LAS is an award-winning provider of elearning consultancy, design, development and training services in the UK and internationally.
Established in 2005 as LearningAge Solutions, we work with some of the best known organisations in the world to boost their performance through the innovative use of learning technologies. Working in partnership with our customers, we draw on proven principles from human behaviour, how people learn and how the brain works to create impactful digital learning solutions with real return on investment.
Tess is a director of LAS. She has worked in a learning environment for over twenty years. First, as a senior manager in universities, moving into digital learning ten years ago.
By Tess Robinson
Posted 6 March 2025
March marks B Corp month and this year, in particular, it feels more important than ever to highlight and celebrate that business can be a force for good in the world and can be a major contributor to a positive future.
B Corps are companies who adopt a more systems-thinking approach to business, prioritising people and planet alongside profit. We work towards a fairer, more equitable, more sustainable way of doing business. There’s always been an underlying belief in business that purpose and profit are mutually exclusive, but it doesn't need to be that way, as thousands of thriving B Corps, including a fair few in the learning technologies industry, prove every day.
Despite recent political pressures emanating from the other side of the Atlantic to do away with DEI initiatives and reduce climate change mitigation activities, the number of B Corps continues to grow at an astonishing rate. When we became a B Corp in 2021, there were just a few hundred in the UK, now we number almost 2,500. This year we are also likely to exceed 10,000 certified B Corps globally, which is amazing. It fills me with hope that this movement for a better, kinder, more long-termist way of doing business continues to gather strength.
But why is this, more responsible, way of doing business so important?
As we celebrate B Corp Month, it's clear that the movement towards a more responsible and sustainable way of doing business is gaining momentum. The need to prioritise people and planet, alongside profit, is more urgent than ever. B Corps demonstrate that purpose and profit are not mutually exclusive and that business can, indeed, be a force for good.
