Relationships
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In 2018, Bob Fish, Co-CEO of BIGGBY COFFEE realized that his company’s success had been built on a purchasing model that paid no attention whatsoever to the relationships with the people who spend their lives growing coffee. As Bob looked “behind the coffee curtain,” he saw a purchasing model that is contributing to climate change, extreme poverty, and mass migration – and almost all coffee companies are complicit in it. Where other big coffee companies meet this realization (if they’ve had it) with a shrug and some greenwashing, Bob, and his wife Michelle, decided to solve the problem – by building healthy relationships.
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Growing Good Business is a podcast showcasing forward-thinking business leaders who are re-creating the business paradigm to honor humanity and our planet’s life support systems. In each episode, we interview a business trailblazer to uncover how they went beyond philanthropy and traditional notions of corporate social responsibility to fundamentally re-examine their corporate practices, aligning them with the principles of social and environmental sustainability. Counterintuitively, these leaders financially outperform their peers and show us how we can succeed in business by cultivating a world that works for everyone. Hosted by Nathan Havey and Abby Schneider and recorded before a live audience, Growing Good Business is a collaboration between the Institute for Corporate Transformation and Regis University’s Sustainable Economic and Enterprise Development (SEED) Institute. Learn more and register to attend live recordings at: https://www.regis.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/anderson/seed-institute/growing-good-business
Our world is connected through vast networks of producers, suppliers, buyers, and retailers—that’s the global supply chain. But not everyone benefits equally from the profit paid by the end consumer. Enter One BIGG Island in Space. In this episode, Bob and Michelle Fish explain how they are revolutionizing the coffee supply chain so that you can feel good about every sip you take from one of their stores.
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