Stakeholder Solidarity & the Silence Within: Reflections from World Beautiful Business Forum

Behavioural scientist and business consultant Jeni Miles reflects on the World Beautiful Business Forum in Athens and shares the talk she gave as part of its Ministry of Regeneration track.

Drawing on a (preprint) study with over 400 UK for-profit managers, she reveals a striking paradox: the majority privately support post-growth business practices and believe business must operate within planetary and social limits. Yet most assume their peers don't support these views, silencing a consensus that already exists.

She also examines why the governance structures most businesses take for granted are profoundly undemocratic, and what it would actually mean to design stakeholder solidarity into the legal architecture of a company.

Full show notes, links and resources: https://moralfootprint.substack.com

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Discover how 92-93% of UK business managers support doughnut economy principles
Understand how pluralistic ignorance silences the corporate majority and preserves the status quo
Learn how two billionaire founders can legally override the preferences of 160,000 employees
Explore real precedents for democratic business governance, from German co-determination law to multi-stakeholder cooperatives
Challenge the assumption that mission-led for-profit companies can reliably put purpose before profit
Recognise how big tech's retreat from climate commitments in favour of AI infrastructure locks in irreversible emissions

LINKS & RESOURCES

Bayo Akomolafe https://www.bayoakomolafe.net

World Beautiful Business Forum https://houseofbeautifulbusiness.com/world-beautiful-business-forum

Dr Dario Krpan (LSE) https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/dario-krpan

Dr Frédéric Basso (LSE) https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/frederic-basso

Kate Raworth- author of Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com

DrJennifer Hinto (ecological economist) https://jenniferhinton.org

Dr Luke Kemp (societal collapse researcher) https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/luke-kemp

House of Hackney, who legally appointed a Mother Nature and Future Generations Director to their board https://www.houseofhackney.com

Extinction Rebellion

https://extinctionrebellion.uk

Doughnut Economics Action Lab

https://doughnuteconomics.org

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

https://www.thegreatsimplification.com

Google and natural gas — Distilled Earthhttps://www.distilled.earth/p/google-is-weighing-natural-gas-without

Meta funds ten natural gas plants for AI — Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/03/31/meta-funds-ten-natural-gas-plants-to-power-its-largest-ai-campus/

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