Mark Goyder founder director of Tomorrow's Company appeared in an online Question & Answer session with Kai Peters, Chief Executive of Ashridge Business School to coincide with the launch of the FT's new series on 'The Future of the Company' on Tuesday 11 October between 3 and 4pm UK time. Read a more from the session here.

The first force for good pioneers forum meeting took place on the 11th February at Linklaters. It marked the beginning of what we hope will be an extraordinary exploration and dissemination of what the future for business looks like.

Every New Year brings new resolutions – and solutions. What’s yours? Do you want to boost your turnover? Or do you want more innovation? More social responsibility? More sustainability?

 

Here are some resolutions and inspirational tips that will get your year off to a running start.

As a Research Volunteer at Tomorrow’s Company, I’ve had the privilege of listening in on some of the most inspiring conversations  out there about THE FUTURE . I would like to share one of those conversations here. The Force for Good New Pioneers workshop, that took place last Thursday at InterfaceFLOR, brought together a fantastic group of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) savants from some of the biggest name companies out there.  Tania Ellis talked about her new book ‘The New Pioneers: Sustainable Business Success and Through Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship’; Ramon Arratia (Sustainability Director EMEA at InterfaceFLOR) talked about Full Product Transparency - a huge step forward in Interface’s journey to zero impact - and creating a wide-reaching Force for Good learning community was also discussed.

Underlying the financial crisis is a crisis of value and of values,’ asserted Tony Manwaring, Chief Executive of the London-based ‘think-and-do-tank’ Tomorrow’s Company. He was chairing a ‘Tomorrow’s Values’ reception held in the House of Lords on 17 November, organised by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and Tomorrow’s Company.