Impact at Scale

EP 55 - Mayur Singh - a co-Founder at Green Collective - Choose Your Own Route

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The Social Innovation Podcast was joined by Mayur Singh, a co-Founder at Green Collective and a Founding Partner at IxSA.

Mayur truly embodies the title of this week's episode. From a young age, he has chosen his own route both in what he wanted to study and in his career. Coming from a background in investment banking, Mayur has combined his love of sustainability and a for profit mindset to develop a retail as a service concept in Singapore.


This week's episode is guest hosted by Zal Dastur. Zal, has been an entrepreneur for the last 14 years and has turned his attention to helping solve the climate crisis in the best way he knows, helping for-planet businesses develop and grow. As an active advisor and investor Zal has impacted dozens of companies in the climate space helping them to reach their potential to do the maximum good for the planet.

Some of the topics covered in this episode:

  • Going against the family tradition
  • Being a doctor or an engineer
  • Finding Ikigai
  • How frustration leads to a business
  • Taking a step into the unknown
  • The growth of Earth Day
  • Government's power to push awareness
  • Sustainability as a way of doing business
  • The changing face of consumer products
  • How to make sustainability more inclusive
  • Consumers buying into sustainable products

    • Other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. Find My Own Ikigai
    2. Maths or Biology
    3. Never Scared of Thinking Against the Tide
    4. A For-Profit Mindset
    5. When Will your Home Be Uninsurable?
    6. We Need Consumer Demand for Large-Scale Change
    7. I Would Love a Carbon Tax
      8. ...more
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      Impact at ScaleBy Hosted by Zal Dastur and Produced by Michael Waitze Media
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