Special Report: What is Conscious Capitalism? Author Raj Sisodia enlightens us.

The Inkandescent Radio Network is proud to have been invited to cover the Conscious Capitalism Conference 2013 in San Francisco, April 5-6.

We interviewed the leaders of the Conscious Capitalism movement, headed by chairman Raj Sisodia—a marketing professor and co-author of the 2013 book, “Conscious Capitalism,” along with Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey.

What is Conscious Capitalism, and which companies and organizations have jumped on the bandwagon? That’s exactly what we asked the man behind the movement.

In this podcast interview, Sisodia explains: read more...

Jeff Klein is the CEO of Working for Good, a conscious marketing-and-business-development company based just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.

He’s also the author of “Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living,” and its companion book, “It’s Just Good Business: The Emergence of Conscious Capitalism and the Practice of Working for Good.”

These two tomes describe the work he does as a trustee and member of the executive team of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., and the producer of the Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit, which annually brings together about 150 leaders from around the world. read more...

Roy Spence is chairman and CEO of GSD&M Idea City, a national marketing communications and advertising agency.

Under Spence’s leadership and its Purpose-Based Branding™ philosophy, the agency has helped some of the world’s most successful brands grow while using its talents to make a difference in communities around the country and the world.

Spence has been named Ad Man of the Year and Idea Man of the Century, and he has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, Esquire, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, and Fortune for his perspectives on advertising, marketing, and finding and fulfilling an organization’s purpose. A popular keynote speaker, he regularly addresses audiences throughout the business, government, and nonprofit communities. read more...

Tara Sheahan is rocking the world one soul at a time. It won’t take long, she believes, before everyone is a little more conscious.

That’s the mission of her organization, Conscious Global Leadership, which is igniting global social harmony by strengthening the character and consciousness of leaders across all fields.

“We aim to share best ‘inner’ practices and how to mentor others for heart-centered living and leadership,” explains the CEO of the group that is considered a rock star in the new economy. read more...

Laura Roberts wants to change the way the we play with the chemicals that pervade our lives. The CEO of Pantheon Enterprises, Inc., may just change the world.

“Sustain better life,” is the mantra by which this avid environmentalist and elementary school teacher lives her life as a corporate leader.

Indeed, her life was dramatically transformed when her father died unexpectedly in 1997, and she decided to take over running the family business—a small, green, industrial chemical business.

Today, the once-staunch critic of business and capitalism, Roberts has become an exemplary and outspoken Conscious Capitalist who is passionately pursuing Pantheon’s purpose of removing man-made chemicals from the environment—while creating value for all of the company’s stakeholders. read more...

Steve Leveen is the CEO of Levenger, which since 1987 has designed and sold high-end products geared toward reading, writing, and working with ideas.

Founded in Boston with his wife, Lori Granger Leveen (pictured together, at right), Levenger started doing business in Boston with its first catalog, “Tools for Serious Readers.”

Today, Levenger is headquartered in South Florida and has grown into the place to come for support in all manner of creative expression—whether it be for work or for leisure: www.levenger.com. read more...

Carrie Freeman Parsons is the vice chair for Freeman, a world-class provider of integrated services for face-to-face (F2F) marketing.

Based in the company’s Dallas headquarters, Carrie has held various positions across the enterprise that her grandfather—D.S. “Buck” Freeman—founded in 1923.

“While other young college students at the University of Iowa were discovering chemistry and calculus, Buck was discovering his passion for party decorating, while pledging for a national fraternity,” Carrie explains.

He turned this passion into a lifelong trade when he opened the New Idea Service Company. Then in 1927, Buck established the first Freeman Decorating Company office in Des Moines, Iowa. More than 80 years later, with that same sense of passion, Freeman has expanded into a world-class provider of integrated services for face-to-face (F2F) marketing. read more...

Jay Coen Gilbert is the co-founder of B-Labs, a nonprofit based outside of Philadelphia that envisions a new sector of the economy, harnessing the power of private enterprise to create public benefit. It promotes legislation allowing companies to formally incorporate as benefit corporations.

B Corps use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

“Indeed, B Corp certification is to sustainable business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee, or USDA Organic certification is to milk,” Gilbert explains, noting that New York recently became the seventh state to adopt the new corporate structure, joining California, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, Vermont, and Virginia. B Corp legislation is also pending in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. read more...

Teju Ravilochan is unreasonable.

“I want to live in a world where every human being can be the master of their own fate, unbound by the chains of poverty, oppression, or injustice,” says the CEO and co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute.

“To me entrepreneurship—coming from French for ‘to taking into one’s own hands‘—gets at that fundamental human drive to rule our destinies. And when that drive is combined to empower others to do the same, I believe no force can be more powerful.” read more...

Shayne Hughes is CEO and Lead Culture Change Partner at Learning as Leadership, a Northern California company that is committed to helping individuals and organizations bring their deepest aspirations to fruition.

“Through experience and theoretical knowledge, you possess most of what it takes to be an inspiring, collaborative, and effective leader,” Hughes explains. “And yet sometimes you can be defensive, confused, angry, and often checked out.

What’s the problem?

“This situation is caused by your ‘egosystem,’” Hughes insists. “It is constant, unconscious preoccupation with your self-worth. It has led each of us to accumulate limiting mental models, engrained dysfunctions, and knee-jerk reactions.” read more...

Michael Davis is the founder and president of US Pure Water Corporation, a mission-driven, privately owned, full-spectrum, water-treatment service company that has been at the forefront of water treatment technology since 1985.

In this podcast interview we learned:

Davis’ mission is to provide an ecological and economical alternative to bottled and tap water by providing water treatment at the point of use. USPW has saved The City and County of San Francisco over $1 million by converting their offices from bottled water to bottleless water. USPW has also helped to make bottleless water stations become the desired hydration for events by designing and providing water refill stations for the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Ecofarm Conference, and many other events including, of course, Bioneers. Davis has a California plumbing contractor’s license and has done water treatment/sustainability consultation for many government organizations, corporations, individuals, schools, universities, and businesses. Davis studied yoga with T.K.V. Desikachar in Madras (now known as Chennai) in 1976-77 and 1979-81 and taught private sessions from 1977-1989. Using his BA in Music from Immaculate Heart College, he is a performing and practicing musician. He plays South Indian Classical, Western Classical, jazz, and fusion music on both the western silver flute and the bamboo open-holed flute from South India (the Venu). He shared the stage while playing the South Indian flute with Carlos Nakai and others at the closing ceremony of Bioneers in 2012. How can you hop on the affordable-clean-water bandwagon? read more...

As the CEO of Soles4Souls.org, Buddy Teaster runs the Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you. The charity distributes these shoes to people in need, regardless of race, religion, class, or any other criteria.

Since 2005, Soles4Souls has delivered more than 19 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes. The shoes have been distributed to people in more than 125 countries, including Kenya, Nepal, Thailand, and the United States. read more...