Blog — Leslie Gaines-Ross

Purpose at the Board level

Should Boards place purpose on their agendas? Why and how? This article…

Board of DirectorsLeslie Gaines-RossNovember 29, 2020Corporate Boards, Corporate purpose

Layoffs and ESG hope is on the way

I was going through my email this morning and saw two articles that grabbed my attention…

ESG FactorsLeslie Gaines-RossNovember 20, 2020ESG, Layoffs, Institutional investors

Biden's First 100 Day Priorities & Core Values Explained

If you take a look at the Biden/Harris website featuring their transition plan as president-elect and VP-elect, you will see…

CEOs First 100 DaysLeslie Gaines-RossNovember 16, 2020New CEOs, First 100 Days, Biden

CEOs' First 100 Days

The first 100 days for a new CEO are anything but normal these days. McKinsey has sound advice on the CEO moment….

CEOs First 100 DaysLeslie Gaines-RossNovember 9, 2020New CEOs, First 100 Days, McKinsey

Reputational Risk is High

A recent survey from BDO found that many C-Suite business executives* believe that businesses are increasingly vulnerable to reputational risk. The findings include…

CEO Reputation, Corporate ReputationLeslie Gaines-RossNovember 5, 2020CEO reputation, BDO, Reputation risk

A for Abuse. Vote out political incivility

I was phone banking for a candidate in the county where I am living but yesterday added a new dimension to the experience …

CivilityLeslie Gaines-RossNovember 2, 2020Civility, Country reputation

Corporate Accountability Continued...

I am adding three additional reputation yardsticks to my gathering of information of corporate accountability this year as COVID-19, racial injustice and the economy impacts the workplace. They are…

Leadership Drives Reputation

RepTrak finds that leadership and workplace rise in driving reputation perceptions. They found that…

Most Powerful Women Gets Socially Conscious

Fortune’s 2020 Most Powerful Women revamped its criteria this year to add a new criteria to attach to leadership reputation…

Be careful who you call clients…

Business needs to be ever so careful about who they work with these days. A fast growing client can put a dent in your reputation…

Corporate Reputation, Crisis preparationLeslie Gaines-RossOctober 19, 2020Boohoo, PwC, due diligence, Millennials

No stopping employee activism

My inbox seems to be overwhelmed with articles on employee activism and politics in the workplace. Just today…

Employee ActivismLeslie Gaines-RossOctober 16, 2020Glossier., Gartner, CNBC, employee activism, Serena Williams, Coinbase

Wavering reputation of the Supreme Court Ahead

The reputation of the Supreme Court will be getting a jolt this week after the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. The Court needs to save the esteem it already has…

Enough Politics in the Workplace!

Here I thought that Coinbase (see prior post) was an exception when it came to no politics and no social activism in the workplace. I was wrong.

Reputation of China in Downturn due to Covid-19

A new global Pew Research Center Study was released showing increasingly negative views of China due to their COVID-19 response. The U.S. is not much better but…

Country ReputationLeslie Gaines-RossOctober 7, 2020China, Country reputation, COVID-19

How JUST is corporate America?

JUST Capital released their latest findings with the Harris Poll. It is based on the beliefs of 17,000 Americans about what makes a “just” corporation. Key findings are…

Anti-employee activism at Coinbase

The CEO of Coinbase, a digital currency exchange in San Francisco, declared in a recent post that employee activism and political discussions are discouraged. Leave those opinions at home….

Employee ActivismLeslie Gaines-RossOctober 1, 2020employee activism, Coinbase

Pharma pledge boosts reputation

Nine biopharma CEOs issued a collective safety and efficacy pledge to forestall a decline in confidence in the industry and in science. People listened…

Corporate Reputation, Industry reputationLeslie Gaines-RossSeptember 28, 2020pharma reputation, Harris Poll

Test of corporate purpose

A Test of Corporate Purpose examines whether the Business Roundtable’s 2019 heralded redefinition of the Purpose of a Corporation was carried out in practice and how companies responded to the biggest issues of the day — COVID and BLM matters.

Corporate ReputationLeslie Gaines-RossSeptember 25, 2020Reputation, Corporate purpose, Scorecards, Rankings, TCP, BRT