Can We Create a New ‘Normal’ Where Winning Benefits Us All?
How Individualist vs. Interdependent Responses Will Shape Our Collective FutureContinue reading on B The Change »
How B Corp Dr. Bronner’s Is Lending a (Clean) Hand During the COVID-19 Crisis
(Photo courtesy Dr. Bronner’s)B Corp Maintains Strong Focus on Employees, Customers and Environment Amid Growing Market DemandsThis article was created in partnership with Dr. Bronner’s.When “Wash your hands” became one of the strong messages for preve...
How to Have Impact at Every Stage of the Sustainability Journey
Research Reveals Best Practices for Sustainability ManagersBy Dr. Sukhbir Sandhu and Carol KulikIf you are a sustainability manager, you are a trailblazer. Companies created these positions as sustainability became a strategic issue over the last few d...
B The Change Week in Review
Certified B Corporations tackling unexpected business challenges can find some footing in a steady focus on all stakeholders — employees, community, and environment — and this additional accountability can serve as a model for systemic change.As the gl...
It’s Time for a New Paradigm of Business
(Photo by Alexas Fotos from Pexels)Why Businesses Should Value People and Planet as Well as ProfitOld paradigms of business continue to wreak havoc on the global economy. In business schools, we are taught that captains of industry are tasked with serv...
Embrace your community responsibility
As we reflect, repurpose, and respond to our individual and collective situation during this global pandemic, many of us are seeking ways to pivot our businesses while making short term
How a Focus on People + Planet Prepares B Corps for New Realities
(Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash)B The Change Weekly: April 3, 2020Delivered 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 ...
How to Care for Virtual Employees During a Crisis
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, teams across the country suddenly find themselves in virtual work situations. This can pose a challenge to culture-focused companies that want to care for their employees. The good news: the principles of a positiv...
How to Care for Virtual Employees During a Crisis
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, teams across the country suddenly find themselves in virtual work situations. This can pose a challenge to culture-focused companies that want to care for their employees. The good news: the principles of a positiv...
Lessons from a Crisis: The Challenges of Changing Habits and Collective Behavior
(Photo by Allie Smith on Unsplash)How the Current Pandemic Reveals a Need for Systemic ChangeBy Frederick AlexanderAs the the number of COVID-19 infections rise, I have begun to see the pandemic as both a symptom and a model of the larger crisis we fac...
WPO Member of the Moment: Merrilee Kick
Merrilee Kick President, Buzzballz/Southern Champion LLC Industry: Alcoholic beverage manufacturing WPO Chapter: Platinum VI WPO Member Since: 2017 The COVID-19 pandemic was escalating and the need for hand sanitizer was exploding. WHO and the CDC waived the necessity to pay for a permit (and taxes) to manufacture it. WPO Platinum VI member Merrilee Kick had the … Continue reading WPO Member of the Moment: Merrilee Kick
What the World Could Learn from B Corps in the Age of COVID-19
(Photo by Nina Strehl on Unsplash)Amid Larger Challenges, Small Mindset Shifts Could Create Lasting ChangeCoronavirus. COVID-19. Novel coronavirus. Whatever name you use for it, it’s having a huge impact on people, businesses and economies the world ov...
Building Pathways to Capital Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing
(Native Women Lead Photo)Vanessa Roanhorse Creates Change Through Character-Based Lending Program and Community-Led Projectshttps://medium.com/media/e6bef11b962c2f8be17502900998a6f9/hrefVanessa Roanhorse is an inclusive problem-solver committed to libe...
Building Pathways to Capital Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing
(Native Women Lead Photo)Vanessa Roanhorse Creates Change Through Character-Based Lending Program and Community-Led Projectshttps://medium.com/media/e6bef11b962c2f8be17502900998a6f9/hrefVanessa Roanhorse is an inclusive problem-solver committed to libe...
Book launch: Make your contribution Count – International Women’s Day
March 8, 2020 – International Women’s Day, Suzanne F. Stevens launches her first book at Wasaga Beach Chamber of Commerce — Make your contribution count for you, me, we. With over