Today we're talking to Alison Taylor, Executive Director of Ethical Systems and Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. Her work spans both academia and corporate consultancy, and we discuss business culture, critical strategies for initiating ethical changes in business, and what the solution is when a win-win for business and sustainability is hard to identify.

The most important thing is to recognise that supply chain engagement forms a key pillar of any sustainability strategy and that it will be impossible to deliver on your social value commitments without having your suppliers onboard. Here are ten things you can do now to create social value by ESG and Procurement working together.

Today we're talking to Daisy Powell-Chandler, a Director at Public First and host of the podcast for reputation professionals, Why Everybody Hates You. We talk about perceptions of social value, the competence and ethics mix, and risk.

We speak to Pheona and Micheal Matovu, Co-Founders of Radiant and Brighter, about how and why workplaces should diversify, how you know when you are 'diverse' enough, and why they remain optimistic about our ability to change.

We love the idea of Community Benefits – the ambition and legislative push to ensure that local communities reap wider rewards from the money spent by their local authority is to be applauded. However, over the past several years, it has become clear that the benefit isn’t always reaching the intended community despite the best intentions.

Today we're talking to Angela Halliday about how she became Sodexo UK&I's first-ever Director of Social Impact, their approach to measurement and evaluation, and how you tell a coherent impact story in a large, complex, multinational, sector-spanning organisation.

Meet Carol Glenn, Social Value Programme Manager at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. We talk about perceptions of social value, challenges with measurement, and what makes some suppliers stand out with their social value story.

Here are our top red flags that social value isn’t working for your business. You may want to rethink your approach if you recognise any of these.

We spoke with Berry Jordan, Business and Community Investment Advisor at Vattenfall UK about windfarm and infrastructure projects, how community engagement is changing thanks to COVID-19, and why businesses benefit when communities do.

The G7’s landmark deal to tackle tax avoidance and crack down on multinational companies that treat our global economy as a financial rabbit warren might seem a welcome step in the right direction. But it's unlikely to make much of a difference until businesses start seeing tax as an investment opportunity instead of an unwelcome bill.

You are not alone if you think your organisation is struggling to measure social impact effectively. From obsessing about numbers to ignoring intrinsic problems within an organisation, such as how staff are treated or the carbon footprint of your supply chain, there are common problems we repeatedly encounter across the public and private sectors.

Today we're talking to Scott Collins about how to make the most of relationships with your suppliers, the difference that genuine dialogue and open communication can make to your ability to build a sustainable business, and how strong supplier relationships can help mitigate the impact of business interruption.