Business for Good - Leading the change: B-Corporations
On 18 June 2020, we hosted the second webinar of the Business for Good series.
Following the first webinar, we continued to uncover the key to success in the modern business models with a purpose-driven business, and how does this change our business community in times of crisis and adversity.
Empowered by the new economic purpose, B Corporations also rose to accelerate impact investments and enterprises by building businesses that achieve social, environment goals along with financial objectives.
Successful entrepreneurs from a number of B-Corps spoke about its potential to reset business focus and create impact across the globe.
In this webinar, we covered the following topics:
- An introduction to the global B-Corp movement
- Best practices to leverage support from global communities in times of crisis
- Adapting future business models to meet new business imperatives
- How to accelerate impact investments for your business
Our speakers included:
- Stanislas Bocquet, Founder and CEO, PALO IT
- Laurence Frémy, APAC Regional Director, Laboratoires Expanscience
- Laure Korenian-Chabert, Sustainability Consultant at Grey Swans & Regional Representative for Sparknews
- K K Tse, Co-Founder & Chief Education Officer at Education for Good & B-Lab leader, Hong Kong and Macau