There’s nothing like the spacious renewal of a brand new year to inspire our optimism. It’s like a giant, cosmic reset button, specially designed to help us renew our perspective, refresh our capacity, and reshape our approach. Are you ready to make the best of 2018? As we navigate the fourth calendar quarter of 2017, we’re noticing a number of …
Impact Hub King’s Cross
Having had it in mind for a number of years to become a Certified B Corp, Impact Hub Kings Cross put it in their annual business plan to certify this year. But the senior staff and Board were finding it hard to carve out time to complete the assessment. Junxion worked with them to ensure they achieved their ambition to …
Make the space for your consultants to shine
Organizations need consultants. Whether for specific expertise, extra capacity, or both, adding consultants to your team is nearly inevitable. Do you know how to hire them? We recently made a pitch for a piece of consulting business that was a perfect fit for our team—a combination of data analysis, narrative development, and public outreach, all in service of the client’s …
Climate Access: Empowering a Community of Practice
We helped Climate Access integrate their membership directory and online resource database, creating a robust and dynamic tool for empowering climate change communicators with the right resources for their specific projects and roles, and the right learning opportunities for their particular skill levels. Climate Access is the leading professional network of climate communication specialists, providing technical services and piloting innovative …
Elements of Strategy: Measuring Success
When you measure your business’s success, do you look beyond the bottom line? With 88% of consumers seeking brands that respect people and planet, social impact and sustainability are real imperatives in any measure of success. This is the final post in a four-part series about the elements of strategy. In the first, we talked about a clear, compelling, actionable and …
Case Study | Grant Thornton
Coaching Grant Thornton’s sustainability team to collaborate toward a vibrant UK economy. With 4,500 people in the UK and 40,000 worldwide, Grant Thornton is one of the world’s largest business advisory and accounting firms. Their purpose is to help shape a vibrant economy, based on trust and integrity in markets, dynamic businesses, and communities where businesses and people can flourish.’ …
Better Business Podcast: Adam Garfunkel
Accountability. Performance. Transparency. Three fundamental tenets of responsible business and, it turns out, three ideas that have framed the career of Junxion’s London MD, Adam Garfunkel. Adam was chatting with Tom Idle for issue 20 of the Better Business podcast and setting out the ideas behind the B Corporation movement. B Corps are companies that are committed to using business as a …
Conversations on Responsible Business
Junxion Principal & Managing Director Mike Rowlands is heard regularly on Vancouver’s Roundhouse Radio, in conversations about socially responsible business. Visit this page to listen online for insights and ideas sparked by what’s happening in the news, and to find links to learn more. May 24, 2016: Social Change Institute, Making Space, Managing Passion, Objectivity, Learning from the Best Listen online. “If you’re too close to …