The ESG Report

Bill David is the founder and Portfolio Manager of Stance Capital. This company mitigates material ESG risks, produces excess returns, and is dedicated to ensuring that public equity portfolios can align with capital and personal values, without sacrificing performance. Tom Fox welcomes him to this week’s show to talk about Stance Capital, how it helps its clients, and greenwashing.  Greenwashing...

Elizabeth Crow is the CEO of OnPoint Industrial Services, a company that services every aspect of your industrial project, ensuring its smooth execution and the safety of your workers. Tom Fox welcomes her to this week’s show to talk about OnPoint’s work, how it helps people, and the future of safety within ESG.  How OnPoint Manages Turnarounds Tom asks Elizabeth to define turnarounds and how OnPo...

Christian Perez Font has appeared on many of Tom Fox’s podcasts. He is the managing partner of Thinkeen Legal, a revolutionary law firm that specializes in corporate and commercial law, domestic and cross-border transactions, and compliance with a focus on startups, and small and mid-sized companies. He specializes in using data to help clients do traditional legal tasks. Thinkeen Legal’s main foc...

Tom Fox welcomes back Aaron Nicodemus to the ESG Report. Aaron is a writer at Compliance Week, a magazine that provides the latest information in the ethics, governance, risk, and compliance space. He primarily writes about regulatory policy and compliance trends. In this week’s show, he and Tom discuss Aaron’s new article series about FedEx’s journey on ESG.  The Inspiration Behind The Articles o...

In this very unique ESG Report, Tom Fox welcomes special guests, Daniel Banes and Mark Henderson. Daniel Banes is the President of Commercial Tech and Mark Henderson is the Director of Solution Design Lead at Exiger, a company dedicated to altering the playing field related to fraud and financial crime. In this powerful episode, they discuss the effects of ESG in the energy industry and the role o...

Tom Fox welcomes Jules Oringel as his guest this week, and she may have the most unique story that’s ever been shared on The ESG Report. Jules is a second-year student at UNC where she double majors in Business Administration concentrating on ESG, Sustainability and Human Organizational Leadership & Development, with a minor in Public Policy. She’s here to talk about her passion for ESG and sustai...

Trysha Daskam has made appearances on many of Tom Fox’s podcasts over the years; she comes to this week’s show to share her ESG expertise. Trysha holds the positions of Managing Director and Head of ESG Strategy at Silver Regulatory Associates, a boutique consulting firm offering ESG services, compliance and regulatory services, and due diligence services. Today, she joins him to discuss the expec...

Tom Fox is chatting with Jay Rosen in this week’s ESG Report. They discuss the critical factors involved in aligning your company culture with your ESG strategy.   What is Culture?  ESG considerations have been taking center stage and are now critical for sustainable success. However, a key area organizations may overlook when planning their ESG strategy is culture, which refers to the way things...

Tom Fox is back for a new episode of The ESG Report. He’s joined by Professor Karen Woody, and they go inside the SEC to take a look at the process and procedure, as well as the arguments made against the recently proposed rule around ESG.  The Proposal Process  “These rules aren’t just picked from the sky,” Karen explains. There are a number of people at the SEC who come together to devise these...

Matt Kelly and Tom Fox take a look at the recent rule proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding climate management risk and ESG. Climate Change Risk Disclosure  Finally, there’s a proposed rule from the SEC to require climate change risk disclosure. Should this rule be implemented, there are a few categories of data that would be required of companies, such as the impact of clim...

Jonathan Armstrong has been looking at ESG from a unique angle for quite some time. In this episode of the ESG Report, he and Tom Fox are taking a look at greenwashing, and how trying to do good can end badly.   The Issue of Greenwashing  One area where people can do wrong by trying to do good is combining the energy crisis with ESG. Corporations attempt to get with the ESG program by talking abou...

The need for diversity, equity and inclusion is obvious, but what does that mean from a corporate perspective? Tom Fox sits down with Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Kuma Roberts for a conversation about DEI in organizations and the all round benefits that these values offer.  The Business Advantages of DEI  “Companies absolutely understand the business case for diversity, equity, and inclus...

In today’s ESG Report, Tom Fox is pleased to be joined by supply chain risk management professional extraordinaire, Jared Connors. They’re discussing the work done at Assent Compliance Inc., one of the leading organizations in supply chain sustainability management.    Becoming a Leader in the World of ESG  Assent has worked on a variety of regulations to support its clients’ compliance journeys,...

Tom Fox is joined by Jed Yueh, founder and CEO of Delphix. They discuss his newest passion project with SustainableIT.org and their mission to advance global sustainability through technology and leadership.  The Work of SustainableIT.org  Many people believe that sustainability is somebody else's problem to solve, but Jed makes it clear that we cannot keep thinking that way if we want to make a d...

Operating in a tax-efficient manner is a wise business move for a multitude of reasons. It’s time to start the conversation about the benefits of a relationship between tax and ESG, especially in multinational organizations. That’s what Tom Fox and Tracy Howell are discussing in this episode of The ESG Report.  How Tax and ESG Intersect Tracy tells Tom, “There are external forces pulling tax into...

Tom Fox is talking about purpose in this solo episode of the ESG Report. He shares insights from an HBR article, What Is The Purpose of Your Purpose written by Jonathan Knowles, Tom Hunsaker, Hannah Grove and Allison James, that talks about aligning your ESG program to your corporate purpose.  The Three Senses of Purpose The authors identify the three senses of purpose: competence, culture and cau...

‘Compliance is no longer the standard. Companies want to do business with other companies whose values align with theirs.’ This is one of the main talking points in this week’s episode of The ESG Report, where Jagmeet ‘Jag’ Lamba and Daniel Perry join Tom Fox for a conversation about third-party risk management. The Importance of Third-Party Automation  “Companies are not islands,” says Jag, “they...

In this episode of The ESG Report, David Simon, author of the LinkedIn article ‘The “G” in ESG, is Tom Fox's guest. They discuss the article’s content as well as the role of compliance in governance.  The Link Between a Company’s Meta-Contract and Governance  The term ‘meta-contract’ was coined by one of David’s Oxford professors, Alan Morrison. A meta-contract is what an organization is all about...

People often ask, ‘Which companies are bad and shouldn’t be bought from?’ In reality, there is no way of determining that, across the board. Some companies getting called out doesn't mean that others aren’t having issues. “ESG has that potential to introduce the baseline we’re all looking for,” says Matt Friedman, and in this episode, he and host Tom Fox discuss ESG’s role in the fight against mod...

*This is a crosspost episode that first aired on the Innovation In Compliance podcast.* Tom Fox welcomes Joshua Nunziato on this episode of the ESG Report. Joshua is an author, and an Instructor in the Social Responsibility and Sustainability division of the Leeds School of Business. He joins Tom to talk about corporate leaders conducting ethical leadership, its role in ESG, and why ethical leader...

In ESG programs, there are many different items to be considered. In this episode, Tom Fox takes a look at one of them - materiality.   The Materiality Debate  The traditional view of financial materiality is that it directly impacts a company's economic valuation. Recently, SEC commissioners have discussed it in a broader concept, encompassing data that investors deem important. Materiality, toda...

Tom Fox has already established why he thinks compliance should be leading ESG programs. Today, he takes things in a different direction to discuss the role of compliance when crafting a strategy to tackle human rights violations in your business.    Human Rights Violations  Tom explains the three categories of human rights violations: Human rights abuse in the way companies’ products are made or...

Tom Fox welcomes John Katsos to this episode of the ESG Report. John is an Associate Professor of Management at The American University of Sharjah, a scholar, and a writer. In this conversation, they talk about issues in conflict zones affected by climate change, migration, and corporate responses like ESG to these issues.  Migration Then and Now "What's changed is the scale, but what hasn't chang...

John Katsos is a scholar, educator, and writer. His mission is to ‘help people learn to start and manage better, more sustainable businesses and be better humans.’ He is also the co-author of Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development. He joins Tom Fox in this episode of the ESG Report to discuss the importance of ESG and due diligence, particularly in conflict zones. Due Diligence in Con...

Dan Zitting, CEO of Galvanize (now Diligent), is back on this week’s episode of the ESG Report. He and Tom Fox check in about the progress of his company’s M&A with Diligent, reporting on ESG to the board, and ESG trends for 2022. Becoming Diligent Dan tells Tom how Galvanize’s M&A with Diligent is progressing. “We’ve had a big year,” he says. Galvanize being part of Diligent means that they can n...