ChangeHackers

My guest today is Michael Cassiers, a Director of CompanyDoctors, which he co-founded in 1998 in order to work with organisations to liberate locked-up potential and to minimise or even eliminate organisational friction and energy losses. They aim for a climate of ‘organisational wellbeing’ best suited to exploiting potential more fully. Over the years, he […]

My guest today is Dr Vanita Viswanath, a Bangalore-based social entrepreneur, organisational mentor and researcher. Passionate about women’s empowerment through entrepreneurship, up to 2014, Vanita was CEO of Udyogini, an NGO she founded in 2000 to develop women entrepreneurs across India. Nowadays, she divides her time as an advisor to Sattva Consulting, as chair of […]

My guest today is Johanna Von Toggenburg, MiyahCon Partnership Co-ordinator for GVC Italia, a leading Italian international development NGO. At the time of this episode posting in June 2018, Johanna has only just joined GVC Italia, having been until very recently with the United Nations as co-ordinator of the Arab Integrated Water Resources Management Network. […]

My guest today is Professor Stuart L. Hart,  the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair for Sustainable Business and Co-Director of The Sustainable Innovation MBA at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business, one of the world’s most radical and pioneering MBA programs which embeds sustainability deep into every business discipline. Stu is one of the […]

My guest today is Jan Van Betten, founder and CEO of Nudge, an Amsterdam-based social business which works to solve social and environmental issues by running leadership programs, consulting and campaigning as well as distributing expertise across their online platform and through their grass roots community of over 60.000 individuals and 300 business partners. Jan […]

My guest today is Alexandre Lemille, a thought leader in circular economics who is challenging what has initially developed as a resource-focused model to propose a ‘Circular Economy 2.0’ (which he also called ‘Human-centred Circular Economy’) by embedding two identified missing dimensions: the social dimension and a measurement of value creation. Alexandre is founder of […]

My guest today is Laura Storm, an experienced thought-leader and international keynote speaker. Laura is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, where she supports their work as an expert in sustainable development and climate change. Laura has led or co-founded a number of sustainability-focused organisations including the Copenhagen Climate Council, the World […]

Dr Josh Tewksbury is Director of the Future Earth Global Hub in Colorado and editor of Future Earth’s in-house magazine, Anthropocene (which is a great read by the way). An ecologist, evolutionary biologist and conservation biologist by training, Josh has over 20 years of active research on the impacts of climate on animals and plants […]

Tim Balcon, CEO of IEMA, arguably the world’s leading membership association for sustainability professionals, including Chief Sustainability Officers from many of the world’s leading companies. From humble beginnings as an apprentice service engineer with British Gas, Tim has overcome self-limiting beliefs to find his way to leading a global community of sustainability leaders. In conversation […]

Dr Arnold Smit is Associate Professor of Business in Society and Head of Social Impact at Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa. Arnold has a varied career in church ministry, business consulting and now academia. He is an international authority on business ethics and a leading commentator and coach on vocational living and ‘whole person learning’.  […]