B Corp Champions Retreat 2026

The new B Lab Standards V2 are significant enough that many teams and companies don’t know where to start. They’re not sure who owns what, or how to turn policy goals into measurable progress. This session shows what happens when software, strategy, and business practice come together to transform confusion into coordinated action.

Through a real-world case study, attendees will see how Ecolytics, Profitable Purpose Consulting, and their joint client, Climate First Bank, mapped the B Corp V2 requirements, assigned accountability across departments, and collected impact data efficiently. Their experience cut months off the prep timeline and created a repeatable framework others can follow.

Attendees will leave with the repeatable framework and roadmap they can use to create ripples from their own company. The more companies that certify and recertify, the greater the impact and the more worthwhile it becomes for everyone.

This session explores how King Arthur Baking Company’s regenerative agriculture program, Grains for Good, is scaling through decades of agronomic research and deeply rooted regional partnerships. Anchored in the story of Golden Wheat—an identity-preserved flour line grown using regenerative practices—the session will trace how collaboration across the value chain, from farmers and millers to researchers and brand partners, supports continuous learning and improvement.

Participants will learn how ongoing feedback loops and shared data help refine practices over time, strengthen regional grain systems, and balance environmental outcomes with farmer viability and product quality. By centering long-term relationships and place-based knowledge, Grains for Good offers a model for how regenerative agriculture programs can remain adaptive, credible, and resilient as they grow—contributing to broader shifts in how food is produced and valued.

Attendees will walk away with practical insights into:

• How research partnerships and on-farm implementation inform the adoption and evolution of regenerative practices
• Strategies for aligning farmer needs, environmental goals, and brand commitments
• Why underwriting risk for farmers is essential to enabling durable, long‑term regenerative change
• How regional partnerships and place‑based value chains build transparency and trust while enabling continuous improvement at scale

How can purpose-driven businesses and nonprofits activate the next generation of changemakers? With nearly one-third of the U.S. population involved in K–12 schools, authentic engagement with students is one of the most powerful ways to build a just, sustainable and community centered future.

In this interactive session, Green Schools National Network (GSNN), a national leader in whole-school sustainability, and peer organizations such as Natural Pod, both committed to advancing sustainable learning environments, explore how student voice and agency can drive authentic climate action while shaping brand purpose and community impact. Drawing from GSNN’s Green Spark Innovation Showcase — a virtual experience designed for students and educators nationwide — we’ll examine how collaboration between businesses, educators, and youth can inspire meaningful behavioral change and measurable climate results.

Participants will learn how companies can co-design initiatives that align with B Lab’s Climate Action and Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) pillars while amplifying student-led storytelling and innovation. Through examples of school-business collaborations and firsthand reflections from diverse student leaders, attendees will leave with clear takeaways on how to:

• Build authentic partnerships with schools and youth organizations
• Integrate student perspectives into sustainability and marketing strategies
• Create collective impact that advances both educational and corporate sustainability goals

This session will feature perspectives from GSNN, Natural Pod, students and additional B Corps dedicated to systemic change. Together, we’re cultivating intergenerational leadership for climate action and inspiring others to turn purpose into practice.

Across boardrooms and communities, trust in business is eroding. Polarized politics, misinformation, and backlash against equity and sustainability have created an environment where a company doing what’s right can feel risky. Yet instead of pulling back, this moment calls for courage. We can seize this moment of confusion and fear to reclaim the true meaning of free enterprise: an economy grounded in fairness, accountability, and opportunity for all.

This session, rooted in the Reclaiming Free Enterprise initiative, will explore how companies can act with purpose and embed stakeholder governance in ways that strengthen both trust and long-term value. Aligned with B Lab’s new Purpose and Stakeholder Governance standards (V2.1), the conversation will equip participants to connect mission to measurable action, even amid politicized and uncertain conditions.

Through case studies and facilitated discussion, participants will examine how business leaders are:

• Embedding inclusive governance and transparency practices that reflect a genuine commitment to all stakeholders.

• Integrating fiduciary duty and public trust to balance profitability with shared prosperity.

• Communicating values and purpose effectively across differing political and cultural contexts.

• Collaborating across sectors to uphold fairness, accountability, and freedom as core business principles.\

Attendees will leave with practical tools to manage this time of uncertainty with governance, decision-making, and accountability frameworks that reflect the evolving expectations of employees, investors, and communities.

This session will challenge the notion that profit and purpose are in competition. Instead, the session will offer a roadmap for how purposeful, stakeholder-driven companies can lead the way toward a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy—one where freedom and fairness are not political ideals, but the foundation of sustainable enterprise.

When most people hear “M&A,” they think consolidation, culture loss, and extraction. But what if acquisitions were mission amplifying and became the most catalytic tool for scaling purpose across the B Corp ecosystem?

This panel brings together the complete deal table: the operator and buyer in the trenches building a “Deloitte for Do-Gooders” (karmadharma), the CFO and funding partner ensuring post-acquisition cash flows truly work (Profit Reimagined), the legal strategist locking mission into governance (Impact GC), and the matchmaker sourcing values-aligned deals others cannot see (Up & Over Advisors).

Each voice contributes a critical piece: preparing for a transaction with impact baked in, structuring deals that protect people and customers, governing with purpose post close, aligning capital to real-world cash flow, and implementing operations that set the business up for success.

Together we will map how even small, local deals can become waves of systemic change by democratizing ownership, redistributing wealth, and proving that M&A does not have to suck. It can scale good, and it can be the strategy that helps B Corps step into their transformative power.

The Great Lakes region is home to one of the world’s largest freshwater reserves.

In this session, we will explore how individuals and businesses, working in partnership with investors, and policymakers can turn small ripples of impact into waves of systemic change.

This session will connect innovation, investment, and advocacy around one of our most essential shared resources: water. Panelists will discuss how Zevia’s product - bubbly water - is a force for good; how The Water Council fosters collaboration between businesses and innovators to solve global water challenges and incorporate water stewardship into their operations; and how policymakers and investors can align individual action, capital allocation, and regulation to sustain equitable access to water.

Through this interactive discussion, attendees will gain:

• A deeper understanding of water as both a business risk and an opportunity.
• Concrete ways B Corps can embed water responsibility into their operations, supply chains, and advocacy.
• Inspiration to take collective action—from policy engagement to investment choices—to protect our most vital resource.

Together, we’ll explore how mindful stewardship of water can drive both purpose and profit—turning ripples of good into lasting waves of change.

As a certified B Corporation, your business has already committed to delivering positive impact for people, the planet and communities. But one of the most overlooked levers in your environmental footprint remains—the location of your corporate cash assets. Banks and other financial institutions may seem neutral, but in reality, they play an outsized role in financing an extractive economy.

When your deposits are held at institutions that invest in carbon-intensive industries, your company’s ambient “Scope 3” greenhouse gas footprint extends well beyond your direct "Scope 1" and indirect "Scope 2" operations. Join us to explore how you can close that gap—how selecting a mission-aligned, B Corp certified bank can help your business dramatically reduce its "Scope 3" emissions, strengthen your brand, reinforce your values, and support a regenerative economy.

You’ll hear from senior executives from B Corp certified banks that channel deposits into social, environmental and community-first lending rather than carbon-intensive sectors. They will share how their institutions use customer deposits to deliver tangible environmental and social returns, how they structure their loan portfolios and underwriting practices, how they think about transparency and impact reporting, and how partnering with this kind of bank becomes a competitive advantage for B Corps.