Impact Boom Podcast - Social Enterprise & Design

Andrea Gamson shares her experience after founding _SocialStarters, which enables corporate professionals to volunteer their time as social enterprise consultants, after making this transition herself. Andrea also manages the Serious Impact incubator in East London, and provides us with insights for social entrepreneurs.

Lena Belin of public shares her broad experience in the design sector and discusses opportunities for organisations to meaningfully engage with people, leading to stronger outcomes that make a positive difference to society.

Andrew Hamilton of Social Scaffolding discusses consistent gaps where non profits could commonly improve and provides insights into impact investing, effective boards and implementing ideas.

Ben Shemesh of TOM Melbourne talks about the international movement that is facilitating open source assistive technology for people with disabilities.

Sharon Zivkovic of Community Capacity Builders and Wicked Lab discusses the difference between simple and complicated problems, providing communities and governments with insights on how to best tackle complex issues with effective approaches.

Bradley Clair and Nicholas Kamols discuss how they got early traction at Powerwells, sharing insights into their social enterprise journey and what they’ve learnt about the future of business.

The Hon. Shannon Fentiman MP talks about the strong grassroots social enterprise movement in Queensland and how government is creating a Social Enterprise Strategy to help support the sector and ultimately make a difference in the lives of vulnerable Queensland families.

Sabrina Chakori discusses a practical response to the sharing economy, explaining her experience in building the Brisbane Tool Library (based at State Library of Queensland), and talks about how the ‘circular economy’ has become a mainstream term, sometimes misused, and points us to where we should be focussing…

Gabriela Gallardo & Santiago Mejia share their journey in establishing a social enterprise in Australia whose purpose is to foster healthy communities. After participating in Impact Boom’s Elevate+ Program in 2018, they also shed some light on how this has enabled them to maximise their impact.

Louise Aitken of the Akina Foundation discusses what social enterprises need to know to deliver significant impact, she shares her views on how the government can most appropriately support the sector, as well as suggesting the core ingredients at the heart of any good enterprise.