Publisher Description
There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t always succeed. Christine Bader was one of those people. She loved BP and then-CEO John Browne’s lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights -- until a string of fatal BP accidents, Browne’s abrupt resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony Hayward’s tenure as chief executive, which would end with the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Bader’s story of working deep inside the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company (accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management; of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing for change from within. The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: Girl Meets Oil is based on Bader’s experience with BP and then with a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves in the stories of other “Corporate Idealists” working inside some of the world's biggest and best-known companies. Gildan Media and Bibliomotion are proud to bring you another Bibliomotion Audiobook. Featuring exceptional content for today’s listener, these notable audiobooks contain the essential tools that can be applied to every facet of your life.
Download and start listening now!
About Christine Bader
Christine Bader has published numerous op-eds and
articles and given talks to conferences, companies, and universities around the
world, including a TEDx talk entitled “Manifesto
for the Corporate Idealist” She is a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at
Columbia University, where she co-teaches a course on Human Rights and
Business, and a Human Rights Advisor to
Business for Social Responsibiliy.
After earning her MBA from Yale in
2000, Christine joined BP and worked in Indonesia, China, and the U.K., managing the social impacts of some of the company’s largest projects in
the developing world.Christine
has also served as a corps member with City
Year as a special assistant to the New York City Mayor’s Chief of Staff
and Deputy Mayor, and a Teaching Fellow in Community Service at Phillips
Academy Andover.
Christine
was named to the 2012-13 class of the
Donaldson Fellows Program, which recognizes Yale School of Management
graduates “whose personal and professional accomplishments embody the school’s
mission to educate leaders for business and society.”
She lives in her native New York City
with her husband, son, and daughter.
About Rose Itzcovitz
Rose Itzcovitz is an audiobook narrator whose readings include Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams, Just Little Things by Nancy Vu, and Conversations That Sell by Nancy Bleeke.