Transform Your Business to Create an Economy That Works For All in Berrett-Koehler's FREE People-First Economy Online Summit
This free online event features, co-hosts Dr. Tiffany Jana, global diversity and inclusion expert, Raj Sisodia, founding-member of the Conscious Capitalism movement, and David Marshall, CEO and CFO of Berrett-Koehler Publishers. The hosts will bring you wisdom, experience, and real-world solutions from more than 30 leaders, activists, and organizations on the frontlines of change. Participants will learn from more than 30 instructional videos that include leading business experts, like John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Jay Coen Gilbert co-founder of B-Lab, Michael C. Bush, CEO of A Great Place to Work and many more. REGISTER HERE http://www.peoplefirsteconomyonlinesummit.com
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The People-First Online Summit was created by Berrett-Koehler Publishers (BK), an independent publisher located in Oakland, CA, specializing in books about sustainable business, economics, politics, social justice, and personal development. BK prides itself as a creator, curator, and distributor of leading content around the world. The mission-based publisher ensures that every book it publishes adheres to its mission - Connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all.
One Berrett-Koehler book that has made a big impact over the past few years is The Shareholder Value Myth by Lynn Stout. From her Cornell Law School pulpit, Dr. Stout debunked the myth that C-Suite executives should be optimizing value only for shareholders at the expense of all stakeholders—and now the Business Roundtable has come around too.
The Business Roundtable is an association of America's top CEO's such as Tim Cook of Apple, Mary Barra of General Motors, and Brian Boynihan of Bank of America – say they will no longer put shareholders above everyone else. [The New York Times describes the movement as "breaking with decades of long-held corporate orthodoxy.' In a recent Fast Company op-ed by Jay Coen Gilbert, one of the cofounders of the B-Corporation movement, he said "It's a significant sign of our shifting culture that the country's largest corporations and the organization representing their interests are revising their definition of the purpose of the corporation from profit maximization to leading their companies "for the benefit of all stakeholders—customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders."
We at Berrett-Koehler Publishers created The People-First Economy Online Summit to introduce you to this new way of doing business. One that is designed to bring people, planet, and profit together. This important summit provides practical tools to drive prosperity and equity for all by putting people at the center of the economy.
SOURCE Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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