Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business

#22 Antje von Dewitz: How 'responsibility' applies to all sizes of company


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Frankly Speaking welcomes Antje von Dewitz, Chief Executive Officer of the outdoor brand Vaude, based in rural southern Germany. Vaude has won awards as Germany's greenest company and Antje is an ambassador for the Economy for the Common Good, served as vice president of her industry body, the European Outdoor Group, and she is a past winner of Vanity Fair's Changing Your Mind award.

Listen in and share our conversation about:

  • Why transforming Vaude to a sustainable company

  • How to convince suppliers to change, to become carbon neutral

  • Evaluation of the Germany Supply Chain Act

  • Sustainability being perceived as a burden for a medium-sized company

  • Why liability is a necessary part of due diligence

  • The challenge of strengthening workers’ rights in non-democratic countries

  • Being one of a few women business leaders in the mountain sports and outdoor goods industry

  • The question of growth and scaling up a sustainable business

  • Taking sabbaticals

  • ...more
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