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Becoming a B Corp

Come learn about the movement of entrepreneurs who create local prosperity, strong community and a healthy environment – as they make money.

Learn about the certification they prefer: Certified Beneficial corporation (B Corp).

There are now 2200 B Corp companies in 50 countries. Ontario and Canada are leaders.

Craig Ryan from BDC – the only bank in Canada dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs and Canada’s only certified B Corp bank – will explain:
• how these entrepreneurs differ from others;
• why they like the B Corp certification, and; 
• how they’re building a global movement to redefine business success: not just best in the world, but best for the world!

About Craig:

Craig Ryan is Director of Social Entrepreneurship. He leads the BDC team that helps grow the movement of certified Beneficial corporations (B Corps) across Canada. He is also responsible for finding innovative ways to help BDC support entrepreneurs in underserved parts of the population. 

Craig has more than twenty years in the public, private and civil society sectors. He's worked in developing countries on poverty reduction and health care, as a senior policy advisor to federal ministers responsible for the environment and foreign aid, and as a corporate responsibility advisor to large firms in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors. 

He is a guest lecturer at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management.