In today's business landscape, responsibility and sustainability are no longer optional or "nice to have." Modern stakeholders don't just expect an environmental, social and governance (ESG) focus, they demand it. Being a good corporate citizen today is "table stakes." Simultaneously, many of the corporate social responsibility departments companies launched in the last 30 years aren't thinking enough about innovation, growth, business-focused results and resilience. Table Stakes discusses the issues of sustainability with forward-thinking leaders to forecast the future of responsible business. Being ethical, human and sustainable is no longer optional – it's table stakes.
Six episodes into the Read Responsibly series, Marcy takes a solo lap: five things that have stuck with her from the first six author conversations, including why every single guest has admitted their own book is a little bit wrong now, and why the language problem in this field turns out to be everyone's problem. Then five books from the first half of 2026 already locked for this year's list. And finally, an announcement: Veerless and Table Stakes are starting a book club. One book, read together, discussed on the show. Marcy isn't picking it. You are. The poll is on LinkedIn!
8 Jul 2026
41. Read Responsibly with Compliance Expert Lisa Beth Lentini Walker
Lisa Beth Lentini Walker is the first guest to return to Table Stakes for the Read Responsibly series, and she's here to talk about the book that reframed how I think about getting people to do the right thing: Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice, written with co-author Stef Tschida.
Lisa Beth is the CEO and Founder of Lumen Worldwide Endeavors and a compliance leader whose career runs from the SEC to the C-suite. We get into why compliance fails on communication rather than rules, the near-miss stories every ethics leader collects (gold bars, hunting knives, Beyoncé tickets), and the language problem that haunts both our fields — why "ethics," "integrity," "sustainability," and "compliance" all keep buckling under the weight of what we actually mean. Plus: risk as a floor versus a ceiling, and why the future of this work is more human, not less.
1 Jul 2026
40. Read Responsibly with Trista Harris, FutureGood. Are We 5 years from Utopia?
Philanthropic futurist Trista Harris believes we're five years from utopia — and she's serious. The founder of Future Good and author of the book by the same name joins Marcy to explain what it really means to be a futurist, how the 2008 financial crisis turned her into one, and why the systems collapsing around us right now are also a once-in-a-generation chance to build something better. Along the way: the honest, scrappy truth about self- and hybrid-publishing, a grounded take on AI's impact on work and the social sector, and why rest and human connection are survival skills in a time of exponential change. A conversation for anyone trying to stay in the work — and stay hopeful while they do it.
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