Oxford, September 2024
Since its beginning in 2006, the B Corp movement has evolved into a powerful global community of over 9,000 companies – Certified B Corporations – across more than 100 countries. These companies share a common mission: to transform how businesses operate by prioritizing a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.
The 2024 Louder than Words festival in Oxford, organized by B Lab UK, brought this vision to life. With over 40 sessions ranging from regeneration and systemic change to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) and impact investing, the festival united B Corps, activists, and change-makers from around the world to rally around tangible action. The urgent need to finally move beyond words and ‘walk the talk’ was particularly evident in the opening panel where Clay Brown, Interim Co-Lead Executive at B Lab Global, emphasized the crucial role businesses play in systems change: “Business is the problem and therefore must be part of the solution.”