Shaping the Future: Strategies for a Purpose-Driven Economy: Podcast
Dive into the future of small business with this podcast hosted by CanadianSME Small Business Magazine.
The Purpose Economy: Reshaping the metrics of business success: webcast
By now, business leaders across Canada are increasingly aware of aligning their business with their corporate purpose. Many already have programs to drive sustainability, social impact, and community growth.
The End of Purpose-Washing
With customers, employees and investors clamoring for it, more and more companies are proclaiming purpose pledges as their raison d’être and adopting purpose mantras in their marketing and public communications. But are they truly implementing their purpose? How will we know? How do we separate the bogus from the bona fide?
Prospering in the New Purpose Era: The Business Benefits of Becoming a Social Purpose Company
Expectations of business and its role in society are changing. As society faces challenges including rising inequality, pandemics, recognition of systemic racism, accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, stakeholders increasingly look to business to play a stronger role.
What’s going on in the world of CSR and Sustainability?
What do Sustainable Business Trends and Best Practices, Sustainability Talent Management, Sustainability Integration and Sustainable Purchasing all have in common?
You Get What you Pay For
This axiom has guided my views on executive compensation since my time on the Vancity Credit Union board in Vancouver, BC, in the 1990s.
CSR and Corporate Sustainability practitioners: Roles have changed, has your job description?
As a sustainability professional, I am drawn to this Muppet wisdom. Over the many years I’ve worked in the field as an advisor and strategist, I’ve witnessed a slow but steady awakening on the part of organizations to the real challenges of long term sustainability. It takes intention, commitment – and pivots.
A New Door is Open: Next-Generation Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Jobs
Over the last 10 years there have been countless doors through which many of us have entered the profession of corporate responsibility (CR) and sustainability.
It’s all about the chain, gang: Procurement the link to sustainable supply chains
We are transitioning to a low carbon, circular and inclusive economy. The latest arrival to the party is the procurement department. And none too soon, given the mammoth challenge ahead to make global supply chains sustainable and ethical. If you’re looking to fill your procurement cart with insights on tackling the challenges, read on for information about two tools and a city with a supply chain vision.
Inside out: Game-changing Sustainability Practices
Nine billion. That’s how many humans will inhabit planet Earth by 2030. In less than 14 years, another two billion people will be consuming our already-scarce resources, threatening social cohesion.
Languish Anguish: Why Good Sustainability Strategies Stall
Hands up if you have heard this before. Many organizations find that after the long process of building and adopting a sustainability policy or strategy, they stall.
Want to Attract Star Employees? Dangle the Sustainability Carrot
Your company’s sustainability commitments help attract the best and the brightest, reduce turnover and enhance productivity.