092: Lorna Davis - Corporate Social Impact, Leadership Values and Vision

<p><strong>Guest Overview</strong></p><p>Born in South Africa in the age of Apartheid, her education, parental guidance, curiosity, and worldly ambitions set her on the path to a stellar career in international business and marketing and finally leading Danone to become the first billion-dollar entity to become a public benefit corporation - welcome this week’s guest Lorna Davis.&nbsp;</p><p>Lorna Davis is a transformational thinker, leader, and visionary for why and how organizations can combine social, and environmental priorities with their financial imperatives to deliver improved business performance. As a highly respected coach, international speaker Lorna also serves on a number of boards to help them embrace meaning and purpose.</p><p>In Part One of this two-parter, we cover Lorna’s early life in South Africa, her parent’s influence, how her education and her Pollyanna-ish optimistic view of the world helped carve a successful career. We discuss Lorna’s social purpose epiphany when working in China in 2006. Lorna explains how she left China changed, and ultimately returned to Danone with a mission to help them become a purpose-driven company. Lorna recounts the practical realities of Danone’s evolution to a B Corp under her leadership in the US as Chief Manifesto Catalyst.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>We also discuss how Lorna became an evangelist for the B Corp movement, the tools available for all businesses and her advisory role with organizations on their sustainability strategies.&nbsp;</p><p>I hope you’re inspired by the leadership values and vision of Lorna Davis.&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>What We Discuss&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Her parental impact&nbsp;</p><p>We discuss her upbringing in apartheid South Africa&nbsp;</p><p>Lorna’s sense of abundance the opportunity the world offered&nbsp;</p><p>Her single-sex high school&nbsp;</p><p>Her sports focus</p><p>Learning routine discipline and order working for her at school</p><p>Studying psychology and anthropology&nbsp;</p><p>Breaking into Unilever&nbsp;</p><p>Her soc