42. Six Episodes, Five Books, One Book Club
No guest this week. Just Marcy, a stack of books, and a proposal. Six episodes into the Read Responsibly series, Marcy takes a solo lap: five things that have genuinely stuck from the first six author conversations, five books from the first half of 2026 that are already locked for this year’s Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Book List, and the announcement of a Veerless… Read More
41. Read Responsibly with Compliance Expert Lisa Beth Lentini Walker
We spend a lot of time on this show worrying over language — which words got hollowed out, which ones we wish we could keep. So it felt right to bring back the person who, years ago, helped me see that the whole game of getting people to do the right thing lives or dies on how you say it. Lisa Beth Lentini Walker… Read More
40. Read Responsibly with Trista Harris, FutureGood. Are We 5 years from Utopia?
What if the systems collapsing all around us aren’t the end of something — but the rare, unconstrained chance to build something far better? That’s not wishful thinking for Trista Harris. It’s a methodology. In this episode, Marcy sits down with Trista Harris, philanthropic futurist, founder of Future Good wearefuturegood.com), and author of Future Good (Amazon, Bookshop) , to talk about what it actually… Read More
39. Read Responsibly with Christopher Marquis – The Profiteers
The Read Responsibly Book Series, Episode 4 If business is supposed to serve society, why do the costs of pollution, low wages, and systemic discrimination keep landing on the rest of us? That’s the central provocation of Christopher Marquis’s latest book, The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs — and it’s a question that sits at the heart of everything Marcy has… Read More
38. Read Responsibly with Christine Bader – The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist
What happens to a corporate idealist when the company she believed in becomes the company that blew up the Gulf of Mexico? Christine Bader spent years doing innovative, genuinely groundbreaking work on human rights inside BP — and then Deepwater Horizon happened. That moment of reckoning is at the heart of her 2014 book, The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil,… Read More
37. Pride Month Read Responsibly Books and Authors Series with Ellie Roscher
What does it mean for a body to belong? That question is at the center of Ellie Roscher’s work — and it turns out, it’s also at the center of every conversation about responsible leadership, psychological safety, and what it actually costs a company when people don’t feel safe showing up as themselves. In this Pride Month episode, Marcy sits down with Ellie Roscher,… Read More
36. Read Responsibly Book Series Conversation 1: 21st Century Corporate Citizenship
What does it actually take to build a responsible company? Mot just a company with a sustainability department, but one where corporate citizenship is woven into strategy, operations, and culture? That’s the question Dave Stangis and Katherine Valvoda Smith set out to answer nearly a decade ago, and it’s the question at the heart of this conversation. Dave and Katherine join Marcy for the… Read More
35. The Launch of ESGPS – A New Set of Frameworks to Optimize Sustainability Reporting
Sustainability reporting has become a standard expectation — but too often, what gets delivered is a dense mix of KPIs, checklists, and anecdotes that lack narrative coherence or context. That’s where ESGPS steps in. Veerless positions it as more than a new report; it is a reporting positioning system that helps organizations build disclosures designed for real stakeholder use. In our newest Table Stakes… Read More
34. Combatting Moral Distress and Burnout as a Sustainability Professional
Today, we’re returning to a conversation on moral distress we started last year. Moral distress was first studied by American ethicist Andrew Jameton related to nursing teams and ethical decision making in the 1980s. Today, the Veerless team applying Jameton’s concepts to the work of sustainability and the ethical decision making professionals in our field deal with every day. In today’s podcast, Veerless Senior… Read More
33. Table Stakes Is Back: ESG in the Era of Trump 2.0
After a brief hiatus since our fall series on sustainability at the Olympics, Table Stakes is back—and not a moment too soon. In a time when ESG headlines are swirling with uncertainty, backlash, and bold political shifts, we’re here to shine a light on the real momentum powering sustainability forward. This week’s episode kicks off our new biweekly series, unpacking the key takeaways from… Read More
