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March 1, 2024
B Corp Assembly Reflections: Purpose, Sustainability, and Connection
Reflections from O'Terra and Smallchua on the B Corp Assembly 2024: A united front of 300+ B Corps driving sustainability and purpose.
December 18, 2023
Report #4
Executive Summary
The fourth year in business brought clarity and refinement of our services and our impact and value in the world. But we dropped the ball with our donation. One thing that's solidified is our commitment to continuing to show up honestly. It's a never ending learning and improvement journey.
Results
Did we achieve our goals? Yes, sorta and no. Weāve used a traffic light system to report on the goals we set from last year, weāre pleased to report weāre green on most things. One big one we dropped was our donation.
Clients
We remained committed to our purpose to unlock the potential of the new economy through the types of clients and work we do to help them grow. We met our targets for impact level discounting, marinated a strong value for money and client satisfaction but dropped a little on revenue.
Team
Weāve continued to put a focus on building an open and empowering culture while challenging each other to keep growing as people and doers by grasping and maximising learning opportunities. Weāve refined our values, formalised policies and procedures and put plans in place for moderate growth.
Community
We did a call to arms this year for businesses to pledge to audit their suppliers and how theyāre impacting the communities they operate in. We fell short of our goal to formalise a RAP plan and took the first step in cultural training with Evolve Communities.
Environment
Climate continues to keep us up at night. Itās why we choose to work with organisations with climate action at its sole purpose, do what we can in our operations to reduce our carbon footprint and continue to advocate and create change through ESG consulting with The Business Pickle. An area where we dropped the ball is our donation to climate this year due to our financial position.
Governance
Governance to us means operating fairly and squarely as an impact business. We will continue to challenge ourselves sharing transparently with our team, clients and anyone who is interested.
Our goals
In terms of our 2023-24 goals, we arenāt making any crazy changes to our 2022-23 goals. We missed some, could improve in others, and are happy if we achieve the rest.
December 7, 2023
Sarah's Trip to the Solomon Islands: A Reflection
During my first meeting back in Melbourne after my trip to the Solomon Islands a client in clean tech asked how my time away was. I took a beat, looked out the window and reflected. āOne of the most impactful experiences Iāve ever hadā, I replied.
November 15, 2023
3 years a B Corp, recertified
Ugh. We did it! 134.1 is our score, no improvement but that's a win.
September 25, 2023
Yay! I failed again!
How improv reminded me not to take myself too seriously, and fuelled my creativity in the process.
September 7, 2023
Refreshed website, new case studies, launching Beyond Zero Emissions website and moreā¦.
Can you believe weāre already more than halfway through the year?! We thought itās due time for a Harvey update.Ā
July 20, 2023
Sometimes new parents canāt finish their sentenā¦
No one told me how much ābaby brainā was going to affect me at work after mat leave. Hereās what I learnedā¦
July 15, 2023
Harvey drinks chocolate in the Solomon Islands
Itās a long way to the shop for a local alternative to Milo.
July 14, 2023
6 gentle ways to return from maternity leave
It was a lot easier returning to work after my second baby. This is why.
April 17, 2023
Behind the new Bank Australia website
After 18+ months, countless zoom meetings, an amazing cross-agency team, one baby and one pandemic later, we are stoked to share the new Bank Australia website!
December 19, 2022
Report #3
Goals
We want to improve our impact; optimise time spent on clients; deliver greater value and growth for clients; prepare for B Corp recertification
There were no major changes to our governance in 21/22 and weāll continue to maintain our current governance and ownership set up
Since day one, itās been important that we use Harvey as a tool for funnelling essential funds towards initiatives that help find solutions.