Podcasts about United Nations Global Compact

Closing the Funding Gap for SDG-related investments in Developing Countries In the final episode of our Concordia Summit Series, we speak with Naomi Nwokolo, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact Nigeria, about the staggering $2.5 trillion funding gap for SDG-related investments in developing countries. Join us as we unpack:

Aclara Resources Executive Vice President Jose Palma joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share the company has been recognized by the United Nations Global Compact Chile Network for its innovative Circular Mineral Harvesting process. The accolade was presented during the CONECTA 2024 Business Awards in Santiago, Chile. Aclara was celebrated for its significant contributions to the Sustainable Development Goal of Clean Water and Sanitation. The patented Circular Mineral Harvesting process, implemented at the company's Penco project, enables the sustainable extraction of rare earth elements in a closed-circuit system. This groundbreaking approach utilizes 100% recycled water, eliminating dependence on natural water sources and achieving a 95% water recirculation rate. This recognition underscores Aclara's commitment to advancing sustainable and socially responsible practices in the mining industry, aligning with the United Nations Global Compact's mission to promote sustainability and accountability in business operations worldwide. The company also celebrated a second accolade from Brazil's Apex, recognizing it as Company of the Year in its category. Palma highlighted these awards as a testament to the team's hard work and commitment to sustainability in both Chile and Brazil. #proactiveinvestors #aclararesourcesinc #tsx #ara #mining #rareearths#AclaraResources #CarinaProject #GoiásMoU #MiningInvestment #RenewableEnergy #EnvironmentalSustainability #JobCreation #InfrastructureDevelopment #BrazilMining #SustainableMining #ProactiveInvestors #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Are you struggling with fear and self-doubt? You're not alone! In this powerful video, happiness entrepreneur and courage expert Scott Simon shows you exactly how to overcome fear and build courage to transform your life. Here's what you'll learn: Understanding the Science of Fear: Discover the psychology of fear and how it holds you back. Learn how understanding fear can empower you to face it head-on. Overcome Self-Doubt with Proven Strategies: Unlock practical tips to build courage and confidence. Learn how to silence self-doubt and take bold action even in the face of uncertainty. Building Courage through Small Steps: Learn how taking small, consistent actions can help you conquer fear. Break down big challenges into manageable steps and celebrate your progress. Embrace Risk and Live Boldly: Find out why stepping outside your comfort zone is key to building lasting courage. Embrace the unknown and unlock your true potential. Ready to face your fears and step into a life of courage? Watch now and start your journey toward overcoming fear and building unshakable confidence! Ready to unlock the true potential of your leadership? Schedule a free, one-on-one consultation today. https://www.elitehighperformance.com/... About Scott Simon: Scott Simon is a happiness entrepreneur, author, and founder of the global courage-building movement “Scare Your Soul.” With a unique approach that blends neuroscience, positive psychology, and behavior design, Scott has inspired thousands worldwide to embrace small acts of courage as a catalyst for growth and success. Scott is the author of "Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life." As a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, Scott has partnered with leading organizations such as the United Nations Global Compact, Vistage, Ritz Carlton, Lululemon, and Logitech to foster more courage in the workplace. Scott has designed more than 500 free courage challenges for people everywhere. Contact Scott Simon www.scottsimon.us www.scareyoursoul.com Instagram: @scareyoursoul Book: Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life - Amazon Find Susan Hobson, Founder & CEO of Elite High Performance, Top Leadership Coach & Author, at the following links: https://www.elitehighperformance.com/...   / jumpstartliving     / susanlhobson     / susanlhobson   Find Rob Kalwarowsky, World-Renowned Leadership Coach & TEDx Speaker, at the following links: https://www.robkalwarowsky.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kalwarowsky/

Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General, CEO, and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, discusses Business as a Global Force for Good with Anne Thompson '79, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent for NBC News.Thanks for listening! The ThinkND Podcast is brought to you by ThinkND, the University of Notre Dame's online learning community. We connect you with videos, podcasts, articles, courses, and other resources to inspire minds and spark conversations on topics that matter to you — everything from faith and politics, to science, technology, and your career. Learn more about ThinkND and register for upcoming live events at think.nd.edu. Join our LinkedIn community for updates, episode clips, and more.

Business travel remains one of our largest sources of greenhouse emissions, accounting for 26% of the UK's total emissions. In an ideal world, no one would have to travel to work or events, some might even point to the way everyone adapted in COVID as a prime example of this in practice. However, for many that model of work is not feasible in the long-term. So, how can we reduce this unavoidable stream of emissions? Businesses are starting to take the right steps, however, today's guest is paving the way as a shining example of sustainable business travel and events management.   In this episode, Mel is joined by Christopher Truss, Global Sustainability Director at Reed & Mackay, to discuss their impressive existing ISO Standard portfolio and their journey towards ISO 14064 carbon verification. You'll learn ·      Who is Chris Truss? ·      Who are Reed & Mackay? ·      What are the highlights from Reed & Mackay's latest Sustainability and Responsible Business report? ·      What Standards are Reed & Mackay certified to? ·      What is the demand for sustainability within the business travel and events management sector? ·      Why get ISO 14064 verified? ·      What were the challenges with obtaining ISO 14064 verification? ·      What are the benefits of obtaining ISO 14064 Verification?   Resources ·      Reed & Mackay ·      Reed & Mackay Sustainable and Responsible Business Report 2024 ·      Carbonology   In this episode, we talk about: [02:05] Episode Summary – We welcome today's guest, Chris Truss, Global Sustainability Director at Reed & Mackay, to explore their ISO Standards portfolio and journey towards ISO 14064 verification. [02:40] Who is Chris?: Chris has had over 20 years experience in the business travel industry. He is currently responsible for driving the sustainability agenda at Reed & Mackay, which includes the development of services and solutions that their clients require to meet their own sustainability initiatives. He also manages a wide range of third-party suppliers. A lesser know fact about Chris is in a band, playing the folk fiddle and singing in pubs around Yorkshire. He also plays tennis in the over 45 category for Yorkshire! [04:50] Who are Reed & Mackay? – Reed & Mackay are a global travel management and event management business. They help clients all the way from picking up the telephone and making bookings on their behalf, helping them source appropriate venues for their events and then managing the overall spend, the supply chain and ultimately reporting back to them on what they've been up to and how they can improve their processes and save money. Reed & Mackay are highly regarded for their quality of services, especially within the professional services sector, and they proudly boast a number of large blue chip clients. [05:50] What are some of the highlights in Reed & Mackay's Sustainability and Responsible Business Report? When Chris came into his latest role, he looked to tackle two main points: ·      How can Reed & Mackay operate sustainably? ·      How can we articulate that to our clients? As a result of the work Chris has done, Reed & Mackay have signed up to the United Nations Global Compact and have aligned themselves with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. They have also become an EcoVadis rated supplier and are undertaking their first Carbon Reduction Plan disclosure. From a corporate responsibility point of view, they have made great strides to improve their gender pay gap. They are also ensuring the integrity of their charitable partnerships. [08:00] What are some of the sustainability initiatives that Reed & Mackay have started? Reed & Mackay support a charity called 4Ocean, who are trying to remove as much plastic from our oceans as possible. They selected this charity in particular due to it's global reach, embodying the nature of Reed & Mackay's global influence in 13 countries for the past 10 years. They recognised the need to support a sustainability based charity as corporate travel is highly polluting, so this is a form of taking responsibility and looking at where they can assist to reduce environmental damage. 4Oceans also allows their employees to get involved directly, should they choose to take some time out of the office to help with ocean clean-up. [09:55] What ISO Standards are Reed & Mackay certified to? They are currently certified to: ·      ISO 27001 Information Security ·      ISO 14001 Environmental Management ·      ISO 22301 Business Continuity ·      ISO 9001 Quality Management All of which they have been certified to for over 10 years now! They acted as a foundation for Chris to drive his sustainability agenda. [11:10] How are these ISO Standards managed across the business? – Reed & Mackay have a dedicated Security and Trust team that manage all ISO certifications, in addition to their other responsibilities. All of the ISO Standards are a part of their Integrated Management System, which sits alongside their policies and procedures for the business that are managed by a central team. This has provided them with an invaluable foundation to ensure the delivery of quality services, client satisfaction and continual improvement. [12:45] What is the demand for sustainability within the business travel sector? They are receiving more requirements and requests from clients in regard to their own operational CO2 footprint, which is needed for clients own reporting requirements as Reed & Mackay would count towards many clients Scope 3 emissions. There is also a need for more transparency with carbon reporting, including the use of credible calculation methodology's. The verification of GHG emissions also gives clients more confidence that businesses are doing what they say they're doing. [14:15] What was the main driver behind Reed & Mackay gaining ISO 14064 verification?: While they felt confident in their sustainability efforts up to a certain point, they wanted someone to come in and mark their homework to make sure they were doing the right thing. With the increase in client demand for credible sustainability reporting, it was vital to pursue various CPD disclosures such as EcoVadis and prepare for upcoming legislation like CSRD. To ensure they were in the best possible shape to give the information requested by clients and other stakeholders, they needed am accurate and reliable method of verification, which is what ISO 14064 could provide. [15:40] What were the main challenges in obtaining ISO 14064 verification?: Just getting a hold of the raw data was the most difficult part, although they found it to be a very enlightening experience too. Having to dig to find the right information helped Chris to understand the business better, giving him a greater visibility on where their carbon emissions are coming from and where there are opportunities to reduce those. You have to be very tenacious to get all the necessary data. Chris highlights purchased goods and services data as particularly challenging to obtain due to its granular nature. Now they have been through this process once, they've got a system in place to make data collection a lot easier in future. [18:55] What impact has ISO 14064 verification had on Reed & Mackay?: It's helped from an internal perspective as people now have a greater visibility and understanding of the impact that have on an individual basis. This in turn creates a strong launchpad for their Net Zero strategy. From an external perspective, it's given Reed & Mackay a lot more confidence in their own processes and their ability to work with their clients towards sustainability goals. [20:00] What were the main benefits of getting ISO 14064 verified?: Giving clients, stakeholder and employees confidence: The verification calculation is reliable, and so they can be confident in relaying the facts and figures to interested parties. A great insight: The data has provided huge insights into how the business operates and where it's biggest emissions sources lie. This is vital to know before you take steps to try and reduce your current impact. Ability to create an accurate Carbon Reduction Plan: Once again, with confidence in having the correct data to hand, they are able to formulate an accurate Carbon Reduction Plan which can be realistically achieved. Anti Green-washing: Consumers are crying out for a reliable sign of credibility. Simply having an environmental policy statement may have been enough 10 years ago, but that's not the case now. People expect evidence of your sustainability claims. [21:50] Chris's top tip for anyone considering ISO 14064 verification: Just get started and don't be scared by the process. Though it may seem daunting to start, you will actually be in a much better position than when you started. Having verified data and awareness of where that data comes from and what it means on a larger scale will be vital to looking for opportunities for improvement. So, if you want to improve your sustainability, you just need to get cracking! [23:20] How are Reed & Mackay helping organisations improve the sustainability of their travel?: Reed & Mackay's ambition is to make sure that clients understand the impact of their choices at every single step of their journey. To help, they provide the carbon footprint of every booking they make, whether that be through their site or with a consultant. They also have approval processes built into their systems, which can be based on carbon. For example, if a client doesn't want to take the lowest carbon option on a particular journey, they can add required approval from an additional person within that client's organisation. So it adds a level of accountability over the choices people make. They also provide full reporting on business travel activity and where potential savings have been missed. This is a valuable tool if they need to provide travel data to carbon consultants for example, they'll already have all of those granular reports prepared. These reports will highlight where clients haven't taken the lowest carbon option, i.e. where they could travel in a group instead of individually. Reed & Mackay's intention is to make sure people have visibility of carbon alongside cost so clients can make a fair and balanced decision. Additional services include: ·      Able to set carbon budgets across a business ·      Ability to purchase carbon credits for offsetting purposes ·      Opportunities to mitigate carbon emissions through offsetting, or decarbonise through Carbon Reduction Plans over a period of time [28:50] Chris's book recommendation: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman [29:15] Chris's favourite quote: You can't measure success if you have never failed – Steffi Graf If you would like to learn more about Reed & Mackay, and their sustainability initiatives, visit their website. 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Join Lori and her guest, Estefania Palomino, Senior Manager of Philanthropic Relations at the United Nations Global Compact, as they explore the vital role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives in today's world. Everyone has a role to play in addressing the pressing challenges of our time, and even the smallest contributions can help pave the way toward a more responsible and inclusive future!   Here are the things to expect in this episode: How did Estefania's childhood experiences shape her decision to pursue a career in the philanthropic sector? In what ways do ESG initiatives address the most pressing environmental and social challenges of our time? The power of strategic thinking and leveraging resources for positive change. Some unique approaches to philanthropy Estefania observed in different countries. The importance of collaboration and partnerships among various stakeholders. And much more! Estefania's Email: estefaniapalomino@gmail.com Estefania's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estefaniapalomino/   Connect with Lori Kranczer! Website: https://linkphilanthropic.com Email: info@linkphilanthropic.com   

Impact at Scale, connected with Esther Chang, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact Network Singapore, which is the Singapore chapter of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative Esther discusses the work of the UN GCNS and the importance of sustainability. She highlights the need for partnerships and collaboration among stakeholders to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Esther emphasizes the role of leadership in driving sustainability efforts within organizations and the importance of embedding sustainability in strategy and operations. Some Topics Esther Covered Developing Strategies for Sustainability ESG and Decarbonization Among SMEs in Asia Balancing Urgency and Slow Progress in Sustainability Questioning What Is Enough Other Titles We Considered Having a listening ear for goals and challenges Embedding Sustainability in Strategy and Operations Promoting ESG and Decarbonization Among SMEs in Asia

The United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, will officially launch its Ireland network this November at an exclusive event for senior representatives from business, government, academia, and civil society. The launch aligns with new sustainability compliance regulations in Ireland, aimed at accelerating meaningful and sustainable business actions. The network will be officially launched by Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Global Compact, on the afternoon of 28th November at Dublin's Exo Building. High-level representatives from organisations across the Irish corporate sector will gather to explore how ambitious change can be implemented for a more sustainable future in Ireland. Founded in 2000, the Global Compact Network aims to accelerate and scale the impact of businesses by upholding ten key principles covering human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. To date, 20,000 members across 160 nations have committed to these universal principles, grounded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, conducting business responsibly, and taking strategic actions through collaboration and innovation. Ireland needs forward-thinking leaders from the private sector committed to prioritising sustainability, says Nessa Whelan, United Nations Global Compact Ireland Country Manager to ensure a future where the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are achieved. "The official launch of the network in Ireland marks a groundbreaking milestone towards driving positive sustainable change. New members can expect to join like-minded organisations that will advance their business beyond mere regulatory compliance, towards sustainable actions that add true value through longevity and profitability." The UNGC launch coincides with the introduction of the Forward Faster initiative in the Irish market - a strategy urging expedited action by Irish businesses to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by the 2030 deadline. With only 15% of the goals currently on track, accelerated and purposeful change from the public and private sectors is essential. With national and international keynote speakers, the event will lead and inspire conversations around some of the most pressing Forward Faster themes for Irish businesses, such as gender equality, living wage, climate action, and water resilience. "We encourage Irish businesses interested in joining an initiative focused on actionable sustainable change to be a part of this thriving community," says Nessa Whelan. Upon launch, new registrants of the Global Compact will join existing Irish members accelerating their impact, including An Post, DAA, Smurfit Kappa, Ryanair, ICON plc, and AIB. The Network launch event is by invitation only, but requests for attendance are being considered. UNGC Ireland invites like-minded business leaders to express their interest by contacting ireland@unglobalcompact.org. See more stories here.

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.

In this episode of the Self-Employed Life, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Scott Simon, author of Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life about how to live a more courageous life. We discussed why getting out of your comfort zone is important and how to get yourself to it. Scott explained the seven principles to harness fear and why they are important.  Scott Simon is a renowned courage keynote speaker, facilitator and experience designer inspiring CEOs and their teams to cultivate courageous leadership and foster cultures of true belonging. As the founder of Scare Your Soul, Scott has guided thousands worldwide to harness fear through his transformative programs combining storytelling, positive psychology, and immersive activities. His new book, published by Hachette, is "Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life." Scott has presented to groups around the world, on TV and podcasts, given a TEDx Talk. Scott partners with forward-thinking CEOs to nurture the "courage muscle" their companies need to adapt, innovate and outperform competitors. He is a contributor to Psychology Today, has been profiled in Fast Company Magazine, and was recently invited to address staff at the United Nations Global Compact. Scott earned his BA from Skidmore College, his MA from Case Western Reserve University, and Certificates in Positive Psychology and Coaching from The Wholebeing Institute, and behavior design from the Stanford Behavior Design Lab. Scott is the proud father of two children, and when not speaking around the world, he lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything you need can all be found at jeffreyshaw.com.  Remember, you might be in business FOR yourself but you are not in business BY yourself. Be your best self. Be proud and keep changing the world. Guest Contact – Website - Scare Your Soul Book - Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life Contact Jeffrey – SelfEmployedNewsletter.com JeffreyShaw.com Books by Jeffrey Shaw Business Coaching for Entrepreneurs Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share! Valuable Resources – The Self-Employed Business Institute You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support, and accountability. The Self-Employed Business Institute, a five-month online education is exactly what you need. Check it out! Take The Self-Employed Assessment! Ever feel like you're all over the place? Or frustrated it seems like you have everything you need for your business success but it's somehow not coming together? Take this short quiz to discover the biggest hidden gap that's keeping you from having a thriving Self-Employed Ecosystem. You'll find out what part of your business needs attention and you'll also get a few laser-focused insights to help you start closing that gap. Have Your Website Brand Message Reviewed! Is your website speaking the right LINGO of your ideal customers? Having reviewed hundreds of websites, I can tell you 98% of websites are not. Fill out the simple LINGO Review application and I'll take a look at your website. I'll email you a few suggestions to improve your brand message to attract more of your ideal customers. Fill out the application today and let's get your business speaking the right LINGO! Host Jeffrey Shaw is a Small Business Consultant, Brand Management Consultant, Business Coach for Entrepreneurs, Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker and author of LINGO and The Self Employed Life (May 2021). Supporting self-employed business owners with business and personal development strategies they need to create sustainable success.

Vince Lanci Explains What Recent UAE-Africa Gold Deal Means For Market Last week a United Arab Emirates company called Blaze Metals attained United Nations Global Compact participation status, and committed support for East Africa's precious metals value chain. What does it mean? And how will it impact the gold market? Vince Lanci explains in this mornings show. To find out more, and get caught up to speed with the latest precious emtals news, click to watch the video now! - To get access to Vince's research in 'Goldfix Premium' go to: https://vblgoldfix.substack.com/ - Today's show is brought to you with the support of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, who we encourage you to consider on your next precious metals purchase or sale! Take advantage of this week's Miles Franklin specials! Back Date Silver Austrian Philharmonics 1 oz: $3.10 over spot per ounce Back Date Gold Krugerrand 1 oz: $60 over spot per ounce Back Date Platinum Maple Leaf 1 oz: $80.00 over spot per ounce Contact us now at: 833-326-4653 Arcadia@MilesFranklin.com Arcadia is a licensed Miles Franklin broker, and we're happy to help with any of your precious metals questions, or put you in touch with Chris Marcus. - To join our free email list and never miss a video click here: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/email-signup/ - To get on the waiting list for your very own ´Silver Chopper Ben´ sterling silver figurine click here: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/get-a-chopper-ben/ - To get your paperback or audio copy of The Big Silver Short go to: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/thebigsilvershort/ Find Arcadia Economics content on these sites: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/ArcadiaEconomics Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/ArcadiaEconomics Bitchute - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/kgpeiwO1dhxX/ LBRY/Odysee - https://odysee.com/@ArcadiaEconomics:5 Listen to Arcadia Economics on your favorite Podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/75OH2PpgUpriBA5mYf5kyY Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arcadia-economics/id1505398976 Google-https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9teXNvdW5kd2lzZS5jb20vcnNzLzE2MTg5NTk1MjMzNDVz Anchor - https://anchor.fm/arcadiaeconomics Amazon - https://podcasters.amazon.com/podcasts Follow Arcadia Economics on these social platforms Twitter - https://twitter.com/ArcadiaEconomic Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/arcadiaeconomics/ #silver #silverprice And remember to get outside and have some fun every once in a while!:) (URL0VD) We do receive compensation from Miles Franklin from orders placed through our show. For our full disclaimer go to: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/disclaimer-miles-franklin-precious-metals/Subscribe to Arcadia Economics on Soundwise

Diplomacy and business have a big impact on our environment, particularly our oceans. On this episode of Breaking Waves, Johan speaks with Sanda Ojiambo, the CEO of the United Nations Global Compact, on the challenges and opportunities of sustainable ocean business practices. They touch on how the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) influence the ocean industry (1:23), how marine renewable energy sources like offshore wind can scale with an eye toward environmental justice (7:30), and the importance of small actions in achieving global impact for ocean conservation (19:54). Links for More Info: Sanda Ojiambo bio UN Global Compact UNDP Blog: What is a Just Transition?

Regenerative Leadership | Sustainability Strategy | Co-founder | Sustainable Development | Board Member Annemarie Meisling is a visionary leader who stands at the forefront of sustainable business and organizational development. Her career has included influential roles at Chr. Hansen and Novo Nordisk, where she worked on integrating sustainability into their core strategies, as well as engagements with the World Bank and COWI, focusing on sustainable development. Beyond her professional roles, Meisling has held leading board positions in key think tanks and industry organizations, including Danish Industries and the United Nations Global Compact, underscoring her commitment to driving sustainable practices across various sectors. Currently, as a partner in Koral, she is dedicated to using the power of organizations to regenerate society, the environment, and leadership styles, demonstrating her belief in the transformative potential of businesses to create meaningful change.In our interview, we discuss the concept of regenerative leadership, sustainability, and the next era for companies looking beyond profitability and into societal impact. Follow Annemarie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annemarie-meisling-24515a2/ Learn more about Koral: https://koral.business/meet-koral 

Trust Stamp Vice President Jonathan Patscheider joined Steve Darling from Proactive to unveil a significant milestone: Trust Stamp's acknowledgment as a full participant in the United Nations Global Compact. This prestigious recognition underscores the company's unwavering commitment to embracing sustainable and socially responsible practices, echoing the ethos of the Global Compact. Established in 2000, the United Nations Global Compact stands as a beacon for corporate sustainability endeavors on a global scale. With a reach extending across more than 160 countries, this voluntary initiative rallies businesses, NGOs, and various stakeholders toward the adoption of ethical policies and the transparent reporting of their execution. Trust Stamp's inclusion in this initiative signifies its dedication to embodying these principles. In his dialogue with Proactive, Patscheider emphasized Trust Stamp's diverse workforce, comprised of individuals representing 22 nationalities across four continents. This global perspective underscores the company's mission to foster both societal and financial inclusion through the implementation of cutting-edge AI-powered technologies. Central to the United Nations Global Compact are its Ten Principles, rooted in universally accepted standards pertaining to human rights, labor, environmental stewardship, and anti-corruption measures. Serving as a guiding framework, these principles empower companies to harmonize their operational strategies with broader societal aspirations, particularly the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As Trust Stamp embarks on this journey as a full-fledged participant in the United Nations Global Compact, it not only reaffirms its dedication to corporate responsibility but also positions itself as a catalyst for positive change on a global scale. Through collaborative efforts and innovative solutions, Trust Stamp strives to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of sustainable development and societal progress. #proactiveinvestors #truststamp #nasdaq #idai #globalsecure #datasecurity #privacyprotection #pertnership #UNGlobalCompact, #SustainableGoals, #IdentitySolutions, #EthicalTech, #AIforGood, #GlobalImpact, #HumanRights, #Transparency, #Accountability, #DataPrivacy, #EthicalDataUse, #TechForChange, #SocialInclusion, #EconomicMobility, #Empowerment, #PrivacyProtection, #ResponsibleTech, #CorporateResponsibility, #GlobalDevelopment, #UNSDGs, #Innovation, #TechEthics, #FutureTech, #CorporateGovernance#invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

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

Corporate responsibility, also known as corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate citizenship, refers to a company's commitment to addressing and managing its impact on society and the environment. Integrating social, environmental, and ethical considerations into a company's business practices and decision-making processes. Corporate responsibility extends beyond the pursuit of profit and encompasses a broader set of responsibilities towards stakeholders, including employees, customers, communities, suppliers, and shareholders. It recognises that businesses have a role in contributing to sustainable development, fostering positive social outcomes, and minimising negative environmental impacts. Critical areas of corporate responsibility often include:  1. Environmental Sustainability: Companies are expected to adopt practices that minimise their environmental footprint, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving resources, promoting renewable energy, and implementing waste management and recycling initiatives.  2. Ethical Business Practices: Conducting business with integrity, transparency, and fairness. Companies must adhere to ethical standards, combat corruption and bribery, and ensure responsible governance. 3. Social Impact and Community Engagement: Companies are encouraged to engage with and positively contribute to the communities in which they operate. This can include supporting local initiatives, investing in education and healthcare, promoting diversity and inclusion, and respecting human rights throughout their supply chains.  4. Employee Well-being and Development: Ensuring employees' well-being, safety, and fair treatment is an essential aspect of corporate responsibility. This involves providing a safe working environment, fair wages, equal opportunities, and supporting employee development and work-life balance.  5. Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue: Companies must engage in open and transparent dialogue with their stakeholders, including customers, investors, employees, and communities. This helps build trust, allows for feedback, and enables companies to understand and respond to societal expectations and concerns. 6. Responsible Supply Chain Management: Companies ensure that their supply chains operate ethically and sustainably. This includes monitoring suppliers for compliance with labour and environmental standards and addressing any issues.  Corporate responsibility is not only driven by ethical considerations but also by the recognition that responsible business practices can lead to long-term financial success. It can enhance a company's reputation, attract and retain talented employees, strengthen customer loyalty, and mitigate risks associated with environmental and social issues. Many companies now publish sustainability reports or CSR reports to communicate their commitments, goals, and progress in these areas, allowing stakeholders to assess their performance and hold them accountable. Additionally, various frameworks and standards, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United Nations Global Compact, and the new IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) Sustainability Disclosure Standards S1 are the general requirements for the disclosure of sustainability-related financial information and S2 climate-related disclosures which came into effect 1 January 2024.

Herzlich willkommen zu "Im Kreis gedacht" – dem Podcast für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in Unternehmen. Hier dreht sich alles um grüne Ideen, nachhaltige Strategien und die Wege, wie Unternehmen einen positiven Einfluss auf die Welt ausüben können. Host dieses Podcasts ist Laura Grotenrath selbstständige Nachhaltigkeitsberaterin und Gründerin von ⁠AGERE. Agentur für Nachhaltigkeit⁠. In jeder Episode tauchen wir tief in die Welt der Kreislaufwirtschaft, Sustainable Development Goals und nachhaltigen Geschäftspraktiken ein. Von Circular Economy über Nachhaltigkeits-Zertifizierungen und nachhaltige Führung bis hin zu konkreten Schritten für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen – wir bieten inspirierende Gespräche, Expert:innen-Einblicke und praxisnahe Tipps. Begleitet uns auf einer Reise durch innovative Lösungen, erfolgreiche Fallstudien und motivierende Interviews mit Spezialist:innen und Unternehmer:innen, die bereits für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in ihren Organisationen losgegangen sind. Egal, ob du Führungskraft, Unternehmer:in oder einfach an Nachhaltigkeitsthemen interessiert bist – "Im Kreis gedacht" bietet dir wertvolle Einblicke, um nachhaltige Veränderungen in deinem beruflichen Umfeld zu bewirken. Bleib in Kontakt auf ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠LinkedIn⁠ oder über die ⁠Website von AGERE⁠. Du hast Interesse an einer Zusammenarbeit? Vereinbare ein unverbindliches Kennlerngespräch, in dem wir dein Anliegen besprechen: ⁠https://calendly.com/lauragrotenrath⁠ Du möchtest Gast im Podcast werden? Schreib mir eine E-Mail mit deiner Themenidee an laura@agere-agentur.de Weitere Ressourcen zum Thema SDG: SDG Action Manager von B Lab und United Nations Global Compact. SDG Industry Matrix von UN Global Compact Reifegradmodell

Embark on a captivating journey through the depths of our oceans as we uncover the hidden wonders of seaweed with Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact and Director of the Food Programme  for the Lloyd's Register Foundation. Prepare to have your perceptions of this oceanic flora reshaped as Vincent guides us from its role in battling global hunger to its remarkable environmental advantages. Discover how this underappreciated resource could hold the key to a sustainable future, offering nutrient-rich alternatives to traditional crops and a solution to ecological challenges. Our conversation reveals the often-overlooked potential of the ocean's flora and why it deserves a prime spot in both our diets and agricultural strategies.As we wade deeper into the world of seaweed, we're not just talking about a plant; we're exploring an entire ecosystem's backbone that teems with life-sustaining properties. Vincent shares with us the exceptional nutritional profile of seaweed, its sustainability as a protein source, and debunks myths about its potential for toxin accumulation. We consider the environmental impact of seaweed farming, from its capacity to recapture nutrients and prevent ocean eutrophication to its role in a circular economy. This episode is an eye-opener for anyone concerned with the delicate balance of our planet's health and the quest for responsible, nutritious food sources.Finally, we celebrate the culinary renaissance of seaweed, savouring its unique umami flavor that's making waves in the gastronomy world. From traditional dishes to avant-garde cuisine, chefs are finding innovative ways to incorporate seaweed into their menus. This episode isn't just about advocating for a sustainable food source; it's about embracing the delicious diversity of our oceans. Whether you're a seasoned foodie or just beginning to navigate the seas of sustainable eating, there's a place at the table for you in the seaweed revolution. Join us for an enriching discussion that might just inspire your next meal or even a career in marine agriculture.Links:https://www.safeseaweedcoalition.org/https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seaweed-Revolution-Shaped-Past-Future/dp/1915643856https://twitter.com/doumeizel?lang=en-GBhttps://www.undercurrentstories.com/https://www.instagram.com/undercurrentstorieswww.undercurrentstories.com

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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

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles' Martin Holm speaks to Lise Kingo, an independent board director at Danone, Sanofi, and Covestro. Kingo, who served as chief of staff, executive vice president, and a member of the executive management team at Novo Nordisk and then held a five-year tenure as CEO and executive director of the United Nations Global Compact, implementing its Sustainable Development Goals, shares her insights on the private sector's role in addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges and explains the competitive advantages, economic and social, that companies can gain by purposefully implementing sustainability initiatives. She also shares ways to keep sustainability consistently at the top of the board's agenda, discusses driving impactful sustainability strategies in the life sciences sector in particular, and offers advice to CEOs and leaders who are looking for a clear path for themselves and their companies on sustainability on how they can start. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Intentionally Overheard, Chris and I talk about entrepreneurship, following one's passion, finding one's purpose, and living in the present. Chris' bio: With a 25+ year history in the music industry with Sony, driven and passionate entrepreneur Chris Stone founded the Podcast and Live Streaming Consultancy Cast Ahead after the success of his own co-hosted podcasts changed his life. At Cast Ahead, Chris thrives on enabling driven entrepreneurs, influencers, thoughtleaders and enterprises to express their story and elevate their reach.In the same way Chris was able to work with multi-platinum artists, record label executives and creatives of all levels – he's found great joy seeing other Live Streamers, Keynote Speakers and Podcasters achieve their own creative, financial, physical and spiritual success. He's produced videos for keynote speakers like Victor Antonio and Sam Silverstein, produced virtual, physical and hybrid live conferences for corporations, consulted, developed and produced podcasts like Sales Influence, The Big Ticket Life, The Sales Energizer, The Pete Primeau Show, Lancaster Connects and many more.Chris also co-hosts an Amazon Live show “Dealcasters” with Jim Fuhs of Fuhsion Marketing. Dealcasters are Livestreaming Amazon Influencers who interview experts and entrepreneurs while training Amazon customers how to overcome the fear of technology, start and flourish in their content creator journeys. In just over a year, Dealcasters have established themselves as a trusted authority not only in the live video and podcasting space, but also in the education of the Amazon Influencer program and the development of Influencers already on the platform. They've spoken on stages and virtually at PodFest Expo, VidFest Expo, StreamYard Industry Showcase, Agorapulse Agency Summit, MidWest Digital Marketing Conference, Social Media Week Lima and headed up an entire day at the PodFest & VidFest Global Conference for the Amazon Influencer Program.Chris also has led, assisted and coordinated remote livestream production teams with clients such as Disney, IBM, StreamYard, United Nations Global Compact, MIT, Toastmasters International, Jamaican Chamber Of Commerce and USABizParty which has included speakers such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Darren LaCroix and many more.“I truly believe that everyone deserves to be heard by using their own voice in their own way,” Chris states, “My goal is to be a team member with other passionate entrepreneurs & ambitious businesses by integrating podcasting and/or live streaming into their business goals, educate their customers in a creative way – whichwill in turn attract more listeners, viewers & customers.”

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Projects are instrumental in defining an organization's vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome's entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.  Table of Contents 02:23 … Green Project Management03:41 … Multifaceted Sustainability04:42 … The UN Sustainable Development Goals08:35 … Green vs. Sustainable Projects09:51 … The Lifecycle Impact of Projects12:09 … Barriers to Sustainability Adoption13:25 … Questions to Ask on a Project Kickoff15:40 … Ren Love: Projects of the Past17:49 … Changing Role of the Project Manager18:54 … Raising Awareness20:54 … How to Influence Stakeholders22:47 … How to Evaluate Impact24:30 … PRiSM Project Delivery Methodology26:02 … The P527:42 … P5 in Action30:24 … Project Managers can Affect Change31:37 … Contact Joel32:18 … Closing JOEL CARBONI: We're not being taught to think outside the box of initiate to close.  It's what is the impact of our work, and what happens beyond handover?  What happens at the end of the asset's lifecycle?  So when we look at green projects, it's are you taking a total asset lifecycle focus?  And that's what we have to do. WENDY GROUNDS:  Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers.  I'm Wendy Grounds.  With me in the studio are Bill Yates and our sound guy, Danny Brewer.  We're so excited that you're joining us, and we have a really interesting conversation today.  We're talking about Green Project Management. Our guest is Dr. Joel Carboni.  He holds a Ph.D. in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education.  In addition to serving as president emeritus of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) in the United States, Dr. Carboni is also the founder of GPM, Green Project Management.  And he's the GPM representative to the United Nations Global Compact, where he was a founding signatory of the Business for Peace initiative and the Anti-Corruption Call to Action.  And he's a contributor to the development of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. BILL YATES:  SDG is a Sustainable Development Goal.  We'll hear from Dr. Carboni that he actually worked with the United Nations to define those 17.  Just some quick examples of some of those.  One of those is climate action; another is clean water; another is no poverty.  A final example, quality education.  So those are some of the sustainable development goals that we'll refer to. Also Dr. Carboni is the creator of the PRiSM project delivery methodology.  We'll make reference to that and the P5 standard for sustainability in project management.  He's written training programs on green and sustainable project management that are offered to more than 145 countries.  He's the lead author of the book Sustainable Project Management, and he is a well-traveled man.  We are fortunate to catch up with him and get to talk to him today. WENDY GROUNDS:  Hi, Joel.  Welcome to Manage This. JOEL CARBONI:  Thank you.  It's good to be here. Green Project Management WENDY GROUNDS:  We are looking forward to getting into this topic.  I've been watching your website and been looking at Green Project Management for a while.  And I've always said, “Hey, I want to have Joel on the podcast.”  So I appreciate you being here.  Now, you've done a lot of work in sustainability.  You established Green Project Management.  Can you tell us a little bit more about your organization? JOEL CARBONI:  Yeah, sure.  So GPM, Green Project Management, we're a social enterprise.  And that sits in between a nonprofit and a for-profit company.  So what makes us unique is that a large portion of our income ...

Vincent Doumeizel is Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact as well as director of the Food Programme at the Lloyd's Register Foundation. Author of a new book titled "The Seaweed Revolution" which officially launched in the UK in May 2023, Vincent has in recent years devoted himself to promoting a food revolution and environmental solutions based on sea resources, especially seaweed. He also played an instrumental role in the creation and development of the Global Seaweed Coalition. * Check out the ⁠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 ⁠ * [1:40] Book launch of The Seaweed Revolution at the National History Museum in London. [4:00] Goals and expectations for the book and its unexpected impact so far. [11:30] Lessons and takeaways from researching and  writing this book. [15:00] European culture and the West's lost connection with seaweed and the ocean. [19:50] Why is nobody making money from seaweed, yet? [25:55] Adjustments and contingencies to put in place when starting a seaweed business. [27:45] Biorefining as key path toward profitability. [32:15] How to collaborate within the framework of the Global Seaweed Coalition. [38:50] Licencing issue and lack of science as biggest obstacles for the industry. [42:00] Seaweed application in the food industry: a model that could work for Europe. * Useful Links: Vincent Doumeizel on LinkedIn and Twitter United Nations Global Compact: Website, LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ Global Seaweed Coalition : Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram Lloyd's Register Foundation: Website⁠, ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠ and ⁠Facebook⁠ * Inside Seaweed's host is Fed DeGobbi, get in touch on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, or directly via ⁠email⁠. Please send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think!

In this special episode of the Thinkers & Ideas podcast, we invited Sir Partha Dasgupta and Simon Levin – co-authors of the forthcoming report "Economic Factors Underlying Biodiversity Loss" – and Georg Kell to discuss a topic often overlooked in sustainability discussions: biodiversity. They discuss gaps in our current thinking, a potential path forward, how to measure our progress along it – and the role corporations must play in all this.Sir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is widely regarded as the world's most influential expert on development economics and ecological economics, and is the author of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review (2021).Simon Levin is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Medal of Science, for his international leadership and critical contributions to environmental science and ecology.Georg Kell is the founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, and Chairman of Arabesque Partners.Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, they discuss the importance of ecosystem services to our well-being and the impacts of human activity on biodiversity. Moreover, they discuss inclusive wealth and other measures that can be used to change incentive structures and track our progress on sustainability issues. Finally, they point out what businesses and governments must do to increase awareness and engagement on biodiversity matters.Key topics discussed: 02:28 | How are humans impacting nature, specifically biodiversity?04:08 | The distinction between natural goods and natural services07:02 | Is biodiversity and the natural impact issue on the radar screens of business?09:03 | Are we at a point of no return? How would we know if we are?10:50 | Do we in fact look after biodiversity by looking after the climate?12:42 | Inclusive wealth vs. GDP18:18 | How can governments and companies begin to act on the problem of the encroachment on natural systems?26:41 | What can we learn from our limited successes on massive collective action problems and how we might practically orchestrate this agenda?This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

In this latest ESG Quick Takes podcast episode, ESG Book's Isabel Verkes speaks to Georg Kell, Founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact. In this episode, Georg tells the story of the creation of the Global Compact, which he established as the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, and discusses the evolution of ESG as well as the trends that will shape the future of the sustainability and net-zero transition. https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgkell/2023/04/06/the-role-of-voluntary-business-initiatives-in-an-era-of-political-fragmentation/

Mirry Christie is a Brand and Marketing Director turned Sustainability Consultant who's been helping furniture and lifestyle brand OKA to not only become a more sustainable business, but also to inspire their customers to create sustainable homes. OKA was founded in 1999, and now sells via their Magento site, magazines, and showrooms across the UK and USA.In this episode we discuss:Bringing cost-savings to the business by being sustainableAttracting customers, investors and employees with your missionGetting key stakeholders and team members aligned to implement the strategyHow a good place to start is material assessment and start benchmarking your progressBeing actively transparent about your journey towards positive changeFitting in with the global strategy by following the United Nations Global Compact and the Sustainable Development goalsCheck out Tidio >> https://ecmp.info/tidio use code 'ECMP' for an exclusive discount Apply to join Chloe's Free eCommerce Club! >> https://ecmp.info/clubCheckout AppSumo >> https://ecmp.info/appsumo Get all the links and resources we mention & join our email list at eCommerceMasterPlan.comLove the show? Chloe would love your feedback - leave a review here: https://ratethispodcast.com/masterplan This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy

Chao Cheng Shorland is the co-founder and CEO of ShelterZoom, a leading blockchain-based, smart-document SaaS provider. She was interviewed by The New York Times about ShelterZoom's blockchain technology that was used by a Vatican library to preserve manuscripts. Their latest product, Document GPS is an extension that enables users to track their email attachments and revoke access, even after a recipient has opened the email. Chao was named Female Innovator of the Year in 2019 by the Women World Awards. Under her leadership, ShelterZoom won a Top 50 Startup award at the WorldFestival 2021 Innovation Awards. Besides that, the company has been accepted into the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, United Nations Global Compact.Connect with Behind Company Lines and HireOtter Website Facebook Twitter LinkedIn:Behind Company LinesHireOtter Instagram Buzzsprout

Topic : The Power of Strategic Planning Dr Mercy is the CEO and President of Equipped for Excellence Women's Ministry International. A conglomerate Women's ministry birthed in 2009. The organization transcends denominational and cultural, barriers in Supporting ,Training , Equipping, Inspiring and Empowering marginalized women and the girl child. She is a Transformational Humanitarian advocating for Women's Wellbeing through faith based community programs. She is a promoter of the welfare of marginalized women, ensuring equitable access to information and entitlements for foreign women in the Diaspora. DTM as she's fondly known is described as a “Relentless Destiny Shaper” by the community of women she serves who are victims of discrimination, victims of the criminal justice system and victims of human trafficking. Dr Tsitsi Mercy wears many hats that are diverse and community work based. She provides voluntary support programs for Women of Faith Behind Bars (WFBB) Dr Mercy was appointed Governor in her Local Authority in Wales. She works closely with young adults ensuring there is clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction. DTM is ranked among UK's Inspiring and Influential Women. Through her active leadership roles in diverse communities and advocating for women and girls empowerment programs, including her involvement in Global Peace, Dr Tsitsi Mercy Chieza is an award winning recipient of The Wise Women Awards. She a Finalist of Women 4 Africa as Humanitarian. She was conferred a PhD Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humanity by Universal Global Peace and United Nations Global Compact. Her greatest honor is her calling to Preach the Undiluted & Uncompromising Gospel of Jesus Christ. She is Wife, a Mother, Grandmother and Jesus Lover. website: mercyc@equippedforexcellence.org.uk

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.  

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Clarke Murphy about sustainability as a leadership competence and turning sustainability pledges into everyday practices. See the video here: https://youtu.be/6UqZctfFVMM. Clarke Murphy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkemurphy/) is the former CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates. He advises the world's top companies on leadership strategies that fuel profitable growth and value for all stakeholders. He is dedicated to helping CEOs and boards embrace the sustainability agenda and use their position to solve the greatest social and economic challenges of our time. His work on sustainable leadership has been published by Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum. Murphy has spoken at the United Nations Global Compact's Leaders Summit and the World Economic Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Summit. His own journey to sustainability began with a near death experience: a boat he was on nearly collided with a discarded shipping container bobbing in the sea. He co-hosts the Redefiners podcast. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon and leaving a review wherever you listen to your podcasts! Check out BELAY here. Check out Backblaze at www.backblaze.com/hci. Head over to setapp.com/podcast to listen to Ahead of Its Time. Check out BetterHelp.com/HCI to explore plans and options! Go to cardiotabs.com/innovations and use code innovations to get a free Mental Health Pack featuring Cardiotabs Omega-3 Lemon Minis and Curcumin when you sign up for a subscription. Check out Zapier.com/HCI to explore their business automations! Check out the HCI Academy: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn Alchemizing Human Capital Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Future Leader. Check out Dr. Westover's book, 'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine. Ranked #5 Workplace Podcast Ranked #6 Performance Management Podcast Ranked #7 HR Podcast Ranked #12 Talent Management Podcast Ranked in the Top 20 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts  Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 592296) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“We want to make sure the contribution we make is a positive one in the world.” Joanna Jaramillo (33:57-34:00) You've probably seen Wholesum's ripe, organic Poppies or Darlings snacking tomatoes, Persian cucumbers, or bright and crisp bell peppers when shopping for groceries, but did you know Wholesum's produce is 100% fresh, organic, responsibly grown, they use 100% renewable energy on their farms, and the company has a decade under their belt of being fair trade certified? A true, progressive leader in the agriculture industry, Wholesum was one of the first to dedicate their entire farming portfolio to organic food back in the 90's!    Their commitment to making a positive impact on our planet is even more impressive. Wholesome has committed to the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 12, and they publish a report every year to showcase their successes, but also be held accountable by all stakeholders as a way to identify opportunities for improvement. It's not too often you find a company who's so willing to be criticized by all of their stakeholders, whether it's the communities they work in, their employees, their suppliers, customers or consumers. The report captures data across the board of Wholesum's farming operations, such as their energy use, renewable and non-renewable outputs, water recirculation, waste management ,recycling, social impact, gender equality and the impact of fair trade on their farms.    “What moved my soul when I experienced Wholesum was to see how these fair trade premiums were spent, and to see how this one farming operation, this one brand, the cucumbers I buy at Whole Foods, turn into real funds that the workers can vote on where they want their money to be spent.” Lori Taylor (3:13-3:38)    In 2018, Wholesum made a commitment to the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, which is when they decided to commit to Goal 5 and 12 of the Sustainable Development Goals. We've talked to several stakeholders in the UN's SDGs in previous episodes, but if you aren't familiar, these are a set of 17 goals developed by the United Nations to get businesses and government agencies to collaborate on solving some of the world's biggest problems. The 17 SDGs are:  No poverty  Zero hunger  Good health and well-being  Quality education  Gender equality  Clean water and sanitation  Affordable and clean energy  Decent work and economic growth  Industry, innovation and infrastructure  Reduced inequalities  Sustainable cities and communities  Responsible consumption and production  Climate action  Life below water  Life on land  Peace, justice and strong institutions  Partnerships for the goals    Although Wholesum's core values align with each of these goals, and they want to ensure they are measurably making an impact towards all 17, they decided to focus on Goal 5, gender equality, and Goal 12 responsible consumption and production, because they knew they could make a direct impact towards these on their farms. As they continue to report yearly and build a roadmap of progress, they can take on more of the SDGs and incorporate them into their operations.    “Gender equality is a basic human right. We need to make sure that we, as a company, are respecting both men and women. There have been inequities for women in farming in the past, and so we need to shed light on those and be the progressive company we are and move forward to acknowledging these problems and doing something about it.” Joanna Jaramillo (23:18-23:53)   There are many ways Wholesum is ensuring gender equality is available across their entire operation. For one, they're focused on providing equal pay, equal opportunities, and no violence or harassment is promoted in the company culture. They're also well aware of the duties many women have in their household when they're off from work, so Wholesum is starting projects to promote work-life balance.   During one of their needs assessments, they found that many women weren't going to the doctor regularly because they didn't want to take time off work or were waiting until they felt sick. Wholesum is now setting up mobile clinics on site so women can have their regular check ups and are educated on the importance of preventative care. They're also building certain pathways for personal development and promoting from within the company for more women to have leadership opportunities. Even Joanna herself started as the Marketing Coordinator in 2018 and is now the Marketing Manager!    “It's a very difficult task to go through each of these 17 goals and determine how to work towards achieving them all at once.” Joanna Jaramillo (17:49-18:01)   To make an impact with SDG 12, Wholesum looks at all of their inputs, all the way down to the twine they use on their cucumbers or the labels that go on their tomato packages. Everything is classified as renewable or nonrenewable and by measuring these facts, they're able to identify what they can replace or reduce. One of Joanna's responsibilities is looking into packaging design, which can be a challenging and complex situation. For example, she found a packaging item that was very sustainable, but when they tested on their product, the shelf life majorly reduced, which would lead to more food waste – a packaging paradox.    Wholesum has been actively creating a positive impact and evolving their company for three generations, ever since their first tomato seed was planted in New Mexico. Hopefully other companies and stakeholders are inspired to create their own changes and work towards goals like the SDGs by following Wholesum's lead in progressive impact. You can find Wholesum's Conscientious Company Report and keep up with their amazing progress by visiting their Instagram, LinkedIn or website!  How to get involved Join The Produce Moms Group on Facebook and continue the discussion every week!  Reach out to us - we'd love to hear more about where you are in life and business! Find out more here.    If you liked this episode, be sure to subscribe and leave a quick review on iTunes. 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We talk to Suzanne Johnson, Senior Advisor at United Nations Global Compact and Head of Sustainability Program for LLoyd's Register Foundation. We talk about what happened at the recent UN Oceans conference and what investors should know about the ocean and how our livelihoods, markets and lives are tied to it.

Nutritics, the market leader in food service technology, are pleased to announce that we have joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative — a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible business practices. With this announcement, Nutritics is proud to be one of the first fifty Irish organisations to join the global network of thousands of companies who are committed to taking responsible business action to create the world we all want. Nutritics are honoured to be the 6th Irish company in the ‘software and computer services' category to join the UN Global Compact Initiative. The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 15,000 companies and 3,800 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 69 Local Networks. Discussing Nutritics recent acceptance Damian O'Kelly, Nutritics CEO noted “Sustainability needs to become integrated into all aspects of a business, across all operations, roles and strategies. The UN Global Compact provides an opportunity for businesses to be transparent and accountable on their progress, and we are delighted that Nutritics has been accepted. It is an exciting time, and we are looking forward to seeing how our technology can accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future, particularly in the hospitality and food service sector”. As a Participant of the initiative, Nutritics encourage you to visit our profile on the UN Global Compact website. Dr Laura Kirwan, Nutritics Lead Sustainability Coordinator said: “At Nutritics, we are proud to be accepted as a member of the UN Global Compact, and we look forward to further embedding the Ten Principles into our strategies and operations, with a particular focus on the environmental pillars, as well as efforts to support societal priorities. This is an important milestone in the transition to sustainable business for Nutritics”. As part of the company's continued innovation focus, Nutritics are actively developing software to facilitate strategic climate action food businesses and to streamline communication to consumers. Foodprint is a fully automated, easy-to-use environmental impact scoring, display and emission reporting system for the hospitality and food service (HaFS) sector. To learn more about Foodprint, set to launch on the 22nd June 2022, visit our website or sign up for our webinar. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

#011 In today's episode, get ready for a fresh perspective on the Business Case for DEI, as we welcome Amelia Huix, Advisor for Gender Equality at the United Nations Global Compact. In 2015, the United Nations announced a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by our societies at large by 2030. Gender Equality for all women across the globe is one of them. This means achieving diverse, equitable and inclusive workplaces and businesses. The UN Global Compact gathers business organizations committed to the SDGs. We explore with Amelia how the SDGs are a tool to foster commitment, accountability and transparency for gender equality and DEI in the business field. We discuss how the SDGs participate in building a new social justice case for DEI that goes beyond the business case. We talk about the role that companies and business leaders are expected to play today as social agents of the XXIst century. Are the SDGs the change in paradigme that we need in order to see real and sustainable DEI in all aspects of our economies and societies? Can they gather the buy-in that the business case doesn't manage to get? Do not hesitate to follow Amelia Huix on LinkedIn (@Amelia Huix) to continue following her journey as a DEI leader. You can visit her website (http://amelialopezhuix.com/) to learn more about her work as an advisor for achieving the SDG Target Gender Equality, and finally, you can check out the UN Global Compact for more information on how your organization can become a member (https://www.unglobalcompact.org/) This season, we're partnering with Mixity.co, the first digital HR solution for assessing, managing and promoting D&I in businesses of all lines and sizes. Mixity gives you a 360-degree view of your D&I footprint on 5 dimensions: gender equality, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, cultural and social origins, and age. Be sure to check out their website for more information: https://www.mixity.co/

INTRODUCTION What if I told you that seaweed offers a lot of innovative and untapped opportunities for your packaging, our planet, and its people?  That's what the company Notpla has explored with success with their all compostable and seaweed-based packaging portfolio such as edible bubble of water, oil, or juice, as well as paper boxes, food sachets, and films.  In this episode, I had the pleasure to interview Sébastien Bregeaud, the director of manufacturing at Notpla. He has worked for many years in packaging and sustainability with big brands. I enjoyed how Sébastien highlighted the importance of designing for the application and the context.  You will learn aboutthe amazing seaweeds' properties;new forms of fully compostable packaging and coating without traditional plastic or PLA;and some key points in terms of tech, education, and partnership. Ready to dive into the seaweed subject for packaging? RESOURCES MENTIONED AND RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE"My Octopus Teacher" on Netflix: Craig Foster, a filmmaker, forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.The book published in 2022: "La révolution des algues" ("The seaweed revolution") by Vincent Doumeizel, a Senior Advisor in Ocean & Food at the United Nations Global Compact, and the Director of Food Programme at Lloyd's Register Foundation.Different organizations to be partner with: The Safe Seaweed Coalition, Canopy, Algaia, and Seaweed for Europe.Our reminder to participate in our #FollowingTheMessage contest (in 2022): https://www.look4loops.com/following-the-message-contestSébastien also answered the question formulated in Episode #15: Segmenting 7 motivations to better reach your market by Lindsey Boyle of Circular Citizen. WHERE TO FIND SÉBASTIEN AND NOTPLAThe Notpla website: https://www.notpla.com/Their social media:https://www.facebook.com/notpla/https://www.instagram.com/notpla/https://twitter.com/notplahttps://www.linkedin.com/company/notpla/The LinkedIn profile of Sebastien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-bregeaud-9390524/ ABOUT SÉBASTIEN BREGEAUD FROM NOTPLASébastien is a senior R&D and Operations leader with extensive Packaging sustainability and Food & Beverages manufacturing experience. After having spent 15 years in various roles in operations, packaging development, and sustainability in FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) industry, Sebastien joins Notpla on their mission to make packaging disappear. Passionate about sustainability, and keen to make a positive impact, he is now leading a team of enthusiastic engineers & chemists who create advanced packaging solutions made from seaweed and other natural materials, as an alternative to single-use plastics. PODCAST MUSICSpecial thanks to Joachim Regout who made the jingle. Have a look at his work here. I am happy to bring a sample of our strong bonds on these sound waves. Since I was a child, he made me discover a wide range of music of all kinds. I am also delighted he is a nature lover and shares the Look4Loops 'out of the box philosophy'. He is an inspiring source of creativity for me. 

Today we get to speak with Chris Stone. With a 25+ year history in the music industry with Sony, driven and passionate entrepreneur Chris Stone founded the Podcast and Live Streaming Consultancy Cast Ahead after the success of his own co-hosted podcasts changed his life. At Cast Ahead, Chris thrives on enabling driven entrepreneurs, influencers, thought leaders, and enterprises to express their stories and elevate their reach while extending their efficiency in that process. Chris also co-hosts Dealcasters, an Amazon Live show with Jim Fuhs of Fuhsion Marketing where they interview experts and entrepreneurs while training Amazon customers on how to overcome the fear of technology and start and flourish in their content creator journeys. In just over a year, Dealcasters have established themselves as a trusted authority not only in the live video and podcasting space but also in the education of the Amazon Influencer program and the development of Influencers already on the platform. They've spoken on stage and virtually at PodFest Expo, VidFest Expo, StreamYard Industry Showcase, Agorapulse Agency Summit, Midwest Digital Marketing Conference, Social Media Week Lima, and others. Dealcasters also collaborate as remote live producers and have led, assisted and coordinated production teams with clients such as IBM, StreamYard, United Nations Global Compact, MIT, Toastmasters International, Glasko Smith Kline (GSK), Jamaican Chamber Of Commerce, Sphinx International, and USABizParty, which have included speakers such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Darren LaCroix and many more. Our Guest Chris Stone Website: CastAhead.Contact (Company Website) Website : ChrisStone.Contact (Company Website) Website: castahead.net (Company Website) LinkedIn : linkedin.com/in/chrisstoneatl Hacks to Take Away Chris shared different ways to invest in your business. Time is money. Spending time with your family living the life that you choose. Hire somebody to do something and give that person a better career. If you create a show that you're passionate about, you're going to create a tribe of people that will listen to you and follow you. You have to understand what the purpose is. Surround yourself with other people that help and sharpen your irons, you have a desire to do things. Let's get started with your Home Studio! Be ready for live streaming, zoom calls, and creating content. Let me help you build a space that helps you gain confidence in front of the lens. Book a call here for a free consultation: http://hacksandhobbies.com/booking --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hacksandhobbies/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hacksandhobbies/support

Guest: Valentina Kordi. Valentina is a Certified Mindset & High-Performance Coach for Executives, Teams & Entrepreneurs, International Motivational Speaker, TEDx speaker, and an author. She has 10 years of experience as an Executive & Business Coach having coached businesspersons and C-level executives from SME up to big multinational companies such as Microsoft, Novartis, Coca-Cola, Unilever, and others worldwide to achieve their corporate and professional goals, build their leadership skills and manage effectively changes in individual and team level, by changing their mindset and behaviors, after having worked herself for 15 years as an Executive in multinational companies. Her book «Success is a mind game» has become a best-seller. She collects many awards, such as the International Women of Courage 2021 Award from the International Human Rights Advisory Council, a member of the United Nations Global Compact, which is dedicated to Mother Teresa. The Brainz 500 Global Award by Brainz Magazine and was honored to be listed on the list of

Valentina Kordi, Certified Mindset & High-Performance Coach is an International Motivational Speaker, TEDx speaker and an author. She has 10 years of experience as an Executive & Business Coach having coached executives from multinational companies such as Microsoft, Novartis, Coca-Cola, Nissan Motor Corporation, Unilever and Sephora. Her book "Success is a mind game" is a best-seller. Valentina studied Business Administration in Newport University of California, holds a Master's degree in Human Resource Management from City Unity College, is a Ph.D. Candidate Doctor of Philosophy in Conscious Business Ethics at the University of Sedona and is studying for a MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. She is a Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) member and Affiliate Coach member of Institute of Coaching McLean/Harvard Medical School. In 2020, she was listed in ICAP Group's Leading Women of Business in Greece and recently was awarded with the International Women of Courage 2021 Award from the International Human Rights Advisory Council, a member of the United Nations Global Compact, which is dedicated to Mother Teresa. Learn more about here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinakordi/ Website: https://valentinakordi.com Email: info@valentinakordi.com Shout-out: Today's Diversity Leader Shout-out goes to Iakovos Kargarotos, Corporate Affairs Director at Papastratos S.A. Music: Intro - Vente by Mamá Patxanga is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Outro - Amor Y Felicidad by SONGO 21 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/si-suite/message

Valentina Kordi, Certified Mindset & High-Performance Coach is an International Motivational Speaker, TEDx speaker and an author. She has 10 years of experience as an Executive & Business Coach having coached executives from multinational companies such as Microsoft, Novartis, Coca-Cola, Nissan Motor Corporation, Unilever and Sephora. Her book "Success is a mind game" is a best-seller. Valentina studied Business Administration in Newport University of California, holds a Master's degree in Human Resource Management from City Unity College, is a Ph.D. Candidate Doctor of Philosophy in Conscious Business Ethics at the University of Sedona and is studying for a MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. She is a Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) member and Affiliate Coach member of Institute of Coaching McLean/Harvard Medical School. In 2020, she was listed in ICAP Group's Leading Women of Business in Greece and recently was awarded with the International Women of Courage 2021 Award from the International Human Rights Advisory Council, a member of the United Nations Global Compact, which is dedicated to Mother Teresa. Learn more about here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinakordi/ Website: https://valentinakordi.com Email: info@valentinakordi.com Shout-out: Today's Diversity Leader Shout-out goes to Iakovos Kargarotos, Corporate Affairs Director at Papastratos S.A. Music: Intro - Vente by Mamá Patxanga is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Outro - Amor Y Felicidad by SONGO 21 is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/si-suite/message

In this episode of Fairygodboss Radio, Romy is joined by Kenzie Ferguson, Vice President of Foundation and Corporate Social Responsibility for Delta Dental of California. Kenzie shares her unconventional career journey into the corporate world, how she navigated being one of the only women at a male-dominated tech company, and how her willingness to learn and try new things brought her to where she is today. [Recorded on October 19, 2021] Kenzie Ferguson is Vice President of Foundation and Corporate Social Responsibility for Delta Dental of California. Kenzie provides strategic vision and direction to Delta Dental's charitable and philanthropic giving, community service and associated CSR programs in conjunction with the enterprise's mission of advancing dental health and access to care through exceptional dental benefits, service, technology and professional support. Kenzie brings to Delta Dental of California more than a decade of experience managing corporate giving and CSR programs. She built TE Connectivity's CSR department, which coordinated the extensive environmental, safety, workplace, governance and community-related programs within the company. Under Ferguson's leadership, TE Connectivity signed on to the United Nations Global Compact, was recognized by Newsweek in its Top 100 Green Rankings, donated millions of dollars to a variety of in-need organizations throughout the world and achieved a listing on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America. Most recently, she has been consulting with nonprofits and women-owned small businesses in Morocco and France. Kenzie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Master of Business Administration degree from Nyenrode University, and is a PhD student at the International School of Business in Paris.

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from NYC, NY by Jack Azagury, Senior Management Director – Market Unit Lead – US Northeast at Accenture. Jack is responsible for clients, people, offices, community involvement, and financial performance across the region. Leading more than 10,000 people in the Northeast; he focuses on bringing continuous innovation to clients, attracting, and retaining top talent and strengthening Accenture's impact in the local communities. Prior to his current role, Jack led Accenture's Resources business in North America, oversaw Accenture's North America utilities business, served as the global lead for Accenture's Smart Grid Services business, and led Accenture's Management Consulting practice for North America Resources and Accenture's North America utilities strategy practice. In this episode, Jack Azagury and Professor Bhattacharya discuss: • The recent study by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture • Accenture's commitment to achieve a gender-balanced workforce by 2025 • Changes in ESG measurement and disclosure Sign up to receive weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod

The world's largest hotel company plans to juggle global growth over the next few decades with a major step forward in its sustainability efforts. Marriott International CEO Anthony Capuano announced September 22, 2021 at Skift Global Forum a company plan to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than 2050. The measure would follow criteria and recommendations of the Science Based Targets initiative — a partnership among climate non-profit CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute, and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Listen now for the full interview with Skift's Cameron Sperance Read more coverage of the hotel industry at skift.com/hotels  

Świadomość tego, co się dzieje wokół nas, to pierwszy krok do zmiany. Na jaką zatem zmianę czeka świat? Czy powinniśmy się bać sztucznej inteligencji? Czy prof. Stephen Hawking miał rację i jedyną szansą na przetrwanie ludzkości będzie ucieczka na Marsa? Na te i wiele innych pytań odpowiadają nasi goście: Aleksandra Przegalińska - naukowczyni, badaczka sztucznej inteligencji związana z Akademią Leona Koźmińskiego i MIT, oraz Kamil Wyszkowski, prezes rady United Nations Global Compact, organizacji zajmującej się współpracą ONZ z biznesem na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju.

In Episode 4 of Series 5 of the Rights Track, Todd is talking with Elaine Michel-Hill and  Arianne Griffith. Elaine is the business and human rights lead at Marshalls plc, a leading hard landscape company serving both the commercial and domestic construction markets with multiple operating sites in the UK and supply chains across the globe. Arianne leads the Rights Lab Modern Slavery Evidence Unit's (MSEU) deployment of research for business application. Her work also focuses on effective law and policy to tackle modern slavery in supply chains and the application of business and human rights frameworks to the anti-slavery agenda. Together with Todd they discuss the connections between the UN Sustainable Goals SDG 8.7 on tackling modern slavery and SDG 12 on sustainable consumption and production patterns.   00.00 – 02.17 Elaine outlines the work of Marshalls plc, a major supplier of construction products including natural stone. She explains that most of the natural stone is sourced outside of the UK in over 30 countries including Brazil, China, India and Vietnam and notes that it is in these operations and its supply chains, where there is the greatest risk of human rights abuses.   02.17 – 07.15 Elaine describes how, over a number of years, she has closely observed the quarrying process at first hand. Most stone originates from quarries they operate and the company has a dialogue with local operators to understand local labour contexts. They also source stone on the open market where that dialogue is less possible. In the quarries operated by Marshalls, for example in India, all stone extraction is mechanised and over the last 15 years the labour requirement has noticeably reduced. However, she is aware that hand labour is still extensively used in other quarries. As a result of work with local suppliers the use of child labour is less obvious. However, she suspects it still exists, out of sight, and has strong connections to bonded labour and forced labour.   07.15 – 11.40 Arianne reviews a range of information and guidance for both states and companies and points to 2011 as a significant turning point in relation to corporate business and supply chains with the unanimous adoption by the Human Rights Council of the Guiding Principles on business and human rights. They gave rise to a number of instruments and resources and outline: the duty of states to protect human rights the duty of companies to respect human rights the joint duty of both to find remedies to abuses of human rights This has led to two significant advances: It gave companies a framework on which to build policy Companies began to discuss the issues with one another and state actors In terms of delivering on the guidelines, corporate responsibility exists irrespective of the state's capacity to deliver protection of human rights. Although the guidelines are not binding, in Arianne's view companies are increasingly accepting responsibility to meet them. She points out that the OECD guidelines for multi-national enterprises provide a slightly different framework. In Arianne's view, however, there is a real need for legislation at the national level. 11.40 – 15.19 Elaine's experience is that even without legislation companies can develop a responsible approach to human rights. Her own company, she points out were early signatories to the United Nations Global Compact. Its value was: The framework for action it provided It was an expression of public commitment to the spirit of the Compact  The existing “philanthropic” culture within the company made the process of embedding the ideas and developing policies relatively straightforward. This also has benefits for maintaining a good reputation with customers; a process Elaine describes as commercialising an approach to sustainability. This protects the long-term viability of the company, and is essential if human rights are to be supported. 15.19 – 19.26 The UK Modern Slavery Act  brought a real focus to the company's approach to human rights. Its aim is to engage with the spirit of the law, not just compliance. It is publishing its fifth statement on modern slavery It engages in full and transparent reporting of its activities and has evolved an increasing range of indicators and evidence Evidence of training with suppliers Evidence of improvements to due diligence A modern slavery report Details of collaborative projects Details of (human rights) risk profiles for different countries to justify policies Details of spending, and volumes of production across its operations It also reports on collaborative projects such as the IOM programme in Vietnam. 19.26 – 21.36 All agree, transparency, or lack of it, is a key issue. Arianne's view is that there is a limited level of engagement beyond a narrow compliance with the law. Whilst the Modern Slavery Act has brought about significant change, and served to create a more level playing field across the corporate world, companies need to do much more. 21.36 – end A discussion around the impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic. Elaine's view is that given the extreme pressures on companies, vulnerable workers have become more vulnerable and considerations of human rights have been pushed to one side. It shows a need to: Check that modern slavery statements reflect the changed situation Build more resilience in the system Re-double due diligence.  It also points to the need for greater transparency particularly where the corporate sector and the informal sector (criminal activity, corruption, trafficking) merge, but Elaine questions whether there are limits to how much transparency can be achieved.

This episode highlights the importance of creating businesses with purpose and sustainability as our world shifts for the better! In September 2015, world leaders gathered to officially implement the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which universally set to mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities, and tackle climate change, by year 2030. Your host Rachael leads a phone interview with Ann Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of UN Partnerships at SAP & the Global Head of SAP Next-Gen. Ann also manages a global team of 120 people in 117 countries for the SAP University Alliances. Her main responsibility at SAP Next Gen is partnering with key organizations, world leaders, and supporting the Global Goals for a prosperous, sustainable future for all. Here are the topics addressed and timestamps: 2:00 Introduction to Ann Rosenberg; Importance of Purpose Driven Business and Technology 8:37 United Nations Global Goals, Current Businesses that Align, How Companies Are Shifting 19:58 Current Sustainable Markets, Shifts in Denmark Compared to U.S., Three Important Changes towards Sustainability 30:01 Causes that Lead to Pivotal Change, Consumer Shifts, and Optimism for the Future Be sure to share this episode with your friends and family!! Remember to follow us @thebigideabox @thelabmiami on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Connect with our host and guest @ranch.rachael @ann.rosenberg @sapnextgen Give us feedback with this link: bit.ly/2C3fwFj and enjoy the show!! Show Notes: Ann Rosenberg; SAP; SAP Next Gen; United Nations 17 Global Goals (SDG); Davos 2020 World Economic Forum; United Nations Global Compact; The LAB Miami

Built on the values of trust, innovation, partnership, and performance, Patsy Doerr leads Thomson Reuters as the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion.  Thomson Reuters is considered The Answer Company that empowers leaders in taking confident action to advance their business and gain a competitive advantage in their industry. With a global team of over 45,000 professionals, Thomson Reuters brings together crucial information and authoritative insight to unravel complex situations. Looking for trustworthy answers related to independent journalism, human rights, women's empowerment, or the rule of law?  Join in on the conversation with Thomson Reuters to learn more about how they are supporting the Sustainable Development Goals as members of the United Nations Global Compact. - - - - - For more information on Thomson Reuters, visit: www.thomsonreuters.com

On January 29th, Bard MBA in Sustainability spoke with Margaret Fenwick, Manager of Environment and Climate at the United Nations Global Compact, the UN's corporate responsibility initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals. (over 12,000 participants in 170 countries).  She will be discussing the UNGC's Caring for Climate program. Fenwick will discuss the UNGC's Caring for Climate program, which endeavors to help prevent a climate change crisis worldwide by mobilizing a critical mass of business leaders to implement and recommend climate change solutions and policies. The initiative helps companies to advance practical solutions, share experiences, inform public policy as well as shape public attitudes in an effort to mitigate a climate crisis. According to Bard MBA Director, Eban Goodstein, “Businesses have a unique opportunity, and responsibility, to be at the forefront of developing climate change solutions.”Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability program for our twice-monthly dial-in podcast series over your lunchtime featuring sustainability leaders from the New York City area and across the planet.Sustainable Business Fridays convenes every first and fourth Friday of the month during the semester, with special guests selected by students in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program.