A pioneering leader reshaping the future of sustainable business, Anie Rouleau and the company she founded (The Unscented Company) redefines the notion of clean with innovative, natural home and body care products. With a dedication to sustainability and social impact, Anie champions refillable packaging and waterless products, combating single-use plastics and protecting waterways. An advocate for the B Corp model, she promotes local sourcing, ethical leadership, and equal opportunity employment.

Anie's achievements include appearances on Dragons' Den Canada, Canada's Top Growing Company for four consecutive years, and recognition with the Young Phoenix Prize and the Trudeau Medal. An influential speaker at institutions and organizations such as BDC, C2 Montreal, UQAM, Concordia, McGill, ETS, and the University of Ottawa, she's committed to mentoring young female entrepreneurs. Anie leads a B Corp Certified and Women Owned business, a role she's held since 2011.

(0:00) Intro
(2:47) The making of an entrepreneur
(6:07) A unexpected market for fragrance free soap
(8:56) Reducing single use packaging through refillable solutions
(12:25) Selecting retail partners from yoga studios to Whole Foods
(15:02) The value of local suppliers and partners
(19:31) Fragrance free for skin sensitivity, asthma, pregnancy, and even hunting/fishing!
(23:49) What is B Corp and who should pursue this certification?
(31:10) The next frontier: reducing water footprint
(33:40) The making of an ecopreneur
(42:10) What it will take for businesses and leaders to be resilient going forward

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On this solo episode, host Lauren Scott is going to answer a question that she gets quite often, which is "how to start a career in sustainability?"

As someone who mentors undergraduate business students, Lauren often gets asked for the best way to be able to add sustainability onto their resumes. Similarly, she gets this question from professionals who are mid-career, and are now trying to figure out how to become part of the solution.

This episode dives into two different approaches 1) building up your education and 2) building up your experience. Tune in for some fresh tips on how you can do so at no additional cost, and from day one on your new job!

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When considering sustainable solutions, many of us are quick to think about the final good or service being sold. But as we start to understand the broader impact of supply chains, certain areas are really coming into focus. At the top of this list? Packaging.

Our next guest has spent the past decade disrupting this industry, and she and her company are impeccably positioned to lead the change as companies around the world turn to more sustainable packaging options.

Daphna Nissenbaum is the CEO and co-founder of TIPA®, a compostable packaging company in Tel Aviv focused on supplying the food and fashion industries with better, more resilient solutions. Daphna leads the TIPA team in the movement to revolutionize packaging systems and rid the world of plastic pollution with fully-compostable, flexible packaging that replaces conventional plastic, turning waste into resource, a crisis into an opportunity.

In this episode, Daphna shares her journey to entrepreneurship, raising capital, leveraging existing machinery around the world to be able to produce locally and at scale, advice to leaders everywhere, and so much more!

(0:00) Intro
(3:23) Daphna in her own words
(8:02) The difference between rigid and flexible plastic packaging
(10:39) Flexible packaging: problems and opportunities
(11:45) Leveraging existing and local machinery
(17:33) Collective action to revolutionize the packaging industry
(21:57) Securing capital and the right investors
(24:37) "Be the best, be professional, ignore all the rest."
(32:15) What it will take for businesses and leaders to be resilient going forward

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Maria Kellis is a leadership coach and and best-selling author with an emphasis on aligning business with purpose.  With a strong background in engineering and management from MIT, she co-founded multiple technology companies in the US and worked in high-level positions for the Greek government. On this episode, she shares incredible insights on how, through her work, she empowers leaders to blend success with integrity.

As our listeners know, the purpose of The Resilience Report is to highlight the amazing work of entrepreneurs and business leaders making a positive impact on the planet. In each episode, we explore and celebrate the way in which they have successfully married business with a bigger purpose. But how does one get there? While it is great to hear these stories and get inspired, sometimes we are just not sure how to get started, or how to apply it to our own careers.

Maria joins host Lauren Scott to answer these listener questions and so much more!

(0:00) Intro
(3:18) What is leadership?
(5:38) From mechanical engineering to leadership coach
(8:24) Combining business with purpose
(10:08) When to consult a leadership coach?
(15:50) Balancing short term ROI with pursuing purpose
(21:32) The impact of our environment on pursuing a meaningful career
(24:52) Leadership coaching for an intrapreneur vs entrepreneur
(30:52) Avoiding the victim triangle
(34:29) Tangible tips to get started working in your purpose
(37:30) AI for enhancing leadership
(40:39) What it will take for businesses and leaders to be resilient going forward

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Lufa Farms is on a mission to change the way people eat by growing food where people live and growing it more sustainably. To accomplish this, the company built the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse in 2011 and three more greenhouses since then (built in 2013, 2017, and 2020). With each new greenhouse, Lufa Farms holds itself to an ever higher standard of sustainability and technical ingenuity growing dozens of vegetables, greens, and herbs hydroponically. All of their greenhouses run following their five principles of responsible agriculture: using no new land, recirculating water, conserving energy, reducing waste, and using biocontrols instead of synthetic pesticides.

Lufa Farms also partners with local farmers and food makers to provide customers with hundreds of products through their online Marketplace. Every week, the company distributes over 30,000 customized baskets filled with fresh, local, responsible food.

In this episode, host Lauren Scott speaks with Callie Giaccone (responsible for Lufa Farms’ PR and copywriting) to talk about how the business has evolved over the past 10+ years to now include a marketplace of local producers, the way it now includes rooftop and indoor gardens, how technology is at the heart of their business, how their direct giving program helps to support those in the city struggling with food insecurity, why Lufa Farms is certified pesticide free, and so much more!

Lufa Farms is an incredible example of how one entrepreneur can truly disrupt an industry for the better. Their growth trajectory is truly impressive, as is their desire to continue to do so as a means to create a better food system by growing food on city rooftops!

(0:00) Intro
(2:53) How Lufa Farms came to be
(4:00) Expanding facilities and offering
(5:17) Rooftop greenhouse vs indoor farm
(6:24) Selecting marketplace partners
(7:57) The role of technology in urban agriculture
(9:20) Montreal as the perfect weather testing ground
(11:33) The impact of the pandemic
(12:52) Finding and training urban farmers
(14:28) Water as a resource at Lufa Farms
(15:27) Lufa Farms Foundation

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Chrystal Healy is the VP Corporate Responsibility for Air Transat. In this episode, she dives into all things airlines and corporate responsibility. Of course, top of mind, is that of reducing emissions: we explore the different avenues the industry has taken, what technology is on the horizon, the impact of regulations around the world and even CO2 tunnel vision. We also explore the less often discussed social impact of the industry, including some of the incredible community and accessibility work being done at Air Transat. Chrystal shares some of the most common bottlenecks in deploying a sustainability plan, the importance of weaving E.S.G. into your organization’s overarching corporate strategy, the need for stakeholder buy-in, the role of listening when it comes to your sustainability approach, and so much more.

(0:00) Intro
(3:11) Chrystal in her own words
(6:27) Bringing Corporate Social Responsibility to an Airline (Air Transat)
(9:34) The biggest opportunities for ESG in the aviation sector
(12:01) The biggest obstacles being faced
(13:50) The role of governmental regulations in ESG across countries
(16:43) Sustainable Aviation Fuel: from the perspective of an airline
(20:49) Greewashing in the aviation sector
(25:18) The social impact potential of airlines
(30:43) Tips on starting an ESG program at your work
(33:28) How to maintain CSR momentum
(35:06) The importance of building a strong network
(36:51) What it will take for businesses and leaders to be resilient going forward

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On this solo episode of The Resilience Report, host Lauren Scott addresses a question that she get quite often, which is how can you balance your love of fashion (especially in a corporate environment) and the idea of minimizing your environmental footprint? 

This goes back to a principle you've probably heard many times in many different situations, which is reduce, reuse, and recycle. 

So how does this apply to fashion?  Tune in to find out.

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While we all appreciate having access to electricity, most of us probably don’t give too much thought as to how it gets to our homes and businesses. We just want it to go on when we need it, for it not to be too expensive, and to be as clean as possible.
We can largely thank our grid infrastructure for helping to have achieved this over the years. But the grid has its limitations:

• You are at the mercy of the fees charged by your local utility provider;
• Because everything is centralized, there are risks of major outages and even security threats;
• You don’t have control over the source of your power (for example coal vs renewable energy);
• And, more recently, the influx in electrification (notably of our cars) will put significant strain on the grid.

In seeing these issues in his own community of San Diego (home to the USA’s most expensive electricity), Rod Matthews decided to do something about it. In early 2020, this navy veteran and a partner of his founded a company called Brevian Energy. Offering affordable commercial microgrids, Brevian Energy partners with renewable energy providers (solar, wind, hydrogen) as well as storage solutions (typically batteries) to offer affordable, reliable, renewable power to homes, businesses, and communities

In this episode, Rod shares with us the difference between the classic grid, microgrids and mini grids, how microgrids can play a critical role in reducing energy costs, increasing resiliency and minimizing emissions. Rod also shares his path to founding Brevian Energy, key government incentives to propel this transition, and shares incredible resources supporting veterans and BIPOC and women owned companies, especially in the renewables space.

I loved chatting with Rod, and learning about how he identified a gap in the market, and has leveraged his entrepreneurial spirit and expertise to launch such an innovative company.

(0:00) Intro
(3:13) Rod in his own words
(5:16) What is the traditional grid, and what makes a microgrid different?
(9:15) Brevian Energy: a microgrid solutions provider
(13:19) Partnering with renewable energy and storage providers
(14:34) Microgrids for commercial buildings, neighborhoods
(15:38) Leveraging state and federal level incentives
(17:27) Remote communities: micro vs mini grids
(18:58) The need for

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As businesses and leaders navigate their sustainability journeys, one area continues to be a bit of a conundrum: aviation. We know that we need to reduce our carbon footprint, and yet corporate travel, sourcing components and delivering product continue to play a critical role in our operations. So how can we make aviation more environmentally friendly?

On this episode, host Lauren Scott dives into what might very well be the best option on the market: Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) with Ashwin Jadhav, Vice President of Business Development at Twelve, a chemical company for the climate era that makes everyday products from air instead of oil. At Twelve, Ashwin oversees the customer acquisition, sales and commercial strategy of their SAF products.

Ashwin is a self-proclaimed aviation nerd, bringing over 15 years of industry experience in business development, sales, and marketing at companies like Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney and IATA before joining Twelve. Ashwin holds a degree in Executive Leadership from the West Point Military Academy, and has an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

In this episode, he helps us to better understand the value of sustainable aviation fuel, how businesses and leaders with strong ESG programs are positively accelerating this model as are government regulations, how airlines can go about selecting sustainable fuel, the safety measures in place around the use of SAF, and much more.

So, the next time you have to fly or ship your business’ products, know that some incredible innovation is underway to make this more sustainable thanks those like Ashwin and his colleagues at Twelve. The exciting part is that sustainable aviation fuel is only going to increasingly soar!

(0:00) Intro
(3:00) Ashwin in his own words
(5:30) The impact of the aviation sector on global emissions
(7:38) Why the electrification of aircrafts is harder than vehicles
(11:27) What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)?
(12:56) Twelve: a carbon transformation company transforming the aviation sector
(15:48) Twelve's global locations
(17:58) E-Jet: opportunities and demand
(20:58) Roadblocks before takeoff
(24:33) The differences between countries and continents
(27:59) How airlines can source SAF
(29:40) Safety at the heart o

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Plastic. This one word has taken on monumental weight in today's economic and environmental conversations. And yet, I am sure all of us have come in contact with dozens or more plastic products over the past 24 hours alone.

Could the solution possibly lie in recycling plastic at an industrial level?

Jonathan B.-Mailhot joins host Lauren Scott as they nerd out on all things recycling and upcycling, from how plastic is even recycled, the ways in which it can be integrated into products, the role that marketers plan in advancing the industry, the circular economy, making important career moves into sustainability, and much more.

Jonathan leads sales and procurement at Les Plastiques DC inc and EnergiPlast. With over 4.5 million pounds of recycled materials being processed between the two plants on a MONTHLY basis, he enjoys playing a significant part in the circular economy within the plastics industry and continuing to learn from an experienced team surrounding him. 

Prior to this move into recycling, he was (as I mentioned) in the sports industry, notably as Senior Manager of Media Planning & Innovation for the Montreal Canadiens.
 Before joining the Habs, Jonathan was Director of Interactive Media with a growing software and online media company, PublicationSports.com / Spordle.

I promise you: you will never think of plastic the same way after this episode. And that, dear listeners, is a very exciting thing!

(0:00) Intro

(3:15) Jonathan in his own words

(4:55) The scope of the plastics (and recycled plastics) industry

(15:28) How many times can plastic be recycled?

(21:08) Plastic in your supply chain: impact on emissions

(25:37) Designing a plastic product with recyclability in mind

(31:08) The first step to bring recycled plastic material into product design

(35:27) The impact of the pandemic on the recycled plastics industry

(38:14) Navigating greenwashing in the industry

(42:33) Transitioning into the world of sustainability

(46:59) Advice for mid-career transitions

(49:15) Staying motivated and informed

(50:36) What it will take for businesses and leaders to be resilient going forward

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