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What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new-something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible. The book features: Real stories from companies leading innovation and transformation across the globe including; Google, Colgate Europe, Seventh Generation, Nike and others A logical, comprehensive approach that factors in the complexities of the modern organization The work of internationally-recognized leadership expert Carol Sanford, who for decades has been designing and leading systemic business change.
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Carol Sanford believes that we all want to create a better world, and that business can and will play a major role in accomplishing that. "It will be more than just a responsibility program," she says. "Responsibility will be HOW everything is done, in the DNA so to speak, of the business and everyone will participate to make a real difference." Working the way she lays out in her books can, and has, changed the course of history. The books of filled with case stories, many of women, who have done just that.
To that end, Carol has been leading major consulting change efforts in both Fortune 500 and new-economy businesses for more than 35 years. Her client list includes long-term relationships with Colgate Europe and Africa and DuPont Canada, US, Asia and Europe. She also works with new-economy companies like Intel, Agilent and leaders of corporate responsibility such as Seventh Generation.Google uses her Responsible Business framework in an Innovation Lab.
Carol is CEO of Carol Sanford Institute, a consultative education company on building Regenerative Businesses that become non-displaceable in their markets, enduringly. The Carol Sanford Institute is based in the Seattle region of the Puget Sound.
She combines her economic development experience with her extensive business education and background using consultative education and learning practices.
Carol has published dozens of works in 10 languages, including a series of articles in Executive Excellence, Stephen Covey's newsletter and At Work, a Berrett-Koehler Journal. She is the author of The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success (March 2011) , Jossey-Bass, Publisher.
Central to Carol's philosophy and approach is a fresh look at what makes an organization truly responsible. "It's important to discovery your singularity, what enables you to differentiate your business from the crowd," she says, "and then thinking about how to do business so that communities, societies, and ecology as a whole are improved. These are not separate but interwoven pursuits. It's completely doable, and a conversation worth having."
She holds undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley in Economics and Public Law and graduate degree from California State University, San Jose in Urban Planning. She currently lives in Seattle.
