How to Have Impact at Every Stage of the Sustainability Journey

Research Reveals Best Practices for Sustainability ManagersBy Dr. Sukhbir Sandhu and Carol KulikIf you are a sustainability manager, you are a trailblazer. Companies created these positions as sustainability became a strategic issue over the last few d...

Building Pathways to Capital Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing

(Native Women Lead Photo)Vanessa Roanhorse Creates Change Through Character-Based Lending Program and Community-Led Projectshttps://medium.com/media/e6bef11b962c2f8be17502900998a6f9/hrefVanessa Roanhorse is an inclusive problem-solver committed to libe...

Building Pathways to Capital Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing

We Created Our 3-Year Plan But Nothing Has Changed. What Am I Missing?

How to Get Team Members on Board with Company GoalsContinue reading on B The Change »

The Inside Scoop on Mission-Driven Business Transformation

Ben & Jerry’s Employees Put Leadership Development Training Into Practice to Achieve Measurable ResultsSince its start in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, Ben & Jerry’s has grown into a global business with a more than 55...

6 Ways Skills-Based Volunteering Can Benefit Your Business and Workers

Pro Bono Projects Connect Employees With Their Community and Causes They Care AboutBy Ava KuhlenIn today’s business world, skills-based volunteering is about more than doing good. It’s about developing future leaders through a real-world application of...

Random Acts of Kindness, not so kind

Our Association leadership team was in a mall, racing against a clock. Our goal, to accomplish as many random acts of kindness within an hour. As we poured through the list of kindness activities provided through an interactive app, we assessed the most efficient way to be kind to as [...]

Enough with the Empathy!

Have you ever been in a situation where had a cough, your relationship broke-up or lost a love one? You shared with someone that things have been a challenge, and they instantly try to empathize with you. “I remember when I was sick, I…” “I remember when I broke [...]

How big is your backyard? Where do you Give?

With the recent events happening around the world: the refugee crisis, the Paris terrorist attacks, the hostage taking in Mali … I can’t help but wonder how each of us feels we are affected by these events?

Prior to the latter two tragedies, I had posted on my Facebook page [...]

Is your giving about the Messenger or the Mission?

As the holiday season comes to an end I can’t help but reflect on what that time of year means. In a word…giving. Giving of gifts, time, love and donations to people and initiatives we care about.

But sometimes, we are just giving for the sake of giving. Often [...]

Lead with Edgeness™ – While Expressing Your Authentic Self

Every morning when I walk into my office, the first thing I see is a painting done by my father. Growing up it was hung outside my bedroom door and in my father’s memory it has moved with me from home, to home, to home. It is always in a [...]

Out with Volunteers and in with Professional Contributors!

Do you volunteer for your professional association or do you professionally contribute?

I’m often vetted by an Association Board of Directors to speak at conferences and I serve on the National Board of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS).

I can tell you, there is a big difference between [...]

Ignite Excellence Inc. Group of Initiatives update

What a ride the last few years have been. Ignite Excellence Inc. is now in its 12^th year of business; we have spoken on five continents to 100’s of clients and audiences ranging from entrepreneurs to fortune 500 companies in over a dozen industries. It’s been exciting and evolutionary. Whether we [...]

TIAW awards Suzanne Stevens & Michael Gingerich

TIAW honours Individuals who Make a Difference

TIAW press release Suzanne F Stevens 2014 Suzanne F. Stevens the founder of YouMeWe Foundation fund receives a World of Difference Award given to 100 women internationally. The International Alliance for

TIAW World of Difference Awards – Washington March 2014

I just returned from the The International Alliance for Women (TIAW)Forum and World of Difference Award ceremony. I was honoured to receive an award for women economic empowerment in education. I was amongst 8 African Women pioneers who were present, along with new friends from 26 countries. One thing all [...]

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