October Chat 2022:

00:12:49 Corey Clark (Honeycomb Strategies): Corey Clark with Honeycomb Strategies on the phone
00:12:51 Lindsay LaShell (she/her): Hi friends! Driving, no reading/name update! Sooty!
00:13:17 Jennifer Norman | The Human Beauty Movement | B Corp since 2019: Be Careful Lindsay! 😄
00:14:21 Jennifer Norman | The Human Beauty Movement | B Corp since 2019: Us 2019s are here because recert is coming up!
00:18:12 Emma | Legacy Vacation Resorts | 2019: 2008, one of the originals!
00:18:32 Nathan Stuck/Profitable Purpose (he/him): We’re working hard to add some more Bama B’s!
00:18:52 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: Yes, Nathan, we are!!
00:19:30 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: Thank you and good luck with getting more B’s, Laura and Nathan!
00:21:00 Lara Pearson, Brand Geek, 2008: @Emma ❤️
00:21:35 Lara Pearson, Brand Geek, 2008: @Rose takes the cake — she’s a true Founding B.
00:22:09 Emma | Legacy Vacation Resorts | 2019: Congrats to all the newBs!!
00:22:28 Lara Pearson, Brand Geek, 2008: @Barry looks like he is raising his hand to introduce himself
00:22:48 Aimee| Metis (2017): Thank you to the incomparable Carolina Miranda for sharing her expertise!
00:22:55 Barry A. Martin | Hypenotic | 2011: NP Thanks, @Lara 🙂
00:23:51 Carolina, Cultivating Capital, 2012, (she/her): Thanks, Aimee! 🙂
00:24:40 Lara Pearson, Brand Geek, 2008: @Carolina has so much power! And we are so lucky to have her as a community leader!
00:25:01 Adrian, c|change 2020 (he/him): +1 Lara
00:26:16 Kamala Lovie: Yay for dogs and pets in general!
00:26:26 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Yay for Geminis!
00:27:14 Michelle | HigherRing 2018: Plus she guides and shepherds us all in the WeTheChange community!
00:29:31 Kamala Lovie: to Rose, Christopher and Carolina- we can add a FAQ too from questions posted to the chat if Carolina can’t answer them all in chat. (sorry did everyone because I didn’t know if we could do multiple)
00:29:43 Kamala Lovie: And I meant to the website blog area
00:31:47 Emma | Legacy Vacation Resorts | 2019: Love the idea of a pre-B Hive
00:32:20 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: Sounds like a great idea since there’s a lot of businesses waiting for certification!
00:32:38 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: Appreciate Carolina for reading all of the 90 pages!
00:38:52 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: I am all for minimum standards in critical areas, not just getting the 80 points. What do you all think?
00:39:39 Christina (DialogueDirect, 2019): Wish I could stay longer! Wanted to jump in and will watch the recording. Thank you all for organizing and sharing such important information.
00:40:10 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: You’re most welcome @Christina!
00:41:04 Kiran | SureCall | 2018 (Her/She): I may be early in asking this question but Do these topics align with the SDG questions within the b assessment portal?
00:41:21 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: Rose, I’m most concerned about how these will be measured and how the work we have already done will map to these new requirements.
00:41:23 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: Q: How much weight is B Lab giving to the feedback from B Corps?
00:41:35 Michelle | HigherRing 2018: Excited about this change as the B credential becomes more popular.
00:42:34 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: And I would have had some of the “other impact” items like benefits be part of the key measures of compensation
00:42:40 Robin@Courtney 2022: Most popular question at any Zoom meeting… will we have access to the deck after the meeting?
00:42:57 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: Yes, very valid point @Laura. So important for us to really understand the proposed standards and give our feedback to B Lab. I want to make sure our feedback is reflected in the standards, not just heard.
00:43:08 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: Agreed, Rose!
00:43:55 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: @Robin, we will provide resources at the end. We will ask @Carolina about her slides.
00:44:11 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: @Everyone, keep your questions coming. I’m capturing them and will ask them during the Q&A.
00:44:58 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: We have put in a ton of additional practices in the 6 years we’ve been certified (and are waiting on our recertification review right now), and wonder if the additional “points” we’ve been working toward will be as meaningful
00:45:07 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: I think it would be great for transparency that B Lab share the feedback they get from B Corps so we can see how they’re incorporating our feedback into the new standards.
00:46:05 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: As a services company, what would a “climate transition plan” look like?
00:46:21 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: What would count as a “track record of climate action”?
00:46:47 Aimee| Metis (2017): Supply chain tracking and transparency, especially around GHGs, will be huge in the coming years if the new SEC proposed rules go through, and in relationship to CMAB tariffs in the EU.
00:47:08 Kamala Lovie: What if you’re a consultant without a “storefront” physical office?
00:47:29 Barry A. Martin | Hypenotic | 2011: As ever, wondering whether there may be differences for service businesses vs. product businesses.
00:47:47 Kiran | SureCall | 2018 (Her/She): If we as a company are also a participant in the UNCG, could those reports be utilized to assist in getting the baseline confirmed?
00:47:47 Michelle | HigherRing 2018: whoo hoo! lobbying is a big one!
00:48:09 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: What would be included as collective action? In a very “red” state, we are pretty careful about how we take public stances.
00:48:27 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: That’s a great point on lobbying!
00:48:30 Emma | Legacy Vacation Resorts | 2019: I’d be curious to see what Scopes of GHG emissions are required to be tracked. @Kamala that would apply to a non-physical company that wouldn’t have many Scope 1 or 2 emissions
00:48:56 Aimee| Metis (2017): Would be good to provide documentation if companies employ or contract registered lobbyists. Will be curious how B Lab will define “lobbying.”
00:49:59 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: What will qualify as a “material” positive impact?
00:51:08 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: Great point on those hiring lobbyists, Aimee. I think they want to differentiate B Corps from the Business Roundtable.
00:52:04 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: It feels like pay equity is easy to calculate at under 10 employees and gets harder and more labor-intensive as you get bigger…
00:52:31 Emma | Legacy Vacation Resorts | 2019: Does B Lab have definitions of things like “public disclosure”, as in where this needs to be available to count?
00:52:33 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: In terms of fair wages, how about those B Corps that block unionization and terminate employees who try to start unions as a collective bargaining tool.
00:53:05 Greg, Light Trail, 2015: 90 page pdf can be seen here: https://bcorp.imagerelay.com/share/d9c13d2a39334674afef8729a8ebdce5
00:53:38 Aimee| Metis (2017): I may have missed it–what is the projected implementation date?
00:53:45 Greg, Light Trail, 2015: 2024
00:53:56 Aimee| Metis (2017): Thanks!
00:54:11 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Update on performance requirements: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/standards/performance-requirements
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00:55:23 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: I hope the BIA and IBMs continue to be used as well have built infrastructure/reports/policies around the existing questions.
00:55:31 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Call for feedback: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/news/blog/share-your-feedback-draft-new-standards-b-corp-certification
00:56:09 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Feedback survey: https://bcorp.imagerelay.com/share/2514940607864577a872a76f56820a59
00:57:45 Greg, Light Trail, 2015: Think also IBM’s will help you justify some of the answers to the new performance requirements, so existing measures, systems etc. should not be redundant and will help with the justification
00:57:48 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: Will there still be a score to help recognize progress and opportunity to improve?
00:58:05 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Update on performance requirements: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/standards/performance-requirements
00:58:19 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Update on performance requirements: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/standards/performance-requirements
00:58:33 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Webinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UCwDNDdnQJyIPVCmFPrj5A
00:58:44 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Call for feedback: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/news/blog/share-your-feedback-draft-new-standards-b-corp-certification
00:58:55 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: Feedback survey: https://bcorp.imagerelay.com/share/2514940607864577a872a76f56820a59
00:59:13 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: B Impact Collective: https://www.cultivatingcapital.com/b-impact-collective/
00:59:29 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: Thank you so much, Carolina!~
01:03:31 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: I have to hop off. Thank you to all who joined us today. Please join our November 10th meeting. We won’t have a speaker, but we’ll be doing facilitated networking. You can join our B2B B Hive group and also sign on for invites at www.b2bcorps.com. Thanks to Andy Schuritch who does our monthly What’s the Buzz communiques!
01:04:25 Rose, Green Retirement, 2007: It’s Barry Martin’s birthday today. Happy birthday, Barry!
01:06:31 Jenn Geek Girl Tech 2019 (she/her): Thanks so much Carolina, I have to jump for another call.
01:06:42 Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Transcend, 2016: Great questions, Adrian
01:07:20 Christopher, BRiiO Advisors: https://b2bcorps.com
01:08:05 Michelle | HigherRing 2018: Thank you Carolina! Super helpful – really appreciate your expertise!
01:08:15 Adrian, c|change 2020 (he/him): Thank you, Carolina!
01:08:27 Jennifer Lewis: Thank you Carolina!!
01:08:30 Nathan Stuck/Profitable Purpose (he/him): Thank you, Carolina!!!!! You are quite literally the best!
01:08:41 Michelle Austin (she/her) – Decade Impact: Thank you so much Carolina!
01:08:43 Emma | Legacy Vacation Resorts | 2019: Thank you so much to the organizers of this call – this was very helpful!!
01:08:54 Katie | HigherRing 2018: Happy Birthday!
01:09:07 Jenise, Kim, Nicole, Augie, Gifts for Good 2020: Thank you! Have a great day everyone!
01:09:27 Lara Pearson, Brand Geek, 2008: Thanks all! Super valuable and wonderful to see everyone.
01:09:44 Cindy Love Tysinger – Regenrus 2021: Thank you so much Carolina for all that you have done in parsing through the data and summarizing it for us. Very grateful!
01:09:57 Barry A. Martin | Hypenotic | 2011: Thanks all. Please enjoy my birthday week.
01:10:04 Anne Staines – Sagent: Yes — THANK YOU, Carolina!
01:12:34 Adrian, c|change 2020 (he/him): Have to jump. Thanks, everyone!
01:12:38 Nathan Stuck/Profitable Purpose (he/him): Covid booster time!