Purpose and Profit with Kathy Varol

Amy Lesnick is the Chief Executive and President of Pledge 1%, a global movement to integrate social impact into the DNA of every company.  Founded by tech luminaries such as Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, and Scott Farquhar the co-founder of Atlassian, the Pledge 1% movement has rapidly grown to over 15,000 companies in +100 countries. In 2017, Fast Company named Pledge 1% the most...

Alexis Haass is a sustainability expert and the Chief Sustainability Officer at Arcadis. Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Arcadis employs 27,000 people, in over 70 countries. Sustainability is at the heart of the Arcadis business strategy, and its purpose is to impr...

Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise working to elevate disability pride. Tiffany is also the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded about $59k to 59 disability projects in 9 countries, and a content creator with almost 160k+ followers across platforms. She serves on the San Francisco Mayor’s Disa...

Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers and manufacturers.   In 2019, TerraCycle launched Loop, billed as the “21st century milkman”. Loop partners with producers on a reusable packaging loop system replacing single-use...

Professor Mark Kramer is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and a co-founder and advisor with both FSG and the Shared Value Initiative . Mark has worked with leading companies around the world to find sources of competitive advantage by incorporating shared value into their business. Shared Value is defined as “policies and operating practices that enhance the competitiveness of a compa...

Doug Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, and both a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Doug has honed his leadership craft turning around companies at the most senior levels—first as President of the Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and later as Chairman of Avon Products. In 2011, he founded ConantLeadership: a mission-driven c...

Lindsay Dahl is Beautycounter’s SVP of Social Mission where she leads the safety, sustainability, advocacy and giving teams. A nationally recognized leader, Lindsay has been working for over 15 years to remove toxic chemicals from the products we use every day. Working at the intersection of activism, product safety, and sustainability, Lindsay takes a comprehensive approach to integrate social im...

Ynzo van Zanten is Tony Chocolonely’s ‘Choco Evangelist’, and yes, he wants to convert you. He’s here to tell the story of the Tony’s roadmap to 100% slave-free chocolate and to get every choco stakeholder on board.   Tony’s is committed to making the universe of chocolate production fair and equitable for all involved, particularly the farmers and the people working on cocoa farms in West Af...

Paul DeJoe is a Co-Founder and COO of MUD\WTR, a company that creates a coffee alternative aimed to optimize one’s mind, body and ritual. Their product is made with organic ingredients used by cultures young and old for their health and performance benefits. The flagship product is an elixir consisting of masala chai, cacao, turmeric, cinnamon, sea salt and four mushrooms: chaga, reishi, lion’s ma...

Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy, an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant and inclusive economy that works for the benefit of all life.   Ryan is also a coauthor of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). Ryan has helped over 50 companies— including Patagonia, Allbirds, and Ben &...

Chris Chancey is the Founder and CEO of Amplio Recruiting, the only certified B Corp staffing agency. Amplio Recruiting helps companies hire from the refugee community. At a time when many companies find themselves short-staffed, Amplio Recruiting offers an interesting way to diversify the workforce while impacting lives and communities at the same time. I want to share some statistics and a perso...

Amy Looper is an AI EdTech/MedTech social venture entrepreneur and the Co-Founder/COO of OneSeventeen Media. With nine partners and a stellar team, she grew her first tech company 8,164% in 35 months resulting in a $158M IPO. Now on her fourth company, Amy and her partner have built a digital mental health & analytics platform called reThinkIt! for School™ that makes kids emotionally healthier thr...

John Replogle is a leader in the mission-driven brand movement, with extensive experience leading fast growth, high-performing businesses including Seventh Generation and Burt’s Bees. John believes that business is one of the most powerful forces on earth and that power must be harnessed for the greater good.   John previously served as GM of Unilever’s Skin Care business and President of the...

David Bronner is the CEO, or Cosmic Engagement Officer, for Dr. Bronner’s. Family-owned and run, Dr. Bronner’s makes socially & environmentally responsible products of the highest quality—all while dedicating their profits to help make a better world. David and the rest of the Bronner family are leaders that set an example of being human, and supporting humanity, at the core of everything they do....

Chrissa Pagitsas is a senior advisor on sustainability, green bonds and ESG. She spent most of her career at Fannie Mae, where she created their ESG strategy and launched their Green Financing Business which has gone on to issue over $87 billion in green bonds. Chrissa also led a partnership with the EPA to develop the ENERGY STAR scoring and certification program for existing multifamily building...

Kaitlin Christine is the CEO and Founder of Gabbi , the first digital health solution for predicting breast cancer risk and empowering women to be in control of their own health outcomes. Kaitlin created Gabbi to not only to de-stigmatize women’s health issues, but to decrease incidence of preventable diseases by creating a nexus of trusted expertise, resources, and support for women to take contr...

Genevieve Leveille, the founder and CEO of AgriLedger , is using blockchain to improve one of humankind's oldest industries. Agriledger is on a mission to revolutionize agriculture and provide a better life for farmers by leveraging new technologies to enable trust and transparency in the agriculture ecosystem. Providing traceability from seed to customer. Originally from Haiti and now based in th...

Kathleen Tullie leads Social Purpose at Reebok International, and is also the Founder & Executive Director of BOKS , a nonprofit on a mission to make physical activity and play part of every child’s day. Since its humble beginnings in 2009, BOKS has empowered 500,000 kids to make movement a part of their schooldays, contributing to their physical health and mental well-being.   Kathleen’s maj...

My friend Ed sent me a link to the most beautiful artisanal glassware made in Kabul, Afghanistan, sold by an amazing social enterprise called ISHKAR. When I learned more about the company and how they work with local craftspeople in difficult regions of the world I knew I had to feature them here. On this episode of the Purpose and Profit Podcast I’m joined by Edmund Le Brun. Edmund is the co-foun...

Stephen Greene CBE is co-founder and CEO of the international pro-social media and entertainment company RockCorps .   RockCorps uses music and culture to inspire action—providing the tools and opportunities for people to volunteer and get involved in their community. One person, one show, one city at a time—RockCorps enables people to change the world, while at the same time enabling brands...

Nick Craig is a leadership expert, Fortune 500 consultant, and the President and Founder of the Core Leadership Institute (CLI). Over the past 10+ years, CLI has helped nearly 20,000 leaders discover their Purpose, the unique gift that they alone can bring to the world. Nick’s expertise in Purposeful leadership has been sought out by both corporate and academic organizations ranging from Lego® and...

“I was a four-time loser before I realized I was in the wrong game.” That was the first line of the autobiographical story that appeared on the back of every loaf of Dave’s Killer Bread. “Four-time loser” refers to his four prison sentences for crimes ranging from burglary to armed robbery to drug dealing. He once shared abandoned houses with cockroaches on the streets of Detroit and now he lives...

Kevin is the co-founder and Chief Development Officer of ChangeNOW , the largest impact conference in the world. Since 2017 ChangeNOW has strengthened the interconnections between actors of the impact ecosystem and inspired people by spotlighting concrete and innovative solutions to the biggest challenges facing our world. This year’s free, all-online summit will feature 1000 solutions and 500 spe...

In this episode, I am so excited to speak with Joshua Haynes, a Founder + Managing Partner at Masawa, the mental wellness impact fund. After a long journey learning to approach his own issues of depression, anxiety, and addiction, Joshua founded Masawa to help address mental illness, a silent epidemic that is the leading cause of disability worldwide and costs, in the EU alone, €600 billion a year...

For today’s episode of the Purpose and Profit Podcast, I’m so happy to be joined by a very special guest, Yancey Strickler . He’s an author, entrepreneur, speaker and thought leader. He’s also the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter and the creator of a framework, Bentoism, which he shares in his book: This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World . Sign up for Yancey’s news...