INCREASE CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND REDUCE SHAREHOLDER RISK

As You Sow believes that shareholders are a powerful force for creating positive, lasting changes in corporate behavior.Over the past century, corporate power has become the most dominant force on the planet.

Of the 100 largest economic entities in the world, nearly 70% are corporations. This concentration of resources gives companies power and influence over their workers, customers, and the communities in which they operate.It is critical for corporate leaders to address the impact of their policies and actions. By ignoring this impact, they are creating risk for their customers, employees, shareholders, and themselves. Ultimately, companies that view the world not in months, but in years, decades, and generations will be able to reduce their long-term risk and ensure success.

Shareholder actions press corporations to undertake this broader risk analysis and make decisions that benefit people, the planet, and profit over the long term.

Since 1992 As You Sow has utilized shareholder advocacy to increase corporate responsibility on a broad range of environmental and social issues. As shareholder advocates,

As You Sow communicates directly with corporate executives to collaboratively develop and implement business models that reduce risk, benefit brand reputation, and increase the bottom line while simultaneously bringing positive environmental and social change.

Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow,

What will you learn:

1. The Power of Shareholder Advocacy
2. Long-Term Risk Management for Companies
3. Examples of Shareholder Action in Practice

Today we're honored to welcome Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which he co-founded with George Soros, William Janeway, and James Balsillie in 2009. Rob stands at the forefront of efforts to reshape economic theory and practice for a more equitable and sustainable world.

Under his leadership, INET has become a powerful catalyst for fresh perspectives that address our most pressing economic challenges - from inequality and climate change to financial instability and democratic erosion.

In this episode, "Reimagining Economics for a Just Future," we'll explore how new economic thinking can help create financial systems that serve humanity rather than the other way around. Rob brings insights from his decades of experience challenging economic orthodoxy and building bridges between academia, policy, and real-world practice.

TBLI Radical Truth brings you the visionaries and thought leaders who are redefining how we understand value, impact, and prosperity in the 21st century.

Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty.

Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale.

Most fellows become part of the Mulago Solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale.Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago.

He and his team now work with 50 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America

What will you learn?

- What is a high-impact organization? - Can you achieve true impact with few restrictions for the grantee? - Which is more effective grant or an investment?

Olinga Taeed is Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance, the world’s leading not-for-profit think tank on the Movement of Value with over 220,000 members, and is Expert Advisor and Council Member of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s ‘Blockchain E-Commerce Committee’.

He was the world’s first blockchain professor at Birmingham City University, and is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchains (Switzerland), a peer review academic journal with 400+ editors. He is Chair of Arbor Verification Tech (ESG – Ho Chi Minh), MiMeta.Life (Metaverse), Bureau of Media Data and Ideology (Media – New York), and AizaWorld (Gaming – Hanoi); most recently he was appointed Chair of AITEA (AI - Beijing) populated by staff from tech giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.

He has spoken at The Vatican which attributed him with the “God Metric – the fastest adopted social impact metric in the world”, and is Advisor to Wildcat Petroleum Plc, a London Stock Market listed company.What will you learn:

• Expanding ESG Impact Investing Beyond Carbon Footprint
• The Role of AI in Identifying Impact Opportunities
• Quantifying the Impact of ESG Investing with AI
  

Three things that you will learn:

• The What, Why, and How of Net-Zero Procurement (NZP)
• How NZP can be the missing market force engaging companies in the race to net-zero GHG emissions.
• How the deployment of NZP with speed and global scale can fix the climate crisis

Bob Willard is a leading expert on sustainability justifications, reporting frameworks, and sustainable procurement. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities by using smart environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. Over the last 22 years, he has given more than 1,700 presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. He has authored six books: The Sustainability Advantage (2002), The Next Sustainability Wave (2005), The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook (2009), The New Sustainability Advantage (2012), Release 1 of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark (co-authored, 2016), and the Sustainability ROI Workbook (2017). He has published two white papers: “7 Bold Strokes to Save our World” (2020) and “The 21st Century Sustainable Enterprise Force Field” (2021). His extensive Master Slide Decks and free, open-source spreadsheets, toolkits, and videos provide comprehensive capacity-building resources for sustainability champions.Bob serves on the Future-Fit Foundation board, the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) board, the Whitby Sustainability Advisory Committee, and the B Corp Standards Advisory Council. He previously served on the boards of Forum for the Future U.S. (3 years), The Natural Step (TNS) Canada (12 years), Learning for a Sustainable Future (3 years), and Durham Sustain Ability (6 years).

He was also a citizen member of the Durham Region Roundtable on Climate Change (5 years).For the last few years, Bob has focused on Sustainable Procurement and Net-Zero Procurement as market forces to incentivize the transition to more sustainable business models and to mobilize businesses in the race to net-zero GHGs.

He co-developed the SPLC Navigator that scores how well an organization has integrated core sustainable procurement elements into its procurement system. He serves on the Canadian government’s Low Carbon Procurement Advisory Committee, is on the core faculty of the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Sustainable Procurement Fellowship program, and is an Advisor to the Mission from MaRs – Net-Zero Procurement Mission. He teaches a 4-webinar ISSP course on Sustainable Procurement which provides guidance on how to use his free, open-source Sustainable Procurement Toolkit and Net-Zero Procurement Toolkit.

Today we're thrilled to welcome a true innovator in the impact investment space, Aunnie Patton Power. Aunnie is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, and the author of "Adventure Finance: How to Create a Funding Journey That Blends Profit and Purpose."

With her extensive experience in designing innovative financing mechanisms across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, Aunnie brings a wealth of knowledge on how capital can be deployed to address our world's most pressing challenges.

In today's episode, we'll explore how technology is revolutionizing impact investing, discuss alternative funding models for social enterprises, and uncover the radical truths about what's really working—and what isn't—in the sustainable finance ecosystem.

So whether you're an experienced impact investor, a social entrepreneur seeking funding, or simply curious about how finance can drive positive change, you're in for an illuminating conversation.

This is TBLI Radical Truth, uncovering the bold ideas and honest perspectives shaping the future of sustainable finance.

Peta Milan is the Principal of single family office Henmil Group Family Office, at the forefront of Regenerative Investing, and CEO of the first regenerative venture studio Transcendent Media Capital. Peta takes some Executive Management roles in her portfolio companies to establish their regenerative capabilities and is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Board Member.

Christopher White joined Conservation International as a strategist in 2021, specializing in building solutions in complex and challenging environments. He has dedicated the past two years to studying the various fiscal and operational interventions employed to facilitate international conservation efforts.

He is currently working on developing a new approach to funding conservation work that generates economic and natural returns for both people and the planet.

Fleur Rossdale's Woodland Sprite series tackles climate issues, food security, wellbeing, and plastic waste through a fantasy world where fairies protect nature with courage and authenticity. Instead of proposals, Fleur conveys her ideas through storytelling, aiming to inspire adults to act. She also organizes events in Brussels and Westminster, uniting changemakers, specialists, and scientists to drive solutions.