On March 22 the United Nations will hold a Water Conference, the first major UN meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene – often grouped together under the acronym WASH – in nearly 50 years. The meeting will highlight the progress – or lack thereof – toward reaching...
Women entrepreneurs should be able to thrive. Yet they are bound by outdated expectations. The views that a woman should be the primary childcare giver and the man should be the breadwinner are so ingrained they remain consistently unchallenged. New research from...
The circular economy is not a new idea. In 1987, the United Nations published the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, which called attention to the global issue of diminishing natural resources and introduced the concept...
“Capitalism cannot function in a world that lives beyond its environmental means and creates massive inequalities.” Matthew Forti, Managing Director at One Acre Fund and a Strategic Advisory Board member at Lebec Consulting, shared this statement with me last week as...
Women of color start businesses at a faster rate than anyone yet remain underserved by lenders. That’s both an equity problem and a missed opportunity for banks. It’s also an entirely fixable situation—after listening to these entrepreneurs’ experiences, it’s clear...
Stop whatever you’re doing and think on this: What would you do if you learned you might have only a few years to live? It’s not a fun question, but I’ve found myself pondering it more than once. Turns out, the answer for me was to donate most of my savings and try to...
