A Meaningful Business leader focuses on achieving sustainable and positive impact through:
- Taking a people-centred approach, placing the wellbeing of employees and those impacted by the business, at the forefront of their strategy
- Ensuring the preservation and protection of planetary resources and environmental sustainability are pivotal to business practices
- Looking beyond creating shareholder value and seeking to integrate social, environmental and good governance considerations effectively into decision making at the highest levels
- Showing innovation in creating new products and services that drive positive social and environmental impact, alongside profits
- Engaging with the development/humanitarian/academic sectors to create effective partnerships around specific causes/SDGs
- Taking a long term view, beyond quarterly results or other short term metrics, to create measurable, sustainable and long term impact
- Building diverse teams that promote inclusivity across gender, race, background and disability
- Ensuring business supply chains are ethical and uphold human rights principles
- Being cause-led and ready to take action to support the issues they align to
- Moving beyond greenwashing and brand positioning to create tangible impact
- Striving to reverse the negative impact of a company’s existence to date, in order to create a sustainable future