Dr. Leann Pereira designs behavioral development programs that enhance self-awareness, self-regulation, and executive functioning skills in adults. The purpose of her work is to increase self-efficacy, team functioning, and management and leadership effectiveness. Her doctoral degree is in education with a concentration on women’s leadership development. Emotions have a level of complexity and how we feel.

Dr. Pereira said that “There is a big connection between feelings and how people think. You can hammer away with what every feeling you have. However, your ability to work with others and collaborate, how we connect to one another and work together is based on emotions.”

Ravin Jesuthasan is a recognized global thought leader and author on the future of work. He is a regular presenter at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos and is a member of the forum’s Steering Committee on Work and Employment. He has been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world, one of the top 8 future of work influencers and one of the top 100 HR influencers. Ravin has authored 3 books and over 100 articles. You can follow Ravin on Twitter @ravinjesuthasan

We recommend you read these additional writings by Ravin and John Boudreau

1. How to break down work tasks that can be automated – Harvard Business Review.
2. What we often get wrong about automation – Harvard Business Review
3. Ravin’s articles posted to Forbes.com
4. Ravid and John Boudreau’s Book Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work. I have read it and highly recommend it!

Lucy Adams is the CEO of Disruptive HR and the former human resources Director of the BBC. Lucy created Disruptive HR after having held senior-level HR roles in a variety of sectors. She grew frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking in the profession and wanted to find new ways of tackling old problems. She now runs the agency to help HR leaders do things differently. She is the author of two books; HR Disrupted and The HR Change Toolkit. You can follow Lucy on Twitter @lucy4dams.

Dr. Janet Shaner is an expert in learning, networking, and managing organizations, as well as an experienced workshop facilitator and writer. She has more than twenty years of experience in the management education industry with institutions such as IMD, INSEAD, and Harvard. Janet is a networking expert both through academic research and in real-world practice, and she has recently published a book entitled Networking: Coffee not Cocktails. You can reach Dr. Shaner on twitter at @janet_shaner

Dr. Shaner said “Networking is more complicated than just meeting people” “When I am new in an organization, I am not considered legitimate, so I find mentors, as I go up I have more flexibility as to have an open network and contact a whole range of people.” When I asked her what she would do first Shaner said “Ask yourself what your objective is? The answer “will tell you how to leverage your network.”

She went on to share that “If innovating is my objective, I will use the part of my network outside of my network, new thoughts.” I asked Shaner what tools you can bring to understand your network and she said “you can draw a map, look at your map and see what its characteristics to what I want to accomplish” “Your LinkedIn network may or may not be your close network. We connect on LinkedIn and don’t connect with people who are closer.” 

Shaner said that “We associate networking with cocktails, one-off, transactional when you look at the research it is about building relationships and bringing energy to that relationship.”

When asked about minorities finding a mentor she said “The research shows that there are differences between men and women at the beginning of their career when you are a minority you have more difficulty. They need to go to the majority group for support or advice. Women are an example of this; they need men to mentor them.”

When asked how companies can make a difference Shaner said: “It is important for the organization to establish a culture to reward performance and deal with issues around mentoring and development of people.”

Today we continue our conversation about B-Corp and Benefit Corporation with experts Rick Alexander and Ben Garthwaite. We will touch on the differences between operating a typical corporation and B-Corp certified corporation. We will also explain what it takes to start a Benefit Corporation.

Rick Alexander has practiced law for 26 years at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell and has been a managing partner for the last four. In 2015, he became the Head of Legal Policy at B Lab, where he is currently working as a Fellow, creating a framework to support responsible corporate ownership. Rick prepared the initial drafts of both the Delaware and the ABA model benefit corporation legislation, and is author of the first comprehensive book on benefit corporations, published in 2018. @Rick__Alexander

Ben Garthwaite is a Senior Vice President and Co-Founder of Fors Marsh Group. Fors Marsh Group is a research-first company that understands influence and measuring the way people and organizations think to make choices. The company is an Inc. 5000 Hall of Fame awardee and an American Marketing Association Gold Top 50 firm. They are also a certified B Corp and Benefit Corporation.
@ForsMarshGroup

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) represents Maryland’s eighth district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2016. Prior to that he served as a member of the Maryland State Senate for three terms. He has also taught constitutional law at American University’s College of Law in Washington, D.C. Jim Epstein is the Chairman of EFO Capital Management. As a philanthropist, he has been a supporter of the benefit corporation movement and has worked with non-profit groups. He is also a founder of Blue Ridge Produce in Virginia, which sells regionally gown produce to local wholesalers.

In this show, Lorne speaks with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Jim Epstein, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, about benefit corporations, which are required by law to consider both long-term financial benefits and impact on society, including impact on workers, the community and the environment. In 2010, as a state senator in Maryland, Raskin was a sponsor of a bill establishing benefit corporations in the state. Jim Epstein has spent decades supporting mission driven investing and social entrepreneurship. One day in 2010, Raskin invited Epstein to take a walk. It was on that walk that Epstein told Raskin about benefit corporations and shortly after Maryland became the first state to pass benefit corporation legislation.