SDG Pioneer award recognizes Baraka’s innovation and leadership in aligning the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal impacts with pragmatic business value and competitive advantage. 

#Measure | #Manage | #Report: Management fundamentals that are nearly universally accepted and applied by successful businesses and organizations worldwide. Except in #CSR #Sustainability and #SDGs… continue reading »

#Truth is King in #CSR communications. When attacked, becoming defensive usually loses. Look deep and hard for their truth.  Be thorough. Be humble. When it… continue reading »

#CSR Communications: It’s not all about you – not if you want to engage and be effective. Your company isn’t perfect, it didn’t accomplish great… continue reading »

#CSR, #Sustainability and #SDG communications are useless unless they are interesting.   So, tell stories and be engaging, or save your time and money and stay… continue reading »

I recently did a short interview on What makes a CSR Strategy strong and thought the transcript below might be interesting.   It has a… continue reading »

How much water does a strawberry cost? Do you care?  Should you care?  Maybe it is kind of important to think about how much water,… continue reading »

Dirty, ugly mining has lessons for Hi Tech! And Hi Tech should pay attention or it could feel the pain that mining felt when it… continue reading »

Stakeholder Engagement Series  Many of you have asked that I pull together some of my recent publications that deal with stakeholder engagement into a set. … continue reading »

Let’s be honest:  Internal CSR Communications Suck CSR Mumbley Gook communications need to stop. Until us CSR Professionals get better at internal communications and engagement we… continue reading »

Is this your CSR?   CSR and Sustainability are continually getting more complex and more costly but often without a corresponding increase in value for shareholders… continue reading »

The private sector is playing an increasingly important role in development.  Companies from all sectors, including especially the extractive and fast moving consumer goods sectors,… continue reading »