Events

Elevating humanity through business begins with knowing why your company exists—your Higher Purpose. Once Conscious Leaders can clearly define their purpose, they can confidently create strategies to help realize their vision and drive their mission forward beyond just making a profit.

At the next session in our Four Tenets in Action series, hear Conscious Capitalism Austin Chapter Leader Andrew Rauch, Vice President of Growth at Improving, moderate a conversation on the impact of Higher Purpose and how each of the other tenets of Conscious Capitalism depend on it. Also participating in the conversation are data.world leaders Lisa Novak, Vice President of Employee Experience, and Brett Hurt, CEO. Lisa and Brett lead data.world, a Certified B Corp and Public Benefit Corporation, and the company’s purpose to create the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world. They’ll share their experiences creating a business founded in a clear Higher Purpose, how they achieve success while staying true to their values, and how a focus on purpose, people, and community factors into their decision-making and the company’s prosperity.

Whether you are just starting your conscious journey or are looking to evolve an existing practice, our Four Tenets In Action series will provide you with practical advice and tools from our chapter communities to help you take that next step.

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Come join the Conscious Capitalism, D.C. community for food, drinks, and connection at Founding Farmers DC. 

Purpose provides us with a sense of strong personal fulfillment. Conscious Leaders seek this fulfillment by identifying ways to affect positive change in the world through their businesses. For Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates (CA), early career experiences gave him a unique perspective which helped shape his Higher Purpose to leave a lasting impact on the education system for both teachers and students alike.

The CA team has grown rapidly to fulfill this purpose at scale by providing classroom support to a third of the K-8 students in the U.S. —that’s over 11 million students and 700,000 teachers. At this virtual gathering, Rob will expand on the encounters that inspired him to look at the world and business differently, share the core values that factor into CA’s success, and touch on the impact of leading consciously and creating a conscious culture grounded in a Higher Purpose.

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The United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide comprehensive objectives to help businesses create meaningful sustainability game plans that are in alignment with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Conscious businesses worldwide are rallying around the SDGs, and integrating a number of these goals into their business practices and culture. This focus on sustainable development presents new opportunities for innovation, collaboration, and action around supporting people, the planet, and inclusive prosperity.

While each business has the opportunity to execute on the UN’s 17 SDGs with unique processes and targets in mind, the use of advanced digital technologies has been widely beneficial in connecting leaders to the resources and knowledge needed to stay on track. At this virtual gathering, hear from Jacqueline Corbelli, Founder and CEO, and Joanna Hall, Executive Director at U.S. Coalition on Sustainability and SustainChain about:

• How technological innovations are helping to address challenges, leverage opportunities and connect changemakers around important UN SDG initiatives
• Why collective effort and shared accountability are needed for progress
• How conscious businesses can get more involved in helping to meet the 2030 timeline

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Lead, Pivot, Grow: Employing a “Be Better” Mindset for Conscious Leadership

Resolve, perseverance, humility, and empathy are some of the hallmarks of the most effective leaders today. And it takes consistent, unwavering effort to strive to be a better support system and leader for your team and external stakeholders each day, all while ensuring your company profits and thrives.

Being Better is a driving force for Senior Leader Network member Michael Kurland, CEO of Branded Group, Inc., and author of the new book Broken to Better: 13 Ways Not to Fail at Life and Leadership. Amid the ups and downs of his entrepreneurial journey, Michael never lost sight of the importance of doing what he could to grow and adapt as a leader. During this virtual gathering, Michael will share how his determination to Be Better has influenced the exponential growth of his company, his methods for organizational strength, and his Conscious Leadership journey, while providing insight into his 13 Be Better Principles for profitability, growth, and purpose-driven leadership.

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To recruit and hire top talent, many employers actively promote the ways in which their company culture is positive, welcoming, and inclusive. Conscious employers not only use their culture as a recruitment tool but actively live it each day by building trust, fostering community, and showing support for employees new and tenured.

At this virtual gathering with Jose Ruiz, President of IMD International Search Group and CEO and Managing Partner of Alder Koten, gain insight into what it takes to build and cultivate successful employee-employer relationships founded in trust, explore best practices for navigating the evolving recruitment and hiring landscape, and learn new steps to ensure new hires and current employees feel valued, included, and respected.

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Leaders who embrace inclusion and create welcoming work environments not only excel in cultivating a truly Conscious Culture, but they are also able to leverage the unique competitive advantage that diversity in the workplace can provide.

As markets and stakeholder attitudes continue to change, workplaces that prioritize diversity of thought, background, and skill will be more equipped to meet the needs of their communities. Embracing the six traits of an inclusive leader—cognizance, curiosity, cultural intelligence, collaboration, commitment, and courage—ensures companies are bringing new voices to the table and creating opportunities for collaboration, problem solving, and important decision-making.

At this virtual gathering focused on the impact of inclusion, hear Kimberly Manns, CEO of H3 Diversity, break down the six traits of inclusive leadership, share how to create a culture of belonging that starts at the top with Head, Heart, and Hands (H3), and explain how these approaches can strengthen your organization and better support stakeholders.

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Eradicating global poverty is first and foremost among the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The U.N. recognizes that advancing human rights by fostering financial wellbeing in our communities is a crucial part of sustainable development and the foundation from which the other SDGs can be achieved. Meeting these global challenges takes innovative ideas and collaboration among conscious leaders from both the nonprofit and private sectors.

From connecting communities with clean water and healthy, affordable food to ensuring access to education and income-generating opportunities, Helvetas work is underpinned by the SDGs. At this virtual gathering, Christian Steiner, CEO of Helvetas USA, will illustrate how nonprofits like Helvetas join with the private sector to help advance the SDGs and why business support is so critical, in addition to providing examples of successful collaborative projects that are creating positive impacts locally and globally.

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Join CCDC as we welcome our newest Partner, BRINK at a behind the scenes tour and happy hour at BRINK’s DC location. 

The BRINK team invites the conscious capitalism community to enjoy drinks and light refreshments in their downtown studio to meet, mingle and briefly hear their own journey in embracing the tenets of conscious capitalism not just in their workplace, but in the work they do.

BRINK is a brand strategy and creative agency that harnesses the power of storytelling to educate, build empathy and shape cultural norms–elevating human-centered organizations that are helping reimagine a more just marketplace.

According to Gallup, Millennials belong to one of the most purpose-driven and people-centered generational workforces yet to come. As a conscious community, equipping new leaders with the support and resources needed to continue to guide their organizations with both their heart and heads, even in times of uncertainty and change, is vital to our vision of an elevated humanity.

At this virtual gathering, Bill George, Former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and current professor at Harvard Business School, will engage in conversation with Dev Patnaik, CEO of Jump Associates and member of our Board of Directors, about his new book True North: Emerging Leaders Edition. He’ll share what he learned from talking with over 220 exceptional leaders about their North Star moments, tips for emerging leaders to turn challenges into the inspiration needed to accomplish extraordinary things, and approaches to help develop Conscious Leaders who lead with self-awareness, values, and a Higher Purpose.

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The core philosophy of Conscious Capitalism is elevating humanity through business. It looks beyond the economics of free enterprise to see the value it creates for people–the prosperity and progress it can bring to communities. In the thought leadership forum from Conscious Capitalism, DC and Leadership Greater Washington, Applying Conscious Capitalism: Conscious Consumerism, we will examine how businesses and customers can operate in a manner reflective of the ideals of Conscious Capitalism. What does it mean to be a conscious consumer?

For this session we will be joined by two business leaders who are committed to operating in ways that are not only conscious, but that also provide value to their communities. Gina Schaefer is Owner and Chief Localist at A Few Cool Hardware Stores, a chain of ACE Hardware stores in the DC area that focuses on local products, community revitalization, and supporting underrepresented populations. Jonah Goldman is Co-Founder and Director of Marketing for PLNT Burger, an environmentally-mindful, sustainable fast casual franchise devoted to making good food that is even better for the health of their communities, and our planet.

Join us on October 18 to learn how Gina and Jonah put consciousness forward in their operations.

Join us for a casual evening of community and conversation with people who believe you can elevate humanity through business.

Sample some delicious beers on tap at Strange Days Brewing Co. (first round’s on us). Plus, we’ll have some great snacks to enjoy.

We’re keeping it simple with a fun night of chats and taps before the holi-daze sets in.