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Domo for Good connects nonprofits with Domo customers for best-in-class data support, says Domo's Chief Communications Officer, Julie Kehoe.
Many businesses are beginning to trial methods to share their technology, people, skills and expertise with the wider world for the simple benefit of improving the wider world. In practice it is anything but simple, and yet Domo, a Utah-based data visualization and cloud software company, has become one of the first in its sector to create a purpose-driven arm: Domo for Good.
Learn how Domo for Good was created after a chance encounter between a client and a nonprofit at its event, Domopalooza, and why data is a resource most lacking in businesses that need it the most, as well as the challenges of setting up a purpose brand within a profit-making enterprise. -
Dame Stephanie Shirley's life has been described as one "without limits".
Born as Vera Buchthal in Germany, 1933, she was five years old when she escaped Nazi Germany to Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee. The trauma shaped her early life and drove her to curating her own future: from a lover of mathematics and computing she rose to becoming a successful - and well-known - businesswoman in 1960s Britain, founding an all-female information technology company under the moniker "Steve" Shirley.
It would become known for its pioneering employee packages - flexible working, zero-hour contracts, and working from home as standard. Over 11 years, Dame Shirley even gifted her employees 25% of the business, making several people millionaires in the process. It was just one of her philanthropic ventures, alongside numerous contributions to autism charities and initiatives, as well as founding the Oxford Internet Institute.
For these reasons, Dame Shirley's voice and experience are a vital touchstone when considering today's purposeful business movement.
In this interview with Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor of HotTopics.ht, understand how Dame Shirley capitalized on her gender in a male-dominated industry, championed a healthier, more respectful work-place culture for her employees and views today's batch of energized entrepreneurs. -
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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.
Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business
This episode’s guests are Charmian Love, Chair and Co-Founder of B LAB (UK), and Kate Sandle, its Director of Programmes and Engagement.
At the very center of the purposeful business trend sits B Corp. It is the standard, the validation for organizations, large or small, to prove to themselves, their customers and their community, that purpose lies at the heart of its practice, alongside, of course, its profit.
But it’s a challenging, often long journey. Of the thousands of businesses all over the world that seek B Corp registration, only 40% attain the standard. This is where Charmian, Kate and B Lab come in: they meet, advise and guide potential B Corp company teams as they seek this classification, and over the last four years have seen the purpose driven business sector grow from strength to strength. I asked them what’s next for them, for B Corp companies, and for capitalism itself.
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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.
Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.
Today’s guest, who you’ve just heard, sits outside the purposeful business sector, but his viewpoint is still valid. It is Daniel Mittler, Greenpeace’s International Political Director. It’s his role to align Greenpeace’s political positions across every Greenpeace entity all over the world, as well as understand how Greenpeace should react or adapt to any new macro trend.
Purpose-driven business are one such trend. And In its mission to drive change across myriad social and environmental causes it promises to reshape the relationship between government, business, charity and individual. Should charities feel threatened? Or will we witness the forging of a partnership that will redraw capitalism as we know it?
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This episode’s guest is Chris Wigley, who is a former British Diplomat and now Partner at McKinsey and Solution Partner at Quantum Black, which advises businesses all over the world on how to best implement AI and machine learning. He also regularly talks about the ethics of AI and it is in this capacity that I most interested in.
The ethics of AI as a conversation hasn’t matured as fast as the technology it often cautions against.
And as the purposeful business trend continues to march, how can entrepreneurs square using best-in-class tech within positive ethical contexts if they don’t know the full impact of those technologies?
It’s Chris’ job to talk to business leaders about that very topic, so what are the ethical considerations of AI?
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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.
Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.
Today’s guest, who you’ve just heard, is Dr Paul-Peter Tak, former Chief Immunology Officer at GSK, and now founding Venture Partner for Flagship Pioneering. To date the organisation has created and directed more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $30 billion in so-called aggregate value - although Dr Tak maintains that value is not the only aim. The true aim is to foster first-in-category life sciences companies that transform human health.
Almost acting like a healthcare dating platform, Flagship Pioneering matches graduates and alumni from institutions like MIT and Harvard with the teams, funding and leadership, and asks them to choose one of the world’s most pressing healthcare issues they’re willing to solve.What has Dr Tak achieved over his career to make him determine whether a healthcare issue is pressing or not, and how successful have his incubated teams been so far?
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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.
Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.
Today’s guest, who you’ve just heard, is Paul van Zyl, co-founder of The Conduit Club, one of London’s newest member’s club - but - with a difference: all its members have to prove they’re committed to finding solutions to some of our most pressing social and environmental issues today. It’s an exclusive community of entrepreneurs, investors and influencers with a conscience.
As the Club’s co-founder, Paul has a mission generate purpose out of a community of well-meaning individuals, and his past efforts apparently make him well placed to comment on the trend of meaningful businesses.
That’s because, besides The Conduit, Paul is the co-founder and CEO of Maiyet, a global fashion brand focused on traditional design, partnering with local creators and designers to ensure ethical standards; he’s also the cofounder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, an international human rights organization based in New York City
Last year, Paul was announced by London Tech Week as one of its 30 Change Makers 2018, celebrating people harnessing technology to inspire social and economic impact and drive global innovation. And there’s more.
It’s certainly not your average CV. Which makes Paul the ideal candidate to drill down into what a meaningful business looks like, as well as why this trend is generating such momentum with millennials and entrepreneurs alike.
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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.
Together we’re finding out how businesses and their leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.
Today’s guest, who you’ve just heard, is Matt McAllester, former Editor in Chief of Newsweek and now Managing Director of Intelligence Squared. In simple terms, Intelligence Squared hosts and curates debates. But it’s aim is bold: to establish itself as a world leading platform for live, topical debates featuring well-known names and faces across the celebrity, academic and political spheres
And it’s well on its way to achieving that: it hosts over 45 debates a year, across 11 countries and has over half a million plays and downloads a month, not counting its live audiences. Past speakers include Malala Yousafzai , James Comey , Kate Winslet, Sheryl Sandberg , Jonathan Dimbleby , Helena Bonham Carter , Mary Beard - actors, politicians, experts and journalists alike stand on stage and argue for or against motions, covering a wide range of themes. Think the value of blockchain, the state of China, the rise of Populism, even topics like the architecture of the Universe. There truly is a debate for everyone.
And when I caught up with Matt, we discussed what it’s like to create such a product, but also why debates themselves, and the art of argumentation, is such a necessary tool for society and businesses alike right now.
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Hello and welcome to the Meaningful Business podcast. I’m Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor at HotTopics and your host.
Together we are going to find out how business leaders champion purpose, people and planet alongside profit - and in the process how to define and lead a meaningful business.
Our first guest, who you’ve just heard, is Stephen Brill, co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company that is synthesising technology and the expertise of industry-leading journalists to create an online tool that can fight fake news, disinformation and poor or lazy reportage.
High quality journalism is a strong indicator of a highly functioning democracy, which in turn provides a stable foundation for good business. For Stephen and his New York City-based team, therefore, this is a cause worth fighting for.
I caught up with Steven whilst he was at NewsGuard HQ in New York City, fresh from a round of hype regarding NewsGuard’s recent red-flagging of the Daily Mail, a story broken by the Guardian and gleefully shared across the internet. It’s a fun story, but will NewsGuard’s badges have the impact on online journalism they desire
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HotTopics.ht is launching a brand new podcast: Meaningful Business. Together we will find out how global business leaders are championing purpose, people and planet alongside profit, what exactly a meaningful business is, and how to lead one.
Across the years, we have been speaking to some of the most influential leaders across industries, from executives to investors, high-growth startup founders and industry experts.
We’ve asked them: what technologies are fuelling their success; how they motivate employees to work productively; how they deliver world class customer experience; and where they’re looking to secure growth. But now, we’re asking why.
Consumers are demanding more from brands, not just continued excellence in experience and design, but knowledge that its products or services contribute something to society. In fact, 60 percent of consumers will stop buying from a company if they disagree with their stance on a social issue. So businesses need to find their meaning. The question is how.
Find out only on HotTopics’ Meaningful Business podcast, with Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor.
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In Episode 7 of HotTopics.ht's Unicorn CMO Roundtables, Sarah Speake, chief marketing officer at Truphone and contributing editor at HotTopics.ht hosts a discussion with four other leaders. These include: Abi Jacks, marketing director UK, Rakuten Marketing; Chris Merrick, global marketing director, Shure Inc; Bob Barker, advisor and coach, Leading Edge Forum; and Steve Ward, marketing director, Epitomise Ltd.
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