Neely Powell Founder & CEO, Charleston Shoe Company Industry: Fashion, retail, and accessories WPO Member-at-Large WPO Member Since: 2017 How has being a WPO member helped your business? Being a WPO Member has connected me with some of the smartest, most thoughtful and generous women. It’s such an incredible community of knowledge sharing, and the ability to bounce … Continue reading WPO Member of the Moment: Neely Powell
By Phil LaDuke, Thrive Global I wish someone told me how difficult it is to raise money as a woman, even with a successful business. When I first tried to move forward on my management buyout, the investment banker involved was so condescending that aside from the negative remarks he made, he never took my interest … Continue reading Margery Kraus: “As a leader, every action you take is amplified”
Regi Wahyu is a data-entrepreneur transforming smallholder farming in Indonesia and beyond. He is the co-founder of HARA and an Ashoka Fellow since 2018. We spoke to him as part
Regi Wahyu is a data-entrepreneur transforming smallholder farming in Indonesia and beyond. He is the co-founder of HARA and an Ashoka Fellow since 2018.
Government wage subsidies for disabled and vulnerable workers could be drastically scaled back from August under Treasury plans to wind down its Covid-19 furlough scheme, employers’ groups have warned. Charities and
Bridges Fund Management Demonstrates the Value of Multi-Stakeholder Approach and Builds the B Corp CommunityLondon based Bridges Fund Management is a pioneer in the impact investing space.For the more than 3,300 companies around the world that are Cert...
“We have the unprecedented opportunity to push the reset button, redesign, and rebuild a new version of capitalism. But this time, the scales will have shifted so that more of us will be equipped with something we didn’t share before: empathy.”As noted...
Denmark and Canada Provide Varying Examples of Market Shift Toward Clean Energy(Photo by Adolfo Félix on Unsplash)This article highlights edited excerpts from a podcast created by the Network for Business Sustainability, a growing network of more than ...
How Businesses Can Build an Honest, People-Centered Economy through Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion—and Love(Photo from Rawpixel)This article is a personal perspective from an employee at B Lab, the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations. In t...
How Businesses Can Build an Honest, People-Centered Economy through Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion—and Love(Photo from Rawpixel)This article is a personal perspective from an employee at B Lab, the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations. In t...
B The Change Weekly: May 15, 2020(Photo from Nick Bolton on Unsplash)Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note ...
By Frank Cespedes, Top Sales Magazine Even in good times, life in a sales organization is filled with short-term deadlines and pressures: sales per quarter, sales per rep, did she or didn’t she meet quota. As a sales manager once said to me, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t … Continue reading Sales Leadership During and After the Crisis
How Business Teams Can Rethink Collaboration and Connection(Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash)By Dr. Heidi JannengaThe coronavirus pandemic has challenged us in ways we never could have imagined. And even when this is all over, our day-to-day will c...
January 30, 2020, Suzanne F. Stevens receives the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers awarded by the Governor General of Canada, Canada’s highest volunteer honour, for her dedication to amplifying the voices of African women.
Suzanne founded the YouMeWe Foundation in 2007 and raised funds for 26 tertiary education scholarships for women …
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