Can profit and purpose mix successfully?

Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet high standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to attempt to balance profit and purpose. But can business, including big business, really be used a force for good?

Guests include: Andrew Davies, CEO of B Lab, the organisation that is trying to grow the B Corp movement here in Australia; corporations law expert from University of Melbourne Professor Ian Ramsay; and Audrey Khaing-Jones, founder of online designer fashion rental company GlamCorner, which last year became a certified B Corporation.

Then executive coach Amanda Blesing shares her tips on how to self-promote at work without coming across as a used car salesperson.

Can profit and purpose mix successfully? Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet high standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to attempt to balance profit and purpose. But can business, including big business, really be used a force for good? Guests include: Andrew Davies, CEO of B Lab, the organisation that is trying to grow the B Corp movement here in Australia; corporations law expert from University of Melbourne Professor Ian Ramsay; and Audrey Khaing-Jones, founder of online designer fashion rental company GlamCorner, which last year became a certified B Corporation. Then executive coach Amanda Blesing shares her tips on how to self-promote at work without coming across as a used car salesperson.

To Be or Not to B Corp

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You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better? Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia. Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work. We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better?&nbsp;Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia.

Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work.
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We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in&nbsp;a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

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