Creating Responsible Companies Podcast

Why Corporate Social Responsibility is critical today. In this episode, Janet and Barbra talk about 5 intriguing headlines and 15 questions that will change the way you look at your company. Listen and learn more!

Warning: this information will change the way you look at your company! …and other companies!

We have chosen 5 top headlines that show CSR’s critical role in business today.

These stories include intriguing, hard facts that make CSR a “no brainer” for your company. And no matter your role in your company, no matter the type of company you have or work for, we think you’ll be able to connect these with your business.

On our free download, we have provided links to each of these articles. We have also provided 3 ways you can consider applying each of these articles to your company!

1.  Fast Company : “Most millennials would take a pay cut to work at an environmentally responsible company” (Feb. 14, 2019)

2.  Sustainable Brands: “Gen Z Believes in Its Own Power to Make Change, But That Companies Must Lead the Way” (Oct. 23, 2019)

3.  Harvard Business Review: “ESG Comes of Age” (May 2019)

4.  The New York Times: “Companies see climate change hitting their bottom lines in the next 5 years” (June 4, 2019)

5.  The Wall Street Journal: “Move over shareholders: Top CEO’s say companies have obligations to society” (Aug. 19, 2019)

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Shift Happens! 5 Global Trends That Made CSR Mainstream in Business and Why This Info Should Be a Tool In Your Management Toolbox.

In our mission to make CSR easy, we want to provide some context for how CSR became a mainstream business practice. To do so, in this episode we’ll look back at recent history to share a series of events that have taken place and made CSR mainstream in business.

1. Significant changes in the world

• World population growth
• Food-energy-water nexus: the increase in population will drive an enormous need for more food, energy and water. 
• A growing middle class now has more disposable income to buy more things.
• We’ve become a disposable economy.

2. Companies’ offerings have shifted from offerings that were primarily tangible – things that were manufactured or produced, like steel or even printed materials to more intangible items like software-based companies and experiences.

3. The internet has made it possible for anyone to look up anything about a company and companies are expected to be more transparent.

• Like no other time in history, information is available 24/7/365.
• At any given time, within minutes, a company’s reputation can be significantly harmed by accurate, and even inaccurate, information.
• For these reasons and many more, companies are expected to provide the information that we as consumers or citizens want, when we want it, accessible in a place that we can easily find it, at any time.
• This is why it’s imperative for a company’s reputation to be transparent.

4. 5 generations exist together in the workplace, affecting employees and culture

• Millennials and Gen Z’s are raising the bar on expectations for transparency and action. 

5. Organizations have been developed to help consumers, employees and even investors understand the social and environmental information that companies are reporting.

• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• GRI – The Global Reporting Initiative
• DJSI - the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
• SASB- the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

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In this episode, Barbra and Janet take you on a journey about their career twists and turns, what drives them and how they overcame odds to achieve success after skinning their knees along the way.

We have walked in the shoes of the CSR professional, trailblazed, drove change, innovated, overcome objections, won awards, added value to the business, all while creating a career with purpose.

It wasn’t always easy! But that is why we are here now.

We have devoted ourselves to creating this podcast to make CSR easy for you. By listening to this episode, you can learn from our backgrounds so you can:

• Foster relationships to get things done
• Know when and how to ask for help
• Identify opportunities to create change and take action
• Inspire others with your vision and make a difference

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People want to know how companies are treating the environment, their employees, and how they’re giving back in support of the communities in which they operate. In this episode, Janet and Barbra talk about how and why the Creating Responsible Companies podcast was born and how it can help you figure out what corporate social responsibility (CSR) is for your organization and how engaging in social and environmental initiatives can benefit your career and your organization’s profitability and reputation.

Our experience: We have worked with multiple companies throughout our respective careers and with our consulting company, Destination Better. Companies as large as Fortune 10 have turned to us to help them create and manage their own employee, community and environmental programs. Now, we are ready to spill the secrets we learned in the corporate trenches!

Throughout our careers we learned two important lessons:

1. 80% of the work of any professional, especially a CSR pro, is in soft skills: EQ, relationship building, being relatable and effectively communicating to advance your mission. 
2. Human beings, no matter if you are a business leader, CSR pro or someone who just graduated with a degree in sustainability, feel like they have a calling of some sort, something they naturally do really well and were “called to do”. These same people have jobs where they are being “asked to do” something. 

Where this podcast sits is in the middle of what you are being “called to do” and what you are being “asked to do”. Our purpose is to close that gap through social and environmental awareness and responsibility, to help you develop the relationship skills you need and give you the tools you need to actually make a difference. 

Can we really change the world with a podcast and help create careers and companies that, yes, can make a difference?

Business leaders, CSR professionals and Everyday Superheroes have asked us to equip, empower and encourage them, sharing our uncomplicated tools and career insights to create more socially and environmentally responsible companies; to strike a balance between “called to do”/”asked to do” so that everyone can have a career and company that matches their values. 

A podcast seemed like the best way, so we took the plunge to:

• Equip: We will give away tools we have created over our careers that help advance social and environmental practices to create a better world, one responsible company at a time
• Empower: We’ve already skinned our knees, so you don’t have to! We’ll share social and environmental advice and knowledge we have used to guide executives, CSR professionals and those who just want to make a difference.
• Encourage: Help leaders, CSR professionals and Everyday Superheroes learn in a safe environment, hone their superpowers and address the gaps that are holding them back from making a difference in their own careers and companies.

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