
Navigating the Issues with Carol Cone
The Purpose Collaborative’s Carol Cone is back to help us kick off our ninth season and along the way, face challenges like climate and AI head-on in the coming year.
Carrie Fox is the founder and CEO of Mission Partners, a woman-owned strategic communications firm and Certified B Corporation that guides high-potential nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible corporations in realizing their greatest social impact. Since launching her first firm in 2004, she has guided hundreds of organizations around the world to lead with purpose, fueling organizations and their missions forward in new and more impactful ways. She is host of the Mission Forward podcast on TruStory FM.
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The Purpose Collaborative’s Carol Cone is back to help us kick off our ninth season and along the way, face challenges like climate and AI head-on in the coming year.

Whether you’re working to address climate change or public health, DEI, or AI, communications matters. Courage, care, and civility matter, too. How you practice those three C’s will directly affect your future, too. That and more, this season on Mission Forward.

We can’t turn back time, but we can progress forward. So, if there is a person you believe you’re done learning from, I invite you to reach out to them today. Tell them that you were thinking about them. And then listen closely to whatever they have to share. You may be surprised by how much there is left to learn.

This week, Carrie Fox sits down with Dr. Jean Accius, President and CEO of Creating Healthier Communities (CHC), to discuss just what it means to build healthier and more equitable communities.

We often talk about words on this show, but rarely do we talk about words in quite the way our guests this week have built their careers talking about words. Kathy and Ross Petras are the New York Times bestselling authors and hosts of the award-winning NPR.org podcast You’re Saying It Wrong. This week, we’re clearing the air on the words that trip us up the most!

How can leaders of social impact organizations build equitable pipelines of leadership to sustain their missions? That is our central question this week as Carrie Fox sits down with Christina Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of diversity-focused talent management firm Edgility Consulting.

This week, the story of a quote. This quote is among the most well-known and widely shared of the words of a legend of peace. It’s been used by well-established thought leaders, in scholarly publications, books, and presentations, with thousands of references to this quote across social media. The problem is, the person never said it.

This week, Carrie Fox sits down with Jonathan Howard, Associate Partner at Edgility Consulting, about the importance of building equitable hiring practices to create a truly inclusive workplace.

Carrie Fox explores how we can build workplaces that work for all with her guest George Rivera, Senior Vice President of SHRM Enterprise Solutions.

How should your organization thoughtfully adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that enhance instead of displace the human workforce? Carrie sits down with SHRM’s George Rivera, a person uniquely qualified to take on these questions as we look out on the horizon toward the future of work.