Zahid Torres-Rahman
Zahid Torres-Rahman is the co-Founder and CEO of Business Fights Poverty. This conversation looks at ways that we can harness the power of collaboration to drive social impact. During this podcast you hear the very personal journey of Zahid – why being born in Pakistan, growing up in the UK and now living in Spain […]
Antony Karanja
Antony Karanja is part of pan-African organisation The Youth Café. Listen in to hear him passionately share why helping young people from across Africa is important to him, as he champions a vision of creating your own positive future. Antony is 24. He has grown up and lives in Kenya. In 2016, because of the […]
Sophie Faujour
During this conversation – I talk with Sophie Faujour as she demystifies what corporate social investment is, why it provides significant opportunities for businesses to try and test new ideas, ways of working and deliver long term social impact. Depending when and how you have engaged with the idea of business doing good for society […]
Dr Tara Shine
Tara was a Special Adviser to the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice and Climate Adviser to The Elders. Tara is co-founder and Director of Change by Degrees, which provides global sustainability and climate expertise to businesses and organisations to help them maximise their benefits to society. She is also Chair of the Board of Trustees of […]
Rupa Dash
“Excellence knows no gender.” This quote from Rupa Dash’s most recent passion project: World Woman Hour #SheSMyHero sums her up. Rupa Dash is the UN Award-Winning media entrepreneur turned philanthropist, whose sixty, 60-secs films highlight the power of women, first-hand. During our conversation, Rupa shares why she and her World Woman Foundation are on […]
Elizabeth Vazquez
Elizabeth Vazquez is a world leader in women’s economic empowerment. Through her role as CEO and Co-Founder of WEConnect International she is on a global mission to increase supplier diversity and inclusion. To say that Elizabeth is well connected and influential is an understatement. She advises the likes of Walmart, Proctor and Gamble and the […]
Blerta Cela
What would you do if your entire role, for one of the globe’s most prestigious organisations – the UN – was dedicated to supporting and encouraging gender equality? “COVID-19 is predicted to push 47 million more women and children into poverty” – explains Blerta Cela, the Deputy Regional Director of UN Women’s Regional Office in […]
Cata Garcia
Cata is a leader who gets things done. She not only led the Foundation, but she and her team were awarded the Grand Prix of Cannes Price for the gender-based violence social marketing campaign called #NoExcuse with the Carling Black Label beer brand. In addition, Cata worked to secure the largest partnership agreement ever made by […]
Andrew Dunnett
Vodafone is the largest mobile and network operator in Europe, and the world’s largest Internet of Things connectivity provider. Operating and partnering in 48 countries. It is still rare for a social innovation to be successfully incubated, scaled and then embedded into core business activities. Vodafone has a clutch of them. During our conversation Andrew […]
Developing your social impact strategy with Lisa Manley
How do you develop a social impact strategy for business? If you’re working on delivering social impact within any organisation, you need two things over and above anything else. A deep understanding of the trends and a good plan. Lisa Manley, Global Vice President of Sustainability from Mars is our podcast guest. She gives us […]
Daniella Foster
This podcast will help you understand better what self-care for your own personal benefit is and why creating self-care systems for public and private sectors is vital in our attempts to rebuild better from the global pandemic. “Self-care can potentially break the cycle of poverty,” explains Daniella. Daniella and her team, in partnership with Business […]
Heidi Larson and Scott Ratzan
Scott has dedicated his work to the communication of health issues – he is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives. His CV includes organisations ranging from Johnson & Johnson to co-chairing the UN Secretary General’s Innovation Working Group for Every Woman Every Child and Harvard Kennedy School. He is on the […]
Cat Tully
Cat’s day job is to quite literally to get governments, civil society and businesses ready for the future. Her CV includes: Strategy Project Director at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Senior Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She is a member of United Nations Learning […]
Hanneke Faber
Unilever have been named number one sustainability company worldwide for eight years straight. They manage to balance being one of the globe’s largest consumer goods companies, with products sold in around 190 counties, alongside being regularly called leader and pioneer. So what is the secret sauce that makes this really work and keep working? Meet […]
Rudrani Oza
Supporting farmers and producers at the base of supply chains in emerging markets can be challenging. With many farmers leaving for cities, the effects of climate change building and the global pandemic – the challenges are deepening. And often the ones that suffer most are women. Listen to this podcast for first hand experiences and […]
Jessica Espinoza Trujano
Whether you have been working on the topic of gender investing deeply for years or you are new to the idea. Whether you are an investor, entrepreneur, development finance institution or corporate – take a listen to Jessica Espinoza Trujano. Jessica has a decade of experience in banking, with a particular focus on emerging and […]
Jocelyn Williams
If you are working on delivering social change or trying to address social norms, digital technology seems like a good way to scale, influence behaviours, deepen impact, collect and analyse data – and so much more. Doing this in practice is another thing. Jocelyn Williams, Director for Business Development at Every1Mobile, shares 10 years of […]
Fred Brown
During this conversation, I talk with Fred Brown. There aren’t many people who I might call a visionary – but it’s the word that comes to mind as I talked with Fred. Fred inspires, shares leading edge ways for organisations to be more effective and shows us how to lead. Fred is the President and […]
Merten Sievers
Merten Sievers leads value chain and enterprise development with the International Labour Organisation (ILO). During our podcast conversation Merten shares his insights on the effects COVID-19 is having on small and medium sized enterprises, in particular the impacts on decent work. Merten then deep dives into the practical ways businesses of all sizes can help […]
Chris Anderson and David Nash
What is interesting about this conversation is the openness and willingness of Chris and David to share the insights into their partnership. Chris works for the development organisation Practical Action, whilst David works within the Z Zurich Foundation – the private foundation, funded by the Zurich Insurance Group. Together they reveal practical tips to make […]