Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans

Responsibly Different™ · Sep 30, 2021 · 1h 17m

Dean Cycon is a Nobel Prize of Business Honoree for the work he and his team at Dean's Beans has done since their inception in 1993. He is a leader and an inspiration within the B Corp community. Dean founded the first non-profit in the coffee space in 1988 called Coffee Kids. With an eye towards working in and with coffee farming communities, Coffee Kids was the first development non-profit of its kind. Dean shares with us how his passion and drive for justice took him from being a civil rights lawyer, to non-profit founder, to social enterprise entrepreneur and the many lessons he learned…