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Heart Equals Smart Business
The year’s most surprising new ways of looking at business done right by our Social Capital CEOs.
Featuring IBT’s TOP 5 Social Capital CEOs for December 2021
Social Capital: Changing The World By Changing How The World Does Business
Almost a year ago, we set out to find select CEOs who respected people. We discovered a treasure trove of compassionate and caring capitalists.
Alyson Watson Aims To Make Every Day A Mental Health Day
Drawing inspiration from her personal struggles and challenges, Modern Health founder links “humanity” and “community” to help businesses support their own greatest asset – their people.
Ed Bastian Raises The Bar On People-To-People Connections
Delta’s CEO creates Gaining Altitude podcast series of powerful conversations as expansion of company-wide Town Halls.
Liz Tenety Gives Motherhood A Platform For Change
In co-founding Motherly, Liz focused her journalism skills toward her vision for a fact-based, non-judgmental platform that breaks the one-dimensional mom stereotype.
For Tim Ryan, It All Comes Down To Trust
PwC’s U.S. chair and senior partner sees trust as the backbone of best practices/best outcomes for employees and clients.
Jill Koziol and Motherly Celebrate All Moms As – Gasp – Successful Women
Jill Koziol leads Motherly to move the focus of motherhood from baby-centric or business-centric to mother-centric, supporting our new generation of moms seeking validation as multi-faceted,...
Bob Chapman Builds Colossal Success On Simple Premise: Treat People With Respect
Barry-Wehmiller’s CEO is an exemplar of business as a force for good that can transform the world. His philosophy in action of inspiring the best in employees by treating them respectfully has...
Igor Sheremet’s Qooore Is Riding To The Rescue Of Uninformed Investors
Qooore’s co-founder believes investment need not – nay, should not – be just about making or losing a quick buck, and co-developed an app that helps people make more sense and more meaning out of...
Frontline CEOs — Who Aren’t Afraid to Get Their Hands Dirty
When CEOs get out in front with their employees and connect at every level, it helps improve productivity for sure but, more importantly, it shows their employees they value and respect them.
Where’s the Fun In Cashing Out?
With a quick-exit payday, founders miss out on taking their people to greater heights.
Don’t Lie To Your Employees Even When The Truth Hurts
In times of crisis, leaders inspire the grit to persevere by being brutally honest and totally transparent, along with demonstrating faith in their employees’ own work ethic.
From Wall Street To Fueling Children’s Futures – One CEO’s Personal ‘Revolution’
CEO Kristin Groos Richmond is committed to empowering students to succeed in school – and thus in life – by giving them good nutrition; she reveals why Revolution Foods’ for-profit model was the...
Benevolent Burritos: Brian Niccol’s Chipotle Is Transforming Lives And Saving The World
In this exclusive Social Capital interview, one of America’s most caring CEOs discusses how he turned the pandemic into an opportunity to help customers, the farmers who grow their food, and its...
Family Matters: 10 CEOs Who Support Our Most Important Institution
This month we honor those CEOs and companies that realize that capitalism done right and respect for the family are inseparable. A free economic system that is not completely dependent upon...
Hubert Joly's 'Human Magic' and Spiritual Enlightenment Resurrected Best Buy
Hubert Joly, who led the turnaround of Best Buy when most in business thought it a lost cause, argues eloquently that the best business leadership is about improving the lives of people.
Super Socks To Amazing Underwear: Bombas Raises The Bar For Higher Purpose
Since we first honored David Heath as one of our “Top 10 Social Capital CEOs” last November, our continuing conversations with this philanthropically motivated for-profit entrepreneur further...
Fixing Schools Starts With Nutrition: Revolution Foods Made It A Thriving Business
This week, we shine our Social Capital spotlight on one of our February honorees. She is a visionary business leader who recognizes that many people are often shut out of opportunity by a slim...
Leading In A Pandemic: CEOs Discuss How They Helped; What They Learned
As our nation begins to slowly but surely emerge from the pandemic, with the numbers of those infected as well as those dying or those hospitalized dropping to levels about a tenth of what they...
Austen Allred Will Pay You To Hire His Graduates!
The visionary founder and CEO of Lambda School wants to blow up conventional, restrictive hiring practices that he says just plain don’t work, and he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is...
Marina Hadjipateras’s Journey From Launching Ships To Caring Companies
When she was younger, TMV’s co-founder helped make sure the family business always respected its crews, and now she’s funding businesses that make people the point of profit.
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The bottom line is people, not numbers.
Top-selling firm replaces cutthroat commercial real estate with selfless service model.
Managers are people, too, and challenges of the "new normal" affect us all.
CEO Shawn Conway shares what makes this coffee company so unique as a people company.
Grokker founder created a successful business helping corporations that ‘just needed to justify being human.’
And CEO Tony Capuano is ensuring the legacy lives on!