Products With Purpose

In this special episode of Products With Purpose, Eli had a wonderful panel conversation with three amazing entrepreneurs each tackling different problems in the Edtech Space.

Will Fan is the CEO and Head of School at New Campus; a modern leadership school based in Singapore that aims to equip a new generation of critical thinkers and infinite learners.

Renata Sguario is the Founder and CEO of Maxme; a human skills development company that focuses on providing young job seekers with the tools they need to find meaningful work and thrive in their dream job.

Ronan Mac Domhnaill is the Founder and CEO of Cred; a company that helps people build habits of living, learning, and giving that lead to a more rewarding and fulfilling way of life.

Each of these guests are returning Products With Purpose guest who was interviewed on full episodes previously. You can find their episodes below 

To change our future and accelerate the evolution of humanity toward a world where we can all thrive, is there anything more critical than improving the way we learn? For me, it’s probably the most critical area for us to improve.

I hope you enjoy listening to these 3 bold changemakers who are deeply passionate about what they do.

As always please share with someone who would value this conversation, and please support these incredible entrepreneurs with your attention, awareness, and appreciation!

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• How IQ is and will continue to be a very limited measure of value and that we must build EQ much more.
• How do we need to coach and support people to raise self-awareness
• Building humans from the ground up requires intention
• DOING + MAKING MISTAKES + REFLECTION = INSIGHTS (learning)
• The roles of leaders are to recognize potential in others and create more leaders
• The critical importance of role models in our learning journeys
• Bringing people along in our learning and growth
• How the pandemic has shone a light on what has not been working for some time now

-Relevant Links-

• Renata's LinkedIn
• Maxme
• Ronan's LinkedIn
• CRED
• Will Fan's LinkedIn
• New Campus

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Paul Klein founder and CEO of Impakt and Author of Change for Good

Impakt is a B-Corp that helps corporations to benefit from solving social problems that have been identified as UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). They have also helped leading non-profit organizations understand their social purpose and improve their impact.

Paul is a social change advisor, thought leader, and author. Aside from founding Impakt in 2001, he is also the founder of the Impakt Foundation for Social Change, a charitable organization that creates social change by building pathways to employment for newcomers and refugees.

Paul has also written extensively about business and social change for publications including Forbes, the LSE Business Review, The Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the LSE Business Review.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• How Ben & Jerry's story inspired the creation of Impakt
• Simple actionable steps in activating social change
• B-corp as a way of getting out of businesses’ comfort zone
• The core purpose of business and its role in solving our biggest problems

-Relevant Links-

• Paul's LinkedIn
• Impakt

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Change for Good: An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems by Paul Klein
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
• Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Andrew S. Winston and Paul Polman
• Banker to the Poor by Alan Jolis and Muhammad Yunus

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Charlotte Connell, Director of the Climate Tech Ecosystem at Climate Salad

Climate Salad is an active network to boost climate tech companies, in Australia, with tools, programs, and community support. Their vision is to bring out massive climate action by helping companies build products to solve climate challenges to get connected to customers, talent, and investors.

Charlotte founded The Sustainability Collective to democratize sustainability so that all businesses can create positive change for people, the planet, and a prosperous future. She’s also Fishburners Expert in Residence for Sustainability and recently developed the Founder Institute’s first global Sustainability Accelerator program. And mentor for the NFP Climate-Focused accelerator Subak.

An advocate for social change, Charlotte volunteers her time as a Director on the Board of the international charity One Wave which raises awareness for mental health issues through surfing, saltwater therapy, and community. As well as combing her passions for climate and surfing as a board member of Surfers for Climate.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• Building Green Unicorns
• Climate tech also means preparing for climate change impact
• Leveraging the power of community to amplify impact
• Adopting a giving philosophy
• Optimism about hitting the 2030 SDGs

-Relevant Links-

• Charlotte's LinkedIn
• Climate Salad
• Subak

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant
• Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr
• The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Tim Jones CEO of Grow Good

Grow Good specializes in helping teams navigate the B Corp Assessment and get their certification more easily and quickly.

Tim is New Zealand’s 1st qualified B Consultant having successfully completed the training program run by B Lab ANZ.

To date, he has helped close to 100 companies from around the world successfully navigate the B Corp Impact Assessment and is working with new businesses every month to take them through the process.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• B Corp’s assessment or verification process
• What is an Authenticity Gap?
• Balancing Purpose and Profit
• Avoiding Greenwashing, Purpose washing, and Green Hushing
• Bring your team to the B Corp journey

-Relevant Links-

• Tim's LinkedIn
• Grow Good

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs by Ari Wallach

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Soner Haci CEO and co-founder of PONS

PONS is a compact ultrasound technology that can be used by consumers with an AI-driven cognitive function that autonomously performs the risk assessment of health conditions, smart image processing, with a mobile ultrasound device, and reports the findings to doctors.

Soner and his teams are passionate to optimize access to healthcare and improving the quality of life for all, regardless of their location or income so that nobody loses their loved ones to preventable diseases

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• Being twin brothers and co-founders
• Providing resources to take full ownership of your health
• Training a system with continuous data
• The shift from inpatient care to value-based outpatient care
• The possibility of donating PONS to developing countries

-Relevant Links-

• Soner's LinkedIn
• PONS

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose by David B. Wolfe, Rajendra S. Sisodia, and Jagdish N. Sheth
• Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs by Ari Wallach

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Cortland Dahl who is the Chief Contemplative Officer of Healthy Minds Innovation

Driven by a mission to translate science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being, Healthy Minds Innovations is a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which was started in 2014 by world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson.

We see this app as one of the most powerful tools available anywhere for creating positive change for the future. We hope you will find this episode and this app incredibly useful.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• Exciting developments in mindfulness research
• Awareness, insight, connection, and purpose as the key components of mental wellbeing
• Cortland’s amazing life story that led him to this calling
• How Healthy Minds started and was even supported by the Dalai Lama
• Mindfulness as a learned behavior

-Relevant Links-

• Cortland's LinkedIn
• Healthy Minds
• Healthy Minds’ Framework

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Eric Swanson and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
• Mindset by Carol Dweck

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Elliot Taylor CEO and co-founder of ThroughLine

Throughline is a startup on a mission to ease every emotional crisis by providing real-time support on internet platforms. Their first product, findahelpline.com, connects people in crisis to free emotional support from a human in 140 countries.

Elliot is greatly fond of building new things and is perpetually on the hunt for solutions that hit the social impact sweet spot of desirability, impact, and growth.

I love how Elliot talks about adjusting their model as they’ve learned, and the way that they have partnered with huge players like Google to provide help to people in moments when they need it the most.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• Democratization of Mental Health
• Blind spots and realizations in product development
• Accessible, affordable, and meaningful mental help
• Multi-stakeholder challenges: Bringing up the mental crisis conversation
• Principles of product management

-Relevant Links-

• Elliot's LinkedIn
• ThroughLine
• findahelpline.com

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good by Eric Ries
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Elena Escrivá de Romaní Pérez CEO and co-founder of FuelVision

Since Elena and her co-founder ARE pilots, they understand inside & out, up and down, how pilots can affect fuel consumption and thereby the carbon emissions of flights. After their airline went bankrupt due to COVID shutdowns, they decided to put their skills to use to create a tech product that reduced carbon emissions by starting with empowering pilots.

FuelVision assists airlines to decrease their aggregate carbon footprint, by shaping future pilot behavior and narrowing the gap between operational and financial planning. So far the results are incredible.

Elena has 5 years of experience in the aviation industry and in 2020 co-founded FuelVision where she currently oversees product and tech development.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• How they saw pilot support as the lowest-hanging fruit in reducing emissions
• A stark contrast of product outcomes - with and without constant access to users
• While waiting for technology to improve, we need to optimize the use of what we have
• Seeing GDP growth as a positive sign

-Relevant Links-

• Elena’s LinkedIn
• FuelVision

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Think Again by Adam Grant

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Azran Osman-Rani CEO and co-founder of Naluri

Naluri is a digital behavioral health startup that addresses mental health and chronic diseases together, in a preventive, holistic and outcomes-based approach.

Naluri combines behavior science and psychology, data science, and digital design to help members make healthy lifestyle habits stick and delivers clinically significant health outcomes through personalized, coordinated multidisciplinary professional coaching.

Azran was previously CEO of AirAsia X and iflix Malaysia and held leadership roles at Astro, Bursa Malaysia, and McKinsey & Company. He chronicles his leadership challenges, failures, and overcoming adversity in his book, ’30 Days and 30 Years’.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• The realization that mental health and chronic diseases are connected
• Tackling the big 3 problems with current healthcare
• Why we all need to be approaching health holistically
• Naluri’s model to change healthcare at scale
• Taking a 30-year view to personal purpose

-Relevant Links-

• Azran’s LinkedIn
• Azran’s Personal Website
• Naluri

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• 30 days and 30 years by Azran Osman-Rani

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In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Jamie Palmer CEO and co-founder of Social Supermarket

Social Supermarket is a marketplace with a corporate offering including gift boxes in 2018. Since then, they have brought over 150 impact-led brands to the marketplace and delivered tens of thousands of curated hampers and gift boxes globally. Their ambition is that every purchase creates a ripple of positive change in the world.

Jamie has over 12 years of experience working in sustainability in a range of roles including the Global Sustainability Team at EY, sales in renewable energy, and client management in responsible business. Along with his two co-founders, he set up Social Supermarket on the side of a day job and raised angel investment in 2018.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• Making a case for social enterprise
• Social Supermarket’s vision for impact
• The increasing pressure for corporations to change their purchasing priorities
• Placing values front and center in relationships with employees and customers
• Building key relationships in business

-Relevant Links-

• Jamie's LinkedIn
• Social Supermarket

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• How Bad Are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee
• Net Positive by Paul Polman

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