Purpose in Action: Navigating Disruption and Driving Impact with Social Purpose
Here are 7 practical tools and frameworks to help your business realize the potential of its purpose — and be a beacon of hope in a time that sorely needs it.
Scaling Social Purpose in Canada: Highlights from My Forbes Interview
I’m excited to share that I was recently interviewed by Afdhel Aziz for a Forbes article to discuss my journey to social purpose, my work with the Canadian Purpose Economy Project (CPEP), and our vision for creating a Purpose Economy by 2030.
From Profit to Purpose: Architecting the Purpose Economy
The single-minded drive for profits in modern shareholder capitalism exacts a heavy toll on society. Accelerating climate change, mounting biodiversity loss, widening inequality, and eroding public trust are among the most damaging consequences of this economic paradigm. Its focus on profit as the primary purpose of business is a threat to human and planetary well-being.
The Social-Purpose Economy Is Coming of Age
The purpose ecosystem is coming of age. You can see this when you start coming across academic research defining it and studying its potential and constraints, when you watch it come to fruition through your or others’ deliberate efforts, or when over 100 CEOs of purpose-driven companies endorse a Call to Purpose
Becoming a Purpose Professional: Using Your Career to Become a Greater Force for Good
More and more companies are adopting a social purpose as the reason their business exists.
Closing the purpose governance gap
Is your board stewarding your company’s purpose? Probably not.
Purposeful Policy: How governments at all levels everywhere can accelerate the Purpose Economy
With negative economic, social, and environmental indicators spiraling, there is still hope on the horizon.
Post-secondary’s postscript: universities becoming a greater force for good
Society is facing challenges and uncertainties that threaten social cohesion and community well-being. Universities are uniquely positioned to invent and scale the solutions needed to enable a better quality of life for all of society within planetary thresholds.
Seeking Better Progress Toward Sustainability? Consider a Business Collaboration
After decades attempting to become a sustainable business by acting independently, businesses find that they can only advance by acting in concert with other industry actors. It is simply impossible to become sustainable by working in isolation.
The exponential innovation potential of circular, social purpose businesses
Society has started the long march toward living in harmony with nature’s realities. There is no other way forward. And where goes society, so goes the economy.
5 Ways Companies Can Transform to Social Purpose
Too many companies still understand their purpose — or fundamental reason for existence — as maximizing profits or shareholder wealth. How can they move beyond that narrow definition of purpose, towards defining how their businesses help address society’s challenges?
The Purpose Gloves Are Off: How to Not End Up on the Ropes
Corporate Knights, the famed Canadian publisher that annually ranks the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations, recently released its rating of 34 Canadian companies with a social purpose (a report I co-authored). It found that only half of those with a social purpose invest in authentic implementation; half likely do not and are at risk of purpose-washing.