Simon Mainwaring

November 11, 2021 by Simon Mainwaring

For this post, the tables were turned as I sat down with Ian Blake Newhem, host of “The Operative Word” on KABC radio in Los Angeles. He dug into the thesis of my new book, Lead With We, and how any brand can unlock business value and societal impact by applying its insights and strategies. […]

October 22, 2021 by Simon Mainwaring

In its latest TV spot, we follow a bee as it buzzes over a Walmart store and through its thriving garden center. We see solar panels on the roof. The narrator intones, “Everyone deserves to live better. And just being sustainable isn’t enough. Our future depends on regeneration, which is why we’re working to not only …

September 23, 2021 by Simon Mainwaring

“We meet this year in a moment intermingled with great pain and extraordinary possibility.” “I stand here today for the first time in 20 years with the United States not at war,” President Joe Biden told world leaders in his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 21. “We’ve turned the page.” But the …

August 25, 2021 by Simon Mainwaring

At 11:49 p.m. on an otherwise ordinary January 26th, a bearded man was burning the midnight oil in a food lab. He had worked at 16 Michelin star restaurants, was named a Zagat 30 Under 30, and was twice nominated for the James Beard Rising Star Chef award. Tonight, though, he was a scientist. He …

August 18, 2021 by Simon Mainwaring

Crisis 1: At least 2 billion people worldwide are malnourished. According to the CDC, from 1999–2000 through 2017–2018, the rate of U.S. obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 42.4%, with the prevalence of extreme obesity doubling to 9.2%. And those statistics are from before the impact of the pandemic compounded these troubling issues. Dietary risk …