what we believe
Junxion has been advising clients on strategy, sustainability, and social impact for over 20 years. During that time, tens of thousands of our peers around the world have been doing their own inspiring and innovative work. But it simply hasn’t been enough. Today, we’re taking the initiative as an international business formally to declare a climate emergency. As every month …
This summer marked the 15th anniversary of the first Global Compact Leaders Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York—convened by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on June 24, 2004. That summit was the beginning of a dialogue about the global struggle for corporate responsibility that has expanded to involve tens of thousands of business leaders, and contributed directly to the creation …
This week the heads of state of the economies that comprise the Group of 7 (the ‘G7’) gather in France to discuss the critical issues of our time – with the stated focus of fighting inequality. The group first came together in the 1970s to find a collective solution to the oil crisis that was destabilizing economies worldwide. Since their …
This post is the first in a series of interviews with changemakers in Junxion’s community—our clients, our alumni, our partners, and our team. Today, we meet Junxion Design Director, Sherry Pomerleau. So how did you find your way to Junxion and social purpose focused work? Five years before I joined Junxion, when I was with my own company, we …
I arrived home a few weeks ago to discover a small tree was missing from our front garden. I had known it needed to be removed, but I had liked the tree, so had been hesitant to cut it down myself. Yet as I walked up the path that evening, there it was… gone! When I mentioned it to my …
I went to the Social Impact Showcase at St. Paul’s University College where I saw Cassie Myers of SheLeads offer great advice to young leaders: “Fall in love with a problem,” she said, “not with a solution.” I loved this advice and reflected on it. I had my first crush on a problem when my media-studies-teacher mom brought home some …
Capitalism is suffering from a crisis of legitimacy and nowhere is that truer than in the banking sector. Following the 2007/8 crash, banks have focused on compliance and getting their house in order, but they have broadly failed to win back the trust they lost. Working together in a process convened by the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), a …
Image Courtesy : Maxine Bulloch Photography “Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.” This Mark Amend quote could have been the guiding brief for the recent B Corp Leadership Development (BLD) conference for Western Canada. It was a day that reminded me that to …
Never has it been more true that the one constant in life is change. The future is hurtling toward us, putting many of us on our heels, stretching our capacity, and testing our resilience. The problems of the future—imagined for so long to be on the distant horizon—are already here. Will we have the courage to respond? Our economic system …
