The Conscious Capitalists

Raj and co-author Michael Gelb discuss the book that wrote itself. Businesses that are more human and more successful - changing the narrative about business. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

This week we have the co-founder of Seventh Generation (purchased by Unilever in 2016) and of the American Sustainable Business Council (with over 200,000 members), Jeffrey Hollender. Jeffrey has been a leader in the sustainability field since its early days, as an entrepreneur and co-founder the first successful environmentally focused home products Seventh Generation.  Hear about his journey and the difference he is trying to make now with the ASBC as the chamber of commerce for the environment. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

A good business model is the Ferrari engine—people are the fuel that makes it work! 14% CAGR for almost 25 years by caring, looking for goodness and saying thank you.  Hear practical examples of how Barry Wehmiller does it—and at the centre of it, leaders measuring success by the lives they have touched. This approach to leadership and culture that has worked in over a 100 acquisitions- across the globe- a better way of doing business! Join us to hear the inspiring story of Bob Chapman CEO of Barry Wehmiller- WHAT they do is provide the industrial equipment and engineering solutions that  help bring many of life’s daily necessities - toilet tissue and wet wipes, corrugated boxes, cans of soft drinks, bags of dog food, containers of yogurt, pharmaceuticals, envelopes and more - to people across the globe.  But that’s just what they do.  What truly defines them as a business is HOW they do it, and that’s by fostering a caring, trusting, nurturing organizational culture through which people feel safe to express their ideas and share their gifts and talents.  Using the power of business to build a better world. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

This week we interview one of the newest members of the Board at Exxon-Mobil… you might have heard of the activist shareholder revolt that put him there! Meet Greg Goff, an inspiring, successful former CEO (Named one of the “Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review in 2018) founder of a leadership institute and a purpose driven transformation leader. We discuss the power of purpose and how to make it matter in the rough and tumble world of the Oil business, his view of ‘strategic’ leadership and how to help young people get there faster, and earlier, and the journey of activism at Exxon Mobil. A wide-ranging discussion with someone with a strong bias to action and making a positive difference in the world. A Podcast by Tec Sounds. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Bob Anderson is the co-creator of the most effective 360 leadership development tool, The Leadership Profile. More than that he is an ardent student and practitioner of leading-edge leadership development. Join us this week as we discuss conscious/integral leadership, adult development and why in an era of constant and accelerating change ‘conscious’ leaders have never been more important. Hear Bob discuss ‘conscious’ leadership as an essential element of building an agile organization. Is your leadership development model producing highly dynamic and reflective leaders who focus on relationships? Or are you in the ‘old mode’ of leaders who focus on tasks and compliance (hit the targets I give you) at the expense of relationships and miss the opportunity to create psychological safety and enable others to takes risks, and learn and adapt quickly to changes in the  business environment and customer needs. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

What do Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, Wholefoods and the Red Cross have in common? Chief Purposologist Haley Rushing! Listen to her experience with making purpose matter for the last 20 years. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Barry Johnson first developed the principles of polarity thinking and maps in 1975. As the founder and leading practioner of ‘both/and’ thinking, he offers a unique perspective on its application across business, politics, and society. As we increasingly understand the difference between solving problems AND managing complex systems, polarity thinking becomes a critical leadership capability for the 21st century! Let’s go for purpose AND profit, caring AND accountability, stakeholders AND shareholders!!! A Podcast by Tec Sounds. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Hear from Gerry Anderson, former CEO and Chair of the one of the largest utility and energy companies in the mid-west of the US. Gerry made purpose relevant to people by making it matter to their individual roles and jobs. From power plant workers to accountants- helping people see the importance of their work and how they make a difference unleashes people energy into the business and the communities they serve. DTE amazed many by moving from the bottom of the Gallup engagement survey to the top 3%. Changing leadership mindsets and taking reasonability for training front line and middle managers on how to engage the power of people helped drive this inspiring turn around. Listen to an inspiring servant leader leading a company on the way to a cleaner, safer, and smarter energy future. A Podcast by Tec Sounds. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Learn about creating the future from the ‘surround sound’ of our core strengths and how to make positive change at scale with David Cooperrider the father of Appreciative Inquiry. He talks about his experiences in engaging large groups in addressing difficult and challenging questions or business issues in a way that creates breakthrough thinking and action! AND creates organizational transformation that is deeper, more meaningful and sustainable! Appreciative Inquiry has revolutionized the field of organizational development- hear about it from the person who started it all, and why he did. A Podcast by Tec Sounds. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Hear about what this means and the extraordinary story of Lynne Twist the author of the Soul of Money and co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance. Money is a means not an end, and our attitude towards it shapes many of our actions. Lynne walks us through some of the shifts in mindset that enable us to allow money to flow in our lives towards making a difference. An inspiring call to live a committed life and step into making a difference in the world. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj