{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"093: The Dance Between Love and Power - Lorna Davis - Part 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6100856531fd81f125b34dad/610085a390e69d001a26cf05.png?height=200","description":"Guest Overview\nBorn 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. \nLorna 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.\nIn 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.  \nIn 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 \nWe 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 banks\nWe cover the need to connect with our humanity, embrace ambiguity as Lorna explains her perspective on life being a dance of love and power. \nLorna 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.\nFinally, 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. \nI hope you’re inspired by the leadership values, heart, the humanity of Lorna Davis. \n\n\nWhat We Discuss \nHer parental impact \nWe discuss her upbringing in apartheid South Africa \nLorna’s sense of abundance the opportunity the world offered \nHer single-sex high school \nHer sports focus\nLearning routine discipline and order working for her at school\nStudying psychology and anthropology \nBreaking into Unilever \nHer social purpose epiphany in China \nUnderstanding that she could not continue to walk away from her responsibilities as a leader\nBeing lured back to Danone\nComing to the US \nTaking on the BCorp Challenge \nManaging shareholder expectations\nBecoming a BCorp Evangelist \nLorna’s pragmatic perspective on our ability to address climate challenges\nWhere to spend our time and energy - wherever your heart breaks are where you spend your time and energy \nManaging change - Inside and down vs Outside and Bottom-up thinking \nDriving Supply-side change\nNeed to make Meetings inclusive and diverse \nRole for investors\nThe dance between short term and long term\nThe separation of self in business and discomfort with ambiguity  \nPower and Love \nRAM Das Quote \nHow Lorna creates systems change \nThe power of listening\n\n\nSocial Links \nLinkedin\nWebsite \nEmail - lornadavisuk@yahoo.com\nTwitter\n\n\nLinks In The Show\nEster Perel\nTo Thine Own Self be true \nMartin Luther King Quote\nChristiana Figueres\nGlenen Doyle  \nRamdas\nLorna’s TED Talk\nGeography of Thought Erin Myer&n...","author_name":"Fabrica Collective"}