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Today is our monthly OpenExO update for the month of June with Kevin Allen - Chief Community Officer of OpenExO.

I talk to Kevin about the success of ExO World:Now - 12 May 2020, the upcoming ExO World:Open House on 15 June 2020 and the expanding certification program options offered by OpenExO. Also in the podcast I have included three short discussions Salim Ismail had with Nicole Dreiske, Raymond McCauley and Dr Divya Chander.

You can visit OpenExO by visiting www.openexo.com. ExO World:Open House can be found here - https://www.exoworld.live/Open-House.

If you would like to contact the host of the podcast - Lance Peppler - then email [email protected] or book me directly on Calendly - https://calendly.com/ideastorm.

This week I interview Nikhil Bumb - from FSG - and talk to him about their recently released excellent Purpose Playbook.

From www.purposeplaybook.org:

"Companies are falling in love with the idea of purpose, and what’s not to love? Done well, a corporate purpose is energizing, inspiring, and creates a shared reason for being. But is simply declaring a purpose beyond profits enough? We think not.

The Purpose Playbook is here to help companies better understand what it means to have a purpose-led organization, what makes a purpose worth having, and how to deliver on the promise of that purpose by focusing on shared value.

Shared value, a business discipline where companies use their core business to drive societal change and enhance their competitiveness, is the most powerful practice to fulfill corporate purpose aspirations. This Playbook is designed to help you bring that practice to life.

In the Purpose Playbook, you will find practices, action steps, and company examples, that will help you, the practitioner, navigate your way as you pioneer change in your company, your business ecosystem, and for society."

Nikhil Bumb is an associate director at FSG.

He is passionate about social impact strategies and systems change, with a focus on shared value and market-based approaches to address disparities, drive innovation for under served markets globally, increase access to resources, and shift inequitable systems.

You can find out more about the Purpose Playbook here - www.purposeplaybook.org, more about FSG here - www.fsg.org and contact Nikhil Bumb here - [email protected].

To contact the host Lance Peppler email [email protected], visit www.ideastorm.co.za or book me on Calendly here - https://calendly.com/ideastorm.

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In this episode I speak to Tiekie Barnard about the Africa Shared Value eSummit taking place from Tuesday June 2nd to Friday June 5th.

You can find out more about the eSummit and book your tickets here - https://www.africasharedvaluesummit.com.

Tiekie Barnard is founder and CEO of Shared Value Africa Initiative that is striving to build the most impactful business network of companies pursuing profit with purpose. Under Tiekie’s leadership, Shared Value Africa Initiative has become a leading voice for corporates on the continent to tackle social upliftment as a core part of business strategy, for financial as well as social return. Shared Value Africa Initiative is the pan-African partner of the global Shared Value Initiative with partners in Australia, India, Hong Kong, North America and South America that is in start up mode.

The website for the Shared Value Africa Initiative can be found here - https://www.svai.africa/. Tiekie Barnard's details are - [email protected] and on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiekie-barnard-a8b0262b/.

To contact me, the host, email me at [email protected] or visit my website - www.ideastorm.co.za.

Today we interview Jeff Booth author of "The Price of Tomorrow".

"Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still.

We need to build a new framework for our local and global economies, and soon. Otherwise, the same technology that has the power to bring abundance to us and our world will instead destroy it.

In this extraordinary contrarian book, Jeff Booth, a leading mind and CEO in eCommerce and technology, details the technological and economic realities shaping our present and future, and the choices we make as we got forward – a potentially alarming, but deeply hopeful situation.

Jeff Booth is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption.

Jeff has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inc.com, The Globe and Mail, BNN, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2015, he was named BC Technology Industry Association’s (BCTIA) Person of the Year, and in 2016 Goldman Sachs named him among its 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.

Jeff can be contacted on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdbooth or visit https://thepriceoftomorrow.com.

You can contact the host of the podcast Lance Peppler by emailing [email protected].

Idea Storm can help your company to transform to survive and thrive in these turbulent times. Visit www.ideastorm.co.za or book a meeting with us on Calendly - https://calendly.com/ideastorm.

I often wonder how our previous guests are doing and so today we revisit three of them. Pascal Finette talks to us about how his company Be Radical is doing during the COVID-19 crisis and then shares some of his current thinking. Next Dr Tiffany Vora tells us how she is doing during lockdown, gives a COVID-19 update and what’s next and then how the development of the vaccine is going. Last, but not least, I talk to Rens ter Weijde about his company KIMO and also his involvement with the G20.

Pascal Finette - Co-Founder @ be radical. Singularity University‘s Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation. Venture Partner @ BOLD. You can fine Pascal on Linkedin here ==> https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfinette/ or visit his website - https://beradicalgroup.com/.

Dr Tiffany Vora - Singularity University - Faculty & Vice Chair, Digital Biology & Medicine and Managing Director of Bayana Science.

During the segment Tiffany mentions an article she has written for SU. It can be found here ==> https://singularityhub.com/2020/05/01/how-to-better-tune-your-expectations-in-a-coronavirus-world/.

You can contact her on Linkedin here ==> https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyvora/ or visit her website https://www.tiffanyvora.com/.

Rens ter Weijde - CEO KIMO and Strategic Advisor PwC. He is found on Linkedin here ==> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rensterweijde/ and Kimo's website is https://www.kimo.ai.

Your host Lance Peppler can be contacted at [email protected] or visit www.ideastorm.co.za.

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This week we interview Brian Bacon - Chairman & Founder of the Oxford Leadership Group.

The purpose of the Oxford Leadership Group is to develop high-performing, purpose-driven leaders with the character, competence and judgement needed to steer complex global enterprises to success during the 4th Industrial Revolution.

I speak to Brian about the importance of purpose and being an organisation that is good for people and planet.

The Oxford Leadership Group is offering a "Find Your Purpose" course that is free until the end of May 2020. It can be found here - https://www.oxfordleadership.com/find-your-purpose/.

You can find Brian on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbaconleadership/.

To contact me email [email protected] or visit www.ideastorm.co.za.

Welcome to our monthly OpenExO update for May. The reason I have this update each month is because I am a very active OpenExO member and believe in the purpose which is “Transforming the world for a better future”

I again talk to Kevin Allen - the chief community officer of OpenExO - about ExO World, the Jono Bacon session on building communities and then the upcoming ExO World:Now summit that takes place on May 12.

We will then end with an interview between Salim Ismail and Steve Kotler as they talk about ExO World and Exo World:Now.

If you are not already a member of OpenExO then you can join for free by going to www.openexo.com.

Feel free to contact me - Lance Peppler - by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting www.ideastorm.co.za.

Anton Musgrave is the partner of FutureWorld and is one of the world’s leading strategists and futurists. He helps C-level executives around the world to both cope with the current crisis but also to plan for the future. He tells us how his own business FutureWorld has been impacted by COVID-19 and how they paused, reflected and then started to engage with their customers. Most businesses have gone through the same process and are now gearing up to operate in a new post-COVID-19 area - one that will be different but also has huge opportunities.

Anton's email address is [email protected] and their website www.futureworld.org.

You can contact me by emailing [email protected] or visit my website at www.ideastorm.co.za.

I hope you enjoy this interview and it adds value to both you and your business.

Working in distributes teams has become the new normal during the Coronavirus and will likely be the way we work going forward.

Today I talk to John O'Duinn. He is the author of "Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart.

John loves growing a culture where diverse groups of humans work well together in a distributed global workforce. He has worked in distributed teams for 27 years, led distributed teams for 14 years and coached/mentored fast-growing distributed companies for 6 years. So far, he has lived and worked in 13 cities across four continents.

As this way of working has become more mainstream, and even more now during the Coronovirus, he noticed a lack of practical material in this area, so in 2018, he published his book "Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart". This practical easy-to-read management book deals with immediate tactical issues, more complex human dynamics as well as wider social, diversity and environmental aspects. In 2018, he also helped write the State of Vermont's "Remote Worker" law - a very different approach to Economic Development which has been so wildly successful that I'm now helping draft bills and write policies for multiple other jurisdictions world-wide.

John's website is https://oduinn.com and you can find him on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/joduinn.

This show is sponsored by Idea Storm – a leading exponential growth consultancy. They can provide services ranging from an hour advisor call with a network of over 4,000 consultants worldwide through to the 10 week ExO Sprint. Visit www.ideastorm.co.za to find out more.

This week's guest is Jono Bacon.

Jono provides community strategy, management, and leadership for organizations. He has worked on some of the largest communities in the world, previously leading community strategy at Canonical (building the Ubuntu community), GitHub (the largest code hosting platform in the world), XPRIZE (the global leader in incentive competitions), and elsewhere.

His latest book is called “People Powered” which has a forward by none other than Peter Dimandis.

You can connect with Jono on his website https://www.jonobacon.com or on linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonobacon.

This show is sponsored by Idea Storm – a leading exponential growth consultancy. They can provide services ranging from an hour advisor call with a network of over 4,000 consultants worldwide through to the 10 week ExO Sprint. Visit www.ideastorm.co.za to find out more.