We've joined the B Corp movement!
Luminary has been a Certified B Corp since 4 March 2021.
Read our 2023 Impact ReportEver since Luminary began, back in 1999, we have strived to use technology to make the world a better place. In the beginning, our focus was on creating products to make people’s lives better. Over time we have evolved, and so too has our focus.
As we move into our third decade in operation, our guiding mission is to 'make digital bright and the human experience brighter'. People are still at the heart of what we do, but the planet is now also very much a part of the equation.
B Corps are a new kind of business that balance purpose and profit, making a positive impact across their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. For Luminary, the decision to undertake the rigorous process to become a B Corp was a natural extension of the path we were already on. It’s also a way to ensure that we continue to stay the course, to use business as a force for good.
Read on to find out more about how we're endeavouring to be the best we can be for our people, our community, and our world.
Read our announcement post from when we first joined the B Corp movement.
Our people
Our success as a business starts and ends with our people. We support our team to work remotely, empower them through coaching and remove barriers to help them achieve and thrive. Our people make extraordinary things happen because we give them the space and support to bring out the best in themselves and each other.
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Luminary Launches BeFit Program
New habits are hard to start and harder to stick with, but what if we could decrease the number of steps between our team and good habits?
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Luminary achieves international recognition as a Great Place to Work
Luminary has been certified as a Great Place to Work for the first time in Indonesia and for the sixth consecutive year in Australia.
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Working from anywhere
From 1 July 2020, Luminary team members can elect to work from any suitable place at any time – a distributed team working from any location that allows them to be their best.
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Our social contract
To create a social contract, all we had to do was distill the essence of 60+ individual views across 15+ cultural backgrounds, four time zones and two continents… simple, right?!
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Tour de Vic – Luminary's Big Run for Fred Hollows
Throughout the month of August, the Luminary team have been pounding the pavement from Docklands to Denpasar in support of the Fred Hollows Foundation.
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Empowering Team Luminary through coaching
Performance Coach Lisa Hough talks about why she loves working as a coach at Luminary and what it’s meant for our team.
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Keeping connected while keeping apart
Our Office Manager, Mike Trueman, has been an integral part of keeping us all connected while we worked from home. Here, he shares his perspective on some of the things that made it all work.
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Debunking the myths of remote work
The biggest barrier to remote work is the myths that surround it, writes Adam Griffith.
“I'm really proud of our certification as a B Corporation, an initiative that recognises businesses balancing purpose and profit.
Our community
We are all connected. So when we help others, we can’t help but feel good too! 😉 Whether that’s by getting behind our awesome charity clients, or sponsoring an award celebrating big ideas that will make the future a better place, we always look for ways to help out, lighten the load and brighten the path of others. We also have a Volunteer Leave policy that provides our team members with a day of paid leave to volunteer for an organisation of their choice.
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Introducing our new charity program, Luminary Hearts + Hands
While we have always been big supporters of charities and NFPs, this year we decided to formalise our commitment with the launch of our new charity program, Luminary Hearts + Hands.
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Causes for Celebration campaign raises over $11,000 for charities
1 July 2020 was our 21st birthday. To celebrate, we traded canapés for a campaign to support our charity clients.
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Bringing our Biggest Morning Tea online
The annual Biggest Morning Tea bake-off is quite an anticipated event in the Luminary social calendar, but this year we had to approach it a little differently.
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We baked, we laughed, we ran – all in the name of charity
From morning teas to international virtual relays, we reflect on a year of fun-filled charity initiatives.
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Supporting the Jodie O'Shea House
It's smiles all round when our Bali team goes to visit the kids at Jodie O'Shea House in Denpasar.
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Luminary is proud to sponsor the 2020 Victorian Young Achiever Awards
Do you know a tech savvy young Victorian who deserves to have their name up in lights? Get them to nominate for the Luminary Tech Visionary Award!
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Luminary Tech Visionary Award recognises rising stars in digital
Alexandra Irwin Liu has been named the 2020 Luminary Tech Visionary Award recipient! Read more about her winning project and watch the video of the announcement, presented by Luminary CEO Marty Drill in an online awards ceremony on 18 September.
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Nominations are open for the Luminary Tech Visionary Award for 2021!
Know a young Victorian doing amazing things with digital? Encourage them to get the recognition they deserve through the Luminary Tech Visionary category of the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards.
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Announcing the Luminary Tech Visionary Award Winner for 2021
Bree-Anne Pagonis is the winner of this year’s Luminary Tech Visionary award, which recognises young people demonstrating creative thinking and making a significant contribution and social impact through the use of digital.
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Paid Volunteer Leave: Supporting our team to support others
We are proud to announce that Luminary now has a formal policy to support our team members in taking a day of leave each year to engage in volunteer work.
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Service is purpose – Our day at Foodbank
On Tuesday 21 September, a group of 10 Luminary team members volunteered their time at hunger relief charity Foodbank Victoria. Here's what Account Director Gemma Hinds had to say about it.
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Giving First Nations people a voice
We believe that inclusion and reconciliation are essential.
Our world
We treat our planet as though it were precious, fragile and irreplaceable. As if our lives depended on it. Luminary is carbon neutral and dedicated to a greener, more sustainable future. We plant trees and care for our environment so that we can all breathe a little easier.
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Luminary goes carbon neutral
As participants in the information economy, we can no longer hide behind the idea that our environmental impact is minimal. So here’s what we’re doing about it...
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Infographic: Australia’s Digital Carbon Footprint
In July 2019, Luminary was certified carbon neutral. This infographic highlights why we decided to offset our carbon impact.
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Reducing your carbon footprint in the home office
While the global response to the pandemic may have resulted in a temporary win for the environment, that doesn’t mean we should let our guards down while working from home.
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Planting for a better future
Luminary team members and their families recently gathered together for a tree-planting day in celebration of Luminary's 20th birthday.
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How to become carbon neutral
Becoming carbon neutral is not as simple as paying a fee. It is quite an involved process, though one that is worth it. Here are some of the lessons we've learned along the way.
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Offsetting our carbon footprint in Bali
Luminary has been carbon neutral since 1 July 2018. This year we planted mangroves in Bali to offset our carbon footprint.
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How to reduce your website’s carbon footprint
Websites can often be an oversight when calculating a business's carbon footprint, with this always-on asset contributing to global pollution. As our online ecosystem continues to grow, we review the ways we can clean up heavy websites or find ways to carbon offset.
