Leading with Social Impact

What is Modern Slavery and why is it important that we as consumers should know about this? Certainly ethical consumerism is on the rise but still most of us are unaware of the conditions in which our products are being produced. The term modern slavery is designed to capture all of the diminished human rights conditions in work spaces that exists around the world which includes human trafficking, forced labour, child labour and others. A multi-billion dollar company can tell you exactly where their products are coming from but can't tell you anything about the humans that are involved in making the products. 

Listen to my conversation with Brian Iselin, founder and CEO of slavefreetrade where their mission is to deliver human rights to workplaces around the world and help consumers like us to make a conscious decision. 

slavefreetrade - https://slavefreetrade.org

The current covid crisis has affected every individual in the world in some way or the other. Especially when it comes to small business owners and social entrepreneurs, it has had a huge impact and threatens their survival in the field. But these challenges are not something new for social entrepreneurs, who try to create a business which is connected to the society. Now more than ever they need to be part of a community where they feel supported and are able to reach out for help or collaborate. Societal innovation plays a big role when it comes to the sustainable development of the world. 

Listen to my conversation with Jesper Kjellerås, founder and director of Impact Hub Stockholm. Impact Hub was founded as Sweden's first co-working place to create a safe environment to foster collaboration and societal innovation. 

Impact Hub - www.impacthub.se

Elephants are such a majestic creature and it is fortunate that we share our world with them. Sadly there is incredible loss of biodiversity that we as humans have influenced and losing elephants as species will drastically shift the ecological system. But it is also a challenge for many economically poor communities through out the world to live alongside wildlife which sometimes has negative impact on their livelihood.  According to WWF, experts estimated that Africa's elephant population had dropped by 111,000 elephants in the span of a decade. 

Join me in the conversation with Dr. Kate Evans, founder of Elephants for Africa where she works to tackle the challenges like elephant conservation, poaching, education and living harmoniously among wildlife. 

Elephants for Africa - https://www.elephantsforafrica.org

"If you want to change the world, you have to start with education". In the ever-transforming era, the need for digital education is very clear but it is a big challenge for underprivileged children and other group of people who do not have access to such online education tools. In the global scale education is still a costly activity and moreover due to the current shutdowns more than 1.9 billion children cannot attend schools. In education, mathematics acts as a starting point to change the world. 

Listen to my conversation with Karolina Lisslö from Mattecentrum who is working to provide free and accessible education to every children and stimulate their interest in mathematics.

Mattecentrum - www.mathplanet.com www.pluggakuten.se www.matteboken.se www.formelsamlingen.se www.mattecentrum.se

Food production industry is one of the largest contributor to GHG emissions globally, i.e. around 30% including supply chain, transport etc. With the ever increasing world population, the proportion of people living in cities will grow up till 80%. Moreover, the current pandemic with closed borders has clearly impacted the supply chain of food industry. We are in need of a much resilient system where we can produce, consume and transport the food in a sustainable manner.

Listen to my conversation with Andreas Dahlin - CEO and Partner at Swegreen, who talks about urban farming and its role to tackle the world's leading problems.

Swegreen: www.swegreen.com

What will you do if you could raise 2 million dollars? We all dream to make an impact in the world and do something good but how and where to start? Social entrepreneurs face numerous challenges and need all the support that they can get to achieve their huge goals. Leaders undoubtedly play a crucial role especially in social enterprises where they have to ensure that the vision and mission of the organisation is not effected by external challenges. It is not always easy and therefore investing in their development always has a lasting impact on the organisation.

Listen to the inspiring story of Carrie Rich, Co-founder and CEO of The Global Good Fund where she works on the leadership development of high potential social entrepreneurs who are tackling the world's biggest challenges.

The Global Good Fund - https://globalgoodfund.org/

In the natural carbon cycle, only 1% of carbon enters back to the soil and rest 99% of carbon goes to the atmosphere during decomposition of plant waste. We all know that carbon is the key element of all life forms but at the same time CO2 emissions are one of the factor for climate crisis. Additionally, the world depends on the top soil for food and the fact is soil degradation is rapidly becoming the biggest challenge of humankind. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation calculated that we have about 60 years of harvests left. What do we do then?

Join me in listening to Henrietta Kekäläinen, co-founder and CEO of Carbo Culture who is working on a technology producing bio-carbon. She talks about how bio-carbon/biochar can be used to capture the carbon in the soil and replenish the degraded soil. Cleaning the air and making healthy soil!

Carbo Culture - https://www.carboculture.com/
Join Carbo Collective - https://carboculture.typeform.com/to/tglAui

Career transition from academia to industry is many times a challenge for PhDs, researchers and other students. Managing our expectations and understanding the labour market is tricky, especially finding the exact field with our expertise. We always tend to underestimate the value of networking which plays a major role not only when looking for a job but also to start your own venture. Researchers want their work to have a greater impact in the society and to do that sometimes you need to take the role of social entrepreneur. 

Join me in conversation with Tina Persson, CEO of Passage2Pro who motivates and helps people in this difficult transition. She talks about the challenges faced by academics and how to tackle this by changing the mindset. 

Passage2Pro - www.passage2pro.com

PhD Career Stories - https://www.podbean.com/site/Search/index?v=passage2pro

Circular economy, a term which is not new to the industry and people, is gaining momentum over the past few years.  The linear model of "Take, Make, Waste" has prevailed for a long time since the first industrial revolution and has waged a terrible battle with our beloved planet. Fortunately, now many business and social leaders are embracing the principles of circular economy and work with the core of its framework - to design out the waste. The World Economic Forum has reported that implementing the circular economy worldwide could yield material cost savings of up to $1 trillion a year by 2025.

Listen to my conversation with Elin Bergman, Circular Economy expert at WWF and Vice President of Cradlenet. She talks about the challenges in transition from linear to circular model and various initiatives such as Baltic Stewardship Initiative and Nordic Circular Hotspot. 

Nordic Circular Hotspot: https://nordiccircularhotspot.org

Cradlenet: http://www.cradlenet.se

WWF: https://www.wwf.se

Global warming is a challenge which we have been facing for a long time. Generally we talk about greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activities like burning of fossil fuels, coal, natural gas and deforestation. We tend to miss out that the leading source of anthropogenic methane emission is animal agriculture. Bill gates recently said that if cattle were a country they would rank 3rd in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. How do we solve this global challenge?

Join me in listening to Fredrik Åkerman, co-founder and CEO of Volta Greentech who found out a way to reduce the methane emissions in cow burp and farts by almost 80%. 

Website: www.voltagreentech.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/volta-greentech
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