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 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 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 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 […]

25 years ago, Dr Sabitha founded the CMR Group, one of Bangalore’s leading private educational institutions with nothing more than a passion, interest and instinct. Today CMR educates over 17,000 students at any one time. Dr Sabitha’s relentless focus on the needs of young people has been the magic ingredient behind CMR’s success. During our […]

Dr Isabel Rimanoczy is a psychologist and executive coach turned management academic, and a leading international authority on sustainability mindset. She is Convenor of the United Nations PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset. During our conversation we discuss the relationship between a legacy mindset and a sustainability mindset, the importance of intentionality, the role of […]