What Does it Take to be a Female Entrepreneur? With Naom and Natasha
What does it take to be a female entrepreneur…to inspire, to lead and to make change? This conversation hears from Social Impact Pioneers Naom Monari and Natasha Kwakwa, as they discuss getting started, how to build a business and why getting your first endorsement from another organisation can be a catalyst for growth. Expect to […]
Gender Parity in Farming with Taryn and Emily
Gender parity in farming and equality for women in agriculture could feed millions more around the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimate that closing the gender gap in agricultural inputs alone could lift 100–150 million people out of hunger. This podcast hears from Social Impact Pioneers: Emily Janoch from […]
Gender-based violence is a work issue, with Jane and Craig
Gender-based violence is a work issue. UN Women estimate that 736 million women—almost one in three—have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetimes. And victims of gender-based violence (GBV) can be men too, although women are disproportionately affected. Include: gender-based harassment, cohesive control and financial abuse and the numbers mean that everyone […]
Being a Climate Activist with Pushpanath Krishnamurthy
What does it take to be a climate activist? Social Impact Pioneer and climate activist Pushpanath Krishnamurthy talks about what motivates and drives him to give up an easy life and devote it to campaigning for climate justice. Push to his friends has in the past 11 years walked over 35 million steps in the […]
NGO Advocacy with Chelsea Hodgkins, Oxfam America
How can civil society hold businesses and governments to account? This podcast examines the role of NGO advocacy and activism in pushing for better social and environmental outcomes. Chelsea Hodgkins is a Policy Advisor on Oxfam America’s Climate, Energy, and Extractive Industries team. She joins us for this conversation having recently been to the climate […]
Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru
Planting trees can cause social harm. The simplest solutions are so often the best ones, but not always. Take climate change – we have put too much carbon into the atmosphere. The planet’s main mechanism to take carbon from the atmosphere is trees – so the solution to climate change is tree planting. Right?! Not […]
Building Social Impact Movements with Devi Thomas, Microsoft
Building social impact movements is hard. Bringing people together, across society and sectors to engage with and take action on an issue is a golden ticket to creating long-term lasting impact. How do you do it? Meet Social Impact Pioneer Devi Thomas. During our conversation, Devi shares her wisdom and experience in successfully developing and […]
Business and Refugees, with Yusuf and Emily
Business and refugees are not two words that are often heard together. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 70.8 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide. Being a ‘forcibly displaced person’ or a ‘refugee’ are labels. What does it really take to rebuild your life in a new country? And how […]
Malnutrition is a Business Issue, Explain Maniza and Alok
Why is Malnutrition a business issue? The link between malnutrition and poverty might be an obvious one. The links between malnutrition and business are perhaps less so. During this conversation we are going to deep dive into both, whilst looking at the intersections between nutrition, climate change, conflict and communicable disease. As the world braces […]
What is Climate Justice, with Tara, Chris and Javier
What is climate justice and why should business put people at the heart of their climate action? Tara Shine, Co-CEO at Change By Degrees, Chris Coulter, CEO at GlobeScan, and Javier Aliaga, the Director of Fairtrade’s Center of Excellence in Climate and Environment joined together live during COP27 on Twitter Space and this is what […]
Palm Oil and Climate Justice with Anita Neville
Palm oil and climate justice – what is the story? Social impact pioneer, Anita Neville, helps us unpack this complex topic. This podcast forms part of a series – examining how business addresses climate justice. Together, we hear how businesses are working to put people at the heart of their climate action. Listen to this […]
Climate Conferences with Obed Koringo
How do climate conferences work? Hear from social impact pioneer Obed Koringo, part of the CARE delegation at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Obed shares how governments, negotiators, civil society, businesses and other stakeholders all work together to help move along global climate commitments and drive actions towards better climate outcomes for all. This podcast […]
Fairtrade and Climate Justice with Juan Pablo
How can fairtrade help create climate justice? This podcast forms part of a series – examining how business addresses climate justice. Together we hear ways companies can put people at the heart of their climate action. We record this podcast from the climate conference – COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. During this conversation, hear from […]
Regenerative Farming and Climate Justice, with Patrick Nyaga, Farm Africa
How can regenerative farming create climate justice? This podcast forms part of a series – examining how business addresses climate justice. Together we hear how business puts people at the heart of the climate action. And in particular this podcast looks at food security, regenerative farming and climate resilience. Our social impact pioneer today […]
Gender Equity with Rani and Deepika, IFC
What does gender equity mean? How far have we progressed towards gender equality? And how can we sensitively transfer learning from one region to another when tackling gender equity? These are just some of the questions this podcast tackles. Social pioneers Rani Pooran and Deepika Yadav, both work for the International Finance Organisation (the IFC) […]
Disability Access with Ceri Davies
How can business better support people with disability access issues? There are an estimated 1 billion people globally experiencing some form of disability. Though accessibility issues are inherently personal, with so many people face extra challenges to navigate our world – how can we all better support each other Ceri Davies is an accessibility campaigner […]
Understanding Sustainable Finance with Namita Vikas
Meet sustainable finance and ESG pioneer Namita Vikas, and our guest in today’s podcast. Namita’s accolades range from “Sustainability Leader of the Year” to “Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen”. She’s been featured in the list of “India’s Top 100 Women in Finance” and is on a mission to accelerate sustainable finance and climate transition. With 30 […]
Accelerating Development Entrepreneurs, with Richenda Van Leeuwen
How do you unlock the social impact potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? And how can development entrepreneurs maximise their success? Meet social impact pioneer Richenda Van Leeuwen. Richenda is the Executive Director of ANDE – The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Richenda and her team are dedicated to helping smaller businesses and the […]
Becoming a Social Entrepreneur, with Kevin Mutiso
How to become a social entrepreneur? Meet social impact pioneer Kevin Mutiso. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur, whose businesses repeatedly get selected as top start-ups across Africa. During this conversation we learn from Kevin about how to develop a good idea, why really understanding what the problem is you’re trying to solve is vital and […]
How to communicate social impact with Eric Ressler
Eric Ressler is a social impact pioneer – listen to Eric’s expert insight into why social impact communications needs to up its game and how we can go about this. Eric is the Founder and Creative Director at Cosmic, a Social Impact Creative Agency. Eric packs this podcast with his expert experience in developing highly […]