Reimagining Sustainable Building Practices

Mass Timber Home by Green Canopy Node revolutionizes construction and advances sustainable building practices. By Real Leaders For the last several decades, the U.S. housing supply has not kept pace with demand, leaving America short millions of homes today in a gap that continues to widen. To help address that problem, Green Canopy NODE, a […]

DYPER is Lightening the Load

DYPER is revolutionizing the disposable diaper industry with environmental ingenuity. By Real Leaders Diapers are the third-leading contributor to U.S. landfills by mass, taking up to 500 years to break down. The average child uses around 3,700 disposable diapers, and more than 27 billion of them end up in U.S. landfills each year. A Sustainable […]

Sustainable American Adventures

Explore popular adventures in the U.S. while supporting regenerative, equitable, and inclusive tourism.  By Real Leaders Legacy Vacation Resorts offers affordable, sustainable vacation experiences and is the first multi-state resort hospitality company in the U.S. to achieve B Corp Certification. It partners with environmental organizations to highlight important initiatives and encourages guests to support other […]

Technology for Pay Equity is Here

Syndio’s software platform exposes workplace inequities and offers solutions. By Real Leaders Companies and their management face immense pressure from employees, investors, and legislators demanding more transparency and progress toward diversity and pay equity goals. Yet many organizations lack the data to turn those promises into real results they can show. Unmasking the Bias: Can […]

How Danish is Your Leadership

By Henrik Jespersen If you’re a company leader grappling with getting more from your employees without compromising quality or increasing costs, look toward Denmark Clothes are not trash. That’s the message Dan Green is working to spread because quite frankly, the United States is doing a bad job of recycling clothes, he says. Green is […]

Q&A with Top Impact Company CEO, Wendy Gonzalez

Sama ranked No. 48 on the list of 2024 Real Leaders Top Impact Companies. By Real Leaders About: Sama is a globally recognized leader in data annotation and model validation solutions for enterprise AI models that require the highest accuracy. The company pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good and meaningfully improves […]

Forward Faster

The UN asks companies to help accelerate progress on 5 Sustainable Development Goals. By Real Leaders Only 15% of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on track for 2030, and the UN is calling upon the private sector to help improve that number. The UN identified five action areas for companies: gender equality, […]

Pharrell Williams: Uplifting Entrepreneurs of Color

Pharrell Williams is closing the opportunity gap for entrepreneurs of color. By Real Leaders Pharrell Williams knows music. One of the most influential musical artists and producers in hip-hop, R&B, and pop, Williams has created chart-topping hits for household names, earning 13 Grammy Awards and six Billboard Music Awards. (Cue the mega-hit song Happy.)  Then […]

Zero Carbon Reaches New Heights

By Real Leaders A Landmark Among Skyscrapers North America’s first zero-carbon commercial tower, The Stack, opened in September 2023 at 1133 Melville St. in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. Co-owned by Oxford Properties and CPP Investments, The Stack is 37 stories tall, totaling 550,000 square feet of prime real estate. James K.M. Cheng Architects designed the […]