Season 3, Ep 8: Purpose-driven business with Sally Hill
How can business better serve society and the planet we share? What’s holding us back from doing business better, and where is the momentum for change? How can we tell a true purpose-driven business from one that’s just doing a little good (or a nice PR campaign) on the side?
Today we’re chatting with Sally Hill, General Manager of the impact investing firm Tripple, and founder of the Purpose conference — a two-day event that brings together professionals who care about making business more ethical, responsible and sustainable.
Like it or not, business is one of the core organising principles for society, Sally says. So she’s passionate about how we can leverage business to create true value and move us forward; to behave ethically and responsibly, and to just be useful in the world.
Whatever sector you work in, however you may feel about the mixed impacts of the business world and its power, it’s so great to listen and learn from someone who really gets it and is determined to drive change from within.
This episode of the reMAKERS was recorded from the lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people, in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, and on the Gadigal lands of the Eora nation in Sydney. We honour the Traditional Owners of these lands and waters, and pay our respect to Elders past and present.
Show notes
Things and people we mention
Interface, sustainable carpet and flooring company
The surprising number of co-ops in Australia
Triple Bottom Line (general guide)
Economist Mariana Mazzucato: Mission Economy and The Entrepreneurial State (great books!)
Things that exist because of government investment, including Tesla
The Inflation Reduction Act (what became of the ‘Green New Deal’) in America
De-growth - what it is and how it would work in our economy, introductory article by Jason Hickel et al
Economist Richard Denniss on the reMAKERS podcast talking about growth/de-growth
Recommendations and things you can do
Check out the Purpose conference, happening in Sydney, 8-9 Nov, 2023. Use the code “REMADE” for 20% off your ticket price.
Share this conversation with your friends, colleagues, boss, or your organisation’s sustainability team.
Ask your MP what s/he’s doing to promote pro-social businesses where you live, or contact one of the Ministers in Treasury (Australia).
We need more dialogue between people in business, government and civil society — see what you can do?
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