093: The Dance Between Love and Power - Lorna Davis - Part 2

Guest OverviewBorn in South Africa in the age of Apartheid, her education, parental guidance, curiosity, and worldly ambitions set her on the path to a stellar career in international business and marketing and finally leading Danone to become the first billion-dollar entity to become a public benefit corporation - welcome this week’s guest Lorna Davis. Lorna Davis is a transformational thinker, leader, and visionary for why and how organizations can combine social, and environmental priorities with their financial imperatives to deliver improved business performance. As a highly respected coach, international speaker Lorna also serves on a number of boards to help them embrace meaning and purpose.In Part One of this two-parter, we cover Lorna’s early life in South Africa, her parent’s influence, how her education and her Pollyanna-ish optimistic view of the world helped carve a successful career. We discuss Lorna’s social purpose epiphany when working in China in 2006. Lorna explains how she left China changed, and ultimately returned to Danone with a mission to help them become a purpose-driven company. Lorna recounts the practical realities of Danone’s evolution to a BCorp under her leadership in the US as Chief Manifesto Catalyst. In Part Two we discuss Lorna’s transition to a BCorp Evangelist. She unpacks the steps companies should take to start their journey to becoming BCorp certified, the importance of having visionary CEO, engaging and empowering youthful activists to lead the transformation process, and bypassing senior and mid-management We talk about the practical leverage of bottom-up, and outside-in methodologies, inviting an inclusive range of expert advisors and investors to accelerate the process of change, to overcoming short-termism, achieving triple bottom line, and the role of big banksWe cover the need to connect with our humanity, embrace ambiguity as Lorna explains her perspective on life being a dance of love and power. Lorna also discusses the UN New SDG Action Navigator tool to help businesses measure progress against the SDG’s and projects forward the future structure of corporate boards that cover ESG’s.Finally, we discuss serendipity, education, diversity, divine intelligence, the joy of being human and how she uses curiosity as an antidote to pain, and her perspective on how humanity works. I hope you’re inspired by the leadership values, heart, the humanity of Lorna Davis. What We Discuss Her parental impact We discuss her upbringing in apartheid South Africa Lorna’s sense of abundance the opportunity the world offered Her single-sex high school Her sports focusLearning routine discipline and order working for her at schoolStudying psychology and anthropology Breaking into Unilever Her social purpose epiphany in China Understanding that she could not continue to walk away from her responsibilities as a leaderBeing lured back to DanoneComing to the US Taking on the BCorp Challenge Managing shareholder expectationsBecoming a BCorp Evangelist Lorna’s pragmatic perspective on our ability to address climate challengesWhere to spend our time and energy - wherever your heart breaks are where you spend your time and energy Managing change - Inside and down vs Outside and Bottom-up thinking Driving Supply-side changeNeed to make Meetings inclusive and diverse Role for investorsThe dance between short term and long termThe separation of self in business and discomfort with ambiguity Power and Love RAM Das Quote How Lorna creates systems change The power of listeningSocial Links LinkedinWebsite Email - lornadavisuk@yahoo.comTwitterLinks In The ShowEster PerelTo Thine Own Self be true Martin Luther King QuoteChristiana FigueresGlenen Doyle RamdasLorna’s TED TalkGeography of Thought Erin Myer&n...

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093: The Dance Between Love and Power - Lorna Davis - Part 2

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