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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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Episode #40: Is inclusive hiring the future of work?

We speak with CEO of Greyston Bakery, Joe Kenner, one of the leading advocates and practioners of open hiring. 10 million people in America are no longer in the workforce but most want to be.  Hear how to help them get into the workforce- they could be the solution to the so-called worker shortage in the US! ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider rating and leaving us a review? 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

July 14th 2021
Rewind:Citizen Capitalism?

Citizen capitalism, Conscious, Impact Private Equity?  On this Conscious Capitalists Podcast Rewind we bring you a much loved conversation: Listen to Private Equity investor Warren Valdmanis discuss the book he co-authored, Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism. In this week’s episode, he explains these terms and more. Two Buffett paradox, anyone? ** 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 (Originally release on December 15, 2020) Thank you for your support!  Timothy & Raj

July 7th 2021
Rewind: LOVE at work with Kip Tindell

Love and caring in the workplace? What’s the alternative? On this Conscious Capitalists Podcast Rewind we bring you a much loved conversation: Kip Tindell co-founder and long time CEO of The Container Store grew revenue at 20% per annum and was twice listed as the best place in America to work- and on the list for 20 straight years! LOVE at work – hear his take on it. (Originally release November 17, 2020). ** 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

June 30th 2021
Rewind: Keeping airports safe the Conscious Capitalism way

On this Conscious Capitalists Podcast Rewind we bring you a much loved conversation: Meet Ben Richter, CEO and founder of a company that has revolutionized airport security and logistics and built a competitive advantage by creating a conscious business. Bradford Logistics: a big, little company you get touched by almost wherever you travel, but have probably never heard of. Great tips from Ben on building a conscious culture and business model. Originally released on January 26, 2021. ** 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

June 23rd 2021
Episode #38: Shining a light on a business model for good

MPOWERD makes solar powered lighting and recharging systems and speakers. Hear from their Founder John Salzinger and CEO Seungah Jeong on how they have developed great products and an innovative business model to serve both developed and emerging markets.  A great example of a stakeholder model working across other businesses, NGOs as well as Government and consumers.  ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider rating and leaving us a review? 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

June 9th 2021
Episode #37: Dangerous Money to Conscious Capital!

Join M&A guru and private equity investor Chris Varelas as we discuss his book, ‘How Money Became Dangerous: The Inside Story of Our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance’. Chris lays out the 10 important shifts in our financial system – and the front row seat he had on these developments. We discuss his view of what needs to happen to create more conscious capital and a longer term vision of value creation. He shares his work at the Aspen Institute with the program he co-founded to create what we would call ‘conscious leaders’ in the financial services industry. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider rating and leaving us a review? 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

June 2nd 2021
Rewind: Zeynep Ton on The Good Jobs Strategy

On this Conscious Capitalists Podcast Rewind we bring you a much loved conversation: Minimum wages? Living wages? Zeynep Ton, author of The Good Jobs Strategy describes her approach to combining increased wages with operational changes to create more value for customers AND create ‘good jobs’.  Originally released on March 9, 2021. ** 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

May 26th 2021
Episode #36: The Power of Purpose

Richard Leider has spent his career helping people and organizations find their purpose. In his new book “Who do you want to be when you grow old?: The Path to Purposeful Aging” he has a great line: we get old… or we GROW old. Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation on all things Purpose and the second half of the journey. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider rating and leaving us a review? 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

May 19th 2021
Episode #35: B-Corps – The Inside Story

This week, we speak with one of the co-founders of B Lab (the organization that runs the Certified B Corporation program), Jay Coen Gilbert, and hear about the B Corps journey and the next stage as he co-chairs Imperative 21: a coalition of like-minded organizations, including Conscious Capitalism, that are coming together to create a new agenda for business in the 21st century. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider rating and leaving us a review? 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

May 12th 2021
Episode #34: Walking The Talk On Conscious Culture

This week we meet Carolyn Taylor, a world leading expert on Culture and Culture Change. She has written one of the best books we’ve read on this topic: ‘Walking The Talk’. She shares her views on Conscious Culture and on creating real Culture Change, and offers key insights on making and keeping commitments and the power of quality dialogues to ensure this. We also discuss her new book Accountability @ Work: How To Make And Keep Promises And Have Others Do The Same. Accountability is a big topic in today’s agile and empowered organisations and even more so in our ‘new normal’ work environments.   ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider rating and leaving us a review? 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

May 5th 2021
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