While Abigail Rodgers, VP of Global Sustainability Strategy and Communication for The Coca Cola Company, had a lot of great insight to share in my latest SustainableBusinessForum piece, her idea that sustainability serves as a corporate leadership beacon my have been the most important.  If they are looking for … Read on >

In Part 2 of my SustainableBusinessForum piece, More Women, Better CSR, I point out that what women bring to the corporate leadership “table” is practice and comfort using their relational traits.  I see huge potential in recognizing that and developing strategies for nurturing – in everyone – the types … Read on >

‘Tis the season for “best of 2011″ lists and 2012 trend forecasts.  From year to year, few of the items included in these compilations ever seem that earth-shatteringly newsworthy.  However, with an eye on the sustainability-forward business, seeing the longer term may be the point.  As it stands, few … Read on >

I’m excited to share that I have just launched a regular column on women and sustainable business for the SustainableBusinessForum.  The introductory piece is simply a call to study up on women.  I don’t suggest this solely because women are likely to be a crucial consumer market for your … Read on >

When you think about corporations doing things right, your mind doesn’t immediately  think of a candy bar, but maybe it should.  In the course of my research on the attributes of corporate sustainability leaders, I came across a reference to … Read on >

If you were ever knee deep in research about traditional business leadership traits and sustainability leadership, like I am due to my Master’s thesis work, you’d see the very clear connection between the two.  Being a forward or future-oriented thinker, and being able to see issues as interconnected, in a … Read on >

Since I’m starting to interview internal corporate sustainability change agents for several projects, I thought it’d be a good time to just launch a series of “initial insight” note posts.  I have a feeling, like this time, I’ll get off the phone or complete the interview and be really excited … Read on >

So much of what I see being researched and noted in the field of gender and leadership/the workplace these days seems to also apply to the sustainability movement.  And, Lisa Belkin’s recent piece in the New York Times Magazine … Read on >

“I think we exaggerate the degree to which the sexes are mired in conflict.” – Nicholas D. Kristof

Americans, with help from “the media,” tend to exaggerate problems due to a) tradition – such thinking is embedded in our DNA,  and/or; b) sexy “sound byte-itis” – such thinking makes … Read on >