Tackling inequality: Driving progress through targeted business action
Executive Action Briefs for corporate leaders who seek to translate social progress into business outcomes.
Executive Action Briefs
These four-page Executive Action Briefs focus on key areas of the BCTI Tackling Inequality Agenda, presenting a compelling case for their integration into corporate strategies and business plans.
Designed to inspire chief executives, board members, and senior business leaders across sectors and geographies, they provide guidance on leading change in these areas within organizations, their value chains and at the system level.
A word from our co-chairs
Peter Bakker President & Chief Executive Officer, World Business Council Sustainable DevelopmentThe BCTI’s flagship report is a call to action to business leaders. It provides a clear and compelling case for business action to tackle inequality, as well as a comprehensive, credible and impactful action agenda that business leaders can leverage to help build a world of opportunity for all.
Ilham Kadri Chief Executive Officer, SyensqoToday we are seeing the consequences of inequality unfold around the world. But inequality is not a fact of nature; it is a product of our systems and practices, which we can change.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Council for Inclusive CapitalismAddressing inequality is not only a moral obligation but a business imperative to ensure long-term economic growth. Crucial to that growth is a just global transition to net zero that will help address growing inequality by putting people at the center of the transition.
Sunny Verghese Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer, Olam AgriBusiness has a powerful role to play in reducing inequality and making it possible for all people to live the kinds of lives they aspire to. Olam has seen this through our efforts to improve incomes and living standards in smallholder farming communities. Collaboration across industry, with government and other stakeholders is vital to delivering more opportunities to more people.
Jonas Prising Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ManpowerGroupWe know that current trends are exacerbating the divide between knowledge workers, skilled and unskilled workers. Unless we act now, we will see a further bifurcation of opportunity and wealth creation by gender, race, education, skill set, and now remote versus onsite workers, which is not good for business or society.
Sanjiv Puri Chairman & Managing Director, ITC LimitedBusinesses can play a transformative role in tackling inequality by fashioning innovative business models that support sustainable livelihoods. At ITC, our experience on the ground has underlined how imperative it is to develop inclusive value chains, strengthen climate resilience and build capabilities for tomorrow, especially for farmers and rural communities.
