By Lindsay Christianson
The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.
Canadian Bourne born and raised Edmontonian Kori Chilibeck is a social entrepreneur with demonstrated success in conceptualizing and executing new sustainable business models to blend capitalistic ventures with humanitarian goals. Kori founded Earth-Water in 2005 in his campus apartment and old van his grandfather gave him. Kori later went on to found the Earth Group of Companies with Matt Moreau that include Earth-Water, Earth Coffee and Earth Tea.
The Earth Group exists entirely to provide food, water, and education to children globally. We do this through a worldwide agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) that sees us donating 100% of our profits to WFP to fund school meal programmes. We believe it is more important how you spend your dollars than how you vote, and we’ve created a vehicle to affect positive change in the world simply through your everyday purchases.
The three Earth Products are the only products in the world with the United Nations World Food Programme logo on them. Profits from the sale of Earth products around the world are used to provide clean water, food education to some of the poorest children on the planet. They started with one customer in Edmonton Canada and have now grown the group of companies selling products across North America, the European Union and Japan.
The Earth Group was recently certified as a B Corporation by the non-profit B Lab. This certification means that
The Earth Group meets rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.
Each year Earth Group provides life-saving essentials to 1 million children living in the most desperate of situations.
Website address Earth Group: https://earthgroup.org/earth-water/
https://earthgroup.org
Sophie Wisbrun is an award winning social intrapreneur, an international marketing and sustainable business executive, systems thinker and social entrepreneur. She is passionate to leave the world a better place through the power of purposeful business and brands. Sophie believes businesses can be and should be a force for good to solve social and environmental issues.
Sophie founded Doing Business Doing Good, an action and education platform for leaders for good who want to use their business as a force for good and want to learn and connect on this. She is a speaker and lecturer on topics like Purpose, B Corp, Systemic, Holistic Sustainability and Circularity. Sophie has worked internationally as marketing director and CSR / sustainability leader in FMCG and pharmaceutical industries for 14+ years. She transformed the course of organizations, people, businesses, brands and consumer habits to integrate sustainability and purpose in everyday lives.
Sophie is on a mission to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world and has developed several ground-breaking new models and methods to help people and companies to drive transformative change to a better world. In 2017 she organized the World’s 1st Global Free Online `Doing Business & Doing Good` Summit where she interviewed 29 sustainable leaders with the purpose to inspire and help business professionals to be a force for good. She serves in several Advisory Boards of Social Enterprises. Website address Doing Business Doing Good:
https://www.doingbusinessdoinggood.com
Linkedin profile: www.linkedin.com/in/sophiewisbrun
My guest today is Dr Sally Uren, OBE.
Sally is Chief Executive at Forum for the Future with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in global systems. This involves working with leading global organisations, including businesses such as Unilever and Kingfisher, and Foundations, such as the C&A Foundation, both in one to one partnerships, and also as part of multi-stakeholder collaborations designed to address complex challenges in systems as diverse as food, energy, apparel and shipping.
Sally is currently directly involved in a number of projects including Net Positive, a coalition of seventeen leading businesses, all working to define the next wave of corporate sustainability; Cotton 2040, a multi-stakeholder collaboration designed to accelerate the mainstreaming of sustainable cotton; and Tea 2030, a global project focusing on a number of innovation platforms intended to deliver a sustainable global tea industry.
A key part of Sally’s role is inspiring and equipping people and organisations to deliver systemic change for sustainability through regularly speaking at international and national conferences and also writing for a range of publications, with recent articles in the New Statesman, Huffington Post and Management Today. Sally is also helping build Forum’s new School of System Change where we are building a global community of change agents to accelerate our progress towards a sustainable future.
Sally acts as independent advisor on Advisory Boards for several global businesses, includingKimberly Clark, Kingfisher plc and Burberry. She is also Chair of the Advisory Board overseeing Forum for the Future’s growing operations in the US and an Advisory Board member for Sustainable Brands. She also acts as a judge for a number of sustainability award schemes, including the Queens Award for Sustainable Development.
In December 2017 Sally received an OBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours List for services to sustainability in business.
Thanks again Sally. It was great connecting with you and hearing you story!
You can also check Sally out here for more information at www.forumforthefuture.org or www.thefuturescentre.org.
Thank you for Listening!
Lindsay Christianson
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Sandja Brügmann is our guest on Champions of Change today!
Sandja is a sustainable leadership, communication, business thought-leader, international speaker, author and named one of the "world's leadership gurus" by Danish Executive Leadership Association.
Founder and Managing Partner The Passion Institute, where she and team serve the global business community to create strong brands and extraordinary leaders with an ambition and focus on intelligent business drivers, sustainability & social-good change for the past 15 years.
Sandja advocates for systemic solution thinking and being to drive business to be part of the solution, investing in leadership and organizational consciousness, and a shift where success is measured far beyond financial profit. Her business portfolio includes respected companies like Sustainable Brands, Crocs, Spier, ITO EN, Promote Iceland, The Body Shop, F5, DIS, Global Fund for Women, Drive Business and University of Colorado Boulder. She’s an invited guest lecturer at international academic programs, on the board of directors ‘brain trust’ of Leading Humans, the Director of F5 *Inspiring Women* business network for top performing Danish Women Executives.
She is part of a team launching the first Inclusive Leadership program in Denmark, co-funded by the Danish Innovation Fund and Living Institute. She teaches *Women & Leadership* at DIS – accredited US university partner in Scandinavia to Harvard, UC Berkeley etc. A regularly featured expert in leading international business and sustainable lifestyle media including Inc Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, CBS, Lederne, CSR Magasinet. Finans, Børsen and spoken at leading conferences Sustainable Brands, Natural products Expo, Drive Business, Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Leadership Summit.
She work's on several levels: Impact at the individual level - individual transformational growth. Impact at the organisational level: Creating organisational cultures and networked organizations, where people and planet as well as the bottom line thrive. Impact at the academic level: Teaching 'understanding' rather than knowledge. Teach inner skills, as much as outer theory and knowledge. Impact at the societal level: Impacting the media and communication industries to use their influence and communication to drive positive impact and positive behavioural change.
Her personal everyday focus is to impact one person at a time: When one person feels met and truly seen, they grow and with their growth, she knows they will go into the world and do better and be more loving towards others. There are many ripples set in motion this way.
Thank you again Sanja. It was a pleasure connecting with you!
You can also Sanda out here for more information at www.ThePassionInstitute.com
Thank you for Listening!
Lindsay Christianson
Go Plastic Neutral at www.PlasticOffsets.com
Neutralize your Plastic Footprint Today!
Sandja Brügmann is our guest on Champions of Change today!
Sandja is a sustainable leadership, communication, business thought-leader, international speaker, author and named one of the "world's leadership gurus" by Danish Executive Leadership Association.
Founder and Managing Partner The Passion Institute, where she and team serve the global business community to create strong brands and extraordinary leaders with an ambition and focus on intelligent business drivers, sustainability & social-good change for the past 15 years.
Sandja advocates for systemic solution thinking and being to drive business to be part of the solution, investing in leadership and organizational consciousness, and a shift where success is measured far beyond financial profit. Her business portfolio includes respected companies like Sustainable Brands, Crocs, Spier, ITO EN, Promote Iceland, The Body Shop, F5, DIS, Global Fund for Women, Drive Business and University of Colorado Boulder. She’s an invited guest lecturer at international academic programs, on the board of directors ‘brain trust’ of Leading Humans, the Director of F5 *Inspiring Women* business network for top performing Danish Women Executives.
She is part of a team launching the first Inclusive Leadership program in Denmark, co-funded by the Danish Innovation Fund and Living Institute. She teaches *Women & Leadership* at DIS – accredited US university partner in Scandinavia to Harvard, UC Berkeley etc. A regularly featured expert in leading international business and sustainable lifestyle media including Inc Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, CBS, Lederne, CSR Magasinet. Finans, Børsen and spoken at leading conferences Sustainable Brands, Natural products Expo, Drive Business, Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Leadership Summit.
She work's on several levels: Impact at the individual level - individual transformational growth. Impact at the organisational level: Creating organisational cultures and networked organizations, where people and planet as well as the bottom line thrive. Impact at the academic level: Teaching 'understanding' rather than knowledge. Teach inner skills, as much as outer theory and knowledge. Impact at the societal level: Impacting the media and communication industries to use their influence and communication to drive positive impact and positive behavioural change.
Her personal everyday focus is to impact one person at a time: When one person feels met and truly seen, they grow and with their growth, she knows they will go into the world and do better and be more loving towards others. There are many ripples set in motion this way.
Thank you again Sanja. It was a pleasure connecting with you!
You can also Sanda out here for more information at www.ThePassionInstitute.com
Thank you for Listening!
Lindsay Christianson
Go Plastic Neutral at www.PlasticOffsets.com
Neutralize your Plastic Footprint Today!
Welcome to the Show Vincent Avanzi!
Thank you for sharing your amazing poetic speech, "The Universe in a Unique Verse."
Shared for our listeners at the end of our talk today.
Vincent is a Chief Poetic Officer, Inspirational Speaker, brand artist and founder of The Ink Of The Future. He's a two time globe-trotter (A Human Odyssey – 12 human steps to change your self to change the world), he traveled to more than 70 countries and is the author of 3 TEDx and 5 books including “Harmony and The Genius Spot of Mankind” (a poetic journey to design the future). He is also a residential artist at the Institute for Desirable Futures, he is a journalist for the newspaper Les Echos.
He invented the concept of “Poetry & Prospective” to bridge the gap between business and wisdom and to re-poetize our societies for a world of harmony in our common human destiny. He delivers inspiring keynotes, poetic speeches and conferences on how to develop the human potential and design new horizons for the future of the planet, in public and corporate events across the world.
With more than 300 poetic stage talks in the last few years, he contributed to the Open Government Partnership, the COP21, Sustainable Brands, a Trillion Tree campaign and the Earth Day amongst other events.
You can check Vincent out:
on his blog to find poetic speeches and travel journeys : https://www.odysseehumaine.com
Website for Chief Poetic Officer events : https://www.vincentavanzi.com
His book "Harmony and the Genius Spot of Mankind" : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07148ZB4H/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
Youtube channel :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZrmSaQs2Yo&index=2&list=PLND7nb9FeMSAA104BAeFEVxR0C6sbbjm8&t=10s
Thank you for Listening!
Lindsay Christianson
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Welcome to the Show Denise Deluca!
Denise is a leading-edge thinker, educator, and practitioner in biomimicry, biomimetics, and business inspired by nature. She creatively combines her grounding in engineering with her passionate vision to bring pragmatism to progressives and rational thinking to radicals. She is equally passionate about bringing radical innovation, co-creativity, and leadership inspired by nature to conventional organizations, catalyzing their journey of radical transformation.
In addition to working with BCI, Denise is Director of the Sustainable Design Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) which is home to the fully online, multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Sustainable Design (MASD) degree that is the first of its kind in the world. Previously, Denise was Education Director at the International Living Future Institute.
DeLuca has also run her own sustainable resource consulting business – Emergent Solutions, was Outreach Director for The Biomimicry Institute, and was Project Lead for Swedish Biomimetics 3000 where she is now a consulting SME.
Denise finds tremendous joy in working with individuals and organizations to re-discover their natural paradigms and to begin the process of realigning themselves and others with Nature and their own human nature, thus releasing their full natural potential. Inspired by Nature, she embraces paradoxes such as creativity & productivity, radical & rational, profound & practical to help create and share emergent abundance. And she has a particular fondness for pinecones.
Contact: [email protected]
>> Check out Denise’s online course “Biomimicry Basics” and her book Re-Aligning With Nature
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Today we welcome Simon Mainwaring !
Simon is Australian, married for 25 years, and has 2 daughters. When he's not wrestling with language, he likes to spend all his time in the ocean
Simon is the CEO and founder of We First, a company committed to building businesses as a force for good.
He is a deep believer in the power of storytelling to help positive change at scale.
His vision is to help companies use story telling to create shifts in thinking and behavior that will drive growth and increase their positive impact.
He believes that we each have a personal responsibility to play an active role in creating the change that we want to see in the world.
The most highly underleveraged tool for doing so is a business.
He says, we only know what we're truly capable of when we consistently put ourselves outside of our comfort zone.
By doing so, you find fulfillment for yourself and hopefully get to inspire others.
After many years in the advertising industry struggling to find my own sense of purpose., he came to crossroad.
One that leads him on a journey of self-discovery. It was only when I got out of my own way did I allow what I was meant to do to show up
Tune in and listen to get some insights from Simon's journey.
AND be sure to check out some of Simon's great work here; www.WeFirstWorks.com
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Hey Hey Hey. My Guest today is Luni Libes, the serially persistent Start Up Master.
Luni is a 25+ year serial entrepreneur, (co)founder of six companies.
His latest startups are Fledge, the conscious company accelerator, where he helps new mission-driven for-profit entrepreneurs from around the world navigate the complexities between idea and customer revenues, and investorflow.org, an online service connecting impact investors.
In addition, Luni is Entrepreneur in Residence and Entrepreneurship Instructor at Presidio Graduate School and an Entrepreneur in Residence Emeritus at the University of Washington’s CoMotion, the center for innovation and impact.
Luni is author of The Next Step series of books and podcasts, guiding entrepreneurs from idea to startup and The Pinchot Impact Index, a way to measure, compare, and aggregate impact.
You can also check him our here lunarmobsicuit.com, fledge.co, and investorflow.org
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Our guest today is the nomandic Joe Lannen of the location indepent who founded and runs Tree Tribe.
Joe likes to focus on the awesome as the mantra he lives by for an optimistic, grateful, positive state of mind.
So listen up if being an imact nomad is interesting to you ; )
Tree Tribe, an outdoor lifestyle brand that plants 10 trees on every sale. They focus on eco friendly apparel and have planted about 200,000 trees in 11 different countries.
He started Tree Tribe as a way to give back to the Earth by creating eco friendly products and planting trees through the business.
Joe wants to inspire people to appreciate nature and spend more time outdoors, and to grow Tree Tribe into a large successful business that does awesome things for the planet.
Outside of business, he's into nature, hiking, reading, writing, living in new countries, and playing music.
Joe is an advocate for social entrepreneurship and has given multiple talks on the subject, including at the 2016 Nomad Summit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHuWQ55vXBA
Thanks Again Joe, I loved having you as our guest!
You can check him out at: treetribe.com, treetribe.com/collaboration, instagram.com/treetribevibe.
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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.