Strength in Numbers: Accelerating Sustainability Through Sector Collaboration
We are in the final inning. That sustainable future we all want? Not possible — unless companies work together across both sectors and shared value chains to innovate, share risks and overcome collective challenges.
Strategies for accelerating social purpose in business: an interview
Social purpose in business is taking off, but to realize a sustainable future, this business trend needs to be accelerated. In this 25-minute interview I unpack opportunities to create an enabling environment for social purpose business to start, transition, thrive and grow.
Your Association Roadmap to a Sustainable Future
Climate change. Biodiversity loss. Social inequality. The “great resignation”. The pandemic. The war in the Ukraine. Society and the planet are fraying at the edges.
The Social Purpose of Associations
We’re in a moment of awakening about the role of organizations in society. Organizations are examining what they stand for in a world undergoing fundamental transformation.
Transitioning to an inclusive, low-carbon and circular economy: how associations can help
Even as society is coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, other social and environmental indicators continue to spiral out of control. Sectors, professions, occupations and the associations that represent them are key to putting society on a sustainable course, but they must act now.
The Social Purpose of Associations: A Call to Action to Serve the Greater Good
The intersecting crises of the pandemic, soaring inequality, the climate emergency, and the urgent need to combat systemic racism create a burning platform for organizations everywhere – including and especially associations – to reconfigure their mandates to serve the greater good. There is no better time than now as society recovers from the COVID shutdown.
Why do associations exist? Why should we care?
In the past, associations existed to serve the interests of their members, acting as the public voice, and building excellence in their sector or profession. But today there is a new breed of association serving society and the greater public good: the social purpose association.
Time for associations to help their members become forces for good
The intersecting crises of the pandemic, accelerating climate change, and increasing inequality are driving associations and their members to reinvent themselves for the future. The race is on to re-engineer association mandates and member value propositions to secure their relevance and put humanity on a sustainable footing. These times call for associations to repurpose themselves to serve not just their members but society.
Is Your Industry or Professional Association Asleep? If So, Here’s What you Can Do About It!
As society emerges from the global pandemic, everything is changed. Among the changes that trade, industry and professional associations are grappling with are the new realities for themselves and their members.
Professionalism on the Line
Professionals who received their education over 10 years ago and haven’t upgraded to understand the implications of sustainability trends, risks and opportunities may be putting their organizations at risk.
CSR Expectations Rising in the Construction Industry: Toolkit Can Help
Headlines grab our attention as they are meant to do, but they often obscure the information that really matters. Stories of SNC Lavalin controversies mask the social good of the construction industry and divert focus from the industry’s other pressing social and environmental opportunities and risks.
Associations are perfectly positioned to help their members – and Canadian society – transition to a sustainable future
Associations that represent the interests of their professional and business members recognize more than anyone that global trends create risks and opportunities for their members.