Vision: To support and empower diverse, innovative leaders who leverage business for a greater good. Action: Helps build valuable peer-to-peer connections among influential business leaders, social entrepreneurs and impact investors. This creates high-impact collaborations that contribute to a just, humane and sustainable world. www.SVN.org
Vision: To change existing cancer research techniques to one of collaboration, not competition. Action: The medical research model has long been built upon a system of competition – funding (grants) and accolades. Diagnosed with multiple myeloma (cancer of the blood), Giusti created an organization that is now the world’s number one multiple myeloma research funder. This has changed the way research is done. www.TheMMRF.com
Vision: Raising the number of women on boards to 20 percent by 2020. Action: Sonnabend believes her campaign will redefine good corporate governance and gender diversity standards, and create corporate action. The best boards harvest diverse experience, skills and perspective. www.2020WOB.com
Vision: An era that will put unprecedented value on talent as the main driver of business success. Action: ManpowerGroup is leading governments and business leaders to re-examine how they leverage human potential in an increasingly volatile world. They don’t pretend they have a social conscience, because the core of their business is already that. www.ManpowerGroup.com
Vision: Performance with purpose. Action: Delivering sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and planet. By tackling obesity and improving the nutritional value of PepsiCo products she has made the globally recognized company more environmentally sustainable and found innovative ways to reduce energy and water use. www.Pepsico.com
Vision: A new vision for the future where “business is unusual.” Action: Business has the power to drive change. The time is right for a radically different approach to business – one that puts people and planet at the core of how business is done. Branson started the B Team and was a founding member of The Elders, bringing together the world’s most influential people to discuss how best to solve the world’s most pressing problems. www.Virgin.com
Vision: A world that delivers quality and inclusion to the majority. Action: The biggest exclusion in the world is the lack of access to quality products and services – healthcare, education, basic services and housing. Arregui believes this is a market failure, and he’s invested in innovative business models that eradicate exclusion by serving the majority of the population with quality. He hopes many will follow, thus creating new industries and helping to eradicate exclusion. www.Ignia.com.mx
Vision: Celebrities using their public image and power to draw attention to social issues. Action: Used most of the money he earned from the Nespresso commercials to fund a satellite surveillance program over Sudan to monitor war crimes. Clooney actively uses his celebrity status to care about something more than just “celebrity.” www.TakePart.com
Vision: Invest in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for our future. Action: As a member of the board of Save The Children, Garner has deepened her commitment to issues affecting children, especially the fact that a child in poverty will be 18 months behind privileged kids by the age of four. It doesn’t take money to be a good mother, but is does take someone showing you what to do. www.SaveTheChildren.org
Vision: A world where those who think outside the box don’t have their thoughts bullied back in to a box. Action: Created The 99 superhero comic series, based on the values that Islam shares with humanity. The idea was fought by zealots in both the East and West as it competes for mindshare. It became the first intellectual property from the Muslim world to go global. www.Al-Mutawa.com
