Business, goodwill, and making space for wholeness Join this insightful conversation about how businesses can make space for belonging, agency, and spiritual connection.
How can values such as kindness and love be seen as financial assets? What's the role of culture, faith, and identity in building workplaces that enable vulnerability and authenticity? How are companies building pluralistic and efficient systems that value the employee as a full person?
James Rhee is an acclaimed impact investor, founder, CEO, and educator. He marries the principles of finance and behavioral science with the creative process, unleashing brand narratives and organizational systems that have agile and structural integrity. As Chairman & CEO at Ashley Stewart, he proved the power of multi-stakeholder capitalism and multi-dimensional change, mobilized diverse ecosystems that transcended divisions, and reimagined the role of work in society. He teaches at Howard University and MIT, and is part of Ashoka's Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur Network.
[His book, red helicopter: a parable for our times, will be published in 2024.]
Brian Grim is the founder of Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, and global chairman of Dare to Overcome, a corporate diversity initiative that promotes mutual respect and engagement among differing groups in the workplace. He is an expert at generating clear, rigorous, and comprehensive data about the international religious landscape and its socio-economic impact. Among other things, he has worked closely with the “Business for Peace” platform of the United Nations Global Compact, has been chair and speaker for the World Economic Forum on matters of faith, and director at Pew Research Center.
ALIVE! is a conversation series powered by Ashoka and hosted by Giselle Kuri to hear in real-time from leaders and changemakers about their experiences in creating important social change in alignment with their spirituality or faith belief systems.
