The Market and The Good

Guest: Hoi-Fei Mok.  How will climate change impact businesses and what can businesses do about it?  Learn more about opportunities to engage in local government planning processes.  #sdg13 @resilientsanleandro

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There are current events related to doing well by doing good, particularly Climate Week NYC.

This week, there are hundreds if not thousands of events happening concurrently for the annual gathering of Climate Week NYC, as well as the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, as well as the United Nations General Assembly, and a variety of other Summits happening concurrently in the New York City area. These events draw Business Leaders, Community leaders, Financial leaders, and a variety of others in between together.

Why?  Generally three reasons.

Guest: Sandra Baer.  From conversations with city leaders, climate advocates, private sector and non-profit executives, should we not go back to a “new normal”?  Was the “old normal”, especially in cities, often too quick to adopt the newest innovation, rushing to solutions, too fast, and often missing the opportunity to think bigger, to look more deeply at a problem and all of its interdependencies?  Sandra frames a way to go forward with new collaborations, to go beyond small incremental changes and reimagine new solutions for some of the world’s most intransigent problems. In some of the world’s most courageous cities.  To cap it off, in this Episode we'll share examples of 3 cities whose leaders saw an urgent need to deal with a truly difficult challenge—their work to ask the tough questions enabled them to uncover a different approach to fixing a big problem. 

Guest: Sandra Baer.  There is an urgent need to go forward with new collaborations and innovations as we face multiple crises including: a global recession and vexing income inequality, social and racial injustice, divisive and protectionist politics and the continuing effects of the climate crisis.  In our last podcast, we talked about Question Storming, an innovative way to get to the heart of a problem by asking a difficult question and keep asking questions until we can uncover the many layers of complexity that underlie the challenge and ultimately help us to get to new, maybe never-before discovered solutions.  In this session we demonstrate a question storming session on “How Can we Rebuild Trust in a Broken World?” as we learn from the pandemic experience.

Trying to find your next big job / client / collaborator?  Avoid the easy default and try three (3) career artifacts for building your own professional and personal networks to do well by doing good.  Tips from our professional development coaching practice.  #sdg4 #sdg8 #sdg9

Guest: Joshua Spodek.  What does leadership look like today vs. in a story?  BONUS episode released based on demand from our 3-part outtake.  A vulnerable experience with many actionable insights. #dosomethingmeaningful #leadership #passion

Guest: Joshua Spodek. What does leadership look like today vs. in a story?  Part 3 introduces the pivots in my commitment in Episode 1.5 .  A vulnerable experience with many actionable insights. #dosomethingmeaningful #leadership #passion

Guest: Joshua Spodek. What does leadership look like today vs in a story?  Part 2 introduces the skills of Episode 1.5 .  A vulnerable experience with many actionable insights. #dosomethingmeaningful #leadership #passion

Guest: Joshua Spodek. What does leadership look like today vs. in a story?  Part 1 introduces the idea of Episode 1.5 .  A vulnerable experience with many actionable insights. #dosomethingmeaningful #leadership #passion

Guest: Ed Bryan.  Consumers are increasingly discerning with their purchases, what about Investors?  How can you tell if you - or your investment manager - are being greenwashed with the same old analysis wine in a new bottle?  Ed walks through ways to spot the problem and to work through it, as well as relevance to happenings today amid crises on many fronts.  Shoutout in this episode to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (UNPRI).  #globalgoals

Guest: Mark Batson Baril.  3% of people in organizations have nowhere else to turn to talk through issues and resolve conflicts before they become big.  Conflict among humans is normal and expected.  The key is balance.  Mark shares tactics to achieve that.  #sdg8

Guest: Mark Batson Baril.  3% of people in organizations have nowhere else to turn to talk through issues and resolve conflicts before they become big.  Conflict among humans is normal and expected.  The key is balance.  Mark shares tactics to achieve that.  #sdg8

Guest: Ivory Simms. Affordable quality food is in high demand.  Especially in low-income markets.  The magnitude of COVID-19 exposed the vulnerability of food systems and access in marginalized populations.  In this episode, Ivory discusses bridging the gap of food access through multi-sector partnerships, mixed modeling, and consumer re-engagement. #sustainability #innovation #management #SDGs #sdg2 #covid19 

Guest: Jordan Wildish.  Investors in many sectors are hungry to support projects with robust positive impacts.  But -- Most systems focus on reporting impacts through non-monetized systems, such as letter grades or numeric scores.  These metrics are valuable, but stop short of providing a comprehensive picture of the impacts of an investment portfolio.  Jordan shares a three phase approach that is putting impact in language investors understand. #naturalcapital #resilience

Guest: Joshua Spodek.  What does Leadership in the Environment look like?  Are you leading or managing your vision of a better world?  Joshua shares his framework for shifting leaders and their circles of influence towards to build a better world together.

Guest: Joshua Spodek.  In this humbling episode, Joshua reverse interviews our host and shares in depth the framework he's seen move world leaders.  A vulnerable experience with many actionable insights.

Guest: Shruti Parikh.  Post COVID-19 we have enough witnesses that the pandemic is changing how we live and is subsequently having a profound impact on the environment.  An immediate effect the virus has had on the climate is a reduction in global Co2 emissions.  If we relaunch the economy in the wrong direction, we will hit the climate crisis wall.  Shruti shares ways we need to unite energies for a green & resilient recovery.

Guest: Steven Parker.  Work is killing us, literally.  As the 5th leading cause of death, 2019 rang with calls for change and our COVID days in 2020 have reinforced this need to change.  Steven walks through key tactics and technologies to #buildbettertogether.  #SDG3, #mentalhealth, #wellness  

Guest: Dakota Stormer.  When you're in a crisis, how do you do well by your community?  Be a Founder in a Pandemic?  Create ways to support your tribe?  Dakota shares insights from the frontlines of the community on some new approaches to challenges we're each facing in these days.  #infodemic #goodnews #local 

Guest: Chris Gassman.  The crew at Collision Theory curate the sparknotes of networking.  In this special crossover episode, our host is interviewed by the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity team at Stevens Tech University.  We cover time management, purpose, and more actionable insights.

Guest: Jason Bocchino.  Amid all things COVID19 and other global pandemics, how far along are you and your teams to being clean, not just 'more clean' now that it is 2020?  Jason highlights areas most of us have an opportunity in on a daily basis to see where we stand and how we can futureproof our health for tomorrow and today.  #sdg3

Guest: Niti Parikh.  How do we all cope in a crisis?  As a parent, educator, maker, designer.  Whether for COVID19 or other crises you and your communities are facing, Niti highlights insights for getting involved in ‘creative re-thinking’.  Shoutouts in this episode to Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, and NYC.  #sdg3 #sdg9

Guest: Amy Butler. Looking for funding to get your values-based social enterprise started? Part of a community in transition? Amy shares ideas to build legacies that will thrive in the 21st century. 

Guest: Lauren Sweeney.  Concerns about our personal health, the health our practices create in our environment, and the operationally easiest thing to do all seem to pull us in different directions, particularly in the #nowofwork.  Lauren talks us through how to get to solutions that are more in line with our values, our habits, and all at economics that make sense for all involved. #circularity #sdg12 

Guest: Jason Steinberg. Looking to scale Solar energy from it's current ~2% share of the energy generation mix to the 25% share humans need by 2030?  Looking for green collar jobs to be safer and produce higher quality results?  Jason provides insights to these questions for Solar consumers, developers, installers, and investors.

Guest: Peter Fusaro.  Which technologies are moving ahead - or falling to the wayside as stranded assets - in the transition to a zero carbon society?  Peter shares some insights from his decades of experience in the field, from before ESG was a thing and let alone the trend. 

Guest: Bill Davis.  How do you know if you are pursuing random acts of greenness?  In the decade of voting with your wallet, Bill lays out ways be a more mindful consumer for the beaches and ocean you enjoy.

#2020, #oceandecade, #sdg14 

Guest: CB Bhattacharya.  CB is the Chair of Sustainability & Ethics at the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.  After teaching executives for years he's come across some interesting findings about the small actions any of us can take - from roles in finance or marketing to scientist or mail clerk - that will make the big difference we need.  #smallactionsbigdifference, #purpose, #sustainablebusiness #globalgoals 

Guest: Nathan Hirsch.  Found yourself leading a virtual team, or part of one?  Have an effort to do well by doing good and have functional needs outside your expertise?  We explore how to build these human relations in business in this episode with Nathan, a serial entrepreneur and the Founder of FreeeUp, a marketplace connecting business owners with the top 1% of virtual assistants (VAs), freelancers and agencies in eCommerce, digital marketing, web development, and much more.  #sdg8