Get On Purpose with Karen James

In this episode, we are in conversation with Katrina Dunn, CEO of Grameen Australia, and Giles Gunesekera, CEO of Global Impact Initiative. We are carrying on with our central thesis of the intersection of the sense of purpose letter and this new thinking of being an authentic leader in connecting your head and heart and what it looks like in their businesses.

In this episode:

• Katrina’s thoughts on the existential crisis of corporates all over the world and the tension between what the role of the company is and the tension between shareholder and customer primacy.
• Giles’ discussion on the services and vision of Global Impact Initiative and the “bottom-up push”.
• The Women and Girls Fund - what it is and how it works.

 

Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

1. Think about how you can solve a social problem using some of your business skills and being able to take that to market in a sustainable way.
2. Have a look at superannuation accounts and look at where that money is invested and see if it is in line with their values and purpose and if not, talk to your superannuation fund about your investing options.

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Linked In - Katt Dunn

Website - Grameen Australia

Linked In - Giles Gunesekera

Website - Global Impact Initiative

 

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In this episode, we are in conversation with Katrina Dunn, CEO of Grameen Australia, and Giles Gunesekera, CEO of Global Impact Initiative. We are carrying on with our central thesis of the intersection of the sense of purpose letter and this new thinking of being an authentic leader in connecting your head and heart and what it looks like in their businesses.

In this episode:

Katrina’s thoughts on the existential crisis of corporates all over the world and the tension between what the role of the company is and the tension between shareholder and customer primacy.

Giles’ discussion on the services and vision of Global Impact Initiative and the “bottom-up push”.

The Women and Girls Fund - what it is and how it works.

 

Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

Think about how you can solve a social problem using some of your business skills and being able to take that to market in a sustainable way.

Have a look at superannuation accounts and look at where that money is invested and see if it is in line with their values and purpose and if not, talk to your superannuation fund about your investing options.

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Linked In - Katt Dunn

Website - Grameen Australia

Linked In - Giles Gunesekera

Website - Global Impact Initiative

In this episode, we discuss the conscious leader and the kind of character needed to lead a conscious company.

In this episode:

• Learnings from the Conscious Company Leaders Forum.
• Redwoods and how it can be likened to leaders.
• What is a conscious leader?
• Candour in the world of leadership.
• Important questions asked in the forum and how it leads back to the character of the conscious leader.
• Key difference of a conscious leader.
• The importance of vision, time and action.

 

Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

1. What reactions do you need to replace with decisions on how you live your life?
2. What practices are you going to implement in your daily routine to be a conscious leader?
3. Who are you going to hang out with to make sure you’re accountable, to uphold and lift you up to be a conscious leader?

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Conscious Company Media

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In this episode, we discuss why leaders need to create and encourage a garden that seeds social intrepreneurship within their organisations and the long-lasting impact and benefits it can deliver.

In this episode:

• Getting started in social intrepreneurship – see where the need is your community.
• The importance of cultivating a garden that welcomes and encourages social intrepreneurship within your organisation.
• Creating a point of difference and higher employee engagement by creating a garden within your organisation to cultivate social intrepreneurship.
• The importance of leaders to speak the language that welcomes social intrepreneurship.
• The need to go way beyond the transaction and your job.
• The long-lasting impact of building capabilities with your employees.
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Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

1. What are you seeding to grow social intrepreneurship?

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Cultivating the Social Intrapreneur

5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process Course

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In this Episode, we look further into Larry Fink's A Sense of Purpose open letter to CEOs letter where he discusses the intersection between purpose and strategy and the link between the two of them.  

Today we look at two things that everyone can do to bring their strategic vision to life - Say It and Pay It.

In this episode:

• Understanding that what we say matters and it can make it different.
• Is your sense of purpose coming out in what you speak?
• The importance of speaking a language between your heart, head, and gut.
• The importance of ensuring compensation for your people, executives and board members are inline with your goal of long-term strategic growth

Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

1. Say It - review what you are saying - What did you say today that you wished you hadn't? Is in inclusive or exclusive?
2. Pay It – review how you are paying people

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In this Episode, we look further into Larry Fink's A Sense of Purpose open letter to CEOs letter where he discusses the intersection between purpose and strategy and the link between the two of them.  

He also discusses the need for your company's strategic framework to look at global trends such as slow wage growth, raising automation and climate change and how they are going to affect your potential for growth long-term.

In this episode:

• Why purpose without strategy is like a jar of jelly beans.
• The danger of noise in the long-term success of your company.
• The importance of having Diversity of Thought within your leadership.
• How you compensate people’s needs to be linked to your strategy and purpose.
• The need for a long-term value framework, which is always evolving and the need for depth and controls behind it to ensure it is being executed.
• The need for leaders in your organisation to connect with their heart, head, and gut.

Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

Review your Strategic Framework – is it in alignment with your purpose and vision?

Links mentioned in the show:

Educating Girls

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In Season 1 we talked about you and creating your blueprint, Season 2 was with conversations with people who are living their purpose and with this new third Season, we will explain closely the intersection of three areas - capital markets, global needs and human behaviours and how they all work together.

In Season 3 I will talk about three people I follow closely Blackrock's CEO Larry Fink, Marvin Oka and Professor Muhammd Yunus.  

In Larry's 2018 open letter to CEO A Sense of Purpose he talks about why all corporations need a long-term growth strategy of stakeholder engagement on a global platform and the need to move away from short-term pressures.

"Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential. It will ultimately lose the license to operate from key stakeholders. It will succumb to short-term pressures to distribute earnings, and, in the process, sacrifice investments in employee development, innovation, and capital expenditures that are necessary for long-term growth. It will remain exposed to activist campaigns that articulate a clearer goal, even if that goal serves only the shortest and narrowest of objectives. And ultimately, that company will provide subpar returns to the investors who depend on it to finance their retirement, home purchases, or higher education."
Larry Fink

 

Today's GOPA – Read Larry's 2018 and 2017 open letter to CEOs A Sense of Purpose

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Today we recap the lessons learnt and powerful messages shared from Season 2 of the Get On Purpose Podcast.

 

In this episode:

• Knowing the power of one  and making the impossible possible with Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Professor Muhammad Yunus.
• Helping entrepreneurs to tell their story, find their identity and own who they are in their business with John Beckett from Seed.
• Taking a stand, one issue at a time with Melinda Tankard Reist from MTR.
• Symon Brewis-Weston highlights the importance of creating leaders one person at a time, the dangers of comparison and knowing there is no ‘but’.
• Taking action to make a change, being curious and living to your values with Abigail Forsyth from sustainability company KeepCup.
• How to approach fear, exploring what is possible and the importance of putting yourself first for now and your future self by Heather Swan from Baseclimb.
• Fighting the good fight, integrity and being authentic with Therese Kerr from the Divine Company.
• Get on Purpose action (GOPA): What is your power? What is sitting in your hand?

 

Links mentioned in the show

Professor Muhammad Yunus interview with Karen James

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Today on the podcast we have the unique privilege of being in conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Professor Muhammad Yunus talking about his own purpose and valuable view on building social businesses to solve global problems. We also discuss his new book A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions.

Professor Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.

In this episode we discuss:

• Professor Yunus’ purpose that includes focus on reforming the education system so that young people can discover their purpose as well as get the knowledge to reach their full potential whilst creating positive change in the world.
• Professor Yunus’ designed his purpose by simply wanting to be useful to another person. When he found he was useful to one person, he realised his solution was relevant to more than one person and started helping more than one person and expanding to solve global problems.
• That no problem is a local problem, everything is a global problem.
• Professor Yunus' leadership style focuses on stubbornness to ensure you can work with those who can't yet see the value in your solutions to be successful in creating change.
• The importance of belief and faith in your cause, so that all ‘impossibles’ could be ‘possibles’.
• How Professor Yunus’ new book 'The World of Three Zeroes' shares the story of his life to help lead you in creating, leading  and operating a profitable social business.
• How only a handful of people control the world's wealth and how this situation worsens with a focus on self interest.
• How to view the world through bifocal glasses with dollar signs in one lens to look after ourselves, but then also a humanitarian lens to look after others through creating social business that solve global problems.
• Finally, we discuss the importance of knowing and using your incredible power.

Links mentioned in the show:

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

On Purpose book - http://karentjames.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/onpurposehub

Twitter - https://twitter.com/KarenTJames

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onpurposehub/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_3QTpU3nQuVpfi503GBIw

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Today I am joined by John Beckett founder and CEO of Seed. His passion is helping individuals and organisations to develop and articulate a clear sense of identity and purpose, and to find the places where their own stories fit with God’s story and God’s purposes.

John is the Founder and CEO of Seed. His passion is helping individuals and organisations to develop and articulate a clear sense of identity and purpose, and to find the places where their own stories fit with God’s story and God’s purposes. Too often people feel like living a life aligned with God’s purposes is too difficult to grasp, so John developed Seed as a vehicle to help give people the agency, support, resources, networks and confidence to create a new chapter to their stories. His hope and prayer is that Seed will help many to step into their God-given purpose, for the sake of the world and the glory of God.

Prior to founding Seed John was engaged in working for social change as National Director of Micah Challenge Australia for almost 6 years. John led and developed a growing coalition of Christian development agencies, churches and individuals to campaign on multiple issues affecting the global poor. He has a Masters in Theology from Regent College in Canada.

John lives in Sydney with his beautiful wife Allie and three daughters.

In this episode:

• John shares his blueprint of his purpose of living God’s purpose for him and to serve others and implement social change
• How John lives his purpose of helping others through his organisation Seed. Seed is an enabler and incubator for social and cultural change that aligns with God's purposes for the world.
• The importance of having a deep understanding of ourselves through stories and how we use those stories to frame ourselves to the outside world that creates your foundation.
• Why it is important to align yourself with everything you do through your deep foundation story
• What daily practices John uses to stay in alignment and lead his team
• The importance of trusting in your feelings to stay in alignment with your purpose
• Why you need to find courage to let go of things that don’t serve you
• The importance of a supportive network and community when making changes
• How to use social media to engage and join in the conversations in the areas you want to change
• Using data to support your intuition and decision making processes
• Measure outcomes and impact, not activity
• Why John recommends carving out time for imagination to enable change and big thinking
• The 10 minute challenge - how can I bless/serve the people in front of me for the next 10 minutes

Today’s Get on Purpose Action (GOPA):

1. Ask yourself who am I and what story are you telling
2. Spend time imagining something different
3. Do the 10 minute challenge three times before the New Year.

 

Links mentioned in the show:

Seed

On Purpose book - http://karentjames.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/onpurposehub

Twitter - https://twitter.com/KarenTJames

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onpurposehub/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_3QTpU3nQuVpfi503GBIw

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