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Russ Stoddard

Russ Stoddard

Here's how I roll: B Corp & Brand Expert, 1% for the Planet, Farmer, #ClimateAction #SocialImpact 🚲; Founder, Oliver Russell; co-founder Unit Co, a benefit corporation; co-founder Social Good Network.

📍 Boise, Idaho

We Have Met the Enemy

Every once in awhile, a piece of writing stands out in a way that makes you stop, if for a moment, to marvel at the construction of its language and think how the author just did what they did to you; for me, this usually occurs in the pages of

All AI, All the Time

All AI, all the time - or at least this week here at Godspeed as this issue and Thursday's are heavily influenced by my A.I. hallucinations. Well, sort of. Today, Andrew Kassoy lays out a plan in a New York Times Op-Ed for how OpenAI can successfully

Career Pivot: Erica Buyalos

I Can See Clearly Now I first met Erica Buyalos when she started pestering me for a job. Just kidding about the pestering, as she was professionally persistent more than anything in selling herself and her fit with my company, Oliver Russell. Erica worked with me for most of a

And the Moon is Made of Green Cheese

It’s time for another “green” issue, which you’d think we’d relegate to springtime or summer at the latest, but unfortunately greenwashing is a year-round biz for those in the biz of – you guessed it – greenwashing. While we’ve written about greenwashing and some of its variants previously,

Are We Already Robots?

So, curious mind here wants to know: What do you think about LinkedIn these days? I’ve been active on LinkedIn for a long while. It’s been largely apolitical, there hasn’t been much haranguing or people trying to dunk on one another, and it provides a platform to

In Search of Joy

As summer winds down, we’re taking a little detour today on our road trip for social and environmental impact. We’re going…in search of joy. Earlier this year, when the days were short and the nights were long, my wife and I both echoed a similar sentiment over

Rebranding for Impact

It’s time for one of my semi-occasional-sometimes-periodical-flights of fancy branding issues. Let me see, where should we start? How about… A…B…C…D…ESG. If only adoption of ESG was as easy as learning to recite the alphabet. As brands, ESG and its cousin DEI have had a