EO encourages its members to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Pajani Singah’s work in helping indigenous Amazonian rainforest communities save land from deforestation through private capital investment was recognized by the World Economic Forum in November 2021. Here’s the story behind Singah’s inspiring work.
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EO Impact Day: ‘Reimagine Success’ for your business and the planet
Today’s entrepreneurs agree that we must reimagine “business as usual” to avoid catastrophic changes to our planet.
How Gender Equality Improves Business
3 Ways Female Leaders Can Successfully Manage Multigenerational Teams
Written by Lu Zhang, the founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund and a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Upper management has a gender problem. According to 2018 data from Pew Research Center, only 4.8… Read more »
EO Member Recognized for Her Work as Immigrant Entrepreneur
EO Ottawa member Huiping Zhang is the president and founder of Wintranslation, a translation company formed in 1998. Huiping launched the company as a one-woman operation and has grown it into an award-winning organization that provides… Read more »
How to Foster an LGBTQ-Friendly Workplace—On Paper and In Practice
Written for EO by Warren Fowler, a writer at Resumes Planet. The past several years have inspired great social changes across countries and business sectors. In many ways, we’re more liberated than ever before, but we can’t… Read more »
A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds
A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the… Read more »
Give to Grow: Ad Age’s 2017 Best Places to Work List Features EO Member–Owned InfoTrust
Alex Yastrebenetsky is the founder and CEO of InfoTrust, a digital analytics consulting and technology company helping marketers use data to make smarter decisions. He is also an EO Cincinnati member. InfoTrust has enjoyed a successful… Read more »
A Philanthropist’s Diary: Giving Back to Get Ahead
By Nirvana Chaudhary, an EO Nepal member and head of Chaudhary Foundation It was noon on an ordinary Saturday when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the land of snow peaks and Sherpas, yaks and yetis, monasteries… Read more »
Confessions of a Superhero (The Only One Who Always Does Everything Right)
By Maureen “Moe” McBride Russakoff I’ve always had problems with responsibility. I’m not irresponsible, mine is the opposite problem; I’m hyper-responsible. Hyper-responsible people take 200% responsibility. This approach to life and the world around me… Read more »