Martin Rich is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Future Fit Foundation. He is an international thought-leader, solution-builder and speaker on sustainability, impact and responsible investment.

The Future Fit Foundation is a non-profit organisation whose vision is a future in which everyone on Earth can flourish. The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is a free tool to help companies and investors transform how they create long-term value, for themselves and society as a whole.

Highlights of this episode:

Useful links:

Martin Rich Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-rich/

Future Fit Business - http://futurefitbusiness.org/

Future Fit Business Benchmark - http://futurefitbusiness.org/about-the-benchmark/

Framefork For Strategic Sustainable Development -http://www.alliance-ssd.org/framework-for-strategic-sustainable-development-fssd/

Sir Ronald Cohen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RonaldMouradCohen

Bridges Fund Management - https://www.bridgesfundmanagement.com/

Volans - https://volans.com/

B Corp -https://bcorporation.uk/

Shell Foundation - https://shellfoundation.org/

Friends Provident Foundation - https://www.friendsprovidentfoundation.org/

Paul Boateng - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boateng

John Elkington - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnElkington(business_author)

Chapter: 

[03:13] What is impact investing?

[12:16] What impact am I having on the world?

[20:04] Moving from One to Three Dimensional Investments

[24:48] "The purpose of a system is what it does"

[26:53] Taking time to realise the interconnectedness of the system

[30:02] How do businesses become Future Fit?

[33:59] The framework for strategic sustainable development

[36:26] Breakeven goals and reinforcing boundary conditions

[48:42] Being open source so people can challenge

[54:59] Changing conversations in organisations and purpose of companies

[1:00:27] What is the forward-looking journey from investors and companies point of view?

[1:05:55] How we can encourage investors going on the impact journey?

[1:12:03] Changemaker programme to change companies and growing the community

[1:16:11] How do you fit it with BCorp? Future Fit Business's business model

[1:20:36] Being a charity and working with grant funders

[1:24:21] Who inspires Martin Rich? Faith and having a higher purpose and having mentors

[1:34:40] What makes a good leader?

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Kate Wolfenden is the co-founder of Project X, a WWF founded corporate accelerator which helps organisations adopt sustainable innovations in their supply chains. 

Their focus is to help entire industries step change their sustainability performance, aiming at shifting $1.3 trillion in purchasing power from unsustainable sources to sustainable sources by 2030. The vision for this programme is to radically reduce the environmental footprint of 10 industry value chains in 10 years. 

Kate is an innovator at heart, she believes in system optimisation and system change. She believes that the change in the next 11 years are the most important for humanity.

Highlights of this episode include:

Useful Link:

Project X Global - https://projectxglobal.com/

Kate Wolfenden Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/katewolfenden/

Marcela Navarro CEO of Project X - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcela-navarro-1769bbb/

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco - https://www.fpa2.org/accueil.html

Jean Baptiste Oldenhove of Estari Group- https://www.estarigroup.com/

Mungo Park of Innovator Captial - http://www.innovator-capital.com/

Carl Pratt of Future Planet - http://www.futureplanet.rocks/

Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance - https://www.gavi.org/

John Elkington of Volans - https://volans.com/

Kerry Adler of Skypower - https://skypower.com/

Christiana Figueres and Global Optimism- http://globaloptimism.com/

Chapters:

[02:12] Systems optimisation and systems change

[05:32] Access to Finance

[07:54] Sustainable Finance and Investment Corporation - Mungo Park

[12:17] About Carl Pratt and Future Planet Rocks community 

[13:50] Working with John Elkington of Volans, founder of the triple bottom line

[15:51] Project X, how it works

[19:19] Feed X, enabling sustainable ingredients

[23:45] Scaling innovation within a corporation

[26:54] How impact investors can get involved

[28:49] Estari Group's investment thesis and system change approach

[31:45] Future Planet Rocks and Fast Forward 2030 events

[33:53] Kerry Adler of Skypower on having faith and hope

[37:41] Trust, forgiveness & Hope

[38:06] Ban Ki-Moon on getting coherence at a global level 

[39:58] Project X Report

[42:29] Who is Kate? Being an entrepreneur and asking why?

[46:28] What it means to be a leader?  

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Katz is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and pioneer. She built the first open innovation platform for HP, re-architected the way a UN agency does business and designed a behaviour change platform with Intel that connected mobiles, big screens and data. 

She now heads up beep: the Behavioural Empowerment Enterprise Platform. By 2028, beep will improve the life of 500 million employees, add $1 trillion to the global economy and support 20% of positive impact towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. beep is in raising a seed round now and is EIS pre-approved. 

A visible voice in the digital transformation, innovation and behaviour change arena, she keynotes at global conferences including TED, SXSW and the Chief Strategy Officer Summit. 

She believes doing good is good business and is a proud ambassador for the Burning Man Foundation. 

Highlights of this episode include:

Useful Links:

We Are Beep - https://wearebeep.com/

Dan Ariely - http://danariely.com/

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland - https://www.media.mit.edu/people/sandy/overview/

Burning Man - https://burningman.org/

Global Sustainability Network - http://gsngoal8.com/

Chapters:

[01:00] What is Katz background?

[01:45] Creating the first open innovation competition for HP in 2003

[05:00] Working with the UN

[04:00] Intrapreneur change agents 

[06:30] Lessons from changing the UN

[10:22] How to create change in large organisations

[13:00] Importance of ownership and making people care

[13:00] Sandy Pentland and social physics experiments 300x altruism

[14:50] Dan Ariely’s predictably irrational 

[15:40] 80% Failed transformation projects costing us $11Trillion every year

[18:18] What is Burning Man

[21:42] How to help large organisation

[26:21] Tools for organisations to be empowered

[30:53] Global Sustainability Network solving SDG 8.7 to end modern slavery

[33:32] Reaching out to enlightened CEOs

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Andrew Parry is Head of Sustainable Investing at Hermes Investment Management. 

In this episode of Impact Leaders, Andrew shares his insights from years of experience in sustainable investing and why he is optimistic about the direction where we are heading. Responsible investing has always been at the core of Hermes, and they have been at the vanguard of ESG investing for more than three decades. Hermes is in fact a founding signatory of the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) when it was launched by the UN in 2006.

Hermes was established in 1983 as the principal manager to the BT Pension Scheme and, as of December 2018, it managed £33.5 billion of assets and engaged on £389.4 billion in assets. The company now employs 200 investment and stewardship professionals, with 448 total staff, in its London head office, Singapore and New York.

What sets Hermes apart is the focus on stewardship in impact investing. Andrew says, “we don’t want to be absentee landlords”. They have been actively engaged with government, shaping policy and standards as well as recognising the need to create demand for positive impact. 

Highlights of this episode include:

Useful links:

Hermes Investment Management - https://www.hermes-investment.com/

Andrew Parry’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-parry-bb48a79/

Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy) - https://orsted.co.uk/en

PRI Principles of Responsible Investment - https://www.unpri.org/

UNEP FI Positive Impact Initiative - https://www.unepfi.org/positive-impact/positive-impact/

Chapters:

[4:10] Pivotal moments and changes in the last 30 years?

[11:45] Long history of Hermes Investment Management in impact

[19:50] Behaviour change on the demand side

[27:00] More people want to engage in ESG

[30:00] We need to think about stranded business models

[33:00] How to differentiate between traditional ESG funds and Impact funds

[43:00] Why it is important to think about impact narrative 

[46:00] We are still a long way away in aggregating product level to company level impact

[40:00] Engagement, education, transparent reporting

[55:00] Importance of answering the why question

[58:00] Hurdles to promoting impact investing, not just excluding oil and gas assets

[1:03:00] How we can help encourage business model transition as a way of future growth

[1:05:00] Scaling impact investment to achieve SDGs

[1:10:00] What drives Andrew Parry? What is leadership to Andrew? 

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Tom McGillycuddy is the cofounder of Tickr, an impact investment app built for the next generation of investors. Tickr is on a mission to prove that anyone can earn money and have a positive impact at the same time with as little as £5.

Highlights of this episode:

Useful links:

Tickr app - https://tickr.co.uk/

Tom McGillycuddy's Linkedin -https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-mcgillycuddy-cfa-1a588037/

Tom McGillycuddy's Twitter - https://twitter.com/TomMcGilly

Chapter:

[2:25] How did Tickr came about?

[6:00] Highs and lows and advice for cofounders

[7:50] Having experienced advisors

[9:00] Creating the app and coming up with MVP, launching the app on Apple and getting feedback

[14:00] Getting on an internal email of Lloyds Bank

[18:00] Storytelling of company profiles

[19:00] How does Tickr work?

[21:20] Revenue model of Tickr - the 30 sec walkthrough

[23:30] Where do you invest the funds in?

[27:00] Users are buying the story and emotion not the data

[30:30] Millions of individuals impact investing every month

[31:00] Fundraising meetings and angels

[35:00] Tickr's 5 year vision and their funding round

[36:00] The Monzo and Revolut effect

[38:00] What drives Tom? 

[42:00] Who inspires Tom?

[45:00] Being an entrepreneur.

[47:00] What makes a good leader? Elon Musk

[52:00] Call to action

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Amy Clarke is the co-founder of Tribe Impact Capital, an award-winning impact wealth management firm and B Corp dedicated to advising and managing private and institutional wealth for financial return, values alignment and positive impact. Tribe adopts the Paris Climate Accord and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) as their impact 'North Star'.

Amy is responsible for working with their clients on values and for leading the work on impact identification and evaluation. She has over 22 years experience in sustainable business, social investment, impact evaluation and social enterprise having spent time at EY, PwC, Microsoft, Bank of America and the Charities Aid Foundation.

Highlights in this episode:

Useful links:

Amy Clarke’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkeamy/

Tribe Capital - https://www.tribeimpactcapital.com/

The Evolution of Wealth - https://www.tribeimpactcapital.com/news/the-evolution-of-wealth/

Raul Pomares of Sonen Capital - http://www.sonencapital.com/team-member/raul-pomares/

Ellen MacArthur - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_MacArthur

Mary Robinson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinson

Chapters:

[02:08] What is Impact Investing?

[07:53] Evaluating businesses with a 360 view for net positive impact

[09:40] Masters of consumer behaviour change - Apple, If you build the Ark, people will come. Externalities are internalities

[13:29] Hacking vs hijacking the system

[14:57] Frustrated wealth holders needed a place to go

[16:34] Rich history of outstanding founders

[20:21] Definition of wealth and narratives around beliefs and values

[26:28] Clients of Tribe Investment - women, millennials and families

[31:20] What is ImpactDNA

[44:16] How to measure impact and being cautious with carbon metrics

[50:48] What is the future of impact investing, is the market cooling down?

[57:08] Who is Amy Clarke? Who or what inspires her?

[1:04:24] What is good leadership?

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Damien Lardoux is the Head of Impact Investing at EQ investors. They are an award-winning chartered financial planner and one of the earliest BCorp in the UK, currently managing over £800 million of funds with £120 million in Impact Investment funds. Historically a wealth management company, they are also a fund of funds for impact investing and act as a portfolio manager. With their own technology and tech team, they are pushing the boundaries of impact reporting with in-house impact measurement frameworks and methodologies. They advise private clients on financial planning and work with financial advisors to grow their impact investment propositions.

In this episode, Damien talks about how EQ investors are leading the change in impact investment amongst institutional investors and private clients. Damien is passionate in spreading the awareness of impact investment and making it available to everyone who wants to invest anywhere from as little as hundreds of pounds a year.

Highlights in this episode:

Useful Links:

EQ Investors - https://eqinvestors.co.uk/

Damian Lardoux’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/damien-lardoux-cfa-2ba94735/

John Spiers on EQ Investors https://youtu.be/CT53Mqdou_w

EQ Investors - Impact Report 2018 - Positive Impact Portfolios

https://eqinvestors.co.uk/library/impact-report-2018-eq-positive-impact-portfolios/

Muhammad Yunus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

Chapters:

[02:09] What is impact investing? How EQ Investors operate?

[09:58] Operating as a Fund of Funds and engaging with underlying impact companies to look at ‘additionality’ of impact

[14:14] Size of fund, in-house research and ROI of impact funds

[19:00] Asset management for impact funds need transparency and clarity on the process

[24:13] Online financial health check for everyday investors

[27:55] Impact reporting from 100 indicators

[33:14] Collaboration to share impact reporting data and the impact of products

[39:00] Key turning points in impact investment history

[43:00] We need $5-7 trillion dollars to achieve UN SDGs, regulation and governments to lead the change

[54:00] Advise to impact companies looking for impact funding

[01:01:00] Who is Damien Lardoux? What it takes to be an impact leader?

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Rodney Schwartz is a leader in impact investing and the founder & CEO of ClearlySo, Europe's leading impact investment bank. He founded the company 10 years ago, the same week in which one of his former employers - Lehman Brothers - collapsed, and it has now helped over 100 companies obtain access to more than £200m in funding. In this episode, he shares his wisdom and experience of decades as an investment banker and pioneer in impact investing. He also highlights some of the challenges that we are still facing to really push the agenda and access to capital, as financial institutions have been more of an obstacle in how capital moves from people with money to people who need money to generate impact.

Highlights in this episode:

Useful link:

ClearlySo https://www.clearlyso.com/

Partners Group https://www.partnersgroup.com/en/

Axa Investment Managers https://www.axa-im.com/en/

Lombard Odier https://www.lombardodier.com/home.html

Bulb Energy https://bulb.co.uk/

IESO Healthcare https://www.iesohealth.com/

Weeding Tech https://www.weedingtech.com/

Third Space Learning https://thirdspacelearning.com/

ClearlySo blog https://www.clearlyso.com/category/blog/

Chapters:

[00:40] Intro

[01:50] What is impact investment?

[04:00] What variables do you look at when looking at impact?

[05:30] Why impact investing is attracting so much money?

[08:40] Growth of impact investing will be from institutional investors.

[10:00] ClearlySo's investor base and deal flow

[11:00] Financial institutions are obstacles to impact investing

[16:00] Bulb Energy - energy sector desperately needs change

[17:45] The UK has developed an amazing startup incubation ecosystem

[20:20] Chamath Palihapitiya on inflated growth

[25:00] Faster growth and VC models are good for impact

[28:00] These are no just startups

[30:00] There is more than enough money out there

[37:00] What can investors do?

[40:00] Fiscal titling - taxing polluters and giving credit to impact

[43:40] What returns can impact investors expect?

[45:50] There is strong evidence that there is no additional cost to impact

[49:00] Taken us 10 years to get to a point where it is sustainable

[52:00] Growing and hiring people to ClearlySo

[55:00] Advice to the younger Rodney

[57:00] How can people help ClearlySo? Where ClearlySo will be in the next 5 years?

[1:00:00] Not being a fortress-like other investment banks

[1:04:40] Impact investment will be ubiquitous in 10 years

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Pooja Warier Hamilton of The Conduit’s Impact Fund is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded UnLtd India where they incubated hundreds of social enterprises. She also co-founded Bombay Connect, India’s first coworking space. Pooja was recognised as a Young Global Leader at the 2013 World Economic Forum.

In this episode, Pooja shares her story of how she went from studying criminology to discovering her entrepreneurial spirit while at university. She also talks about her journey starting from UnLtd London, co-founding UnLtd India and now coming back to London to join The Conduit.

Highlights in this episode:

Useful link:

Pooja Warier Hamilton’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/poojawarier/

UnLtd India - http://unltdindia.org/

Bombay Connect - https://www.bombay-connect.com/

The Conduit - https://theconduit.com/

Chapters:

[03:40] How did you start as a social entrepreneur?

[05:00] Keys to being a successful entrepreneur

[10:20] What makes a good leader?

[12:00] Developing people internally

[13:00] Difference for men and women entrepreneurs

[16:00] Learning to get along as a woman as opposed to being in protest mode

[17:30] Setting up Unltd India and Bombay Connect

[20:45] How do we know which entrepreneurs to back

[24:00] Business planning competition that doesn’t require speaking to customers

[24:45] Measuring of impact

[26:00] What is impact investing?

[27:30] How do you move away from a baby like UnLtd?

[29:40] Transformative impact that changes the rules of the game

[31:00] What has changed in impact investing in the last 10 years

[34:00] What can people do to support this growing ecosystem

[37:00] Making more people aware about impact investing

[38:40] The Conduit is an amazing blend of community

[41:00] Advice for a young entrepreneur

[42:00] Doing things that make you happy

[43:00] We are running out of time with climate change

[45:00] Call to action: The Internet’s Own Boy

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Our first Impact Leader is Martin Leuw of Growth4Good.

Martin leads Growth4Good’s investment strategy and is a serial entrepreneur specialising in digital media with a 25 year track record of driving growth. From 2001-2011, as CEO and significant management investor he grew IRIS Software both organically and via M&A from small beginnings to become the UK’s largest private software house, successfully exiting the business twice to Private Equity, ultimately with a $1bn MBO, having grown EBITDA from £2m pa to £50m pa.

Highlights in this episode:

Useful links:

Martin Leuw’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-leuw-988214/

Martin Leuw’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/MartinLeuw

Growth4Good - http://growth4good.com/

School Space - http://school-space.org/

Digital Mums - https://digitalmums.com/

The Conduit - https://theconduit.com/

Chapters:

[02:20] Always driven by growth

[06:30] Importance of customer experience

[10:10] Building businesses is my canvas

[13:00] Helping businesses to be a force for good that provides exceptional return to investors

[15:00] What is impact and impact investment?

[17:00] Business with a purpose, charities, for-profits and not-for-profits

[19:00] How to look at investment opportunities in businesses

[20:45] Importance of a team with complementary skills

[22:00] Why subscription revenue is key for business growth

[23:00] The Conduit - a community of impact investors

[25:20] Growth4Good focuses on education, employment and healthcare

[26:45] Fundraising vs strategy, door opening and talent

[29:30] Judging the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award

[30:10] Importance of having an A-team

[31:20] Evolution of impact measurement

[32:15] School-Space.org - Airbnb for schools

[37:00] Capitalism Is getting a bad name and businesses can do far better for society

[38:40] Lessons for the impact community

[40:00] Why education, employment and healthcare

[40:15] Call to Action

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