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Textile Executive Teresa Yang Embraces Sustainability, Creating Value Beyond Profit

In Creating Impact By YPO

While the textile and apparel industry is infamous for its damaging environmental impact and poor working conditions, Teresa Yang’s Esquel Group of Companies (Esquel) is leading the effort to prioritize the reduction of its environmental impact, while investing in its people and surrounding communities.

north asia, female members, member impact story, preserving the planet, Employment opportunities/growth, business with purpose, global impact awards

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Social Enterprise CEO Shiyin Cai Trains Leaders To See In Darkness

In Creating Impact By Karen Burkum

As CEO of Dialogue in the Dark (China), an international organization offering sighted people the opportunity to experience blindness, YPO Member Shiyin Cai says we sometimes need to go into complete darkness in order to see with full clarity.

north asia, female members, member impact story, business with purpose

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From Transparency to Sustainability: Building A Successful Retail Business

In Leadership By YPO

Founders of The Natori Company and Angara discuss what it takes to excel in retail today The retail business is changing. It used to be that if you wanted to buy something, you’d head to that store. Today’s retailers are facing greater challenges, and during…

expanding business, business trends, business with purpose, retail

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Business Integrity Leads to a Life of Passion and Purpose

In Leadership By YPO

Mentor and advocate for women business owners, Cordia Harrington, Founder of The Bakery Cos., becomes first female International President of Chief Executives Organization.

female members, southeast us/caribbean, leadership integrity, member impact story, business with purpose

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CEO Elyse Stoltz Dicerson practices a leadership trend that puts people first, making the well-being of consumers, investors and employees a top priority.

Why I Made it My Business to Transform People’s Well-Being

In Leadership By Elyse Stoltz Dickerson

Merging science with Conscious Capitalism, CEO Elyse Stoltz Dickerson meets the underserved in health care by putting people as her top priority.

member contributors, female members, technology innovation, western us, health and wellness, leadership integrity, healthcare, business with purpose

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CEO Fadi Ghandour Named 2019 Social Innovation Thought Leader

In Creating Impact By YPO

Named as a 2019 Social Innovation Thought Leader by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, CEO Fadi Ghandour’s innovative bussiness approach is helping to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges.

middle east/north africa, Education, Employment opportunities/growth, business with purpose

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YPO Members on INC Women Founders List 2019

5 YPO Members Make “Female Founders 100” List

In Entrepreneurship, Creating Impact By Mary Woods

Saluting 5 YPO members on Inc.’s “Female Founders 100” list who are transforming U.S. business landscape.

female members, member impact story, scaling business, business with purpose

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Christina Stembel Grows Farmgirl Flowers Into A Blossoming Success

In Creating Impact By YPO

As CEO and Founder of Farmgirlflowers, Christina Stembel disrupted the floral industry with grit, determination and a whole lotta pivots.

female members, pacific us, funding, member impact story, scaling business, business trends, business with purpose

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Geetha Murali Paves the Way for Gender Equality Through Education

In Creating Impact By YPO

Room to Read’s CEO Geetha Murali is helping to pave the way for gender equality through education. The organization supports 95,000 girls resulting in a 95% advancement rate, with nearly 80% going on to tertiary education or employment.

female members, pacific us, member impact story, Education, diversity, business with purpose

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Tech Disruptor Karn Manhas Alters the Future of Farming

In Creating Impact By YPO

For Karn Manhas, food is deeply personal. The founder of Terramera is an agtech disruptor whose goal is as simple as it is bold: replacing toxic chemicals and pesticides to produce healthful, accessible food for everyone.

canada, technology innovation, member impact story, agriculture, Hunger and Undernutrition, business with purpose

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#PayWhatYouCan Brings the Outdoors to More People

In Creating Impact By YPO

Under Canvas Founder Sarah Dusek is helping people who can’t afford a vacation to get outdoors to improve their health and well-being as part of her Pay What You Can campaign.

female members, pacific us, health and wellness, family relationships, member impact story, business with purpose

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Executive Marc Lubner Evangelizes On the Power of Business To Do Good

In Creating Impact By YPO

Through the non-profit Afrika Tikkun, YPO member Marc Lubner has helped to guide and train more than 200,000 children to young adults, ages 2 to 29.

member impact story, Poverty, Education, business with purpose

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CEO Addresses Water Poverty in Africa With Solar Innovation

In Creating Impact By Karen Burkum

Eradicating water poverty in Africa became YPO member Sunil Lalvani’s life’s calling after a ride on Ghana’s dirt roads brought him to witness a shocking, but all too common, scene.

africa, member impact story, Poverty, access to clean water and sanitation, business with purpose, global impact awards

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Snacking for a Cause with CEO Sean Kelly

In Creating Impact By YPO

Feeding America counts on partners like YPO member and SnackNation CEO Sean Kelly to help the more than 46 million people in the U.S. who struggle to put food on the table.

pacific us, health and wellness, company culture, member impact story, food, business with purpose

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Battling Food Insecurity, Eliminating Disease, Reimagining Health Care: All in a Day’s Work for Sam Prince, M.D.

In Entrepreneurship, Creating Impact By Karen Burkum

Physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist Sam Prince relies on his values to guide him in his life’s journey. Along the way, he founded and runs a popular global #restaurant chain, Zambrero, three other restaurants in his adopted #Australia and an energy drink company. All the while, Prince has worked to feed the hungry in the developing world, to eradicate a fatal skin disease prevalent in the aboriginal population and to merge medicine and technology to revolutionize the health care industry.

australia/new zealand, member impact story, healthcare, Hunger and Undernutrition, business with purpose

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