The NTM Growth Marketing Podcast

How amazing is it that we can illuminate a room with a flick of a light switch? Now, imagine that we could create a better world by changing the way we create and use light in a more sustainable way. This is what we get to talk about today with Nicola Kimm, Head of Sustainability, Environment, Health, and Safety for Signify. Formerly known as Philips Lighting, Signify has pioneered many key breakthroughs in sustainable lighting or the past 125 years. Nicola shares how they have been a driving force behind several leading technological innovations, including LED. Join us, as we discuss how their products, systems and services help people all around the world to maximize energy use, drive efficiencies and deliver new experiences and services. - - - - - For more information on Signify, visit: www.signify.com

As a nonprofit, Effie Worldwide helps businesses grow and connect with their audience to improve how their messages are received. Global CEO and President, Traci Alford, share how they work with some of the top research and media organizations worldwide to bring each of their respective audiences relevant and first-class insights into effective marketing strategies. Traci also shares examples of how her organization empowers college students to enhance learning in the marketing industry with the Effie Effectiveness Index and Effie awards. What might that look like? With Effie, it means identifying and ranking the marketing communications industry's most effective agencies, advertisers, and brands by analyzing finalist and winner data from Effie Worldwide competitions. Stay tuned to learn more about some of the strategy, ideas, and results of Effie Worldwide's work. - - - - - For more information about Effie Worldwide, visit: www.effie.org

Imagine that you had 200 chances to make a greener choice, every single day. How? With each product that you use, you get a chance to decide what you put on your body, your family's body, and how the environment is impacted. In the Social Nature community, this is the kind of conversation that Annalea Krebs - Founder and CEO of Social Nature - leads to inspire people try greener choices like organic deodorants, vegan mascara, healthy snacks and eco-friendly cleaners for FREE. Listen in to learn how Social Nature leverages the power of word-of-mouth and social media to influence millions of people to make greener choices and achieve their mission of making green mainstream! - - - - - For more information on Social Nature, visit: https://www.socialnature.com

In this episode, we had a chance to learn about how Mission Edge makes business processes easier for nonprofits and corporations with the vision to maximize social impact. It was inspiring to catch up with CEO and Founder, Ken Davenport, about how Mission Edge has supported over 175 businesses by providing operational services and fiscal sponsorships, social enterprise planning and acceleration labs, and skills-based volunteers that create more opportunities for each organization to do more good in the world. Tune into The School For Humanity via iTunes, as Ken shares how these collaborations harness new perspectives and magnify the social sector's ability to reach more people and create a positive impact. - - - - - For more information on Mission Edge, visit: www.missionedge.org

Similar to the vision for The School For Humanity, the "triple bottom line" of sustainability as a foundation for Triple Pundit strive to be an example of how business can be used to make the world a better place. Founder and CEO, Nick Aster shares more about the 3P philosophy of creating one of the web's leading sources of news and ideas to further the conversation about People, Planet and Profit. With over 6 million unique annual page views, they cover topics ranging from global water and energy challenges to social justice and economic equality, sustainable food to corporate social responsibility, and much more! Get a taste of these kind of conversations with Nick Aster, here on episode #42 of The School For Humanity. - - - - - For more information on Triple Pundit, visit: www.triplepundit.com

What started out as finding a way to brew their own beer in college, turned into a delicious adventure of creating their own nutritious and healthy granola bars. Yes, that's right! Bars packed with protein, prebiotic fiber, and micronutrients from leftover grain. Founders of Regrained, Dan and Jordan, refer to this shift as "Edible Upcycling." In this episode Dan shares more about this mindset to food and how Edible Upcyclers look at what is left behind when making their favorite foods and see opportunity. - - - - - For more information on Regrained, visit: https://www.regrained.com/

When it comes to doing business for good, BEST knew that this included creating preventative measures to end human trafficking. Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking has created both local and global partnerships with the vision that every person has the right to be free from sexual exploitation and forced labor. In this episode, we dive into the BEST Principles that businesses around the world are adopting in addition to how they are training people to identify and prevent trafficking in lodging establishments with Dr. Mar Brettman, Executive Director of Businesses. This is an important conversation that you will want to share with your fellow business owners. Tune in to learn more and thank you for being a part of the change for freedom! - - - - - For more information on BEST, visit: https://www.bestalliance.org/

Have you ever wondered how you could help the Refugee families that come to the United States? In this conversation with Miry Whitehill, the Founder and CEO of Miry's List, we discuss the three chronological pillars that they practice to support each families' first steps off the plane as they seeking a safe haven from violence and persecution in their home countries. Miry's List is a movement of neighbors and friends dedicated to welcoming new arrival refugee families into our community through inspired crowdsourcing solutions. To learn more about some of their programs like: Welcome Home, Emergency Supplies, Wishlists, and New Arrival Supper Club and Fly Me Home -- continue listening with Miry Whitehill right here on The School For Humanity! - - - - - For more information on Miry's List, visit: https://miryslist.org/

In this conversation with the Founder of 4P Foods, Tom McDougall, we discuss the importance of businesses being responsible for their impacts on the planet and the people that live here. For 4P Foods, this means that they are committed to ensuring that all people have access to farm-fresh, healthy food, grown using sustainable and humane practices and that the people who produce that food are able to earn a fair and dignified living doing so. This conscious community sources from environmentally responsible family farmers in the Washington DC foodshed in addition to donating 1 bag of food to one of their partners for every 10 bags that they deliver. Some of their partners include Fauquier Food Bank, Local Food Bank Partners, YMCA Capital View. Stay tuned to learn more about the 4 P's of food and business with Tom to get inspired in making a positive impact for Humanity! - - - - - For more information on 4P Foods, visit: http://4pfoods.com/

Based in Atlanta, USA Shelley Saxena founded the company, Sevamob with the mission is to fundamentally transform the delivery of healthcare in the world. Today, Sevamob is transforming on the ground primary healthcare service in the far-flung areas of North India through its mobile clinics, doctors at the doorstep and unmatched service. Their tele-infrastructure includes video consultations with patient data management and analytics. At their pop-up clinics, Sevamob hosts consultations, point-of-care screenings, treatment, and impact/outcome tracking using the artificial intelligence technology. Join in on the conversation to learn more about the company bringing doctors to your doorstep! - - - - - For more information on Sevamob, visit: https://www.sevamob.com/