S10-Ep6: How Climate Change Batters Business Bottom Lines: Prime Minister Kim Campbell Explains

Guest: Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada

Climate change is already hitting businesses’ bottom lines – and those business costs are only beginning. As guest Kim Campbell – the former Prime Minister of Canada – points out, we hit this tipping point through poor corporate leadership in the past. The question now is: what can today’s leaders do about it?

 

Kim has some stats, and a lot of ideas!

Here's what Kim and Maureen cover:

1. Why insurance companies may be the drivers of corporate climate change initiatives;
2. The pivotal role of corporations in driving positive outcomes in combating global warming; and
3. What individual leaders can do for their organizations, their communities, and the planet.

 

Produced in conjunction with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.

 

Listen to our complete collection of interviews with Kim Campbell:

• Reflections on Women in Leadership with Kim Campbell
• Hot Topics: A Prime Minister’s Perspective with Kim Campbell

 

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RESOURCES:  

The Climate Overshoot Commission Kim worked with has the report she referenced at https://www.overshootcommission.org.

 

Here are the books she mentioned:

- The Petroleum Papers, on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3Opq6M1 (print) and https://amzn.to/3SD6UNj (audiobook).

- The Heat Will Kill You First, on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3UDlEgH (print) and https://amzn.to/48SZbQV (audiobook).

 

The poem by John Keats she quoted at the end of the interview is from his larger work, Endymion. Read that full section at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44469/endymion-56d2239287ca5.

 

Kim’s memoirs as Canada’s first female prime minister, Time and Chance, are available in paperback at https://amzn.to/3Q8TxDc.

 

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Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI. Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here. 

 

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Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
• Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
• Time and Chance by Kim Campbell
• Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith

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About Our Guest:  

As Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. She served at all three levels of government in Canada. After leaving politics, she served as the Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles, then taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, after which she became an international leader of leaders with organizations such as the International Women's Forum and the Club de Madrid. Drawing on her extraordinary experience as an academic and a leader, she served as the Founding Principal of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta from 2014–2018.

Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations addressing audiences in places such as Kyiv, Dubai, Cordoba, Toronto, Berlin, Ulaanbaatar, Prague, Brussels, Paris, Vancouver, London, Beijing, Seoul, Washington, DC, and Ottawa.