Organizational Change
The latest creative strategies and tools helping organizations to engage their teams in building market-leading, purpose-driven brands.
Measure What Matters: Are You Optimizing Purpose to Uplift Your Workforce?
A first-of-its-kind diagnostic tool is helping companies ensure their purpose supports outcomes including talent attraction and retention, employee engagement, and performance.
The Balancing Act of Employee Engagement and ESG Goals
Employees are key to the success of any ESG program. But it can be challenging to strike a balance between engaging employees and managing company priorities.
4 Strategies for Bridging the Sustainability Skills Gap
While it may be tempting to take a ‘wait and see’ approach, more and more companies are developing their own solutions to mitigate this gap internally. Here are four such strategies.
Social Sustainability Is the Next Supply Chain Frontier
Eliminating negatives is about to become the minimum viable approach to social performance. Companies and suppliers benefiting people and communities will see stronger corporate brands and accelerated revenue growth.
Corporate Leaders: Solve Hiring Needs by Embracing Second-Chance Employment
Whether you’re looking at this from a business case or human case perspective, it’s on us to shift the narrative around second-chance hiring and give people a fresh start and an honest chance at economic mobility.
re:loom Is Helping the Unhoused, Refugees and Low-Income Women Weave a Better Life
The organization provides paid, on-site job training for weavers, 100% healthcare coverage and opportunities to engage in re:loom’s operations while creating upcycled housewares and accessories.
Employee Values: Why an Authentic Sustainability Strategy Will Win the Talent War
Every organisation should be able to identify what a sustainable version of itself looks like, who is needed to run and support that, and where there are needs for new skills and roles within it.
EU CEOs Recognize Climate Change as Biggest Threat to Business; EU Workers Say, ‘They’d Better’
24% of EU CEOs believe their companies will be highly exposed to the impact of climate change in the next five years — a key insight, since 76% of young Europeans say the climate impact of prospective employers is an important factor when job hunting.
A CEO’s Perspective: 7 Insights to Discover and Activate Authentic Purpose
Kerry Group CEO Edmond Scanlon and Chief Corporate Affairs and Brand Officer Catherine Keogh share how the purpose-discovery process transformed the $7B company.
More and More Talent Ready to Leave Companies Over Misalignment of Values
From ‘quiet quitting’ to conscious quitting: Despite economic uncertainty, 51% of employees surveyed would consider resigning if employers do not align with own values.
Stok Highlights 5 Key Priorities in the Evolution of the Workplace
Industry leaders provide guidance for prioritizing changes to your organization’s real estate and workplace strategy to maximize employee productivity, retention and wellbeing.
Jackson Family Wines Partners to Advance Industry Opportunities for Students of Color
JFW has become a key partner in the Urban Grape’s Wine Studies Award for Students of Color program — which uses a three-pronged approach of education, work experience and mentorship to increase DEI in the wine & spirits industry.
Finance, Tech Giants Top 2023 List of US’s Most JUST Companies
Cross-Posted from Walking the Talk. JUST Capital and CNBC have released the 2023 rankings of the country’s most JUST Companies and Marquee JUST 100 List, which consistently outperform the Russell 1000 — highlighting the link between stakeholder governance and corporate success.
2022 Lessons: How to Improve Employee Engagement Through Responsive Company Culture
Many employees are re-evaluating what they want and expect from their employers. This is a pivotal moment for companies to recalibrate program offerings and better support employees in applying their unique talents to purposeful projects in the communities where they live, work and raise their families.
Company Shareholders Vote to Examine More Climate-Beneficial Retirement Plans
Cross-Posted from Finance & Investment. Campbell's — and many other companies’ — current 401(k) options have employees investing millions in fossil fuels and deforestation through Vanguard, which has just announced it has left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.
Why Activism, Advocacy and Allyship Are Essential to Corporate Diversity
If a corporation really wants diversity and its benefits, the only way to get it is to regularly hire and promote people who don’t look like the current leadership. The task is to create not just the appearance of change, but a genuine commitment to creating equitable organizations and systems.
Post-Secondary’s Postscript: Universities Becoming a Greater Force for Good
Whether it’s finance and administration, physical infrastructure, or strategic and capital plans, universities are unlocking all their assets to play a more ambitious role on the global stage — and other organizations can learn from this innovation.
Consortium of Venue Groups Launches Sustainability Platform for Large Arenas, Halls, Convention Centers
The GOAL platform aims to standardize sustainability reporting and processes across some of the US’s largest public gathering spaces — and entice the rest to come aboard.
The Evolving Role of Director of Sustainability: Keys to Success in Times of Volatility
ESG is a dynamic space, with continuous shifts even in nomenclature — from compliance, assurance CSR and sustainability to ESG, wellbeing, regeneration and impact. It is no wonder those working in the space find the tasks and skills required of them shifting, too.
Cultivating Serendipity for Innovation, Impact and ‘Smart Luck’
Cross-Posted from Leadership. Serendipity is about potentiality — it’s about connecting the dots. Once we look at the world less in terms of limitations and more in terms of opportunity, perceived liabilities can become assets; and a situation is reframed from one of passivity and powerlessness to one of activity and opportunity.
