It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our co-founder Steve Goodwin.

The Business Rountable has embraced Conscious Capitalism’s fourth tenet which recommends a “multi-stakeholder” approach to strategic decisions, and no decision is bigger than buying or selling the company. In partnership with Conscious Capitalism NYC, BrandFoundations organized it’s own roundtable of executives to explore how this might affect the future of M&A.

Do businesses have an obligation to society beyond shareholders? For decades the answer has seemingly been no. But the rise of the Conscious Capitalism movement, and the Business Roundtable’s embrace of its multi-stakeholder tenet may herald a tipping point. And BrandFoundations is doing our best to give it a nudge over the edge…

What does it look like when philanthropy and CSR aren’t just an afterthought to a businesses operations and profit centers but rather, are integral to it? In partnership with Conscious Capitalism NYC, we hosted a fireside chat with City Winery Founder and legendary benefit concert promoter Michael Dorf to find out.

At this month’s Outdoor Retail Snow Show, we saw a winter sports industry that is bravely taking on the many challenges of climate change, diversity and inclusion, even tariffs and technology. While the efforts we witnessed were widespread and well-intentioned, it seems to us the industry would benefit from Conscious Capitalism as a framework to better organize and align its approach to these and other challenges ahead.