what we believe
The finance sector is definitely responding to the crises of the anthropocene, leading to unprecedented opportunities for purpose-led businesses. Nudging people towards energy efficient transport options or renewable energy for their homes, creating communities of strangers through collective insurance of sharing economy assets, linking growth financing explicitly to ESG performance targets. The urgency with which we need to transition to …
Ever growing demand for B Corp certification is enabling B Lab to call on its community in a whole new way. In the UK, the number of people signing up to use the B Impact Assessment increased around 40% year on year between 2018 and 2020. B Corp certification is no small undertaking for a business of any size, so …
Common Foundations of Impact Measurement (Part 1 of 2: Clarify Information Needs) Mar 4, 2021 12:30 – 2 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Introduction to the five essential practices that describe how to do impact measurement well: Plan your change, Use performance measures, Collect useful information, Gauge your impact, and Report on results. This session focuses on how to …
This is the sixth post in our series on principles of the next economy—principles business must embrace if we’re all to #emergestronger after the COVID pandemic. As the stink of bombs still hung in the air and as the world came to grips with the unimaginable horrors of the holocaust, 730 delegates from 44 countries gathered in July 1944 at …
Early in the pandemic, I caught up with a long-time friend and peer in social entrepreneurship. Like so many business owners, she was lying awake at night wondering how such a precipitous drop in sales was even possible, and whether her company might never recover. “Ten years of grinding and holding to our values, grinding and holding to our values, …
Junxion President & CEO Mike Rowlands addresses the imperative to encourage equity in our leadership, organizations, and communities. This is the fifth post in our next economy series—a call to brave up and emerge stronger post-COVID. The work of economic recovery that lies ahead brings a profound opportunity to reshape our economies to serve all stakeholders. We must reflect on …
This is the fourth post in our next economy series—a call to brave up and emerge stronger post-COVID. Junxion President & CEO Mike Rowlands describes why stakeholder engagement is now a vital part of every leaders’ work. In Billingsgate, London, about halfway between London Bridge and the Tower, stand the remains of what was once a parish church. Patched up …
The third post in our next economy series – a call to brave up and emerge stronger post-COVID, Junxion President & CEO Mike Rowlands explores the fundamental role trust and transparency will play. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” The lesson of the cliché is simple: despite our most positive intentions, trouble may come, and the impacts …
The second post in our next economy series, Junxion President & CEO Mike Rowlands explores values and how values based leadership will be fundamental for emerging stronger post COVID. The inevitable finally came to pass: America’s game show host in chief, driven by who knows what neuroses and clinging to his ever-extractive, winner-takes-all mindset, encouraged an unruly mob of morons …
