Kemp Edwards is a Canadian Gen X eco-entrepreneur who started out as a

graduate from Queens University with an honors degree in Philosophy.

Taking a creative leap away from philosophy and into the action sports

industry, Kemp spent ten years in that business before acting on his

inspiration to merge business interests with a desire to create a

world he wanted to live in and leave to his two kids.

In this interview, he shares how inspiration lead to the growth of two

his two eco-businesses: www.Ethicalprofiling.com, which helps

companies make ethical purchasing decisions through sourcing high

quality socially and environmentally friendly products, and FuGen.

His second company, www.FuGenDesign.com matches charitable

organizations and causes with retail partners to bring eco and

socially conscious products to the consumer.

The network of benefits means everyone wins. It is the model of

partnerships between businesses, consumers and non-profit activists

co-creating shared value through being environmentally and socially

responsible.

Kemp Edwards is a Canadian Gen X eco-entrepreneur who started out as a graduate from Queens University with an honors degree in Philosophy. Taking a creative leap away from philosophy and into the action sports industry, Kemp spent ten years in that business before acting on his inspiration to merge business interests with a desire to create a world he wanted to live in and leave to his two kids.

In this interview, he shares how inspiration lead to the growth of two his two eco-businesses: www.Ethicalprofiling.com, which helps companies make ethical purchasing decisions through sourcing high quality socially and environmentally friendly products, and FuGen.

His second company, www.FuGenDesign.com matches charitable organizations and causes with retail partners to bring eco and socially conscious products to the consumer.

The network of benefits means everyone wins. It is the model of partnerships between businesses, consumers and non-profit activists co-creating shared value through being environmentally and socially responsible.

In part two of Dawna's interview with Chris Laszlo they explore how to engage the C-suite in sustainability initiatives, moving past it is either the economy or the environment and look at the value of disruptive innovation to take advantage of improving stewardship of ecological capital.

Embedding sustainability into business operations offers a competitive advantage that is finally catching on with mainstream business. This is part 1 of this interview with Chris Laszlo, author of "The Sustainable Company".

The second half of the talk with Richard Barrett continues with a peek at the personal practice of personal transformation.

Rapidly changing external conditions impact everyone whether it is your personal life, organizational life or, as events in Egypt illustrate, larger structures that guide Nations. Mastery of our inner world, right down to clearing the lens we perceive the world through is requisite to achieving higher levels of consciousness; the tool, the enabler for successfully collaborating on complex issues at any level, from global to personal.

Commitment to self-actualization by consistently transforming to higher levels of consciousness becomes the tool for staying functional, engaged and achieving fulfillment for the common good.

The Evolutionary Provocateur bi-monthly show is for executives, managers, and supervisors (OR for leaders at all levels) who have noticed that it is not what you know but who you are that has the biggest impact.

Dawna Jones, the show's host, believes that by raising awareness and understanding we can make a quantum leap to a new level of innovation in business - but it has to be done collectively.

What better way to do it than by provoking the evolution of how you see yourself and your role!

Rod Collins is the former chief operating executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP), one of America's largest and most successful business alliances, with over $19 billion in annual revenues.

Using the principles and the practices of wiki-management, under Rod's leadership, FEP set new records in operational performance.

The secrets? Shifting from leveraging the intelligence of the few to the collective knowledge of the many. Dawna talks to Rod about what wiki-management is and why it is the only game in town for changing how we manage in complexity.

Rod is the author of the book Leadership in a Wiki World: Leveraging Collective Knowledge to Make the Leap to Extraordinary Performance.

VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, complexity and Ambiguity. These set the context for business operations and, in the big picture, the evolution of enterprise including institutional and non-profits. Everyone is a change agent in a climate of complex adaptation but change imposed from the top down as a reaction to these variables sets up resistance. People prefer to choose change.

When organizations exit the trajectory of adaptive change for safer, more familiar ground they miss the moment to inject personal mastery, personal confidence and security not grounded in outer conditions but grounded in inner courage, resiliency and knowing that stepping into the gap is the only means to use this environment to innovate.

Dawna speaks with Dr. Carol Mase, author of an article on Adaptive Change. Carol has an extensive education in medical and social sciences and has worked as an entrepreneur, global marketing executive, and organizational coach-consultant. She brings the 'new sciences' of complexity, neuroscience, and systems thinking to business and leadership.

When the emotional charge of a stressful event remains unaddressed the long term consequences can be serious.

In part 2 of the interview with Dr.Nelie Johnson, she describes how depression serves to keep an individual safe when events conflict with ability to express oneself, to protect your ‘territory’ and what happens when those conflicts are not resolved.

Learn how you can spot the signals that say the working environment may not be working for you and how to avoid depression.

As it turns out, companies that continue to direct employees contribution over a goal-oriented collaborative approach might just be creating the costs of stress and the loss of human creativity and talent.

While the costs of stress-related absenteeism and disability vary from country to country, no one can argue that productivity and quality of life suffer when an employee or someone you care about is dealing with a stress-related illness.

The biological dynamic of stress is straightforward. Stress originates when the external environment or your internal belief system provides instructions to cells that work against your well-being.

Research by the Heart Math Institute explains that stress originates when the emotional and cognitive centers are out of alignment: thinking one thing and feeling another, for example.

To understand what individuals and businesses can do to take back their health at home and in the workplace Dawna speaks to

Dr. Nelie Johnson, a family physician who became frustrated with the limitations of conventional medicine to get to the root of the matter.

Dr. Johnson’s discovery revealed the quantum aspect of disease: the thoughts, emotions and beliefs that directly inform healing. Learn how the brain uses a disease much like your computer uses a program to run in 24/7 stress-filled environments.