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Reducing The Impact of Plastics with Ellen Jackowski of HP, Inc.

Ellen Jackowski, the Global Head of Sustainability, Strategy and Innovation at HP joins the podcast to talk about how HP puts sustainability at the core of everything that HP does. Ellen shares about HP's plastics strategy and how it is reducing the amount of plastics in its products, how HP substituting plastics, and significantly, how HP is taking ocean-bound plastics out of the waste stream and recycling those plastics into its products.  

Closing the STEM Talent Gap, A Conversation with Ashley Szofer of STEMconnector

What do you think of when you think of technology employers? Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon come to mind. What about Walmart? Every company is a tech company and every company needs a STEM talent development and acquisition strategy. Michael talks with Ashley Szofer, Senior Director at STEM Connector about how her organization connects leaders who have a passion for and a vested interest in collectively reenvisioning the STEM workforce. 

 

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Investing in the $23 Trillion Climate Smart Energy Sector, A Conversation with Alzbeta Klein of International Finance Corporation.

Investment in renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture, and urbanization in the emerging world is a vast area of importance and urgency. And the combination of private capital, public financing, governments and global institutions is vital to ending extreme poverty, boosting shared prosperity, and stemming climate change. Michael talks to Alzbeta Klein is the Director & Global Head of Climate Business at the International Finance Corporation about IFC’s role as the largest global development institution focused on private sector investment in emerging markets. They talk about the role that IFC plays in providing capital and as a convenor in bringing expertise and influence to investors into the developing world.  

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Connecting Corporate Social Behavior and Business Performance with Alison Omens of JUST Capital

Companies doing the right things to support all their stakeholders – front-line workers - are posting better performance and market returns than their peers. On this episode, Michael talks with Alison Omens, Chief Strategy Officer at JUST Capital about the connection between corporate America and the values of the American people. Alison shares how JUST Capital connects consumer sentiment to help companies improve performance and investors gauge and measure corporate risk; the importance of the S in ESG; integrating non-financial metrics with decision-making processes; and how consumers and investors are responding to corporate action during COVID-19.

 

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Check out JUST Capital’s research here:  https://justcapital.com/data/

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Supporting Smallholder Farms in the Developing World with Gabriela Burian of Bayer Crop Science

According to the UN, by 2050 we will need to produce 70 percent more food as the global population grows by 2.3 billion. Globally more than 500 million smallholder farmers provide 80% of food for communities across the world. To discuss this, Michael welcomes Gabriela Burian, Senior Director Sustainable Food Systems at Bayer Crop Science. Michael and Gabriela talk Bayer’s emphasis on transparency, importance of connecting agriculture to sustainability and environmental health, and Gabriela shares what Bayer is doing to support stakeholders during the COVID-19 crisis

Special Report: Safer and More Supportive Workplaces in the Age of COVID-19 with Linda Seabrook of Futures Without Violence

Today on the podcast, a Special Report on Creating Safer and More Supportive Workplaces in the Age of COVID-19 with Linda Seabrook of Futures Without Violence. I talk to Linda about the opportunity for intervention and realization that the workplace can be a safe place for those experiencing Intimate Partner Violence; the grim calculus a low-wage working woman must confront – between safety and a paycheck; what responsibilities do we have to each other as colleagues; what responsibilities do employers have; and how corporations should move to policies based on listening to vulnerable workers.

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Talking Sustainable Capitalism and Circular Economy with Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle

On this episode of Purpose, Inc, host Michael Young welcomes Tom Szaky to discuss sustainable capitalism, circular economy and the future of packaging. Tom is the Founder and CEO of Terracycle, a business devoted to eliminating the idea of waste through recycling - including traditionally difficult items to recycle. Tom has written extensively about recycling, re-commerce and the reducing waste from consumer goods packaging. Tom discusses the need for new approaches to capitalism, why consumer values and decisions about recycling and sustainability don’t always align. Tom shares about the circular economy, and the business model for Loop, and the power of nature being demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Valuing Respect: How Business Should Think About Human Rights: A Conversation with Caroline Rees of Shift

On this episode of Purpose, Inc, host Michael Young discusses the intersection between business and human rights with Caroline Rees, the President and Co-Founder of Shift. Shift is the leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights. Caroline is a leading voice and expert about the role of business in respecting human rights. They discuss the ways in which companies need to think about human rights and why there is often confusion surrounding them; why sustainability reports don’t always tell the full story; the disconnect between business models and sustainability and why they need to be reconnected; and how beginning with the most vulnerable populations is a necessity when planning for the interactions between people and businesses.

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Can Global Corporations Solve the World’s Problems? An Interview with Alice Korngold

Are profitable and sustainable business models the way to solve the world’s problems? Author and expert, Alice Korngold, President & CEO of Korngold Consulting joins the podcast to talk about the role of corporations in developing unique solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Michael talks with Alice about her book A Better World, Inc., and whether corporations can be trusted to be stewards of stakeholders’ interests. Alice explains her work matching corporate executives with not-for-profit boards and the valuable benefits both entities receive; and how COVID-19 will forever change how we view corporations.

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Contact Alice: alice@korngoldconsulting.com

Alice’s Twitter: @alicekorngold

You can download the studies she mentioned on the podcast for free here: www.betterworldleadership.com

Please consider learning more about Alice and her work:

A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems…Where Governments Cannot

Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses 

The Board Vector: tools & resources for business employees to join nonprofit boards.

https://www.pyxeraglobal.org/pyxera-global-korngold-consulting-partner-provide-board-training-matching-tools-companies/

Here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal on Alice’s work with the Drucker Institute to measure Fortune 250 companies based on their alignment with Peter Drucker’s Social Responsibility principles:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-guru-behind-the-management-top-250-rankings-1512482700

Building Credit Infrastructure in the Developing World, Interview with Josh Gosliner, Juvo

Globally 4 billion people are locked out of the formal economy because they don’t have a credit history. On this episode of Purpose, Inc, host Michael Young welcomes Josh Gosliner of Juvo. Juvo has pioneered the creation of financial identities for the unbanked and underbanked using mobile phone usage and payments data to build a credit bureau from scratch. Josh discusses how the lack of information about credit worthiness places a heavy burden on the poor; the impact Juvo is having in developing economies in Latin America and South East Asia; and why market-based solutions are the way forward.

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