Episode 11: Circularity talk with Qiulae Wong of B Lab Australia and New Zealand

The B Corp movement is on the rise, and has recently been formally established in Aotearoa with the appointment of the country’s first Aotearoa NZ Manager for B Lab Australia & New Zealand, Qiulae Wong. B Corp measures a company’s entire performance, from supply chains and carbon footprint to community work and employee benefits, it’s widely considered to be the “gold standard” of environmental and social certification. The process is rigorous and can take years to complete, starting off with a questionnaire tailored to the industry, location and size of your business. New Zealand now has 67 certified B Corps, which are part of a wider community of over 4,000 worldwide. Kiwi B Corps include Kiwibank, Allbirds, Fix & Fogg, Just Add Lime Ltd, Springload, Chia Sisters and Ethique. In this episode of The Redesign of Everything, we chat with Qiulae about the B Lab’s “Business for Good" programme with New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the B Corp certification process, the shift in motivations for companies towards a desire to become more resilient, what it means to have an impact business model, and how B Lab is leveraging B Consultants to have much broader impact than we could on our own - Circularity Founder Louise Nash, and Environmental Strategist Samantha Walmsley-Bartlett have recently completed training to become B Consultants. “More and more now we’re starting to see executive teams and board members recognising there are regulatory changes on the horizon, and B Corp is a solid framework that is built on 15 years of developing internationally recognised standards. It’s actually about becoming a more resilient business.” — Qiulae Wong, Aotearoa NZ Manager, B Lab Australia & New Zealand About our guest: Qiulae is the Aotearoa Manager for B Lab Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand. She has recently returned from London where she lived for 8 years. During that time she worked for the Ethical Fashion Group, a global industry body supporting more ethical and sustainable practices in the fashion industry, where she helped launch an online sustainable sourcing and information platform and grew it to over 50,000 users around the world. Support this show . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 11: Circularity talk with Qiulae Wong of B Lab Australia and New Zealand is an episode from The Redesign of Everything by Louise Nash.

This episode is 40:26 long.

This episode was published on Jul 21, 2022.

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