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. […]
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“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 […]
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After “months in the making,” says Ron Jarvis, chief sustainability officer for The Home Depot, there’s a new, large-scale sustainability report from the company. It was developed in collaboration with a broad spectrum of stakeholders to respond to two kinds of their concerns: for those who want transparency, and for those who demand action. Both […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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McKinleyville, California’s seafood industry veteran Bill Carvalho co-founded Wild Planet Foods in 2005, after years of exasperation with the unsustainable practices he witnessed — and sometimes reluctantly practiced — in his industry.
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