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Design Your Life with Vince FrostDesigning corporate activism with Patagonia Aus & NZ Director Dane O'ShanassyWorking on things you care about, close to the people you love, in a business with ethics and morals aligned with your own seems a straightforward ambition. Until the result is a leadership position in a global $1bn company that’s driving conscientious business around the world. Dane O’Shanassy is Patagonia’s Country Director, Australia and New Zealand. The decisions he makes for the business today are led by Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard’s earliest choices. The conscientious objectives that drive both incredible revenue for the business and ongoing positive change for planet earth. ...2022-05-1649 min
For Love & MoneyEPISODE 7: Dane O’Shanassy on Patagonia and doing the right thingLike many people who value purposeful organisations, I love Patagonia. They are an unconventional business that is difficult to categorise in traditional business terms. Their purpose is a hugely ambitious one - they’re in business to save our home planet.
In this episode I speak to Dane O’Shanassy, Country Director for Patagonia.
Dane shares stories about this extraordinary company from its origins to where it is today. Along the way he shares the philosophies that has guided the business over the last few decades. What I loved about our chat wa...2021-11-2849 min
The Tortoise with Brooke McAlaryPurpose (and planet) beyond profit with Dane O'Shanassy of PatagoniaAs someone who espouses simplicity and buying only what we need, Brooke has an uneasy relationship with the idea of capitalism. But as a business-owner, a traveller and someone who does indeed purchase things on occasion, she recognises that this means she takes part in a capitalist society every day. During a conversation with Carolyn Tate back in September last year, Brooke was introduced to the idea of conscious capitalism, in which for-profit organisations are making capitalism stand for something good - for people, for the environment or for social change. It was also through Carolyn that B...2017-03-2251 min