B Corp Europe Summer Summit - Wednesday morning

Leen Zevenbergen welcomes us to this Summit and then Nathan Gilbert offers a setting the scene keynote.

We then heard three B Corp Stories of Interdependence from Claudia Pedra of Stone Soup Consulting (interdependence with competitors), Luigi Grosso of Euro Brand Management (from losing everything to finding a fellow B Corp with whom to transform multi million businesses) and Lonneke Creemers of Dopper (raising new awarenesses).

Marilou van Golstein 
Brouwers of Triodos Investments then offered us an inspirational keynote on Interdependence; 
from awareness to action.

Which was followed by a table sharing conversation and then the presentation of the five parallel breakout sessions offered by:

1. MIHELA 
HLADIN WOLFE - Patagonia
BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD:
DEEPENING OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF OUR ROLE AS B CORPS

2. VIRGINIE LUCAS
Aurélia COCHETEUX
BENJAMIN ENAULT - Pixelis & Utopies
COMMUNICATING IN AN
INTERDEPENDENT WAY OUR PURPOSE:
SUCCESS STORIES AND DREAMS

3. Jonathan Normand & Benoit Greindl of Codethic and Montagne Alternative
How to build effective values driven partnerships between B Corps to accelerate the change we want to see?

4. SASKIA VAN GENDT - Method Ecover
Best practices when creating and putting to market a new 
“B”, product / service

5. Marcello Palazzi & Lorna Davis - B Lab Global and Danone
WHAT LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
ARE BEST SUITED TO ENGAGE PEOPLE 
AROUND OUR MISSIONS?

A VIDEO LINK OF THIS MORNING?S EVENT WILL SOON APPEAR HERE.

1. #BCORPSUMMIT
Europe

2. NATHAN GILBERT
B LAB EUROPE
WELCOME & SETTING THE SCENE
#BCORPSUMMIT

3. LEEN ZEVENBERGEN
B LAB EUROPE
WELCOME
#BCORPSUMMIT

4. #BCORPSUMMIT
WELCOME

5. Rome, Italy

7. 2200 B Corps 50 Countries 130 Industries 1 Unifying Goal

8. 400 B Corps 20 Countries 1 Unifying Goal

9. B Lab’s integrated approach to systems change makes
an alternative viable and scalable.
Start
Develop market
infrastructure
Step 2
Create tools
to make it easy
for millions of other
businesses to follow
Step 3
Inspire billions of consumers,
workers, investors and others
to support businesses
who are a force for good

Step 1
Build a community
of thousands of credible
leaders -- B Corps
End
Shared & Durable
Prosperity

10. 60,000+
USERS
Banks
Supply Chain Managers
MNCs
Cities
Investors
Business Associations
Incubators
Academics
Startups

11. B Corps in the Public Market
LAUR, NASDAQ NATU3, BVMF
ETSY, NASDAQ AEF, AEX

12. "In 10 years time, people will say it’s inconceivable that
business was done any other way. The notion that a
company can only care about profit will be seen as old-
fashioned and irresponsible.”
- Lorna Davis, CEO DanoneWave

18. 5%
17%
5%
12%
12%
7%
15%
27%
Business
as a force
for good
Unlock
more good
Avoid
more bad
Lead and
stand out
Support
& tune in

19. 5%
17%
5%
12%
12%
7%
15%
27%
Business
as a force
for good
Unlock
more good
Avoid
more bad
Progressive disruptors
who spark each other to
make more needed
change happen
A community of like minded and
generous collaborators who want
to make a difference and support
each other
A community of committed
builders who value social
justice and naturally dare to
care
Impact oriented leaders and
experts who strive for business
to operate by higher standards
and forward looking ideals
Lead and
stand out
Support
& tune in

22. What
Can We
Do Together
That We Can’t Do Apart?

23. #BCORPSUMMIT
B CORP STORIES
OF INTERDEPENDENCE

24. CLAUDIA PEDRA
STONE SOUP CONSULTING
B CORP STORIES OF INTERDEPENDENCE
#BCORPSUMMIT

27. LUIGI GROSSO
EURO BRAND MANAGEMENT
B CORP STORIES OF INTERDEPENDENCE
#BCORPSUMMIT

28. GEOX 2014’

29. 8 Million Pairs Junior Shoes

29
•450 Metric tons paper

•Elimination of VOC’S
•H2O BASED Fluting
•9,000 TREES P/A
•15,028,666 LITERS WATER P/A
•169,000 LITERS OIL P/A
•2,202,000 Kwh ELECTRICITY P/A
•1,233 CMB LANDFILL SAVINGS P/A
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30. LONNEKE CREEMERS
DOPPER
B CORP STORIES OF INTERDEPENDENCE
#BCORPSUMMIT

38. #BCORPSUMMIT

39. MARILOU VAN GOLSTEIN 

BROUWERS
TRIODOS
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
KEYNOTE:

INTERDEPENDENCE; 

FROM AWARENESS TO ACTION
#BCORPSUMMIT

40. Interdependence; from awareness to action
Marilou van Golstein Brouwers, Triodos Investment Management
21 June 2017

41. “Interdependence is a fundamental
law of nature. Even tiny insects
survive by cooperating with each
other. Our own survival is so
dependent on the help of others that
a need for love lies at the very core
of our existence. This is why we
need to cultivate a genuine sense of
responsibility and a sincere concern
for the welfare of others.”
– His Holiness the Dalai lama
to cultivate a genuine sense of res

42. All living and non-living things in an
ecosystem are interconnected and
changing even one thing changes
the whole ecosystem.
“When one tugs at a single thing in
nature, he finds it attached to the
rest world.”
– John Muir, Naturalist, Sierra Club
Founder
to cultivate a genuine sense of res

43. “Interdependence is and ought to
be as much the ideal of man as
self-sufficiency. 

Man is a social being.
– Mahatma Gandhi
to cultivate a genuine sense of
res

44. “Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world;
indeed, it’s the only thing that
ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
to cultivate a genuine sense of
res

46. “Much of our food system depends on not
knowing much about it, beyond the price
disclosed by the checkout scanner;
cheapness and ignorance are mutually
reinforcing. And it is a short way from not
knowing to not caring - to the carelessness of
both producers and consumers that
characterizes our economy today”
- Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
sense of res

47. • European independent bank
• Leading in sustainable banking since 1980
• 5 countries | 650,000+ clients
• EUR 13.5 billion AuM | 1,250+ co-workers
• Core tier 1 ratio: 19.2%
• 20+ years track record in impact investing
• 6 impact areas
• 500+ direct investments across the globe
• EUR 3.3 billion AuM
• 160+ investment professionals
Triodos Bank Triodos Investment Management
Data as of 31 Dec 2016
Triodos at a glance

48. Positive
change in
society
Financial
return
Impact!
Making impact investable
By connecting investors with sustainable businesses, impact investing seeks
to generate both measurable impact and financial return.

49. Otto Scharmer
The three divides

51. Bringing Happiness
UN Sustainable Development Goals

52. 52

53. 53

54. 54

55. 55
Ubuntu
I… am what I am because of who we all are.
“It is the essence of being human – you can’t
exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks
about our interconnectedness. You can’t be
human all by yourself, and when you have
this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for
your generosity. We think of ourselves far
too frequently as just individuals, separated
from one another, whereas you are
connected and what you do affects the
whole World. When you do well, it spreads
out; it is for the whole of humanity.”
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

56. 56

57. SHARING SESSION

58. BREAKOUT SESSIONS

59. MIHELA 

HLADIN WOLFE
PATAGONIA
PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSION 1

BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD:
DEEPENING OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF OUR ROLE AS B CORPS
#BCORPSUMMIT

60. PIXELIS & UTOPIES
#BCORPSUMMIT
PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSION 2

COMMUNICATING IN AN
INTERDEPENDENT WAY OUR PURPOSE:
SUCCESS STORIES AND DREAMS
VIRGINIE LUCAS

AURÉLIA COCHETEUX
BENJAMIN ENAULT

61. JONATHAN NORMAND
BENOIT GREINDL
CODETHIC &
MONTAGNE ALTERNATIVE
#BCORPSUMMIT
PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSION 3

HOW TO BUILD EFFECTIVE VALUES DRIVEN
PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN B CORPS TO
ACCELERATE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE?

62. SASKIA VAN GENDT
METHOD ECOVER
#BCORPSUMMIT
PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSION 4
BEST PRACTICES WHEN CREATING AND
PUTTING TO MARKET A NEW 

“B”, PRODUCT / SERVICE

63. MARCELLO PALAZZI

& LORNA DAVIS
B LAB GLOBAL 

& DANONE
#BCORPSUMMIT
PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSION 5

WHAT LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
ARE BEST SUITED TO ENGAGE PEOPLE 

AROUND OUR MISSIONS?

64. CASA DE 

SANTA MARIA
CENTRO
CULTURAL
CAMARA 

MUNICIPAL
WE ARE
HERE