Ep #63: As You Sow with CEO Andrew Behar
Andrew Behar is the CEO of As You Sow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. Tune in this week to discover the impact of As You Sow on various aspects of corporate sustainability.
Show Notes
This week, I’m leaving you in the capable hands of my colleague Elizabeth Young and our guest this week, Andrew Behar. If you want to know what goes into building a nonprofit that makes a real difference, holding companies accountable in a way that benefits both the business and the consumer, this episode is for you.
Andrew Behar is the CEO of As You Sow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. As You Sow helps companies, through their stakeholders, gage their social and environmental impact, improve their culture, and generally do better in the ways their individual stakeholders really want to see.
Tune in this week to discover the work As You Sow does in bringing stakeholders’ concerns to the boardroom, why the companies shifting toward justice and sustainability are thriving, and how you as a stakeholders (retail or institutional) can shift the system by exercising your right to vote on the issues that matter to you.
- The work that As You Sow does to make sure companies match up with their stakeholders’ expectations.
- As You Sow’s process for implementing change within an organization.
- Why it behooves companies to resolve the issues that matter to stakeholders.
- Some examples of specific shareholder-driven change that has benefitted individual companies’ reputations and bottom lines.
- Why an aversion to assessing ESG risk factors is anti-business and anti-capitalist.
- How As You Sow has seen an increase in green-hushing, doing the work without taking a toxic victory lap.
- What Andrew believes is the future for As You Sow and shareholder advocacy in general.
What You'll Learn
Links Mentioned
- Sensiba Center for Sustainability is offering all Rebooting Capitalism listeners a free 30-minute discovery call to help you determine which ESG frameworks, metrics, and goals are right for your organization. They’ll help you connect the dots between ESG risks and opportunities and discuss the impacts ESG has on your organization’s bottom line. Click here or send an email to set up your free discovery call.
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