The Case for DEI: A Pathway to Innovation 

A journey from advocacy to action, and the imperative of building inclusive leadership in a changing world. By Artika Tyner Where My DEI Journey Started When I started my career in DEI nearly twenty years ago, I remember pleading with my boss and other business leaders to invest in DEI through time, resources, and talent. […]

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 […]

Building the Future of Daily Essentials

How I’m helping reinvent the $59-billion supplement industry from the ground up. By Katerina Schneider I’m a mother of three — four if you count Ritual, the health and wellness company I founded in 2016. I was pregnant with my first daughter when I couldn’t find a prenatal multivitamin I trusted. The options recommended to […]

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, […]

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 […]

Cleancult: Refill, not Landfill

Cleancult keeping your home and the planet free of waste Ryan Lupberger is helping lead the movement to clean up the cleaning industry. The Colorado native grew up valuing natural products, and upon reading the ingredients in his laundry detergent, he was concerned to see so many unrecognizable ones. Lupberger started researching and became even […]

How Benjamin Franklin Can Improve Your Recruiting Efforts

Is your company or an individual manager’s reputation killing your recruiting efforts?  Potential candidates search the Internet and social media to learn what current and past employees are saying about the company? If you want to enhance the company’s reputation, maybe Ben Franklin can help.  He asked himself two questions that shaped his view for […]