes, it's a blue-sky exercise, but there's no need to be afraid. And I think 25 years, hey, a lot of orgs don't last that long, let alone nonprofits. Right? You've had a few transitions under your belt, so I'm sure you will get there, actually. And I can't wait to see it. It's going to be phenomenal. Alright Holly if we want to find out more about your mission and about the results, where do we go? How do we find out? 21:10 Holly Smithson: Yes, you can find us on Athenastemwomen.org. 21:15 Stacey Lund: Thank you, thank you so much for joining us. I really appreciated it on behalf of Samm and I. Samm is my editor and my producer. So thank you so much for joining us. It's been a pleasure. And thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. If you like what you heard, please subscribe or leave a review we'd love to hear from you. Or if you would like to be a guest, please hit us up at podcast@tgrmanagementconsulting.com. We'll see you next time.  

We're chatting about how startups and small to midsize enterprises play a critical role in our global economy and how they can engage in ESG moving forward. Host Mandi McReynolds shares three fundamental principles for startups and SMEs to consider when implementing ESG into their business strategy. Resources: 1) World Economic Forum article - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/what-start-ups-think-about-esg-and-why-it-matters/  2) UN Global Compact participants - https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/participants 3) UN Global Compact resources - https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/leadership  4) Kevin O'Leary on ESG: Straight Talk from Mr. Wonderful - https://www.workiva.com/blog/kevin-oleary-esg-straight-talk-mr-wonderful  

In the eleventh episode of 'Clarasys presents: Simply Sustainability' Clarasys' Jacob Brockmann and Estelle Douglas chat to Sophie Cassidy, Software Engineer from Vodafone and Social Value Consultant at Arup, Holly Crossland about the UN Global Compact Young SDG Innovators Programme which they all took part in this year. The "is an opportunity for participating companies of the UN Global Compact to identify young talent within their organizations to collaborate and accelerate business innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."1 In 2022, Clarasys decided to send four of our team to take part in the programme to accelerate their knowledge around sustainability. During the programme, participants had the opportunity to refine and validate a specific SDG business challenge pertinent to their companies. The quartet discuss the highlights of the Young SDG Innovators Programme and the projects they developed during the ten months of the programme.

“Business cannot sit on the sidelines — we're not moving at the scale and speed needed, we as industry leaders have an enormous responsibility to drive these tipping points.” Paul Polman, one of our most prominent and vocal P&G Alumni, who also happens to be the former CEO of Unilever. In this talk from 2021 P&G Alumni Global Conference Paul talks about "Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take" - a recent book he co-authored, the Financial Times named among the Best Business Books of 2021. The Financial Times declared Paul "a standout CEO of the past decade” - as he is a leading proponent that business should be a force for good. And the Economist declared Paul "An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done." Paul Polman is the co-founder of IMAGINE, where he is mobilizing businesses to tackle climate change and global inequality. Paul also served as the CEO of Unilever from 2009-2018, where he created - and proved- a long-term approach to global problems can also drive business performance. Prior to Unilever, he was Nestle's CFO & Head of Americas. And of course, Paul got his start at P&G, where he spent 27 years rising through the ranks ultimately leading Europe for P&G. Paul continues to be active on the world stage, bridging the private/public sectors. Alongside the UN Secretary General, he helped develop the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Paul is chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, The B Team, Saïd Business School and Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact. You'll enjoy this very frank, compelling, and action oriented talk about what we can all be doing as business and community leaders — to face the challenges we have in front of us, and be a force for good. Paul's past P&G Alumni Podcast appearance: https://apple.co/3eI5PSR BOOK: Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take - goodreads.com/book/show/58090463-net-positive

Time is running out for our planet. We are taking more than we are giving. CSR targets don't go far enough. And societal inequality is on the rise. It requires a rethink of how we do business, how we lead organisations, how we measure impact.Who better to set out the manifesto for change than Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever and co founder of Imagine One. He's done what he's advocated; turned a global company into a force for good whilst still delivering exceptional shareholder value. He's now become an advocate, catalyst, ambassador, writing a book called ‘Net Positive: with Andrew Winston. It sets our how businesses should and can give back more to the world than they take, and why it matters.We talk about:What Net Positive means and why it's a better concept that Net Zero.What stops CEOs from taking the necessary action.What it takes to learn and unlearn new leadership and business practices.Whether it's possible to develop a new mindset of systemic leadership if you've been a short-term, mercenary leader.The three characteristics of CEOs he would look for.Critical moments in a CEO's tenure that can make or break their contribution to addressing these systemic issues.His own personal habits that help him do extraordinary work.About Paul:Paul works to accelerate action by business to achieve the UN Global Goals, which he helped develop. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), he demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance, and has been described by the Financial Times as "a standout CEO of the past decade." Paul's new book, “Net Positive”, is a call to arms to courageous business leaders, setting out how to build net positive companies which profit by fixing the world's problems rather than creating them. He Chairs IMAGINE and Saïd Business School, and is Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact as well as B Team Leader. Paul is Honorary Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, which he led for two years.Visit the website at https://netpositive.world/#join and learn the way to join the movement.  Follow co-authors Paul Polman on Twitter and LinkedIn and keep up with the Net Positive movement. Order your copy of Net Positive at your favourite retailer at https://netpositive.world/#order-window. My resources:Sign up to my newsletter (http://bit.ly/36WRpri) for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox: If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel (http://bit.ly/3cFGk1k) where you can watch the conversation.  Take the Extraordinary Essentials test (https://bit.ly/3EhSKY5) to identify your strengths and development areas.  For more details about me:  ★Services (https://bit.ly/373jctk) to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals. ★About me (https://bit.ly/3LFsfiO) - my background, experience and philosophy. ★Examples of my writing (https://bit.ly/3O7jkc7). ★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/2Z2PexP) ★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36XavNI).My equipment:★ Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone: https://amzn.to/3AB9Xfz★ Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface : https://amzn.to/3AFeA8u★ 2M XLR Cable: https://amzn.to/3GGxkbf★ Logitech Brio Stream webcam. https://amzn.to/3EsWt6C★ Elgato Key Light: https://amzn.to/3Xhiqyh★ Elgato Light Strip: https://amzn.to/3gyZF8P★ Riverside.fm for recording podcasts. bit.ly/3AE

VettaFi's vice chairman Tom Lydon discussed the XTrackers S&P 500 ESG ETF (SNPE) on this week's “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe of “Money Life.” SNPE provides exposure to the S&P 500 but through an environmental, social, and governance lens. The S&P 500 ESG Index that the fund seeks to track utilizes ESG factors and criteria for inclusion while excluding companies that don't have sufficient UN Global Compact scores or else participate in certain industries such as tobacco, controversial weapons, and thermal coal.  ESG is going to be a growing part of the investiong equation looking ahead both from a regulatory risk perspective as well as a climate risk perspective and SNPE seeks to provide performance while also reducing risk. 

Fiona Reynolds is the CEO of Conexus Financial. She served as the CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for over nine years. As part of her role in the UK, she was on the board of a number of organisations including UN Global Compact, Climate Action 100+, the UK Green Finance Institute, the Greening the Belt and Road Global Committee, and the Asset Owners Net Zero Alliance Fiona has 25 years' experience in the financial services and pension sector. She joined the PRI from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), where she spent seven years as CEO. Fiona was named one of the 20 most influential people in sustainability globally by Barron's magazine and has twice been named one of Australia's one hundred women of influence by the Australian Financial Review. Fiona also serves on the Board of Frontier Investment Consulting, the investment Committee of the Laudes Foundation and Advisory Boards of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, PWC, Affirmative Investment Management and the Advisory board of BASF.On this episode of Outside In Fiona talks with Jon about her unconventional start, a failed coup at the PRI, '80s rock and balancing people, profit and planet. Fiona also discusses how responsible investing has gone mainstream on her watch, with the resulting increase in risk to ethos and ethics, and how she has followed the money to change the world.

Today on the Take on Board podcast, I'm speaking with Helle Bank Jorgensen about her new book Stewards of the Future: A Guide for Competent Boards. This is the subject of the next Take on Board Book Club - a relaxed Zoom conversation with adult drinks and casual conversation for just 12 people on the 26th July at 7pm Eastern Australian Time. Early bird tickets available until 28th June.Helle is the CEO and Chair of Competent Boards and a Board member of the Danish Canadian Chamber of Commerce.She has a long list of previous boards including Chair of the Canadian Chapter of the UN Global Compact, Finance and Audit Committee for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and board of the European Policy Centre.Helle is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable business practices, with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities.In 2021 she was chosen by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as an Expert for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals.And, as I mentioned in the introduction, Helle is the author of the newly published book "Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards."From this episode: Buy Stewards of the Future – Dymocks, Booktopia, Amazon.com.au FOR MORE TAKE ON BOARD INFORMATIONCompetent Boards - online environment, social, governance (ESG) and Climate education programs for board directors and senior business professionals.Helle Bank Jorgensen on linkedIn You might want to:Join the Take on Board Book Club, 26th July at 7pm Eastern Australian Time - Stewards of the Future, by Helle Bank JorgensenJoin the Take on Board Facebook communityJoin the Take on Board LinkedIn communityFollow along on TwitterWork with meJoin the Take on Board: Kickstarter group programJoin the Take on Board: Accelerator group programFind out more about meContact me

What you'll learn in this podcast episode Although anti-corruption efforts have stagnated worldwide, human rights and democracy are under assault. Independent nonprofit Transparency International recently published its annual Corruption Perception Index, one of the most widely used indicators of corruption globally. Its 2021 analysis shows that protecting human rights is crucial in the fight against corruption. So, how can organizations help? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, Yoab Bitran, Head of LRN's Latin America business, talks about key findings from the 2021 report with Delia Ferreira, Chair of Transparency International. Listen in as the two discuss how business leaders around the world can step up to help combat corruption.   Principled Podcast shownotes [2:07] - Delia Ferreira explains the work of Transparency International and the corruption perception index (CPI).  [6:14] - The factors influencing Russia's score on the CPI and how it may be affected by the war.  [9:43] - Which countries in Europe saw relevant changes in their CPI score this year, and steps they can take to improve anti-corruption efforts.  [13:52] - The Latin American fight against corruption.  [18:25] - How business leaders can help increase anti-corruption efforts around the world.  [21:41] - How can ESG help fight corruption and give us hope for the future?    Featured guest: Delia Ferreira Rubio Delia Ferreira Rubio is the Chair of Transparency International (elected in October 2017 and re-elected in November 2020). Delia is a lawyer who graduated from Córdoba National University (Argentina) and a Ph.D. degree in Law from Madrid's Complutense University (Spain). She is a member of the Vanguard Committee of the WEF Partnership Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), a member of the Board of the UN Global Compact, and co-chair of the Global Future Council on Anti-corruption of the World Economic Forum. She served as a member of the Steering Committee of OGP - Open Government Partnership (2018-2021). She was the chief advisor for several representatives and senators at the Argentine National Congress from 1990 to 2005, advising the constitutional committee of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.She also served as an advisor at the National Accounting Office for two years. She has consulted on political finance, anti-corruption, and transparency-related issues with various international organizations (IFES, UNDP, OAS, IADB, IDEA, NEEDS, ERIS, CAPEL, DEMOCRACY INTERNATIONAL, COUNTERPART, UNWomen among others) and NGOs around the world. She was President of Poder Ciudadano in Argentina (2008-2010). She has authored numerous publications on transparency and anti-corruption, political corruption, public and parliamentary ethics, and comparative politics, among other subjects.   Featured Host: Yoab Bitran  Yoab leads LRN activities in Latin America. Before joining LRN, Yoab practiced Law both in the private and public sector, in Chile as well as in the US. Yoab studied Law and holds a Masters in American Law from Boston University and a Masters in Corporate Criminal Law. Yoab is the Academic Director of Thomson Reuters LatAm Compliance Diploma and co-author of the book “Compliance: Por Qué y Para Qué. Claves para su Gestión”. Yoab is a frequent speaker at international conferences and events on compliance and anticorruption.   Transcription Intro: Welcome to the Principled Podcast, brought to you by LRN. The Principled Podcast brings together the collective wisdom on ethics, business and compliance, transformative stories of leadership and inspiring workplace culture. Listen in to discover valuable strategies from our community of business leaders and workplace change-makers. Yoab Bitran: Anti-corruption efforts have stagnated worldwide. Human rights and democracy are under the result. Russian president, Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine on baseless claims. Corruption in the Americas continues to undermine civil liberties, despite increased legislation. And even with multiple regional commitments, 131 countries have made no significant progress against corruption in the last decade. None of this is a coincidence to Transparency International. The independent nonprofit recently published its annual corruption perception index, one of the most widely used indicators of corruption globally. It's 2021 analysis shows that protecting human rights is crucial in the fight against corruption, but how can organizations help? Hello and welcome to another episode of LRN's Principled Podcast. I'm your host, Yoab Bitran head of Latin America business. Today. I'm joined by Delia Ferreira chair of Transparency International. We're going to be talking about key findings from the 2021 corruption perception index and how business leaders around the world can step up to help combat corruption. Delia is a real expert in this space, having served as the former president of Transparency internationals chapter in Argentina, she has also served as the chief advisor for several representatives and senators at the Argentine National Congress and has advised the constitutional committee of both the house of representatives and the Senate, as well as the national accounting office. Delia many thanks for coming on the Principled Podcast. Delia Ferreira: Thank you [inaudible 00:02:03] a pleasure to meet you. Yoab Bitran: For our listeners who aren't as familiar with Transparency International. Can you please tell me a little bit more about your work as an organization and what the corruption perception index is? Delia Ferreira: Oh yes, of course. Transparency International is almost 30 years old now. We are the leading organization international NGO in the fight against corruption. We have national chapters in more than 100 countries around the world, and we do research and advocacy, and education in many aspects related to the complex issue of transparency and corruption, grand corruption, or petty corruption. One of our most known tools is the corruption perception index that you mentioned in the introduction. But we have other tools also that instead of looking at the perception of experts or academics, looks at the experience of people vis-a-vis corruption in their normal life. And that's our barometer of corruption and we have also one tool, which is the exporting corruption, which analyzes performance of countries. Vis-a-vis the OACD anti rivalry convention of foreign officials. Yoab Bitran: In this year's corruption perception index. The global average corruption score went unchanged for the 10th year in a row, just 43 out of a possible 100 point. Despite multiple commitments, 131 countries have made no significant progress against corruption in the last decade. Did these numbers surprise you? Delia Ferreira: Well, in fact, the numbers did not surprise me, they worry me, which is another thing. And just for clarification, for people who are not aware of how the CPI is made of. The CPI, the corruption perception index, which is an annual index, we publish, analyzes the perception of corruption in the public sector of countries, and is the result of 13 sources of research and information from investigative institutes and experts and academic business sector is not a survey on the population of the countries. Mm. Corruption is becoming more sophisticated each time, more complex, and this requires new approaches. And also the other fact that contribute to this situation is the increase of authoritarian regimes and the populous trends in many countries, where we see leaders competing in elections with the narrative of anti-corruption, but not taking into account the agenda for anti-corruption once they are in office. So we have many factors that contribute to this extermination in the index, concentration of power, lack of accountability, impunity in relation to corrupt acts. And we have to take into account also that we have legislation and commitments and declarations against corruption, but rules which are needed are not enough in terms of fighting corruption effectively, you have to implement those rules, you have to guarantee enforcement of those rules in order to really change the Panorama. Yoab Bitran: And we will definitely come back to this. It's very aligned with LRN's point of view, the fact that, rules are not enough and you need effectiveness and values to make real progress. But I want to take a minute to talk about Russia, which has been in the news for weeks now. Your report gave the country a score of 29 prior to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I've also seen you very active in social media about the matter, so I want to highlight that before the invasion again, Transparency International categorize the country as a country to watch because of the corruption taking place. What do you think are some of the major factors that drove the score and how would the current war change the scoring? If at all. Delia Ferreira: Of course, the problem was very clear in terms of corruption in Russia. It is reflected in the index in several years, and we put that light on the country because of the kleptocracy system that we can find in Russia in terms of capture of state, by corrupt actors that are really exploding the state and the political power in order to enrich themselves and creating an oligarchic elite that is taking money out of the country. Of course, as we have seen, and now the Western countries are reacting in terms of sanctions and even more permanent regulation. So ill-gotten funds go to tax havens, offshore centers, Shell companies, and complicated and complex corporate structures that allowed these corrupt actors to hide the ill-gotten money and also to enjoy the proceeds of corruption. And for me, that part of enjoying the proceeds without any problem is a great problem because it creates the wrong incentives for a cultural change. So we have seen real estate, art industry, luxury industry in general, offering these kleptocrats to hide the money and enjoy the proceeds of corrupt tax. And that's the problem that we are seeing very clearly. This is connected with other problems that is in the newspapers in these days, which is the role of gatekeepers in Western countries. Let's talk about bank, lawyers, accountants, real estate [inaudible 00:08:37], the art dealers that should be asking about the origin of money and not performing very efficiently in order to act as gatekeepers of rule of law and transparency and instead of that, becoming enablers of corruption, facilitating corruption. One of the things we were asking for many, many years is the need to have a beneficial ownership transparency. Now we are seeing many countries putting in place these public registers in order to know who is behind the mask, who is behind the Shell company. For instance, in terms of the sanctions that Western countries are trying to apply in order to apply the sanction, you need to identify who the real owner is, not Mickey Mouse, Inc, but the real owner. Yoab Bitran: Absolutely. Now Russia, isn't the only area within the wider European region that is suffering under corruption. Can you please share which countries in Europe saw relevant changes in their CPI score this year, and what steps do you think they can take to improve their anti-corruption efforts? Delia Ferreira: This year, we have a decade analysis, although the index is more than 20 years old, but in 2012, we refresh the methodology to really guarantee the comparability year by year, country by country. And so we have now the decade decliners and the decade improvers. And in Europe, the decliners is Western Europe and the EU, the decliners are for instance, Hungary and Poland. In these two cases, it is clear that the authoritarian trend and the concentration of power without respecting checks and balances and the democratic rule has been one of the points that has all the issues that has justified this decline. But we have improvers also in decades terms, let's say like for instance, Austria or Estonia, [inaudible 00:11:02], Italy and Greece in the decade, they are improvers. Another thing is that we can consider or compare countries and its performance vis-a-vis according to last year. And there for instance, in Europe we have seven countries performing the same, 13 countries that are improvers and 11 that are decliners, but none of this is a statistically significant. So it's one point up, one point down. And when we take the decade, we are considering a statistically significant improves or declines. What to do, of course, it's always the same. You have to guarantee access to information, you have to guarantee the independence of the judiciary, you have to have the proper laws and budgets to guarantee enforcement of the law and the implementation of sanctions against those involved in corruption. Because in fact, corruption is not a victimless crime. The victims of corruption are the citizens, all of us, ordinary citizens. And we suffer the consequences of corruption. But what we need is that those involved in corruption, the actors of corruption acts are the ones suffering the consequences in terms of the legal reaction of state against these criminal activities. Other thing that we are asking for, and it is something that is concerning us in the last five or six years is to protect and defend civic space and civic liberties. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom in the use of social media and of course not creating regulations that try to stop civil society organizations from doing what we are doing in terms of holding power to account. This attack on civic space is very clear in many countries around the world. And we have to alert everyone that the defense of freedom of the press and freedom of speech and association and mobilization is defending our own freedoms as citizens. So we need everybody to be alert and to collaborate with civil society organizations and free press in order to guarantee democratic rule. Yoab Bitran: Right. Now, as head of [inaudible 00:13:55] Latin American business, I need to ask you about our region. I've seen a lot of people talk about an anti-corruption spring years ago when there was maybe a wave of new regulation. Some countries joined the OACD, then you have Operation Car Wash, and we all know where that ended. So despite those regulatory efforts and commitments, it seems like the Americas are paralyzed in the fight against corruption, especially in Latin America. Are you hopeful? Can you tell us a little bit about your view of the region and anti-corruption initiatives? Delia Ferreira: Of course, I am hopeful and optimistic, if not, I would not be doing this kind of work for years. I think we can change and we can better the situation. I would say that in the Americas as a whole, the problem is not only related to Latin America in particular, you know that Canada and the United States of America are decliners in the decade, both of them, together with Venezuela for instance. So that's an alert that we have to take into account. Of course, one thing is to be a decliner at the top of the CPI and another is to be a decliner, if you are at the bottom. So the situation is different, but we have to take that into consideration. One problem is nice. You talk about the spring of anti-corruption in Latin American particular. It has to do with the OACD in corporation of some countries, but also with the reaction, vis-a-vis case of grant corruption that affect 11 countries in the region. The other [inaudible 00:15:39] case Lava Jato which started in Brazil, but affected, as I said, 11 countries in Latin America and two African countries also, with the same scheme of corruption and criminal money laundering, et cetera, and illegal political financing of campaigns. And the first reaction in Brazil, and then in some countries in the Americas, was to have cases in courts and the authorities really enforcing legislation against the company and against high level politicians. We were talking about presidents in many countries. That was the source of hope and the idea that, okay, we are at a turning point in Latin America. Unfortunately, as you already mentioned, we are coming back and some of the decisions and the sanctions applied, has been overruled and removed. By now, in some countries, the procedures are really paralyzed and we are seeing a decline in this energy against these corrupt actors. And this has to do with something that I always repeat, which is, I think clear to see. Some people say that anti-corruption or the fight against corruption is like running a marathon, is a long term endeavor, but I think it is a long [inaudible 00:17:14], but not really a marathon, because in a marathon, everybody goes in the same direction and nobody is throwing stones against the runners. In fact, when we fight against corruption, we are in a chess board, with some pieces trying to fight against corruption and the [inaudible 00:17:36] and the corrupt actors trying to stop us and making us go a step back. And this is an strategic game let's say. So we have to be aware that we can make progress and that we will be subject to reaction from those who are benefiting from corruption. And we have to be ready to top them and to be firm and keep on working in order to go one step further, but we are not alone in the chess board. There are other actors also that are trying to stop us. Yoab Bitran: That's a great analogy. I loved it. And you talked about bad and corrupt actors. So this brings me to the larger questions about their role of business in fighting corruption and especially the good actors, the agents of change. Based on your professional experience, how do you envision business leaders, helping sustain and even increase anti-corruption efforts around the world? Delia Ferreira: I think that, and I have the opportunity to meet many of these business leaders and change makers at the world economic forum in [inaudible 00:18:49] or the global future council on anti-corruption from the world economic forum, which I co-chair with, [inaudible 00:18:56] and good. What we see is that there are many business men and women devoted to go to what I call integrity beyond compliance. Compliance was very important, and it was a new thing, a new issue or topic 10 or 15 years ago, but we have to go and to move one step forward now, because compliance is understood as the compliance with legal issues with the regulation and integrity goes beyond law. It has to do with the culture in organizations. And I think we cannot really defeat or really effectively prevent corruption without the help of the business sector. And I must say that I am seeing a very positive trend in that field. Of course, there are many things to correct, for instance, the compatibility of the incentive systems in terms of bonds, for instance, or prices for those CEOs performing very well in a company and the ethics code of the company, you can have a wonderful code of ethics, but then if the incentives that the company is offering, that's not much this ethic code, you have a problem. And this is something that has to be taken into account when trying to change the culture, the integrity culture in an organization. I think the move to stakeholder capitalism, the move to the idea of a public value in a company, the work that is being done in terms of ESGs, is something that is going in the positive way, in order to incorporate business to the fight against corruption, or if you want to put it in the positive, in the fight for integrity in the companies. And we have to keep on working on that because I think many companies have realized that it is in their self-interest to contribute, to have a transparent market and a transparent place where to perform their activities. Yoab Bitran: And again, that's totally aligned with what LRN believes, exactly, as you said, compliance is an outcome, an outcome of culture and outcome of values and integrity. You mentioned ESG. We see in probably all the West, as, as a big trend, we're seeing new regulation in some countries, new standards, new disclosures, what is your take and how ESG can help fight corruption and help us be more optimistic and hopeful as you said. Delia Ferreira: I think that DSG is a very useful tool for companies to assess their own performance and also for investors to asses the performance of those companies or projects, where they are putting their money and that the role of investors could be of great help in the fight for integrity. If they really take into account the ESG results of a company. In fact, probably we have to put a lot more attention on the G, the governance structure in a company, where the anti-corruption rules appears and the standards and the organizational places where to issue the controls and to have accountability is place. The E and DS are more visible now probably, or are in the focus are a priority. But I think that without a proper governance structure, including integrity culture, and compliance, and an integral view of these issues, you cannot cut into nudge what the compliance officer do. The climate officer do, and everybody separated. They have to work together in order to really put in place this integrity principles around the whole activity of the company, in the bedrock of this, is the notion of values, of course. And what we have seen in many societies around the world is that the basic value consensus in society is broken in many countries nowadays. So what is right and what is wrong is not absolutely clear or shared by society. And I remember the Nolan Commission Report in terms of integrity in UK parliament, saying after that, doing surveys and researching these scandals that we have to evaluate, our conclusion is that parliamentarians don't have it clear, what is right and what is wrong. So here are the rules for parliamentary ethics, and that was the origin of the laws and bills on public ethics around the world. You have to be honest, you have to respect the law. You don't have to profit from your position in order to benefit your familiar or your friends or crowns. So this elementary principles that were part of a consensus many, many years ago, now are in the laws with the force of the law and the power to impose the compliance with this, and to apply sanctions for those who do not comply with these duties, let's say. But in the basic you have values and the need to rebuild agreement on that consensus, which is the only way we can reconstruct trust. All around the world what we are seeing and Latin America is not an exception, but the North America also, and the rest of the countries in the world, we see a clear lack of trust in institutions, in politicians, in business sector, in banks, even in the press or the NGOs sector. So this lack of trust is one of our problems as a society. We have to reconstruct this trust in order to properly develop a better society for everyone. And I think this should be our common objective, because this is a collective action endeavor. Neither NGOs nor business sector, nor governments can do this alone, the fight for transparency is the fight of every single citizen around the world. I usually say for instance, that if you look at the crisis that we are facing from Afghanistan, to the Lebanon blast, from the Amazon's deforestation to the war in Ukraine, you have two common things. Corruption was there and the victims were simple human beings. So we have to fight together to stop this kind of phenomenon, which is so harmful for society. Yoab Bitran: Wow. What a great way to end. This is clearly a conversation we could be having all day, but we are out of time for today. Delia, thank you so very much for the joining me on this episode, we appreciate your time and presence here. Delia Ferreira: Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure and we will keep on talking. Yoab Bitran: My name is Yoab Bitran and I want to thank you all for listening to the Principled Podcast by LRN. Outro: We hope you enjoyed this episode. The principled Podcast, is brought to you by LRN. At LRN, our mission is to inspire principled performance in global organizations, by helping them foster winning ethical cultures, rooted in sustainable values. Please visit us at lrn.com to learn more. And if you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to our podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen. And don't forget to leave us a review.  

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Chris Coulter is the CEO at GlobeScan, an international insights and advisory consultancy that works at the intersection of brand purpose, sustainability, and trust. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, GlobeScan's purpose is to co-create a sustainable and equitable future. It partners with leading businesses, NGOs, and governmental organizations to deliver insights that guide decision-making, and to build strategies that contribute to a sustainable and equitable world. More than three decades into its mission, GlobeScan now has a global network of experts, as well as offices around the world, including in Cape Town, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Paris, San Francisco, and São Paulo. GlobeScan is a participant of the UN Global Compact, and it is also a Certified B Corp. Based at GlobeScan's headquarters in Toronto, Chris has over 15 years of experience in providing evidence-based counsel to leadership organizations at the nexus of reputation, brand, and sustainability. He is a specialist in international relations, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe, and Asia. Besides his role as CEO at GlobeScan, Chris is the Director of the GlobeScan Foundation, a Board Member at CBSR (Canadian Business for Social Responsibility), a Council Member at SustainAbility (a think tank), and a Board Member at Good World Solutions. Along with David Grayson and Mark Lee, he is also the co-author of The Sustainable Business Handbook: A guide to becoming more innovative, resilient and successful, published in February 2022. In this interview, Chris talks about how GlobeScan is working with partners around the world to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable global economy, and what trends he's seeing among big multinationals when it comes to setting and reaching ESG targets. He also shares his insights into why it's so important for global-minded companies to take a long-term view of growth, and why markets outside their comfort zone may in fact hold the biggest future opportunities. Last but not least, he shares some of the top takeaways from his new book. Tune in!   Links: GlobeScan website GlobeScan on LinkedIn GlobeScan on Twitter “The Sustainable Business Handbook” on the Kogan Page website Authors' “All In” website All In – The Sustainable Business Podcast Chris on LinkedIn Chris on Twitter   This episode was sponsored by The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA).

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