History Conscious Capitalism

Austin, Texas 2008: Real World Practice - "Out of this World" Class Results
Who attended in full support? Kip Tindell, CEO of The Container Store, Sir Ken Robinson: Author "The Element", Jim Stengel: Former Chief Marketing Officer with Procter & Gamble , Nikos Mourkogiannis: Author of "Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies" and co-founder of the Harvard Project on Negotiation with Roger Fisher, Patricia Aberdeen: co-author of "Mega Trends 2000", Gerry McDonough partner at MRI Culture, Terri Kelly: CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates, Tim Sanders: (formerly of "Yahoo") and author of "Love is the Killer App." and "Saving the World at Work", The Co-founders of "Blue Man Group" and many others, including i4 Advantage llc home of the Global Center for Conscious Capitalists.


Waltham, MA 2009: Challenging and Changing business schools toward Conscious Capitalism
A "Who's Who" of Business Practice and Organizational Development and Learning attended. The presenters and attendees included Harvard Business School, Darden Business School, Bentley University, Boston College, Thunderbird's International Business School, Fielding Graduate University, MIT, and many others. This is a systems project that integrated all the relevant realms to living in modernity: Money and Markets, Ethics, Sociology, Physics, Economics, Politics, Leadership, and Systems.


Gary Hamel: The Future of Management and other Business Leaders and Conscious Contributors
are enhanced. So many have been mentioned already in the above references but here are a few more who either are practitioners, researchers, or authors on the new paradigm for business, Conscious Capitalism: Peter Senge: Author of "The Fifth Discipline", Chip Conley: CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of "Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow", Sunny Vanderbeck: Managing Partner at Satori Capital, Dr. Jean Houston: Principle founder of the Human Potential Movement, and Casey Sheahan: President and Chief Executive Officer of Patagonia, Inc., and Patagonia’s parent company Lost Arrow Corporation. Want a few more names of conscious capitalists? Monty Moran: CEO, Chipotle, Tom Gardner: CEO, Motley Fool, and Andy Kassoy of B-Labs.


Authors: Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, and Jagdish N. Sheth
What company do you love? That is the question asked by these world renown authors when they began their search for companies they considered "Conscious" and "Capitalist". Over a thousand companies were named. After the companies were screened to see if they met the criteria could be a conscious capitalist company, 35 remained. Only after the final selection of companies to the authors begin the comparison of the stock market results between these companies in the companies listed by author James Collins and his great book "Good to Great". Between July 1996 and July 2006 conscious capitalist companies outperform the good to great companies and stock performance by 1000%. Right click and "view image" below.




R. Edward Freeman: Creator of the Stakeholder Model of Business (1984)
Treating each stakeholder as if each had a vested interest in the company, as if each was an owner, helps the employees and managers to act like owners. Additionally, a wider, "citizen" role, for business is promoted in Conscious Capitalism. As a "non-natural" person it may seem awkward for business to think of itself as a citizen. However, it has been shown that when businesses proactively engage the communities in which they operate in a holistic manner, sustainability, sales, and profits are enhanced.


John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market
Mr. Mackey is the founder of Whole Foods Market as well as a CEO. As perhaps the main proponent of conscious capitalism, Mr. Mackey is also the author of "Passion And Purpose", a book about conscious capitalism. He is a prolific speaker and able networker who brings together a wide range of prominent business experts to support this paradigm shift.


FLOW, Inc.: The Entreprenuerial Source
The fountainhead of Conscious Capitalism's Activities.


The Global Center for Conscious Capitalists
All Roads seem to lead to NYC. The center for Capitalism in the world targeted as a center for Conscious Capitalism in the World.