Advice On The Journey

Thoughts on how to navigate going B Corp with excellence.

• How should we decide what to focus on?

  Items To Consider In deciding what questions to focus on and in what order there are three core questions to be answering: How does that question fit with the company strategy? How easy/medium/hard wi...

• Do you have resources to help with the BIA and going B Corp?

  Do you have questions about the BIA? There are three places you can go for answers to questions as you go. The BIA Knowledgebase At the bottom of the B Impact Assessment tool is a hyperlink to B Lab's...

• How should you tell the world about your B Corp ambitions?

  So, let's say you have decided to go public.  What do you say about it? Here are some tips. Spelling First, the spelling of the movement itself, which is as follows: B Corp. A lot of alternative itera...

• What does Shoremount's BIA Audit involve?

  Who is it for? Whilst open to anyone, this is typically a service used by : Companies who want someone to check their work prior to submission. Organisations who aren't applying for B Corp but need an...

• What are some things to check prior to submission?

  Here are some of the things we recommend you check and, if necessary, remedy prior to submitting. If you don't and one of the below ends up incorrectly applied (as B Lab would see it) then you are sig...

• Can you help me, because my certification seems to be taking ages?!

  Because of the delay times, we have a lot of companies asking us to chase B Lab on their certification status. Here is some information to help you understand the situation. Some Clarity On Shoremount...

• What information and evidence will we be asked to submit in support of our application?

  This will vary case by case because: Every company is different, and Whilst there is a consistency in approach, every B Lab analysis is also allowed some leeway to ask for further information on what ...

• What are some good reasons to be open about your B Corp ambitions prior to certification?

  To be very clear, it is perfectly acceptable to take the route where you keep your counsel and don't talk about pursuing B Corp prior to certification. There are good reasons for doing this: the risk ...

• How should you go about your first pass?

  Your first pass has four basic elements to it. The Discovery Questionnaire (DQ) In the BIA there are the five primary areas and the DQ. The first thing we recommend you do it complete this. In most ca...

• What is the best way to form the project team?

  How The best way to do this is not for someone in leadership simply to allocate roles and responsibilities. Nor to default to giving the workers section to HR, the environment section to the sustainab...