CEO Decision-Making and B Lab or ESG Certification: Is this a priority?

Uncategorized Feb 12, 2025

In 2011 this case began with a technology entrepreneur learning about benefit corporations (BC). Kim Payne purchased a window replacement construction firm in 2014 incorporating it as a BC, developing its mission to achieve ten times organic growth and creating a vision to disrupt the industry. The paper highlighted Payne’s successes and challenges concluding at year end 2017 when it became apparent that he was at a crossroads. The reader is asked to focus on this CEO’s decision-making process between his: strategic planning, mission for ten times organic growth, vision to expand with disruptive quoting software, ideals of BCs (Montgomery 2012) including Blab or ESG certification, and an IRS threat that could shut down the company.  How can Payne, CEO prioritize alternatives to achieve his overall plan?

 

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What is your pitch for a potential investor? Here is a Step by Step Process...

Uncategorized Jul 10, 2018
Curious how to get ready for a Dragon’s Den or Investor Pitch?
 
Recently a client excitedly shared she would be meeting a potential investor in the next few days! She hurriedly wrote a business plan, however on the phone the day before he asked, “Where are the financials”!? Yikes she said, "I’ll get them" and called me! Another client shared she had a call to compete on the Dragon’s Den show, and this would 10x her business, yippee... but how do I prepare was her email questions, gulp!?
 
What great turning points in these businesses! Here’s a step by step process I prepared for them to get camera ready...
 
 
A. Form your own Dragon's Den mock panel and practice your pitch in front of these "dragons". Ask them to be supportive and tough.
 
B. Here’s a few questions you need to prepare in advance, and yet they might ask more!
 
1. What are your Sales to date and number of years in business?
2. What re your sale patterns? (Quarterly reports)
3. What were your sales in 2017...
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What is a B Corp, and why would I be interested in one?

Uncategorized Apr 25, 2018

What are Benefit Corporations and “B Corps”? By Connie Allsopp, PhD

     In short, a B Corp is a for-profit corporation that receives a certification from a private company called B Lab. B Lab makes companies meet particular “social benefit” requirements in order to get certified, similar to certificated organic coffee beans that support the ethical values of Fair Trade. The B Corp is taxed similar to a regular corporation, unlike a charity or not-for-profit explained later. “B Lab” it self is actually a not-for-profit organization based in Washington DC whose purpose is to certify ‘Businesses’ as triple bottom line organizations. B Corps must go through a rigorous Certification process and must be re-certified every two years. B Corps include such global companies as Patagonia, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and in Canada, BDC and Tartan Communications.

     The two specific examples explained later here on the west coast of Canada are SES consulting, which is a values based, mission dr...

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