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| Profit with Meaning |
| A Global Online Conference Presented by IONS Wisdom Business Network |
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Profit with Meaning is produced by IONS
(Institute of Noetic Sciences) Wisdom Business Network and iCohere.
To learn more about becoming a Circle of Friends partner or sponsorship opportunities
for this conference, including virtual
display booth options, contact Roger Marsh at RMarsh55@Comcast.net
or 415-264-0225. For strategic alliances with the Wisdom Business Network, contact
Ruby Yeh at Ruby@FolksNetwork.com
or 415-264-6496 |
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| Our growing Circle of Friends! |
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| The Circle of Friends for Profit with Meaning includes organizations that help spread
the word about the conference and encourage their staff and members to participate,
and who will help put knowledge shared at the conference into action. |
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i-Sophia Multi Media, LLC
(www.womensinvestmentnetwork.com)
i-Sophia Multi Media, LLC, is a leading network of individual investors, providing
the news, information, research strategies and Winsider access you need to make
wise investment choices. i-Sophia is rapidly gaining respect as the multi-media
financial center for investors who are hungry for financial health, wealth, and
wisdom, and need an ethical source for information, market education, resources,
and access to top-notch research, analysis, world leaders and executives. The
i-Sophia philosophy centers around five principles: Ongoing Education, Monthly
Commitment, Diversified Portfolio, Ethical Business Practices, Pooled Resources. |
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Shared Vision Network
(www.SharedVisionNetwork.com)
Shared Vision Network is dedicated to inspiring and empowering our members to
grow integrity-based businesses and abundant, balanced lives. Specifically, we
support entrepreneurs and small business owners who are passionate about their
craft to create successful, results-oriented businesses. |
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JIAN
(www.jian.com)
Tools & Expertise of Successful Business Professionals at Your FingertipsJIAN
(jee'-on - the master of every art) is a contemporary American software company
applying modern techniques to the art of building businesses. We specialize in
providing expert knowledge and effective, time-saving tools that work with familiar
Windows and Macintosh word-processing and spreadsheet software. For more than
15 years, we've focused exclusively on developing content-rich software tools
to help you successfully complete important business projects-in a fraction of
the time it would take to do them from scratch. |
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Social Venture Network
(www.svn.org) Founded
in 1987 by some of the nation's most visionary leaders in socially responsible
entrepreneurship and investment, Social Venture Network (SVN) is a nonprofit network
committed to building a just and sustainable world through business. Social Venture
Network transforms the way the world does business by leveraging its' members
collective strengths of leadership, knowledge, and enterprise for a more just
and sustainable economy. |
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Net Impact
(www.net-impact.org)
Net Impact is a network of emerging business leaders committed to using the power
of business to create a better world. It is also the most progressive and influential
network of MBAs in existence today. |
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The World Business Academy
(www.worldbusiness.org)
Our world is at a critical crossroads. We have the choice to create a world governed
by fear and paranoia or to INSPIRE each other to greatness. The Global MindChange
Forum, sponsored by the World Business Academy, will give you a chance to interact
with others who are making the right choices. It will attract some of the most
innovative and influential thinkers in the world today. Come, participate and
make a difference to the future of our planet. The Forum will be held March 12-14,
2004 in Santa Barbara, California. Please visit www.globalmindchange.org
or www.worldbusiness.org
for more information. To receive a $75 Wisdom Business Network member discount,
enter code WBN075 during registration. |
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Babson College Spirituality & Business
Conference
(www.babson.edu)
Uplifting the Human Spirit: Tools for Integrating Spirituality into BusinessThe
7th Annual Symposium on Spirituality and Business at Babson College (near Boston)
will be held March 18 and 19 with a pre-symposium program on the 17th. Our featured
speakers bring practical experience in the business world to the challenges and
joys of bringing our whole selves to work. We believe our approach exemplifies
a balance between deeply held spiritual values and respect for the need for profit
in business. Whether your interest is Regenerating Spirit, Holistic Law, Corporate
Shaman, Spirit of an Oilman, Medicine, Work Sabbath, Retail, Arts or Banking,
you will find some tools to bring home. For more information about the conference
and to register see:www3.babson.edu/Events |
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Meet-up
(www.meetup.com)
Meetup is a web site that helps people to self-organize gatherings on the same
day everywhere. Meetups take place in up to 604 cities in 45 countries at local
cafés, restaurants, bookstores, and other local establishments. Meetup
helps people get together with a group of neighbors that share a common interest.
Signup for the Wisdom Business Network Meetup now to meet local WBN members, even
if you are unable to attend the conference. |
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Fast Company Magazine
(www.fastcompany.com)
Launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former Harvard Business
Review editors, Fast Company magazine was founded on a single premise: A global
revolution was changing business, and business was changing the world. Discarding
the old rules of business, Fast Company set to chronicle how changing companies
create and compete, to highlight new business practices, and to showcase the teams
and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business. |
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The Heartland Institute
Heartland Institute, Inc. - Essential Conversations for Our Times (www.thoughtleadergathering.com)
(www.heartlandinstitute.com)
Heartland Institute was founded with the belief that business and organizational
life are the conduits through which a global renaissance is occurring. We provide
leaders the opportunity to engage in essential conversation. Led by Craig Neal
& Patricia Neal, Heartland sponsored conversations take several forms, including
Thought Leader Gatherings: A Community of Practice for Leaders, with the common
denominator being the return to a quality of discourse that supports leaders in
making significant changes in themselves and their organizations. |
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Spirit in Business
(www.spiritinbusiness.org)
Spirit in Business is an international non-profit organization that aims to support
and accelerate the shift toward authentic and conscious leadership - and organizational
renewal - by providing a unique, inspiring link to business people who care. Our
mission is to connect leaders in a global community of inquiry, learning and action,
in order to release the creative power of individuals and organizations for the
benefit of the whole. |
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The Association for Spirit at Work
(www.spiritatwork.com)
ASAW provides community, information, and education for those who are integrating
work and spirituality, and for those who are called to support societal transformation
through organizational development and change. This is done through the creation
of high-quality services and products for leaders, consultants, academics and
those who see work as a spiritual path. |
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The Sustainable Business Institute
(www.sustainablebusiness.org)
The SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INSTITUTE (SBI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
dedicated to bringing about increased understanding of, and commitment to, the
concept of sustainability within business and communities worldwide.
SBI was founded in 1994 by business leaders who recognize sustainability as a
strategic driver for enhanced competitiveness and profitability. SBI continues
to serve today's most influential decision-makers, corporate executives and future
leaders with conferences, seminars, media and education initiatives and user group
programs. |
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New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network
(www.newdimensions.org)
New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network disseminates information and knowledge
relating to the human mind, body, spirit and the natural world, through the production
of audio radio programs. We explore the emerging possibilities for global transformation.
Our work is informed by an expanding awareness of the interconnectedness of all
life and the potential available through creative insights, innovative thinking,
cross-cultural traditions and the human spirit. New Dimensions is an original
and powerful forum for innovative and inspiring voices and views on a wide range
of timely and timeless topics.
Changing the world,
one broadcast at a time. Unconventional wisdom for unconventional times. |
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University of Virginia
(www.commerce.virginia.edu.)
The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia provides a distinctive
business education to undergraduate and graduate students, and executives that
emphasizes analytical abilities, leadership skills, and ethical principles needed
for success in a global business environment.
The School, located in Charlottesville, Va., has a strong national reputation.
A new institute on wisdom and integrity in commerce is under development at McIntire
(for more information, contact Professor David Mick at dmick@virginia.edu).
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Pathways to Peace - Peace Building Through
Business
(www.pathwaystopeace.org)
Pathways To Peace has been a global pioneer and leader in the field of peacebuilding
for over 20 years. Having launched PeaceBuilding Through Business (PTBP) it has
positioned itself as the pioneer business initiative incorporating practical peace
principles in the work place. The mission of PBTB is to raise awareness of the
responsibility of businesses to build communities of efficient, peaceful and conscious
employees. Through it's efforts, businesses are more able to see that adopting
Peacebuilding principles and practices will increase the bottom line and build
loyalty within companies. PBTB partners with other like-minded organizations to
develop Cultures of Peace in the business world. |
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Evolve
(www.evolve.org)
The mission of EVOLVE is to serve as a central resource hub for individuals and
communities worldwide that are choosing to embrace and apply the emerging principles,
tools and templates of cocreative self and social conscious evolution. |
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Peak Potentials
(www.peakpotentials.com)
Peak Potentials Training is one of the fastest growing business and personal success
training companies in North America. Our Mission is to educate and inspire people
to live in their Higher Self based in Courage, Purpose and Joy, versus Fear, Need
and Obligation. We specialize in "inner world principles for real world success".
Their 3-day Millionaire Mind workshop on integrating money, mind, and spirit in
your life worth $1,000, is available free for WBN members. |
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The Scherer Center
(www.scherercenter.com)
The Scherer Center is an international consortium of experienced consultants,
coaches, change facilitators and leadership development specialists committed
to unleashing the human spirit at work.™ We design and deliver people-oriented
strategies that help you achieve your organizational objectives. |
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The Women's Alliance
(www.womenwisdomleaders.org)
Women Wisdom Leaders around the world are characterized by a way of leading that
is grounded in an integrated masculine and feminine wisdom. This leadership is
ethical, and inspired, it is full of heart and compassion, and it addresses the
big challenges facing the world today while producing significant results for
the bottom line.
The Alliance for Women Wisdom Leaders is an international community where both
men and women are inspired and supported in integrating wisdom into every aspect
of their leadership. |
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The Foundation for Global Community
(www.globalcommunity.org)
FGC is working to build a world that functions for the benefit of all life. Recognizing
that natural, social, and economic systems are all interconnected, the Foundation
supports a variety of community-based and international projects designed to encourage
an expanded, holistic worldview. The Foundation's Business and Sustainability
Group (BSG) focuses on educating local companies about the principles of sustainable
development and promoting a broader measurement of business success, namely the
"Triple Bottom Line." BSG sponsors a variety of programs for Bay Area
businesses, such as a Stanford Breakfast Speaker Series, Sustainability Seminars,
and Sustainability Tours. Past speakers have included: Paul Ray, William McDonough,
L. Hunter Lovins, George Zimmer, Janine Benyus, and Joan Bavaria. Our next breakfast
speaker, on Feb. 24th, will be Jeffrey Hollender, CEO of Seventh Generation. For
more information, please visit, www.globalcommunity.org/business/upcoming.shtml. |
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Authentic Business
(www.authenticbusiness.co.uk)
Authentic Business from the U.K. is about business which makes a profit from the
pursuit of a profound and positive purpose. Authentic Business is a newsletter
for a new way of doing business designed to change the way that business is done
- so that less damage is done to ourselves and our cohabitants on this planet.
To sign up to the solution to the tension of our times visit and allow yourself
to be inspired to read the articles, inspired to contact the authors and inspired
to write your own inspiring articles. |
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Green Money Journal
(www.greenmoneyjournal.com)
The Green Money Journal encourages and promotes the awareness of socially &
environmentally responsible business, investing and consumer resources in publications
& online. Our goal is to educate and empower individuals and businesses to
make informed financial decisions through aligning their personal, corporate and
financial principles. |
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The Institute for Women's Leadership
(www.womensleadership.com)
The Institute for Women’s Leadership provides leadership training, coaching
and consulting to women and men seeking to effect breakthrough change within their
organizations. Our work empowers people to produce unprecedented results quickly.
Our purpose in focusing primarily on women’s leadership development is based
on our belief that increasing the number and quality of women leaders exponentially
improves an organization’s ability to innovate, collaborate and improve
performance. |
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Sustainable Business.com
(www.sustainablebusiness.com)
SustainableBusiness.com is the online community for green business. Now in our
7th year, we connect people with environmentally conscious employers in Green
Dream Jobs; we help people invest in sustainable companies through our monthly
newsletter, Progressive Investor, and help green businesses find partners and
investors. We also post the top daily sustainable business and investor news,
stocks, events, and our online magazine, Sustainable Business Insider. Join us!
www.sustainablebusiness.com.
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iCohere
(www.icohere.com)
iCohere provides software and services for building collaborative online communities
– for workgroups and organizational collaboration, online learning, and knowledge
management. iCohere also produces extended online (virtual) conferences. Founded
by a former Dean at John F. Kennedy University and the former manager of Hewlett-Packard‘s
internal strategy and organizational development consulting group, iCohere‘s
software and approach address the success factors involved in engaging groups
of people in productive online communication and collaboration. Clients range
from small to large organizations and include educational institutions, non-profits,
and corporations. |
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| "Being a sponsor gave us exposure and contacts
beyond what we imagined possible - all without the expense and time related to
pulling together a display booth at a traditional conference." |
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Phil Smith, CEO
REPLAY Rich Media |
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