We are delighted to share the Executive Summary and Rapporteur’s Report from “The Humanverse™ Summit: Adapting Business to 2030.”

At our firm, every team member believes that when capital is invested in nature- and humancentric design, profit becomes an outcome of sustainable development. That's why we brought together chief executives and other leaders on Oct. 9th to launch and help us begin the cocreation of The Humanverse. We couldn’t have been more pleased with the way the Summit unfolded.

James Diebel, Sustainability Analyst for DevryBV Sustainable Strategies, highlights the benefits of deploying biomimicry in business. The inagural Biomimetics24 Summit is taking place today, Ocober 8, 2024, at the University of Minnesota. The Summit is the brainchild of Michael Wright, a successful tech executive and leading futurist in business.

It all started at a local chamber of commerce meeting. What sorts of problems are your businesses dealing with regarding waste?

During our first week working as DevryBV’s Summer Interns, we were given an unusual assignment: knock on doors at small businesses in Excelsior, the lakeside town in which our firm is headquartered, and see if they have common interests centered around waste.

Could we help our local businesses connect and work with each other to solve shared problems?

DevryBV Sustainable Strategies is delighted to announce that the firm has become a founding sponsor of Biomimetics24, the inaugural Biomimetics International Industry Strategy Symposium.

Why did we commit to sponsoring?

Simply put, our firm helps companies put nature and people at the center of their business strategy. Meanwhile, biomimicry is an innovative approach that emulates nature’s designs to solve human problems, promoting sustainability and efficiency.

The conference is truly a natural fit with our firm’s mission to help companies get grounded in what we call the Humanverse, a place where people and nature are valued and prioritized to achieve societal impact and profit.

Last December, DevryBV Sustainable Strategies crossed a critical threshold by entering into a strategic partnership with Improvability AI.

Together, our companies set an ambitious goal: to transform sustainability at the local level for businesses by using artificial intelligence to manage a company’s data.

Courts across the United States have been put in the position to reconsider how much power federal regulatory agencies should have over rulemaking following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 28 decision to overturn the decades-old “Chevron doctrine.”

Why does it matter, and what does it mean for the future of corporate sustainability?

Big tech companies failed to anticipate the negative consequences that artificial intelligence is having on their energy use and sustainability goals.

That’s unfortunate and important, but there are some specific steps they could begin taking now in order to address the problem.

After four years of contentious debate, in May the European Parliament gave its final green light to new due diligence rules that obligate firms to mitigate negative impacts of their businesses on human rights and the environment.

An overview of extended producer responsibility and the requirements for reducing single-use plastics in your business.

On the 54th occasion of celebrating Earth Day, this article acknowledges the importance of corporate leadership on sustainability. The author digs into several leadership personas that can either speed up progress on sustainability or sadly, stall change. The Humanverse requires better leadership at every level of a company.

We present our unique approach to ESG and sustainability materiality assessments. It’s about managing risks, simplified!

Read about the 12 gifts ESG offers businesses in 2024.

Today, the world is intimately connected, but more disconnected than ever before: the repercussions of technology have instigated loneliness and social cascades, people are afraid of AI taking away their jobs, technology shifts have impacted the workforce on countless levels, we’re experiencing food insecurity like never before, the list goes on. As business drives capital toward things that are not necessarily good for society and ignores problems that have been ever-present that we have yet to solve, sustainable growth becomes difficult.

Yesterday I was on an awesome panel with colleagues from JP Morgan and Kimberly Clark to discuss ESG in the context of the #NorthAmericanWay. We are all gathered here in Mexico City for the US Mexico Foundation’s Inaugural North Capital Forum. For many, the concept of ESG is mind numbing, and in my experience C-suite executives and board members can often tense up when discussing the issues surrounding ESG because it is quite involved. My goal on the panel was to simplify the ESG concepts and process for the audience.

This past weekend I picked up a copy of Fast Company’s November edition, the cover of the magazine lured me in: “Capitalism is Dead. Long Live Capitalism.” Those two statements summed up both the anxiety that I’ve been experiencing over the societal and political backlash to the capitalist model and the optimism that I feel for capitalism ultimately prevailing, but in a different, more moral and ethical, way.