Business as a Force for Good with Gillian Pereira

What would the business world look like 100 or 200 years from now if everyone who got into business found their purpose in life? It’s a great philosophical question that Gillian Pereira explores in this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast.

 

Join Shahid and Gillian in this delightful conversation.

 

Who Is Gillian Periera?

Gillian Pereira is the co-founder of The Business Pickle, which helps businesses become a force for good by offering advisory services such as workshops and creating a roadmap for change. Gillian is passionate about helping business leaders balance profit with purpose.

 

How Is Gillian Pereira Super?

Being open to the world as it is and people as they are is Gillian’s superpower that got her to where she is: helping businesses improve their impact on the world.

 

Shahid Durrani’s Key Insight:

 

During this episode, Shahid talks about the importance of finding meaning in your work . Nothing is more motivating than doing a job that means something positive to you. Finding your purpose is similar to finding your innermost superpower that we always talk about in the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast.

 

 

Chapter Stamps:

 

00:00 Introductions: Business as a force for good

00:44 Doing business with heart

02:30 Gillian’s backstory

04:23 Pickle and Helping businesses creating sustainability plans

06:42 How to improve how you do business

08:30 Progress over perfection

08:50 Industries that could do better and the early majority

10:44 A lot of changes happened in business since covid

13:30 How did Gillian become interested in this

15:15 Gillian Pereira’s Innermost Superpower: being open to the world as it is

16:13 How the work we do today will impact the world 100 years from now

19:13 Final words

 

 

 

Pullout Quotes:

“that it's super important, you know, when we do business with the heart or we do business with goodness. It actually amplifies our qualities as a human being, as an individual, and then it kind of trickles down into everything that the business does. So even good can kind of... expand like a virus.”

 

“70% of these leaders agreed that they had a responsibility to create positive impact (...) but at the same time only 40% of those people felt personally responsible. So I think people are waking up to the idea that businesses can be doing good, but there's a gap there that we've found of the kind of the personal ownership to create positive change.”

 

“Don't feel overwhelmed, just try something today that you weren't doing yesterday and build from there.”

 

“Since COVID, there is a change in the thinking and how people look at business, how people look at each other actually.”

 

 

 

 

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