by Rodney Willett, Impact Makers, Vice President of Business Strategy B Corp Champions Retreat, October 25-27, 2011 Impact Makers is a management and technology consulting company based in Richmond, Virginia.  We are a founding B Corp member with a unique business model: we are a for profit corporation with no shareholders and we give away [...]

I had heard of B Lab and their certification a few years ago and thought it was a great idea – for businesses bigger than mine. I even started their online ‘Impact Assessment’ but petered out, thinking it wasn’t worth my time since I’d already taken so many steps to be a sustainable company. Not until [...]

When I became a Truman Scholar back in 1989, my vision of a career in public service was narrow:  I would work on policy issues in Washington, D.C., then run for office and serve my society.  When politics started to seem bitter and ugly, I kind of gave up and joined the private sector.  As [...]