VIRTUAL | Build A Better World By Building A Better Business Part 4: Discovering and Amplifying Stakeholder Orientation with Kelly Jackson

Companies that fail to recognize their impact on their community and the larger world often stumble. Acknowledging the interdependent nature of life and the human foundations of business, an organization must create value with and for its various stakeholders like customers, employees, vendors, investors, and communities. Understanding and appreciating the interconnectedness of its stakeholders motivates organizations to see themselves as givers rather than takers. Yet, paradoxically, they receive far more in return than they give.

During this session, learn how to identify the various stakeholders in your company, identify their needs, and build WIN-WIN-WIN relationships with the stakeholders impacted by your organization.

Capitalism works. Its power to positively change lives is unparalleled. Capitalism has helped eradicate poverty, increase literacy, extend life expectancy, and made education, art, and culture available to more people than ever.

But misuse of capitalism’s power by some has led to negative stereotypes such as greed, misconduct, and exclusion.

There is a better way to be a capitalist. A way that will create a better world for everyone. A way forward for humankind to liberate the heroic spirit of business and our collective entrepreneurial creativity so we can be free to solve the many daunting challenges we face.

Conscious Capitalism provides that path.

Beginning March 10th, the Kansas City Chapter of Conscious Capitalism presents a four-part series on how conscious capitalism offers a better way to do business.

By the end of this series you will have learned:

The 4 Tenets of Conscious Capitalism
The advantages of operating as a conscious company
Tools and strategies for building a more conscious company

For more information and to register for each session, click on the links below:

Kyle Danner long believed that business could be a force for good. Growing up, working in, and becoming a co-owner in his family’s company, he saw firsthand how business could exist to serve every stakeholder it touched. Following a 17-year career in the family business, Kyle made the difficult decision to leave it all behind. He returned to school to earn a degree in counseling but found he missed working on large business challenges. Today, Kyle helps business owners, and their leadership teams build a better business to live a better life by implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System®

Ron Hill believes if we focus on solving our own problems, then collectively we can thrive. As the founder and Chief Enrichment Officer of Redemption Plus, Ron discovered his purpose and inspired others to find theirs. The bottom line of helping others lead enriched lives of meaning & purpose was baked into the DNA from the start. It also became crystal clear that business can elevate humanity while being profitable. You can do both, you must do both, and you should never compromise on navigating the polarity of each. This is the future of business.

As a conscious leader with a passion for operationalizing growth strategies in purpose driven, people-centric, conscious business environments, Christina Long brings 25 years of diverse experience as an entrepreneur, a C-level executive, and a consultant, along with being both a visionary and an integrator as she works with companies and leaders to develop profit maximizing culture building strategies. As the Chief People Officer and then Chief Operations Officer at Redemption Plus, she was integral in the development of the culture and company to a purpose driven path, and recently in the successful sale of this company and post-sale transition. Today she is excited to start and lead her own company – Transcending U. Her core areas of focus are organizational development, people operations and growth strategies. She provides consulting, coaching, training and leadership development.

Kelly Jackson’s passion is altering the way we organize, inter-relate, and collaborate, enabling impact-centric organizational design. She promotes co-owned, co-managed collaboration among groups wanting to impact their communities and the world significantly. People are tired of “business as usual” where all eyes are on the bottom line and returning value to shareholders. So she is working with others to help individuals excited by the new trends in self-management, co-ownership, and for-purpose enterprises to build a business based on these principles.