Featured Sessions
Several inspiring sessions will frame the opportunity for leaders to build positive businesses, catalyzing action coming off the conference.
- Better Decisions for a Better World, Joe Arvai
- Positive Business 3.0, Alison Davis-Blake
- Developing Leaders Who Make a Positive Difference in the World, Scott DeRue
- Using the Flourishing Triangle to Build a Great Place to Work, Jane Dutton
- Positive Business Blitz, Jonathan Grice + Terry Nelidov
- Positive Business Project, Allison Swimmer + Rachael Moreton
Positive Leader Briefings
Leaders will share their stories, and their strategies for inspiring people, companies and communities to create positive business today.
- The Business Value of Social Responsibility, Alex Edmans
- Connecting Communities, David Griswold
- Connecting Consumers, Hank Mercier
- Leadership and Culture: Enhancing the Triple Bottom Line, Fred Keller + Mark Miller
- Positive Change in Business Today: A Google Perspective, Jim Miller
- Purpose + Profit, Shannon Schuyler
- Connecting the Dots: Patagonia’s Journey Toward Responsibility, Vincent Stanley
- Purpose From Within: What are Today’s Employees Seeking From Companies?, Susan Hunt Stevens + Paloma Lopez + Jeana Wirtenberg; facilitated by Rebecca J. Rosen
- What Matters Most: Living and Working with Purpose, Vic Strecher
- Connecting Investors: The Missing Link Between Sustainability and Impact, Joshua-Marc Tanenbaum
Ross Faculty Workshops
Michigan Ross faculty will lead workshops showcasing academic research as it applies to positive business management across a range of disciplines.
- Good Business: How Treating Workers Well Can Boost Your Bottom Line, Achyuta Adhvaryu
- Responsible Value Chain Management, Ravi Anupindi + Sean Ansett
- More than a Mantra: Decision-Making for the Triple Bottom Line, Joe Arvai
- Control Your Own Destiny: Leadership Development through Mindful Engagement, Sue Ashford
- Creating a “Giver” Culture: Tools for Action, Wayne Baker
- Creating a Positive Organizational Culture and Implementing Positive Practices, Kim Cameron + Jandi Kelly
- Awakening Compassion at Work, Jane Dutton + Monica Worline
- How to Start a Social Enterprise, Michael Gordon
- Respecting Human Rights, David Hess
- Impact and Finance, Gautam Kaul
- Negotiate Genuinely, Shirli Kopelman
- Innovation and Growth Through Positive Business at the Base of the Pyramid, Ted London
- Turning Organizations Positive, Robert E. Quinn
- Enabling Sustainable Performance, Gretchen Spreitzer
- Positive Entrepreneurship and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Stewart Thornhill
- Leading Positive Change Without Authority, Chris White