Business & Society (Limited Series - One Planet Podcast)
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| 06 Jun 2022 | Bill Novelli, Founder, Business for Impact Program, Georgetown, Co-founder Porter Novelli | 00:36:32 | |
Bill Novelli co-founded Porter Novelli one of the first social marketing companies and now a global PR agency, he started the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He is formerly the CEO of AARP, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the COO of CARE USA. He’s the author of Good Business, The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World and coauthor of Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life. He served in and helped reposition and market the Peace Corps and began his career in marketing management at Unilever. “This is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. So, on the one hand, we know that we have to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our own health, our families – it's up to us. As some people like to say, you're on your own. And we have to balance that against the concept that we're all in this together. You know, the idea that it takes a village and both sides essentially disrespect the other side. They criticize the other side. No, we're not in this together. It's your own responsibility, and vice versa. If we're going to be good citizens, and we're going to make progress, we have to see both sides of that equation. That's not easy to do.” | |||
| 08 Jun 2022 | Frank Loy, Fmr. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Fmr. Chief U.S. Climate Negotiator | 00:58:02 | |
Frank Loy was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to 2001. His portfolio included human rights, the promotion of democracy, refugee issues, international law enforcement and counter-narcotics, and the environment. He served as chief U.S. climate negotiator. “We have a number of problems, but two of them are war - we see that at the very moment - but the one that is relatively new, that we didn't have a word for it when I grew up, we certainly didn't understand when I grew up, is environmental consequences. And we have gone from not understanding that to understanding it pretty well, but having a difficult time responding appropriately to that threat. When I decided I would spend some time in the nonprofit sector, it was my wife who said, ‘Don't diddle around with a whole bunch of things, focus on something that you care about, and spend both time and your money on that.’ And so I picked the environment because it seemed to me it had a rather unusual and unique combination of social, economic, political, technical, and scientific elements to it that made it a really interesting complex issue. Environmental Defense Fund www.edf.org Resources for the Future www.rff.org The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org/en-us/ The German Marshall Fund of the U.S. www.gmfus.org | |||
| 13 Jun 2022 | James and Deborah Fallows, Co-authors of “Our Towns”, Founders of Our Towns Civic Foundation | ||
James Fallows has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for more than thirty-five years, reporting from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and across the United States. Winner of the National Book Award and National Magazine Award, he’s the author of twelve books and his work has appeared in numerous publications and on public-radio. For two years he was President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter. Deborah Fallows is a linguist and writer. The author of Dreaming in Chinese and A Mother's Work, she has written for The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The New York Times, among others and has worked at the Pew Research Center, Oxygen Media, and Georgetown University. Following the success of their NYTimes bestselling book Our Towns and HBO documentary based on their reporting on around 50 towns around the country, they formed the Our Towns Civic Foundation to promote reporting from under-served areas across the US, connect innovators and give Americans a fuller and more realistic picture of their country’s challenges and opportunities. Our Towns (HBO Movie): https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/our-towns Our Towns (book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550194/our-towns-by-james-fallows-and-deborah-fallows/ Our Towns Civic Foundation: https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ Our Towns Civic Foundation is a new non-profit organization that promotes reporting from under-served areas across the United States, to connect innovators dealing with the problems of this era, and gives Americans a fuller and more realistic picture of their countries challenges and opportunities." Deb Fallows, Dreaming in Chinese www.bloomsbury.com/us/dreaming-in-chinese-9780802779144/ Deb Fallows, A Mother's Work https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Work-Deborah-Fallows/dp/0395362180 Jim Fallows, More Like Us https://www.amazon.com/More-like-Strengths-Traditional-Challenge/dp/B0010HBVYQ Other books https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/8383/james-fallows/ Photo © Michael Shay Polara Studio | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | Daniel Sherrell, Author of "Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World” | 00:37:46 | |
Daniel Sherrell is the author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, a memoir on the climate crisis framed as a letter to Sherrell's potential future child. He is a climate movement organizer and has led successful campaigns to phase out coal-fired power plants, divest millions of dollars from the fossil fuel industry, and pass a Green New Deal bill for New York State, legislation that the New York Times called “one of the world’s most ambitious climate plans.” He’s Campaign Director for the Climate Jobs National Resource Center, where he works with the American labor movement to tackle the climate crisis, reverse income inequality, and win millions of unionized clean energy jobs. The New Yorker and Publisher’s Weekly named Warmth one of the best books of 2021 and he’s a recipient of the Creative Force Foundation’s Award for “igniting positive social change through writing.” “It felt to me that if I wasn't able to figure out a way to orchestrate a genuine emotional encounter for myself with the enormity of this thing I was meant to be taking action on, then something in me was going to break, and I just wouldn't be able to keep doing the work. So, there was never a point where it's like, I'm going to write a book, but I did turn to the written word, almost little diary entries, to make psychological and spiritual sense of the crisis that I was dealing with in a thin way every day." www.danielsherrell.com Climate Jobs National Resource Center www.cjnrc.org Photo by Giovana Schluter Nunes | |||
| 05 Aug 2022 | Chris Coulter - CEO of GlobeScan - Co-author of “All In: The Future of Business Leadership” | 00:49:37 | |
Chris Coulter is CEO of GlobeScan, an insights and advisory consultancy helping companies, NGOs, and governmental organizations know their world and create strategies that lead to a sustainable and equitable future. He is a co-author of All In: The Future of Business Leadership, and The Sustainable Business Handbook. He is Chair of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, a member of B Lab’s Multinational Standards Advisory Council and serves on Walgreen’s Corporate Responsibility Advisory Board. Chris also co-hosts All In: The Sustainable Business Podcast. "While we need action, I think at the same time, the world and the agenda are moving so quickly. We're learning more all the time. We really can't skip the dialogue part, and we need to create more space and more opportunity to think through - What are we trying to do? What have we learned? How do we move smarter and more quickly? So it's not just about doing more action constantly. It's taking stock consistently because the agenda keeps evolving at a more rapid pace than it has historically, which means we need to find more places for proper dialogue that are springboards for this action, but we shouldn't discount the fact that we've got to sometimes just stop and chat and listen and learn and that makes us better and stronger." Business & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk. | |||
| 15 Aug 2022 | Bruce Mau - Author of "Mau MC24…24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in Your Life and Work” | 01:04:22 | |
Designer, author, educator and artist Bruce Mau is a brilliantly creative optimist whose love of thorny problems led him to create a methodology for life-centered design. Across thirty years of design innovation, he’s collaborated with global brands and companies, leading organizations, heads of state, renowned artists and fellow optimists. Mau became an international figure with the publication of his landmark S,M,L,XL, designed and co-authored with Rem Koolhaas, and his most recent books are Mau MC24: Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in Your Life and Work and, with co-author, Julio Ottino, dean of Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World – The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science. Mau is co-founder and CEO of Massive Change Network, a holistic design collective based in the Chicago area. "I don't start knowing what to do. I start trying to understand what the opportunity is. It was actually my friend Marc Mathieu, who is the head of global brand at Coca-Cola, who - after we built the global sustainability platform for Coca-Cola, after we finished the work, Marc said, 'You know, Bruce, the best thing you did, you didn't charge me for it. You didn't tell me you were going to do it. I don't know if you even know that you did it.' And I said, 'Please, please tell me.' And he called it 'branding the opportunity.' And I said, 'What do you mean by that?' And he said, 'Well, you were able to articulate the opportunity in a way that inspired everyone on the team to move in the same direction. Before you arrived, we had 150 people pointing in 150 directions, and the way that you were able to see the problem and articulate the opportunity – What would happen if we accomplished it, the impact that we could have in the world, it inspired everyone to work towards it.’ That's an important thing to do in your work is to actually articulate the opportunity and not only the problem. To say, look, here's what happens if we do this? If we do this, and we succeed, how is the world different? I like to say that when you lock in, you also lock out. So the moment that you lock in on what you're going to do, you're also locking out everything else. Right? So when you define what you're going to work on, you're defining the scope of the opportunity.” Image Courtesy of Massive Change Network Business & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk. | |||
| 30 Aug 2022 | Dr. Mona Sarfaty - Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health | Dr. Ed Maibach - Communication Scientist | 00:52:28 | |
Dr. Mona Sarfaty is the Executive Director and Founder of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, comprised of societies representing 70% of all U.S. physicians. She founded the Consortium in 2016 in conjunction with the George Mason University Center for Climate Change. Under her leadership, the Consortium has grown into a nationwide coalition of societies, organizations, and advocates mobilizing support for equitable policies that address the health impacts of climate change. Edward Maibach is Director of the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, a distinguished University Professor and communication scientist who is expert in the uses of strategic communication and social marketing to address climate change and related public health challenges. His research – funded by NSF, NASA, and private foundations – focuses on public understanding of climate change and clean energy; and the psychology underlying public engagement. In 2021, Ed was identified by Thompson Reuters as one of the world’s 10 most influential scientists working on climate change. “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is really a bill which is using the financial structure of the country to stimulate business. This is a very different kind of solution than one might have conjured up some years ago. Back in 2010, Congress tried to do something on climate change and the main solution under consideration was a carbon tax. So that was also an effort to use the financial system, but this is a very different approach. This is putting out stimulus so that the business community can do what's necessary to build a clean energy economy. And so consumers can help support the growth of that clean energy economy by purchasing all those products that will allow individual people, families, and communities to be part of the solution by owning electric cars, by putting solar panels on their homes, by buying heat pumps to put in their homes, by improving the insulation in their private homes or buildings and thereby cutting their heating and cooling costs.” https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org https://twitter.com/docsforclimate www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/climate-change-american-mind-april-2022/ www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/politics-global-warming-april-2022/ Business & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk. | |||
| 11 Oct 2022 | Dr. Jessica Hernandez - Transnational Indigenous Scholar, Scientist, Author of “Fresh Banana Leaves” | 00:44:11 | |
Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Binnizá & Maya Ch’orti’) is a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest. She has an interdisciplinary academic background ranging from marine sciences to environmental physics. She advocates for climate, energy, and environmental justice through her scientific and community work. Her book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. In 2022, she was named by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women of Central America. She holds appointments at Sustainable Seattle, City of Seattle's Urban Forestry Commission, and the International Mayan League. Fresh Banana Leaves received the Bruce Piasecki and Andrea Masters Award on Business and Society Writing (2022). “I live my life embodying the teaching my grandmother instilled in me – that no matter which lens I walked on, I had to learn how to build relationships with the land and the Indigenous peoples whose land I reside on to become a welcome guest. As a displaced Indigenous woman, my longing to return to my ancestral homelands will always be there, and this is why I continue to support my communities in the diaspora. However, my relationships are not only with my community, but also the Indigenous communities whose land I am displaced on, and this is the foundation of my work while residing in the Pacific Northwest. I strongly believe that in order to start healing Indigenous landscapes, everyone must understand their positionality as either settlers, unwanted guests, or welcomed guests, and that is ultimately determined by the Indigenous communities whose land you currently reside on or occupy. This teaching has also helped me envision my goals in life. Every day I get closer to becoming an ancestor because life is not guaranteed but rather a gift we are granted from our ancestors who are now in the spiritual world.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675699/fresh-banana-leaves-by-jessica-hernandez/ Business & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk | |||
| 09 Nov 2022 | Bruce Piasecki - Selected Readings from "World Inc", "Missing Persons", "2040: A Fable" and other books | 00:44:11 | |
Bruce Piasecki is a NYTimes bestselling author, and organizational innovator. As founder of AHC Group, Inc. a global management consulting firm advising major corporations on social response capitalism, sustainability, and innovation, he has worked for over a third of the Fortune 500 in change management, including BP, Merck, and Toyota. Piasecki has been an agent of climate solutions for over 40 years. He’s also co-founder of the Creative Force Foundation which annually awards young authors writing on business and society issues. | |||
| 22 Nov 2022 | Colin Steen - CEO of Legacy Agripartners - Pushing Farming Forward | 00:44:59 | |
Colin Steen is CEO of Legacy Agripartners. He has had a lifelong career in agriculture, spending over 25 years with Syngenta in a variety of commercial leadership and Venture Capital roles before joining Legacy Seed Companies (now Legacy Agripartners) in July 2020. His prior experience in running Golden Harvest Seeds has given him a deep understanding of the needs of the U.S. farmer. Colin grew up on a grain and cattle farm in Weldon, Saskatchewan, and holds a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Saskatchewan and an MBA from the University of Guelph. "So we're a holding company with three distinct companies as part of that holding company. So we've got Legacy Seeds in Wisconsin that's got its roots in breeding alfalfa. Alfalfa is an incredibly important global crop for cattle feed, for dairy feed. And so it's a perennial that you plant, and it grows in the soil for four years. It fixes its own nitrogen. So it's a great crop for sustainability purposes in US and global agriculture. So we have a breeding program in that we've got DF Seeds in Michigan, which has been around since the early sixties, and a lot of history there. And it focuses mostly on non-genetically modified soybeans that are food-grade. So they have a clear hilum. They have a clear seed coat. They are exported to Asia, so for tofu, soy milk, and things like that. So the core of that business is a little more food-focused. That team is very focused on the export customer, making sure the farmers have a good relationship with us and with their contractors to go overseas. And then we just acquired a third business, TriCal Superior Forage, and this is a triticale breeding business. And triticale is a cross of wheat and rye grass. It's been around for 40 or 50 years. It's been around for a long, long time, but we have one of the only breeding programs globally in that crop. And again, a great story from a sustainability standpoint. It's a cover crop. You plant it in the fall after your corn has been harvested and then it gets established about this high off the ground, and then it goes dormant as it heads into the winter. And then it grows up in the spring. And in some parts of the US, they turn their cattle out to graze on that crop.In other parts, they chop it for forage and put it in a pile for feeding throughout the year." https://legacyagripartners.com | |||
| 09 Dec 2022 | Bruce Piasecki - NYTimes Bestselling Author of “A New Way to Wealth” - Founder, AHC Group | 00:50:51 | |
Bruce Piasecki, PhD., NYTimes bestselling author (A New Way to Wealth, Doing More with Teams, Missing Persons, 2040: A Fable), is founder of AHC Group, Inc. a global management consulting firm advising major corporations on social response capitalism, sustainability, and innovation. Piasecki has been an agent of climate solutions for over 40 years. He’s also co-founder of Creative Force Foundation, Inc which annually awards young writers globally on business and society issues. www.doingmorewithlessbook.com www.ahcgroup.com | |||
| 09 Dec 2022 | Highlights - Bruce Piasecki - Founder, AHC Group - NYTimes Bestselling Author | ||
“Each day you wake up you make decisions that shape your own fate, your ascent, position, your own creativity. I like to think of it as fate is a personal construct. When I was at Cornell they had me teach an Emerson essay called “Freedom and Fate” where he said that fate was so overwhelming in some traditions that it’s as though we were each involved in a shipwreck and we were each thrown off the ship and all we had a chance to do was look at each other. I’ve come to believe is that not only is the future near you can design your own life.” Bruce Piasecki, PhD., NYTimes bestselling author (A New Way to Wealth, Doing More with Teams, Missing Persons, 2040: A Fable), is founder of AHC Group, Inc. a global management consulting firm advising major corporations on social response capitalism, sustainability, and innovation. Piasecki has been an agent of climate solutions for over 40 years. He’s also co-founder of Creative Force Foundation, Inc which annually awards young writers globally on business and society issues. www.doingmorewithlessbook.com www.ahcgroup.com | |||
| 31 Dec 2022 | An afternoon of stories, conversation & music with Bruce Piasecki & Gordon Lambert at Caffè Lena | 01:21:32 | |
Join New York Times bestselling author Bruce Piasecki at Caffè Lena for an afternoon of stories, memories and interactive conversation. He will also dive into personal narratives about book tours of Australia, his personal conversations with Tom Wolfe, his admiration for Bob Dylan and other master storytellers, artists, and sustainability leaders, and read from his latest book, A New Way to Wealth. Musical accompaniment for this episode is provided by Gordon Lambert. Piasecki has dedicated 40 years of his life to climate solutions with years of experience working for The White House, helping big corporations get on board his fight for climate solutions, and asking his audience to be part of the discussion. He has advised major corporations on social response capitalism, sustainability, and innovation and has worked for over a third of the Fortune 500 in change management, including BP, Merck, and Toyota, among others. | |||
| 14 Mar 2023 | JOSH KAMPEL - CEO of Clarim Media | 00:40:54 | |
Josh Kampel is the CEO of Clarim Media where he oversees the overall strategic direction of the organization as well as works closely with the management teams of the individual portfolio companies to build scalable products and services. Prior to Clarim, Josh served as CEO of Techonomy Media, which was sold to Clarim Holdings in 2018. At Techonomy, Josh spent 8 years driving sustainable business growth through strategic partnerships and new product development. He built Techonomy to be one of the leading media companies covering technology and it’s impact on business and society. Techonomy Climate 2023 takes place March 28th. The conference surveys the booming climate tech sector and highlight companies making the most significant impact. “Think about how do they deliver value to all of those constituents rather than just their shareholders. So they will create the more successful long-term companies, especially generationally, as Gen X and millennials care more and more about mission and purpose. This idea of greenwashing or now what we can call woke-washing and that ESG goals are typically held within PR groups, within companies. They just talk about what they're doing versus being held accountable. I think we will continue to see that paradigm shift towards accountability, transparency of companies doing the right thing. I'm impressed every day when I see next generation leaders, entrepreneurs, and educational institutions focus more on this idea of social entrepreneurship. That they're really embedding some of these core values into the next generation of leaders.” www.clarim-media.com
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| 01 Apr 2023 | LISA JACKSON PULVER - Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Sydney's Indigenous Strategy and Services | 00:47:36 | |
Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver is a proud Aboriginal woman with connections to communities in southwestern New South Wales, South Australia, and beyond. She is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Strategy and Services for the University of Sydney and leads the institution's strategy to advance Indigenous participation, engagement, education, and research, including the university's One Sydney, Many People 2021-2024 strategy. She is a recognized expert and tireless advocate for health and education. Her research focuses on capacity building for healthcare workers and improved health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She serves her country in the Royal Australian Air Force Specialist Reserve as a Group Captain and is a member of the Australian Statistical Advisory Committee, the Australian Medical Council, and the Health Performance Council of South Australia. “We come from the land, and we go back to the land. Aboriginal people have been on this land for at least 60,000 years in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth and survived. And over the last 230 years, the most catastrophic events have occurred to this land because people didn't listen to ancient Aboriginal cultures and knowledge. So my question is, if people were able to look after this place for 60,000 years and thrive, what have we done to ensure that we have a healthy fit world for the next 60,000 years?” Season 2 of Business & Society focuses on Leaders, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 28 Apr 2023 | ARTHUR KLEBANOFF - President of Scott Meredith Literary Agency - Founder of Rodin Books & RosettaBooks | 00:43:27 | |
As President of Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Arthur Klebanoff has represented J.D. Salinger, Arthur C. Clark, several U.S. Presidents, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Bradley, Paul Krugman, among others, and has handled books with over $1 billion in sales. In 2001, Klebanoff founded RosettaBooks, an independent eBook publisher which for twe nty years disrupted the publishing business. Klebanoff has published, represented or packaged over 75 thought leadership titles. He founded RodinBooks to publish books by impactful leaders. Season 2 of Business & Society focuses on Leaders, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 11 Jul 2023 | SCOTT TEW - VP of Sustainability, Trane Technologies & Managing Director, Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability | 00:39:58 | |
The time to start looking into tomorrow is now. www.tranetechnologies.com https://blog.tranetechnologies.com/en/home/author/scott-tew.html Season 2 of Business & Society focuses on Leaders, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 26 Sep 2023 | BRUCE PIASECKI - NYTimes Bestselling Author of Doing More With One Life | 00:38:29 | |
Bruce Piasecki is a NYTimes bestselling author, and organizational innovator. As founder of AHC Group, Inc. a global management consulting firm advising major corporations on social response capitalism, sustainability, and innovation, he has worked for over a third of the Fortune 500 in change management, including BP, Merck, and Toyota. Piasecki has been an agent of climate solutions for over 40 years. He’s also co-founder of the Creative Force Foundation which annually awards young authors writing on business and society issues. He is the author of Doing More With Less, Doing More With One Life: A Writer’s Journey through the Past, Present, and Future, and other books. | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist - Founder of IE Platform & @GreenGirlLeah | 00:36:35 | |
Leah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist and eco-communicator based in Southern California. She’s passionate about advocating for and exploring the relationship between social justice and environmentalism and was the first to define the term “Intersectional Environmentalism.” She is the founder of @greengirlleah and The Intersectional Environmentalist platform. Her articles on this topic have appeared in Vogue, Elle, The Good Trade, and Youth to the People and she has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, Domino, GOOP, Fashionista, BuzzFeed, and numerous podcasts. She has a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from Chapman University and worked for the National Park Service and Patagonia headquarters before pursuing activism full time. She lives in Carpinteria, California. She is the author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet, and Winner of the Creative Force Foundation Award 2023. "Intersectional Environmentalism to me means prioritizing social justice in environmental movements and really thinking about what communities are most impacted by different environmental injustices. So, for example, in the United States, a lot of communities of color, Black, Indigenous communities, and also lower-income communities struggle with things like unclean air and unclean water, and those are environmental injustices. So I thought it was important to have an intersectional approach to environmental advocacy that doesn't ignore these things and these intersections of identity, but explores them to make sure that every community, especially those most impacted by environmental injustices, no longer are. And I wanted to write a really accessible introduction that was targeted at school kids or anyone who wants to learn more." www.intersectionalenvironmentalist.com Season 2 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs , Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 02 Feb 2024 | Wealth & Climate Competitiveness: The New Narrative with Bruce Piasecki | 01:13:37 | |
You’re listening to Wealth & Climate Competitiveness: The New Narrative with Bruce Piasecki and guests. This program was recorded in January 2024 at Caffe Lena. What does Robin Hood tell us about climate competitiveness? Using this 700- year-old narrative, Piasecki reminds his readers that business in society reading has been a classic concern, from Dante’s Inferno to Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of Vanities. Wealth and Climate Competitiveness, which pays homage to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and explores the new narrative offering grounds for hope for the rest of this swift and severe century. Published by Rodin Books in a series that includes the books by Bill Bradley and Michael Bloomberg, and has also been produced as an audiobook. You can hear pre-publication podcasts on the book and Piasecki’s business career at www.newsweek.com under Jesse Edwards podcast series, in Paris under Mia Funk’s One Planet Podcast series, and in political circles at www.RepublicEN.org. First examining the 5 prejudices that have prevented both social leaders and business from making real lasting progress on the innovations required to address competition and climate, this book notes that the days of assuming all business is a set of Robber Barons and Birds of Prey has been dated by leading firms like Trane Technologies. This episode explores why these popular prejudices help us stay on the petrochemical treadmill, as well as the dynamics and results of innovative exceptions like Trane. With 50,000 engineers dedicated to competing on climate change, Trane has grown twice the rate in its stock value over the last six years than its peers in the S&P Industrial Index. Why is this? Piasecki and several dozen of his colleagues discuss competitive principles based on Piasecki’s forty years of working for a number of large and major firms as a change agent, and business founder of www.ahcgroup.com. Other facilitators to this event include Canada’s celebrated change agent Gord Lambert (who will open and close with a jazz guitar performance), and the global head of Sustainability for Herman Miller, Gabe Wing. | |||
| 04 May 2024 | Empowering Change: NINA LUZZATTO GARDNER on Women's Rights & Sustainability | 00:48:20 | |
How can we turn hope into real-world solutions to tackle the biggest challenges facing our world today? How can we bridge the gender divide and create a more fair and sustainable future for all? What steps can we take to educate and empower the next generation of leaders and change-makers? Nina Luzzatto Gardner is the director of Strategy International, a corporate sustainability advisory firm she founded in 2000. She works with companies to improve their commitment to sustainability and the SDGs, and with investors to better understand Environmental, Social & Governance risks in their portfolios. Nina has been teaching Corporate Sustainability, Business & Human Rights as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington DC since 2013. She has a BA from Harvard/Radcliffe, and a JD from Columbia Law School. She is the founding president of a number of professional women’s associations, on the advisory board of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, and Board member of AG tech start up – Farm from a Box. Nina is an Italian and US national. | |||
| 21 May 2024 | What is conscious capitalism? Sustainable Development & Leadership with DR. LARRY CLAY JR. | 00:35:53 | |
What is conscious capitalism? How can we create businesses that are more holistic and connected to the communities they serve? Dr. Larry Clay Jr. teaches business modeling. His focus is on business management research, sustainable development analytics and leadership development to create sustainable value for enterprises, communities, and cities. https://www.humanitysteam.org/masterclasses/cb-change-agent#googtrans(en) Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 03 Jun 2024 | Strategic Thinking for a Changing World: Environmental Solutions with Colonel ROBIN PHILLIPS | 00:44:21 | |
What kind of strategic, collaborative and critical thinking skills will we need to adapt to climate change and biodiversity loss? How can we learn to cooperate and avoid the conflicts that arise from competition for resources? Robin Phillips, a retired US Army officer with a distinguished career in National Security, has extensive experience in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. She served as commander of the Virginia Defense Force's 1st Regiment and was the first female colonel in the VDF to command at the brigade or regimental level. Proficient in Russian, she holds a Master's in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School and has worked on Current and Crisis Intelligence and Strategic Plans and Policy at the Pentagon. Phillips' background in geology also informs her perspectives on environmental impact and climate change adaptation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-noel-phillips Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 17 Jun 2024 | Revolutionizing Urban Mobility with Wireless Bike & Scooter Docking Stations - JEFF OLSON | 00:49:07 | |
Jeff Olson is an American urban architect who dedicated his career to alternative transportation, and became a founder of the largest bike share system in North America, New York City’s CitiBike. He is a co-founder of re:Charge-e and author of The 3rd Mode: Towards a Green Society. His major projects include the Grand Canyon Greenway, the Empire State Trail, the White House Millennium Trails Program, the Dubai Bicycle/Pedestrian Master Plan, and the NW Arkansas Razorback Greenway. Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 23 Jul 2024 | Can We Bridge the $3-4 Trillion Gap to Mobilize the Energy Transition? with DOMINIC EMERY | 00:45:34 | |
“Oil and gas companies, along with any company engaged in the production and burning of fossil fuels, must cease these activities if we are to have any hope of reaching net zero by 2050, which is only 26 years away. The pace of change needs to be extremely rapid. Currently, the world is emitting about 55 gigatons of CO₂ equivalent, with 70% of this coming from fossil fuels, which provide 80% of our energy. Demand for energy continues to grow due to increasing populations. However, we must bring down the 55 gigatons of emissions to net zero by 2050, even though emissions are still on the rise, albeit at a slower pace. In short, oil, gas, and coal must become relics of the past." Dominic Emery is a geologist by background. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and MA from the University of Oxford. He was the founding CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, a $1bn fund set up by the world’s largest oil and gas companies to invest in technologies and projects to reduce carbon emissions. He joined bp Alternative Energy in 2007 and ran Emerging Businesses & Corporate Ventures in 2012. In 2013, he was appointed Head of Group Strategy prior to his appointment as Chief of Staff in early 2020 at the start of the biggest transformation in bp’s history and was Chief of Staff at bp until 2022. Since retiring from the company, he advises on the energy transition, working with large energy companies, start-ups and consultancies. He is a Senior Fellow with the World Economic Forum, Mission Possible Partnership and Cambridge University Judge Business School, and holds board positions with three companies. Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 30 Jul 2024 | Leadership & Operational Excellence - SAM SMOLIK Explores the Secrets of Success | 00:31:14 | |
"What happens is that companies get complacent. Things go well for a long time. All publicly traded companies are under tremendous financial pressure. Everyone's looking at quarterly earnings and all that, and they take their eye off of safety and operational excellence. And you can't do that." Sam Smolik retired as Senior Vice President, Americas Manufacturing for LyondellBasell Industries in 2017. He previously served as Global Vice President for Environment, Health, and Safety for LyondellBasell, Shell, and The Dow Chemical Company. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Axalta Coating Systems, FlyGuys, and Ducks Unlimited Inc. He also serves on the Engineering Advisory Board at The University of Texas at Austin. Sam authored The Power of Goal ZEROand The Daily Pursuit of Excellenceto share the many proven performance improvement concepts that he and his colleagues developed and perfected throughout a 50 year global career. His focus is on leadership, people development, culture, operational excellence, management systems, ESG, sustainable development, and achieving superior performance in organizations. Sam Smolik graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, Stephanie, live in Houston, Texas. Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 01 Aug 2024 | The Daily Pursuit of Excellence with SAM SMOLIK | 00:30:23 | |
How can cultivating curiosity within an organization transform it from a place of work into a community driven by passion and purpose? Why is wetland conservation crucial for combating climate change, and how can public-private partnerships make a difference? What are the keys to maintaining operational excellence and how can we pursue excellence in our personal and professional lives? Sam Smolik retired as Senior Vice President, Americas Manufacturing for LyondellBasell Industries in 2017. He previously served as Global Vice President for Environment, Health, and Safety for LyondellBasell, Shell, and The Dow Chemical Company. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Axalta Coating Systems, FlyGuys, and Ducks Unlimited Inc. He also serves on the Engineering Advisory Board at The University of Texas at Austin. Sam authored The Power of Goal ZEROand The Daily Pursuit of Excellenceto share the many proven performance improvement concepts that he and his colleagues developed and perfected throughout a 50 year global career. His focus is on leadership, people development, culture, operational excellence, management systems, ESG, sustainable development, and achieving superior performance in organizations. Sam Smolik graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, Stephanie, live in Houston, Texas. Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 16 Sep 2024 | Leading Change: An Interview with GORDON LAMBERT on Business, Sustainability & Creative Tension | 00:50:03 | |
Gordon Lambert shares insights from his decades-long journey, addressing his roles, strategies, and contributions to environmental change and corporate evolution. Lambert has been engaged in business and sustainability in the energy sector for 40 years. In 2015, Lambert was appointed by the Premier and Cabinet to the five-person panel that designed the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan. In 2016, he chaired the Alberta Climate Leadership Technology and Innovation Task Force, with $1.4 billion in carbon levy revenue being committed to innovation as an outcome. He also serves on the Export Development Canada CSR advisory council and as the Suncor Energy and Sustainability Executive in Residence at the Ivey Business School. From November 2018 to April 2020, he served as the interim CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). For 17 years, he led Suncor Energy’s sustainability strategy, innovation, and embedding efforts, retiring in January 2015. He played a key role in the design and creation of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), involving a globally unique collaboration model, that has resulted in the sharing of $1.3 billion worth of intellectual property to accelerate environmental performance improvement. Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||
| 15 Oct 2024 | The Future of Renewable Energy with Minnesota Power’s JULIE PIERCE | 00:44:54 | |
How did a century-old power company become a leader in renewable energy? How can industrial giants adapt to cleaner power? What role are women leaders and community initiatives playing in the renewable energy transition? Julie Pierce stands as a beacon of innovation and foresight in the energy sector. As Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Minnesota Power, a part of the Allete family, she’s helping transform the landscape of renewable energy with a focus on sustainable development and community collaboration. "Minnesota Power and its customers in Northeast Minnesota made the decision about a decade ago to start moving in this direction. We wanted to ensure that we took the right time, pace, and path that was thoughtful for our customers and communities to transform. Through the past decade of hard work with our communities and customers, and leveraging new technology in wind, solar, and hydro, we transformed from a 95% fossil-fuel-based portfolio to 50-60% clean energy. Essentially, in the last decade, we've worked to reduce our carbon emissions by half and increase our renewable energy production by 50-60%. It has been a very exciting time. We had over 50% of our board members as women for well over a decade. So we started at the top and then with our leadership teams. The promotion of a diverse, collaborative discussion on any topic within our organization has been paramount." Season 3 of Business & Society focuses on CEOs, Sustainability & Environmental Solutions | |||