by Anne | Jul 23, 2020 | Brand Citizenship®, Brand leadership, Featured, Purpose, Reputation management, Sustainability, Trends and cultural shifts
As featured in Medium on 3 July, 2020; and Business Fights Poverty on 7 July, 2020. The most successful businesses have always continuously evolved to stay relevant and remain competitive. Yet sometimes it takes a crisis to jolt our best intentions into action....
by Anne | Jun 29, 2020 | Brand Citizenship®, Featured, Movements, Purpose, Sustainability
As featured in Medium on 16 June, 2020. 2020 prologue In June 2018, I had the honor of giving the opening keynote at the Beauty of Sourcing with Respect Conference in Paris hosted by Union for Ethical Biotrade (UEBT). The conference, which was attended by a wider...
by Anne | May 7, 2020 | Brand Citizenship®, Brand leadership, Featured, How we live, Movements, Purpose
In just a few short months COVID-19 has radically altered the landscape around us, bringing into sharp focus the importance of balancing purpose and profit, the importance of what I call Brand Citizenship, a concept I’ve advocated for years. More so than before, it is...
by Anne | Nov 19, 2018 | Brand Citizenship®, Featured, Purpose
Purpose is powerful, responsible, and fiscally smart. Purpose. With investors increasingly focused on long-termism and corporations signing on to the UN’s Sustainable Development goals, it’s the hot topic of the moment. More and more, many business leaders view...
by Anne | Oct 19, 2018 | Brand Citizenship®, Employee Engagement, Featured
by Anne Bahr Thompson and Kim Essency Pillari* Over the past five years, sentiment about work and workplaces has evolved notably. Today, companies of all sizes are focused on employee engagement and employee well-being as the landscape in which businesses operate...
