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The Conscious Capitalists Podcast

Every business leader faces difficult questions. How do you lead through uncertainty? Build a stronger culture? Balance stakeholder expectations? Create lasting value without compromising commercial performance?

The Conscious Capitalists brings together some of the world’s most thoughtful business leaders, academics and entrepreneurs to explore the ideas shaping modern leadership.

Hosted by Timothy Henry and Raj Sisodia, each episode moves beyond theory to examine what conscious leadership looks like in practice—and how leaders can build businesses that perform over the long term.

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Featured Conversations

Hear from leaders including:

  • Rebecca Henderson — Harvard Business School
  • Charles Conn — Former Chair, Patagonia
  • Michael Harth — LAZ Parking
  • Gopi Kallayil — Google
  • Mary K. Bush — President of Bush International
  • Loren Rodgers — National Center for Employee Ownership
  • CEOs, founders, academics and leadership thinkers from around the world.
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Raj Sisodia

Raj Sisodia is a co-founder of the conscious capitalism movement and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business.

A distinguished professor, author and globally recognized thought leader, Raj has spent decades researching why the world’s most admired companies consistently outperform by creating value for all stakeholders. He has advised organizations including IBM, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, Verizon, Siemens and Tata, and has spoken on conscious business around the world—including at the White House and the Vatican.

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Timothy Henry

Timothy Henry is CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., co-founder of the conscious capitalism movement and co-author of The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide.

For more than 30 years, Timothy has advised CEOs and executive teams—from Fortune 20 companies to entrepreneurial start-ups—helping organizations align purpose with strategy, culture and performance. Through the podcast, he brings practical leadership experience to conversations about the future of business.

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Our Best Of: Living a committed life

Hear about what this means and the extraordinary story of Lynne Twist the author of the Soul of Money and co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance. Money is a means not an end, and our attitude towards it shapes many of our actions. Lynne walks us through some of the shifts in mindset that enable us to allow money to flow in our lives towards making a difference. An inspiring call to live a committed life and step into making a difference in the world. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

November 1st 2022
Our Best Of: Addressing Financial Shame in America

Two thirds of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts, and 75% live paycheck to paycheck, a real crisis in terms of what people are experiencing on the front lines of American companies today. Today we speak with a CEO who’s out there trying to make a difference in the financial wellbeing of those workers.  Join us for a discussion of hope with Safwan Shah co-founder of PayActiv and author of It’s About TIME: How Businesses Can Save the World (One Worker at a Time). ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

October 18th 2022
Our Best Of: Are You an Inspiring Leader—Or Just a Good One? What Really Matters in A Life Well Lived

The soul’s journey and self-mastery, where are you on your journey?  This week we speak with Srikumar Rao – founder of the Creativity and Personal Mastery Program that gained fame by being oversubscribed at several leading business schools (Columbia, London Business School and others) and is now open to the public; and you can apply to join!  Srikumar offers ancient wisdom in a modern context and helps executives, entrepreneurs and professionals identify their true purpose, discover deep meaning, overcome the obstacles holding them back and achieve quantum leaps in effectiveness. What matters in your life matters in your leadership – join us for insights on a deeper level of self-mastery ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

October 5th 2022
Episode #60: An inspiring and practical example of what is possible!!

Join Raj and Timothy as they discuss their perspective on Patagonia and the example Yvon Chouinard is setting with his transfer of shares to a trust for the good of the planet. An inspiring example of one founder’s alignment of his values and the value he has created and what he does with that wealth. AND Patagonia is not just a feel good story. They run a disciplined organization that has focused on innovation and taking great care of its people—the result no debt and steady, managed growth year on year. Doing well and doing good – the inspiring story of Patagonia making purpose, people and the planet matter!

September 27th 2022
Episode #59: The Customer Capitalism Manifesto!

This week the ‘father’ of the Net Promotor Score (NPS), one of the most widely admired and used measures of customer impact, Fried Reichheld,  speaks to us about the next wave of customer focus- Customer Capitalism and NPV 3.0. Great companies help people lead great lives- they are a force for good. At their core they have a strong sense of purpose— to enrich the lives of every customer they touch. Not just a slogan, but as described by Fred, a systematic approach to building your company and systems with the customer front and centre. He talks us through why an enlightened understanding of the Golden Rule provides the bedrock principle underpinning Customer Capitalism and why this serves as the foundation for generating good and sustainable profits!  ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

September 21st 2022
Episode #58: The Future of “Conscious” Capital

In the face of the global crisis’s of 2022, how do we hold on to an optimistic view of the future? Can we create a different more sustainable economic system? Listen to a path forward with potential hope, with Ketan Patel, a successful investor and founder of Force for Good which this week publishes its 3rd annual report, Capital as a Force for Good , https://www.forcegood.org/report-2022. He delves into how we can shift our priorities to reframe the discussion of how to finance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Spoiler alert, look for the opportunities to create real business opportunities in delivering SDG elements like Financial Inclusion! A call for hope and how capital can be a force for good  and capitalism a force for a secure and sustainable future. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

September 13th 2022
Episode #57: The Scientific Basis for Conscious Capitalism

Evolutionary Biology gives us the scientific underpinning to find a common and unifying approach to the changes we need in our economic theory and business practices. Join David Sloan Wilson this week for a fascinating deep dive into the science supporting Conscious Capitalism. Hear about the leading edge thinking the world desperately needs to turn into business practice. Human survival and evolution of our social structures have always been built on co-operation and increasingly we understand how small and appropriately structured groups (hear David’s design principles) optimize performance versus the myth of nature red in tooth and claw. We never thought we would hear the words ‘chicken experiment’ and Conscious Capitalism in the same sentence (at 11:23)! ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj      

September 6th 2022
Our Best Of: Conscious Leadership (Part 2)

Conscious Leadership: a deeper dive and a discussion on individual and organizational leadership development.  ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

August 30th 2022
Our Best Of: Conscious Leadership (Part 1)

What does Conscious Leadership mean? The path to becoming a conscious leader is about becoming S.E.L.F.L.E.S.S. – listen on to find out how! ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

August 24th 2022
Episode #56: Moral Money, Thinking Laterally and Predicting Economic Downturns

Hear how Leading FT Journalist, Editor and leader Gillian Tett has used her expertise in Anthropology to study the human interactions, tribalism and rituals of the financial and business world to predict the 2008 Financial crisis. She also frames the ESG evolution and why it will change but is here to stay. Gillian shares insights from her new book Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life.  ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

August 16th 2022
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