Legal Structures and Voluntary Certifications, Featuring Teatulia

Socially Responsible Business, Social Enterprise, Public Benefit Corporation, B Corp. What do all these terms mean and do the differences matter? How do different legal structures and third-party certifications affect your business? Our guest is the co-founder and former CEO of Teatulia Organic Teas, Linda Appel Lipsius. Linda will share the inside story of Teatulia: born from a chance encounter in a coffee shop, grounded in a women’s co-op in Bangladesh, nurtured with cow dung, rewarded with customer and employee loyalty, and lauded by organizations as diverse as the North American Tea Championship and Fast Company Magazine. Linda is a visionary business leader who built a universally-respected brand known for doing things better and using business as a force for good.