Supply Chain ESG: The New Pathway to Strategic Competitive Advantage
Strategic Impact Partners
February 01, 2020
A proprietary methodology for ESG supply chain competitiveness that addresses one key aspect, ethical sourcing, by combining it with an advanced SaaS-based management system. This system addresses strategy, leadership, and operations priorities to improve standards conformance and compliance. The program results in better management of uncertainty, the reduction of risks and liabilities, greater supply chain resilience, and the uncovering of new enterprise growth opportunities.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Supply Chain
Focal Pointes - Rail Safety and Regulatory Update
Maine Pointe, LLC
May 30, 2014
Art Stewart moderates and edits an advisory piece with Wendy Buckley, president and founder of Specialty Transportation and Regulatory Services (STARS), Philadelphia, PA. STARS collaborated with Maine Pointe on an engagement with one of the largest Eastern U.S. refinery operators that focused on the optimization of a comprehensive rail strategy. This advisory touches on some of the developments in the regulatory landscape that will impact rail logistics.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Risk Management, Supply Chain
Focal Pointes: Total Value Optimization at Work in the Chemical Industry
Maine Pointe, LLC
January 01, 2014
Eastman Chemical's Mike Berry was invited by Maine Pointe to share his views with their V.P. of Corporate Development Art Stewart on the evolution of strategic procurement practice in this new publication, "Focal Pointes", which was created by Art Stewart. Eastman is a $9.4 billion global specialty chemical company that produces a broad range of products for customers in nearly 100 countries.
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Tags: Change Management, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Opinion: Resistance to ESG Is Not a Solution
Private Company
October 23, 2023
Is it any wonder that private company directors are feeling stretched and overwhelmed these days? A barrage of existential factors is accelerating change across the competitive business landscape, including cyber threats and the potential misuse of AI-based technologies as well as climate calamities and federal regulations.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, CSR
Resistance to ESG Is Not a Solution
Private Company Director magazine
October 23, 2023
Avoidance or pushback on ESG integration for private company or family enterprise C-suite leaders and Board directors is not only strategically unsound — given the expanding legal, regulatory and risk liabilities — but also irresponsible from a governance and fiduciary perspective.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Sustainability
ESG and the Long Arc of Corporate Integrity
Strategic Impact Partners
May 25, 2021
ESG is the new embodiment of the fuller arc of Corporate Integrity practice. From the old CSR we move into the newer, broader ESG, now maturing and becoming embedded in the due diligence and analytical mindset of the investor, audit, CFO, risk management class. Art Stewart notes that “CSR”, “sustainability”, TBL (triple bottom line) and all the other axioms are insufficient to convey the changed place now held for ESG in corporate lifecycle management and value creation.
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The Smart Business Case for Supply Chain ESG
Strategic Impact Partners
September 02, 2019
The business case for Supply Chain ESG as the new pathway to strategic competitive advantage has become self-evident. How will your organization capture the opportunity that is before you? In this post, Art Stewart articulates SIP's Responsible Sourcing initiative.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Gaining New Competitive Capabilities: A Next-Gen Model for Supply Chain ESG
Strategic Impact Partners
May 16, 2019
How do supply chain leaders navigate the complex risk terrain that is now overlaid with increasing scrutiny regarding their ESG policies, operations and employee behavior? By implementing a next-generation operating model that delivers order and discipline to compliance requirements. This post is the second in a series by Robert Pojasek and Art Stewart articulating SIP's Responsible Sourcing initiative.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Codes of Conduct and Supplier Self-Determination in the Era of Supply Chain Auditing
Strategic Impact Partners
May 07, 2019
With mounting pressure in meeting oversight expectations and navigating the expanding risk landscape, suppliers and auditors could employ a different concept with a range of conformance services that are not available through Sedex or other organizations. This post is the first in a series by Robert Pojasek and Art Stewart articulating SIP's Responsible Sourcing initiative.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Conscious CEO Awakenings: Human Capital Issues Catching Up
Strategic Impact Partners
October 05, 2018
This post launches a new series over the coming months, “Conscious CEO Awakenings”, in which Art Stewart will share perspectives from the field along with research and trend analysis for CEOs on their road to business and leadership transformation.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Business Strategy, Change Management
Market Testing the Hypothesis: The CEO as Commander-in-Chief
Strategic Impact Partners
November 28, 2016
Art Stewart sets politics and policy aside to address the larger question on many minds right now: Can leading in business translate into making the business of government work?
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Tags: Business Strategy, Innovation, Leadership
From Grandstand to the Bottom-Line: Corporate Responsibility as Strategic Value Creation
Strategic Impact Partners
November 21, 2016
Art Stewart looks at how we are migrating from corporate responsibility as a reactionary movement of compliant behavioral modification to one of strategic imperative at the core of management, governance, operations and human capital functionality.
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Tags: Business Strategy, CSR, Innovation
For Professional Services Disruption is the New Normal
Strategic Impact Partners
October 17, 2015
The legal profession is restructuring its traditional business model in response to a dramatic shift in how clients orientate to legal issues. This post outlines key drivers in the escalating disruption of the legal profession and professional services overall.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Legal and IP
The Widening Divide to Transforming Business Value
CRA (Corporate Responsibility Association)
December 01, 2014
A blog post that originally appeared on the web site of the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) as part of a series that Art Stewart authored in his role as a CRA Blogger.
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It’s Time to Embrace the New Operating Context
Strategic Impact Partners
September 25, 2014
We have entered into a period of testing, learning and adapting that is faster than the ability people have to assimilate it. Business cannot justify investments in more responsible and sustainable practices if there is not substantiated (measurable) value creation.
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Complex Dynamics Moving Supply Chain Concerns Front and Center
CRA (Corporate Responsibility Association)
March 01, 2014
A blog post that originally appeared on the web site of the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) as part of a series that Art Stewart authored in his role as a CRA Blogger.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Supply Chain
Family Brand Competitiveness in the Post-Meltdown World
Massachusetts Family Business Magazine
July 01, 2012
A new responsibility paradigm is emerging in which companies face unprecedented scrutiny for matters of
accountability, transparency, competency and integrity, as well as for authentic linkages between their business ambitions and public interest values.
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Scandalous Leadership and Organization Culture: A Theme Runs Through It
Business Ethics Magazine
December 01, 2011
It’s been quite a field day for those of us engaged in the responsibility “business” or who are passionate about the paradigm shift in consciousness now underway. As some consistency in a better direction takes hold regarding the economic recovery, the trickle has become an avalanche. The disturbing revelations out of Penn State’s “Happy Valley” and Syracuse University are part of a series of sorry stories in the ongoing saga of breached trust and confidence among peoples, institutions, and their leaders.
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Raising the Credibility Quotient of Responsible Leadership
Business Ethics Magazine
October 25, 2011
A checklist to help guide senior executive leaders in confidently emulating a model of responsibility that endears their organization to sharing in the realization of the leader's vision.
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Tags: Business Strategy, CSR, Leadership
Effective Crisis Management and Communication is Essential Corporate Responsibility
2010 Annual Guidebook to Crisis Communications
July 01, 2010
There is a resolutely punitive mindset on the part of the American consumer and the public at large. The irony is most business crises today are not the result of extreme events, such as fires or natural disasters, but the way a company or one of its supply chain partners conducts themselves.
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Tags: Business Strategy, CSR, Risk Management
Communicating politics - big budget branding, micro-management of issues, change as strategic positioning
American Political Science Association - Political Communication Report
January 01, 2009
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Evolving Notions of Corporate Responsibility: Seizing the Next Horizon
Access Intelligence - 2008 Annual Guidebook (Vol. II), Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility
February 01, 2008
All the recent debate about sustainability and doing good is critical for facing up to the challenges to our
planet and our human community. But once again, quite a bit of emphasis is focused on eco-friendly
products, green branding and other incremental tactics at the price of fully understanding how the notion of sustainability has evolved and changed. Many of our most fundamental assumptions about CSR are being reinvented in the wake of unprecedented opportunity and challenge.
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Myth and Mystique: Growth Brands Are All About Marketplace Behavior
Washington Business Journal
May 13, 2005
Featured article in the special WBJ pull-out edition on Corporate Growth sponsored by ACG (Association for Corporate Growth).
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What Matters Most! YouTube Channel
YouTube/Strategic Impact Partners
August 01, 2020
What Matters Most! on YouTube is the video edition of the online Blog and E-Letter, which has been an intelligence product produced by Art Stewart. Future episodes will take many forms, but all will be focused on getting real at the new convergence of business and profitability, conscious leadership, stakeholder values, and the public interest.
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What Paying More for Premium Brands is Really Costing You
Yahoo News - Daily Finance
July 16, 2013
Art is interviewed for this news item on the hidden costs for consumers of engaging with values-driven brand products and services.
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Tags: CSR, Customer Experience, Marketing
IABC Local Expert Series: Art Stewart on CSR and the Future of Our Profession
IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) New England
March 01, 2012
The economic recession and corporate America’s drive to do more with less have taken a toll on the communications profession. But Yankee IABC’s January 2012 "Local Expert" Series shed light on the CSR
revolution and strategic communications practice - a potential growth area for communicators.
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Tags: Change Management, CSR, Public Relations
Trust Across America
Voice America Internet Radio
February 15, 2011
Art Stewart discusses his research and capstone thesis from his graduate program in Public Policy Management at Georgetown University, the "New Responsibility Paradigm."
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Stewart Sees Boom Time Ahead for Strategic Communicators
Emerson College
January 20, 2011
Article announcing the launch of Art Stewart's original undergraduate course in Corporate Social Responsibility for Emerson College in Boston.
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Tags: Business Strategy, CSR, Leadership
Trust Across America
Voice America Internet Radio
August 17, 2010
Art Stewart discusses the topic, "Business Ethics and Culture".
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Tags: CSR, Culture, Leadership
Social Selling and Corporate Social Responsibility are Natural Bedfellows
Customer Think
November 11, 2009
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Internet Non-Commerce: Not-for-profit organizations aware of Web's potential
Mass High Tech
August 03, 1998
Art Stewart's consulting work for The Episcopal Church USA is a cover story feature in this edition of then New England's most read technology weekly.
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Tags: Change Management, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation
"Corporate's New Challenge: Charting a More Workable Response to Employee Expectations"
YouTube
June 17, 2024
What Matters Most! podcast. Art Stewart welcomes Dan Pontefract: Author, speaker, and consultant with expertise in leadership, organization culture, and human capital. In addition to his keynotes and workshops, Dan consults on organizational design, modelling, coaching, and change management. His latest book, Work-Life Bloom, earned recognition as a Thinkers50 “Top New Management Book for 2024” as well as a Gold Medal from Axiom Business Book Awards.
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The New 'Business' of Stakeholder Empowerment
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November 17, 2023
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Women Leaders and their Journey of Empowerment
Art Stewart
September 15, 2023
Art Stewart welcomes Tamara Gracon. Tamara is an independent consultant, entrepreneur, VC, mentor, et al. In this episode she offers her perspective of 20+ years toiling at ground zero with women advancing in business, board rooms, and as impact investors: What are the implications for women's leadership now coming full circle in roles across industry, institutions, and capital markets?
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, CSR
Podcast Series: ESG Insights
Private Directors Association
July 14, 2021
A podcast series on ESG that features five episodes of topical and timely conversation with two distinguished private company and family enterprise women directors and C-suite executives. They join Moderator and Executive Producer Art Stewart in debating essential strategic concerns around ESG for private company directors, aspiring directors and their C-suite team leadership. The series is a collaboration between Strategic Impact Partners and the Private Directors Association for the new "PDA University".
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Culture
Designing the Family Office Brand for a More Rewarding and Sustainable Family Experience
Family Office Association - 2017 Spring Global Summit
April 25, 2017
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Tags: Business Strategy, Culture, Management
From Disruption to Reinvention: What Lawyers Can Learn From Management Consultants
Legal Marketing Association - 2nd Annual Philadelphia Conference
July 18, 2016
Presentation at the annual regional conference of the Legal Marketing Association, the leading national association of marketing and communications professionals serving the legal services and law firm industries.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Marketing
Global Supply Chains as the Next Frontier in Corporate Responsibility
University of San Diego - Supply Chain Management Institute
April 14, 2016
Presentation for the annual conference of the Supply Chain Management Institute at the University of San Diego. Copyrighted IP and content. Full deck available to preview for qualified inquirers of Art Stewart speaking opportunities.
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Tags: CSR, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Conscious Leadership and the Transformation of Business Value
International Leadership Association (ILA) - 16th Annual Global Conference
November 02, 2014
Many instruments of society are fundamentally realigning. How will business leaders create value In an era in which the mere notion of 'value' is being redefined? In his presentation, Art Stewart argued that the path ahead requires a new form of leadership by the conscious next generation; one that operationalizes values and beliefs Into deliberate, executable strategic acts or behaviors.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Change Management, Leadership
CSR Revolution: The Transformation and Reinvention of Business Communications Practice
IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) New England
January 25, 2012
Art presented on how the communications profession is dramatically changing, where practitioners need to
master a wide range of issues and functions to thrive. He provided a snapshot of where the global
social responsibility movement is right now, and how it is increasingly reshaping the work of the
communications professional. Event was held at Draper Labs in Cambridge, Mass.
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The New Responsibility Paradigm: Implications for Public-Private Competitiveness
Washington Dupont Summit - The Policy Studies Organization
December 03, 2010
Art presented at the annual PSO conference, this year focused on "Report Card at Midstream: The Obama Administration Faces Science, Technology & Environmental Policy Issues." The conference was held at the Carnegie Institution For Science in Washington, DC.
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Tags: Change Management, Climate Change, Sustainability
The New Responsibility Paradigm: Impacts and Implications for Strategic Competitiveness
World Future Society - 2010 Annual Conference
July 09, 2010
With a renewed emphasis on competence, authenticity and responsibility taking hold, organizations across society are reshaping their business models and practices. We have transitioned from a shareholder to a stakeholder-driven society. Art's presentation looked at the macro and micro developments influencing change for business and other organizations across society, and how individual leaders may leverage those changes on behalf of their organizations.
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Tags: Change Management, CSR, Culture
The impact of social media upon corporate and social responsibility
Ragan-Cisco Social Media Summit
June 10, 2010
Social media has become a driver in responding to external market forces and in creating new interdependencies for business success. In his presentation, Art examined the factors influencing change for business and how organizations leverage social media for engagement that achieves integrity-based citizenship and sustainability for the enterprise.
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Tags: Business Strategy, CSR, Digital Transformation
Smart Marketing: The Branding Edge
Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia
October 14, 2003
Art Stewart produced and moderated a Forum event for the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia in collaboration with the Philadelphia Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Held at the Federal Reserve in Center City, guests with Art were Jay Everette, then General Bank Group Relationship Director, Corporate Marketing for Wachovia Corporation and David Fuller, then Vice President/Director of Client Services for The Brownstein Group. The attached IABC newsletter includes an article by Art: "A New Call for Strategic Communication Leadership."
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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing
Cybersecurity at the Crossroads: Leveling Up for Next Generation Leadership – Episode One
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July 27, 2024
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The Next Horizon: Data Technology and AI Team Up to Advance ESG-Impact
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July 06, 2024
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Corporate's New Challenge: Charting a More Workable Response to Employee Expectations
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June 15, 2024
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Women Leaders and their Journey of Empowerment
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September 15, 2023
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Women Leaders and their Journey of Empowerment... (Part I)
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September 15, 2023
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New Risk Challenges and the Evolution of Board Effectiveness
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September 26, 2022
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Respect Drives More Effective Leadership and a Healthy Organization Culture...
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August 17, 2022
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Recalibrating How Respect Drives More Effective Leadership and a Healthy Organization Culture
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August 17, 2022
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Current State: Ethics and Compliance, C-Leadership, and Changes to Business Models with ESG
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August 04, 2022
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ESG, Capital Market Dynamics, and the Yin-Yang of Reputation Management...
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May 02, 2022
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The Conscious Capitalism Movement: A Conversation with the CEO
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April 14, 2022
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Don't Get Cocky: Improve Your Supply Chain Planning Now
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September 06, 2020
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Picking a Fight? Strategic Sourcing vs. Category Management
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September 05, 2020
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Getting Real About Supplier Innovation Transfer
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September 05, 2020
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Cybersecurity at the Crossroads: Leveling Up for Next Generation Leadership (Episode One of Two)
YouTube
July 27, 2024
Art Stewart moderates the first of a two-part extended conversation on the current state of the cybersecurity-risk management profession. With our panel of distinguished women executive leaders, representing a range of experience and perspective, we take an unvarnished look at the current state of the profession. In particular, we examine how diversity, knowledge, and skills gaps are contributing to the mix of existential security threats for Boards, and the public or private companies in which they govern. (This episode was recorded before the CrowdStrike incident of July, 2024.)
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Tags: Business Strategy, Cybersecurity, Risk Management
"The Next Horizon: Data Technology and AI Team Up to Advance ESG-Impact"
YouTube
July 06, 2024
Not all of the shakeup in 'ESG World' is as ominous as it appears these days. Pushback in key areas like technology and its unintended role as a co-dependent in facilitating the greenwashing reveal, investor claw back, and industry de-construction was clearly overdue. Now the right tech visionaries say they have the advanced ESG data capabilities needed; they've got 'the fix'. Ben Webster, CEO and Doug Young, Managing Director of OWL-ESG join Art Stewart for a frank reflection on how we got here and the exciting breakout opportunity moment new tech delivers right now.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Sustainability
"The New 'Business' of Stakeholder Empowerment"
YouTube
November 17, 2023
A Conversation with Michael Connor and Art Stewart. Michael is Executive Director of Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative), a non-profit working to promote an open and diverse media environment through market-based solutions.
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