The last decade I have been working in consumer finance for a large corporation. The skills and experience that I have learned while developing products, designing marketing, leading large teams and business units, has been invaluable. All the time though, I have known that I have not been making the world a better place.
With that recurring thread lingering in the back of my mind, I was awoken to a possibility in early 2009 of combining the skills that I have learned with doing good. Kicked started with courses I was taking at London Business School & Columbia Business School with my executive MBA, I started discovering the world of social business, and I was ecstatic. Since then, I have been devoting more and more of my time to getting involved; whether it be with pro-bono consulting, attending conferences or driving internal change in my own organization.
In my mind, the future is one where all businesses are solving social and environmental problems and by the end of the century it will no longer be a choice, all businesses will need to adhere to the triple bottom line.
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Stephen J King 