In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Giulio Franzinetti — a 30-year financial services veteran who has spent decades navigating one of the sector's most uncomfortable and rarely spoken truths: that many of the most talented, well-compensated people in finance are quietly asked to push products and strategies that are fundamentally out of line with their values.

Dr. Franzinetti knows this tension intimately — and has lived through it, worked around it, and ultimately built a new vocation helping others do the same.

In this episode:

• The personal challenges and internal torments that high-performing financial professionals face when values and incentives collide
• What it was like to work at Banca Intesa — and the complex realities of trying to rationalise the Catholic Church's investment portfolio
• The story behind the Gum Arabic Fund — a pioneering attempt to create a fair trade commodity fund for one of the world's most essential and undervalued agricultural products
• Why the financial sector produces so many privately conflicted people — and why so few of them ever speak about it
• How personal coaching helps corporate and financial sector professionals reconnect with their values without abandoning their careers
• What "quiet quitting your conscience" actually costs — and how to stop paying that price
• Practical steps for finding alignment between who you are and what you do professionally

The key insight: The financial sector does not lack talented or ethical people. It lacks the structures, permission, and support for those people to act on their values. Coaching and honest conversation can change that — one professional at a time.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — When your career asks you to compromise your values
• 0:X:XX — 30 years inside financial services: what Giulio witnessed
• 0:X:XX — The Catholic Church portfolio: lessons in values and complexity
• 0:X:XX — The Gum Arabic Fund: building fair trade into commodity finance
• 0:X:XX — The personal cost of value misalignment — and how it accumulates
• 0:X:XX — Why coaching is the missing tool for financial professionals
• 0:X:XX — How to find alignment between values and career

👤 About Dr. Giulio Franzinetti Dr. Giulio Franzinetti is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, with senior experience at Banca Intesa and a career spanning banking, portfolio advisory, and impact finance. He worked on the complex challenge of rationalising the Catholic Church's investment portfolio and created the Gum Arabic Fund — a pioneering initiative to establish fair trade structures for one of the world's most essential agricultural commodities. Drawing on decades of experience watching talented professionals silently suffer the gap between their values and their work, Dr. Franzinetti now works as a personal coach for executives and financial professionals — helping them navigate the personal and professional challenges that the industry rarely acknowledges but almost everyone in it eventually faces.

Whether you are a banker, a fund manager, a wealth advisor, or anyone in finance who has ever felt the quiet weight of doing work that doesn't align with who you are — this episode is essential listening.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Leesa Soulodre, Founder and Managing Partner of R3i Capital — an emerging manager at the forefront of deep tech, ESG-integrated venture investing, and the democratisation of private market access. Leesa's radical truth: the most promising investment opportunities are not inaccessible because they are too risky — they are inaccessible because the system was designed to keep most people out.

But a new generation of emerging managers is changing that — and outperforming the incumbents in the process.

In this episode:

• How emerging managers are outperforming traditional VC benchmarks — and why the data supports the shift
• How ESG integration in venture capital is actively delivering financial returns, not just values alignment
• Why microfunds are consistently generating outperformance — and what that means for family offices and funds of funds
• The structural barriers that keep most investors locked out of top-tier venture opportunities — and how to navigate them
• How R3i Capital invests at the convergence of deep tech, frontier science, and sustainable impact
• Why closing the gender and capital gap in deep tech is not just an ethical imperative — it is a return driver
• What family offices and next-generation investors need to know about the emerging manager landscape right now

The key insight: Most institutional VC capital flows to a small number of well-known managers and their networks. Meanwhile, emerging managers — unburdened by legacy portfolios and motivated by track-record building — are taking more decisive positions in better companies at better prices. The data increasingly shows they are winning.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why most investors are locked out of the best opportunities
• 0:X:XX — How emerging managers are outperforming benchmarks
• 0:X:XX — ESG in venture: how values-led investing delivers returns
• 0:X:XX — Microfunds and outperformance: the data explained
• 0:X:XX — R3i Capital's model: deep tech, AI, and ESG product impact
• 0:X:XX — Closing the gender and capital gap in deep tech
• 0:X:XX — What family offices need to know about emerging managers now

👤 About Leesa SoulodreLeesa Soulodre is the Founder and Managing Partner of R3i Capital, a venture capital firm investing at the convergence of deep tech, frontier science, and sustainable impact. She began her career in the Australian Army, gaining early training in risk, systems thinking, and mission leadership. Exventure She has served over 400 multinationals and startups across 19 sectors in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, led companies from seed to $14 billion in enterprise value, and supported the raising of over $200 million in seed to Series C investments. R3i Capital She has worked with over 200 pension funds, asset managers, endowments, and foundations to shape responsible capital strategies and holds a Global Executive MBA from TRIUM (NYU Stern, HEC Paris, and LSE). Exventure She is also a partner of She Loves Tech, an adjunct faculty member at Singapore Management University and IE Business School, and co-founder of the R3i Impact Foundation.

Whether you are a family office, a fund of funds, an institutional investor, or a next-generation allocator looking beyond traditional VC — this episode is essential listening.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with James Arbib — co-founder of RethinkX, founder of Tellus Mater Foundation, co-author of Rethinking Humanity, and one of the most intellectually rigorous and genuinely optimistic voices in the global climate conversation. Jamie's radical truth: the climate challenge is not primarily a problem of will or policy — it is a problem of imagination. And the technological disruption already underway is more powerful than most people have begun to understand.

In this episode:

• Are we doomed? An honest, evidence-based assessment of where humanity actually stands
• What short-term solutions already exist — and why the pace of technological disruption is faster than conventional forecasting admits
• Why adaptation alone is not enough — and how disruption of energy, food, transport, and materials can genuinely solve the crisis
• How five foundational sector disruptions are converging to create the fastest, deepest civilisational transformation in 10,000 years
• Why conventional energy assets are severely mispriced — and what that means for investors right now
• How the Tellus Mater Foundation is working to shift capital flows within the financial system toward truly transformative solutions
• What a systems-based, complex framework reveals about climate solutions that linear thinking misses entirely

The key insight: We are not in an era of incremental reform. We are in an era of civilisational disruption — where costs in energy, food, transport, and information are falling by 10x or more. The question is not whether transformation happens. It is whether we steer it wisely.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Are we doomed? The honest answer
• 0:X:XX — What short-term solutions actually exist right now
• 0:X:XX — Why adaptation alone is not the answer
• 0:X:XX — The five foundational sector disruptions reshaping civilisation
• 0:X:XX — Why conventional energy assets are a bubble — and what to do
• 0:X:XX — Tellus Mater: shifting capital flows in the financial system
• 0:X:XX — Jamie's vision for a world without limits

👤 About James ArbibJames Arbib is a visionary thought leader, historian, investor, and philanthropist dedicated to exploring how disruptive technologies can address humanity's greatest challenges. His background includes studying history at Cambridge and working in finance before focusing on environmentalism and technology disruption. Stellarworld He holds a Master of Arts in History and a Master's in Sustainability Leadership from Trinity College, Cambridge, and is a qualified chartered accountant and former investment analyst focused on utilities. Clay.earth He co-founded RethinkX with Tony Seba — a not-for-profit think tank using the Seba Technology Disruption Framework™ to forecast the scope, speed, and scale of technology-driven disruption across key sectors. RethinkX He founded the Tellus Mater Foundation in 2007, dedicated to supporting sustainability initiatives and influencing capital flows within the financial system. Clay.earth He is co-author of Rethinking Humanity and Chairman of a London-based family office specialising in clean tech venture capital.

Whether you are an investor, a policymaker, a climate professional, or simply someone trying to make sense of the future — this conversation offers something rare: a genuinely grounded reason for hope.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Claudia Segre — economist, gender equality activist, TEDx speaker, and the extraordinary driving force behind the Global Thinking Foundation. Her story of how she founded, funded, and built the Foundation is, as Robert Rubinstein puts it, absolutely brilliant and inspiring.

Claudia's radical truth: financial exclusion is not just an inconvenience — it is a form of violence. And the most powerful antidote is education.

In this episode:

• The remarkable origin story of the Global Thinking Foundation — and why Claudia left a prestigious banking career to build it
• How financial and digital education can prevent economic violence and abuse — particularly for women and girls
• Why Italy's gender equality position lags significantly behind other OECD countries — and what the Foundation is doing about it
• How the Foundation's work maps to SDG Goals 4, 5, and 8 — quality education, gender equality, and decent work
• The Empower Your Life think tank: spreading financial education beyond fund holders to everyone who needs it
• How the Foundation has reached over 20,000 women through free training programmes including Women in the Square
• The connection between financial dependence, economic violence, and mental health — and what breaking that cycle looks like in practice

The key insight: Real care is giving people freedom, not making them dependent. Financial literacy is not a luxury — it is a fundamental human right, and the most direct route to economic self-determination for women and girls everywhere.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — How Global Thinking Foundation was born
• 0:X:XX — 30 years in finance: what Claudia saw and why she acted
• 0:X:XX — Economic violence: the hidden epidemic affecting millions of women
• 0:X:XX — Financial education as prevention: the Foundation's model
• 0:X:XX — SDG Goals 4, 5, and 8 in practice
• 0:X:XX — Women in the Square: reaching 20,000+ women with free training
• 0:X:XX — The future of gender-smart finance and fintech for inclusion

👤 About Claudia Segre Claudia Segre founded the Global Thinking Foundation in Italy and France in 2016, just after the ratification of the 2030 Agenda on the Sustainable Development Goals. With over 35 years of experience in international finance, she worked within IMF frameworks under Christine Lagarde and has focused on Womenomics and Gender Advocacy since 1997. EcoActionMag She carried out her career in leading Italian banks including Intesa, Unicredit, and Credem Group, specialising in international markets and global geopolitical dynamics, and served as a member of the Council of Experts of the VI Finance Commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Global-solutions-initiative She is Vice President of AssoFintech, Co-President of Women7 Italy, G100 Country Chair for Italy in AI, Data and Cybersecurity, and a TEDx speaker. LinkedIn In 2019 she was included in the Forbes Top 100 Italian Successful Women and in 2021 in the Top 100 Global Women in Leadership by GCPIT India. Global-solutions-initiative

Whether you are a philanthropist, an impact investor, a fintech professional, a policymaker, or simply someone who believes financial literacy is a human right — this episode is essential listening.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Arthur Wood, Founding Partner of Total Impact Capital — one of the world's most original and rigorous thinkers on the structural failures of development finance and the urgent need for a fundamentally new approach. Arthur is the "sheriff of impact investing": the person who will tell you exactly what is not working, why, and what needs to replace it.

In this episode:

• Why we are 20% below where we started in 2015 on the SDGs — and what $3.2 trillion of backward progress tells us about the current system
• The twin demographic pillars driving global instability: ageing populations with unfunded liabilities in the West and China, and exploding youth populations in the developing world
• Why humanity is currently consuming 1.7 times the planet's ability to replenish — and what that means for the financial system
• Why the Bretton Woods system, the foundation sector, impact investing, and green bonds are all individually insufficient — and what integration looks like
• How to turn social need into market demand — making the problem the economic opportunity
• The new legal and technological framework required to mobilise "Billions to Trillions" for the SDGs
• What Equity4Humanity is building — and why it may represent the most serious attempt yet to close the SDG financing gap

The key insight: The problems of the 21st century have already been solved somewhere. The challenge is scaling those solutions. The current fragmentation of capital — foundations, DFIs, impact investors, green bonds — each working in isolation — guarantees failure. The new paradigm requires integration, legal innovation, and technology working together at civilisational scale.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — The SDG financing crisis: $3.2 trillion spent going backwards
• 0:X:XX — The demographic pincer: ageing West and youth populations in the developing world
• 0:X:XX — 1.7 planets: the existential arithmetic of resource consumption
• 0:X:XX — Why the current financial system cannot deliver the SDGs
• 0:X:XX — The new paradigm: turning social need into market opportunity
• 0:X:XX — Legal and technological tools for mobilising billions to trillions
• 0:X:XX — Equity4Humanity: what a real systems solution looks like

👤 About Arthur WoodArthur Wood is a co-founder of Total Impact Capital and Founding Partner of Equity4Humanity — a new integrated four-systems paradigm hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, involving over 20 organisations and focused on Impact Investment v.2, aiming to mobilise "Billions to Trillions." Total Impact Capital He is credited with conceptualising the Social Impact Bond, co-creating one of the first layered financing structures (the Eye Fund with Deutsche Bank), and engaging JP Morgan into the impact market. Rfisummit He wrote the UN's report on Impact Investing and the move to Outcome Models for UNESCAP in 2013 and has served as expert adviser to the OECD on the G8 Impact Investing Report, Metrics, and the implications of Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology. Greengrowthknowledge He holds a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics and an MBA from SDA Bocconi and Groupe HEC. Total Impact Capital He is a Sorenson Foundation Global Impact Fellow and TBLI Global Impact Hero.

Whether you are a development finance professional, an impact investor, a policymaker, or a philanthropist who suspects the current system is not working, this episode is essential listening.

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In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Filippo Addarii, Co-founder and Managing Partner of PlusValue — one of Europe's leading experts in social impact finance and socio-economic transformation. With Mario Draghi at the head of a national coalition government, Italy hosting the G20 for the first time, and the EU deploying its largest-ever recovery stake in the country, Filippo argues that Italy offers a unique and timely vantage point on the real potential of impact investing in the post-COVID era.

In this episode:

• Why Italy has become the poster child of the European green transition — and what that means for investors
• How the EU's unprecedented recovery investment in Italy is reshaping the conditions for impact capital
• The new geopolitics of sustainability — and why Italy sits at its crossroads
• Why corporate commitments to the green transition are necessary but insufficient — and what true public-private cooperation actually requires
• How impact investing can bridge the gap between policy ambition and investable opportunity in the Italian market
• The structural challenges and hidden strengths of the Italian impact ecosystem
• What Italy's unique combination of social capital, industrial heritage, and reform momentum means for international investors

The key insight: Every major corporation has made commitments to the green transition. But the ability to cooperate within a shared roadmap — between public institutions and private corporations — is the true challenge. Italy, at this particular moment, is the most important test case in Europe for whether that cooperation is possible.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why Italy is Europe's most important impact investing laboratory right now
• 0:X:XX — The EU recovery plan: unprecedented capital, unprecedented opportunity
• 0:X:XX — Italy as poster child of the European green transition
• 0:X:XX — Corporate green commitments: rhetoric vs reality
• 0:X:XX — The real challenge of public-private cooperation
• 0:X:XX — The Italian impact investing ecosystem: strengths and gaps
• 0:X:XX — What investors need to know about the Italian opportunity

👤 About Filippo AddariiFilippo Addarii is Co-founder and Managing Partner of PlusValue, a leading European expert in social impact finance and socio-economic transformation. During his career he has collaborated with institutions including the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the British Cabinet Office, the United Nations, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. PlusValue He has been an independent advisor on innovation and impact finance to the European Commission since 2007 and co-founded Euclid Network in 2007, serving as its first CEO. Euclid Summit As a member of the Impact Advisory Board of Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, he was an expert adviser on the €1.25 billion programme financing otherwise unbankable clients. Euclid Summit He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna and has completed programmes at INSEAD, Cass Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School. THE ORG He is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, a part-time UCL Industrial Professor, and a European Commission EIC expert.

Whether you are an institutional investor, a corporate sustainability leader, a policymaker, or an impact entrepreneur looking at European opportunities — this episode is essential listening.

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In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz Corzo — the extraordinary founder of Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda, a woman who left a comfortable life as a musician and music teacher in Querétaro City, moved her family to the remote mountains of Sierra Gorda, and built a grassroots movement that has become one of the world's most celebrated models of biodiversity conservation, social entrepreneurship, and natural capital valuation.

Her story is, simply, proof that the impossible is possible.

In this episode:

• Does biodiversity have real monetary value — and what does the evidence from Sierra Gorda prove?
• How to capture the economic value of ecosystems — from carbon and water to scenic beauty and cultural heritage
• How to monetise nature's value in ways that benefit communities, not just investors
• How GESG built a conservation economy that turned landowners into environmental service providers
• Why payments for ecosystem services can transform rural poverty — and what Sierra Gorda has achieved in practice
• How Pati and her team designed the first forest carbon project validated by the Rainforest Alliance in Mexico
• What robust social and environmental return on investment analysis reveals about the true impact of conservation

The key insight: The Sierra Gorda model proves that protecting nature and reducing poverty are not competing goals — they are the same goal. When communities own the land and are paid for its ecological services, conservation becomes an economic strategy, not a sacrifice.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Does biodiversity have a monetary value?
• 0:X:XX — How to capture nature's value: the Sierra Gorda model
• 0:X:XX — How to monetise ecosystem services for communities
• 0:X:XX — The conservation economy: turning landowners into stewards
• 0:X:XX — Carbon credits, water, and the Basket of Ecosystem Services
• 0:X:XX — Social and environmental return on investment: the evidence
• 0:X:XX — Replicating the Sierra Gorda model globally

👤 About Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz CorzoA former music teacher, Pati moved her family to the rural Sierra Gorda from Querétaro City in the 1980s, and in 1987 co-founded Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda with Roberto Pedraza Muñoz and local citizens to build a grassroots movement for the conservation and regeneration of the region. Sierragorda In 1997, GESG successfully led civil society efforts for Sierra Gorda's declaration as a protected area by President Zedillo — the only protected area in Mexico created through civil society action. Ruiz Corzo was named its Federal Director and served until 2009. Sierragorda She has engaged more than 34,000 people in community environmental education, soil restoration, and conservation, while hundreds of families receive over $2 million annually from the sale of carbon credits. Sierragorda Her awards include the 1996 Ashoka Fellowship, the 2002 Rolex Award, the 2012 National Geographic-Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation, and the 2013 UNEP Champions of the Earth Award for Empowering Poor Communities and Spearheading the Green Economy. Grokipedia

Whether you are an impact investor, a conservation finance professional, a philanthropist, or a policymaker — this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about the true value of nature.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt — founder of KUNO Leadership Community, former international CEO of global brands including IKEA and Georg Jensen, and one of the most compelling voices on the urgent need to transform how we think about leadership, purpose, and value creation in the 21st century.

Her radical truth: you cannot be a great leader in 2026 by optimising for profit alone. Purposeful leadership — aligned with all stakeholders, sustainability, technology, and globalisation — is not an ethical choice. It is a business imperative.

In this episode:

• Why the current leadership framework is no longer fit for purpose — and what needs to replace it
• What purposeful leadership actually means — and how it connects economic growth with positive impact on the world
• How to build trust at scale — within organisations, across industries, and for the next generation of leaders
• The three forces every leader must integrate today: sustainability, technology, and globalisation
• Why "humans before machines" remains the most important principle in the age of AI and digital transformation
• Lessons from 30+ years leading global organisations across Japan, Europe, China, and the US
• How KUNO's philosophy and storytelling methodology help leaders unlock their purpose and align their organisations

The key insight: In a fast-changing world, it is no longer enough to aim to be the best in the world. Leaders must aim to be the best for the world. That requires a new value proposition — and a new kind of trust.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why the current leadership framework must be transformed
• 0:X:XX — What purposeful leadership actually looks like in practice
• 0:X:XX — Building trust at scale: lessons from 30 years of global leadership
• 0:X:XX — Sustainability, technology, and globalisation: the three forces reshaping leadership
• 0:X:XX — Humans before machines: leadership in the age of AI
• 0:X:XX — The KUNO philosophy and why storytelling is its core methodology
• 0:X:XX — The next generation of leaders: what they need and how to develop them

👤 About Eva-Lotta SjöstedtEva-Lotta Sjöstedt founded KUNO Leadership Community in 2019 to build a global sense of trust for the next generation of leaders, drawing on 30 years of experience as an international leader, CEO, and board member. Kunolc She has served as CEO for global brands including IKEA — where she led digital transformation across 38 countries — and Georg Jensen, with experience spanning Sweden, Japan, the Netherlands, and Europe. LinkedIn She currently sits on the boards of Metro AG in Düsseldorf, Elisa Corporation in Helsinki, and is Chair of the ESG Committee at Alliance Pharmaceuticals. Kunolc She holds an Executive Leadership Programme qualification from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of The Movement of Trust, published in 2021. Entity 247

Whether you are a CEO, a board member, a next-generation leader, an impact investor, or anyone who believes business must be a force for good — this episode is essential listening.

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#PurposefulLeadership #EvaLottaSjostedt #KUNO #Leadership #ESG #ImpactInvesting #Sustainability #Trust #TBLI #RadicalTruth #FutureOfLeadership #StakeholderCapitalism #DigitalTransformation #BusinessForGood #NextGenLeaders

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Simon Clark and Will Louch — the two Wall Street Journal investigative journalists whose reporting brought down Abraaj, one of the world's largest impact investment firms, and whose book The Key Man became one of the most celebrated financial exposés of our time.

Their story is not just about one man's fraud. It is about the entire impact investing ecosystem — its promise, its vulnerabilities, and the urgent questions every investor and policymaker must now ask.

In this episode:

• How Arif Naqvi built a billion-dollar impact empire by telling the global elite exactly what they wanted to hear
• How Bill Gates, Western governments, the World Bank, the UN, and dozens of elite institutions were deceived
• What the Abraaj scandal reveals about the structural weaknesses of the impact investing sector
• How an anonymous whistleblower led Clark and Louch to one of the biggest financial frauds in modern history
• What hundreds of documents and interviews with 150+ people — including 70 former Abraaj employees and a Vatican cardinal — revealed
• What the Abraaj case means for due diligence, governance, and accountability in impact investing going forward
• Whether "capitalism for good" is a genuine force for change — or a cover story for the same old greed

The key insight: Arif Naqvi separated billionaires and institutions from their wealth by appealing to their private belief that they could make money while doing God's work. The Abraaj scandal does not prove that impact investing is impossible. It proves that without rigorous governance, transparency, and genuine accountability, good intentions are not enough.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — How the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairy tale
• 0:X:XX — Who was Arif Naqvi and how did he build his empire?
• 0:X:XX — The whistleblower: how the investigation began
• 0:X:XX — What the documents revealed: fraud, theft, and racketeering
• 0:X:XX — The role of elite institutions: due diligence failures exposed
• 0:X:XX — What the Abraaj scandal means for impact investing today
• 0:X:XX — Can capitalism truly be a force for good?

👤 About Simon Clark & Will LouchSimon Clark is a journalist and author based in London, whose investigative reporting has taken him to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, the copper mines of Congo, and the banks of the City of London. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. Amazon Will Louch is a finance reporter at Bloomberg News in London, previously a Wall Street Journal reporter covering private equity in London and New York, and before that a European politics correspondent in Brussels. Amazon Together, they gathered information from more than 150 people, including 70 former Abraaj employees, business chiefs, politicians, and a Vatican cardinal. Kirkus Reviews The Key Man was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year and named one of The Economist's best books of 2021.

Whether you are an impact investor, a fund manager, a philanthropist, a policymaker, or anyone who wants to understand the real vulnerabilities at the heart of sustainable finance — this episode is essential reading.

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Could accountants save the world — and why haven't they already?

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Sara Olsen, founder of SVT Group and one of the most influential practitioners in the global impact management profession. Sara has spent over two decades doing something the broader impact sector says is impossible — measuring, managing, and verifying social and environmental impact rigorously, at scale, and in ways that actually drive business decisions and financial performance.

Her radical truth: the tools exist. The profession exists. What is missing is the will and the skill to use them.

In this episode:

• How to measure and verify social impact — practically, rigorously, and at scale
• Why impact accounting is not just an ethical framework but an essential driver of financial performance
• How accountants might just save the world — and what that requires of the profession
• How to get professionals doing high-quality impact accounting and management quickly
• What SVT Group's work managing $9.9 billion+ in assets has revealed about what actually works in impact management
• How Social Value International is working to change the way society accounts for value — and what that means for ESG standards globally
• What firms with a genuine impact focus — like Techstars, Mission Driven Finance, and Angels of Impact — do differently from the rest

The key insight: We do have the tools to understand the impact of the global capital marketplace in all its diverse and complex reality. Those who claim we don't are either uninformed — or giving investors and businesses a convenient excuse to keep ignoring what matters.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why impact accounting is the missing lever in sustainable finance
• 0:X:XX — How to measure and verify social impact in practice
• 0:X:XX — Why impact accounting drives financial performance
• 0:X:XX — How accountants might just save the world
• 0:X:XX — What 7,000+ professionals trained in impact management have learned
• 0:X:XX — Social Value International: changing the way society accounts for value
• 0:X:XX — How to build the impact management profession at speed and scale

👤 About Sara OlsenSara Olsen is the founder of SVT Group, a pioneering impact management advisory firm whose work has been used to manage the impact of $9.9 billion+ in assets. She has trained over 7,000 individuals in impact measurement and management skills. Impact Entrepreneur A champion of the emerging impact management profession, she serves as board member and methodology co-chair of Social Value International — the international standards body working to change the way society accounts for value — and as SVI's liaison to the Impact Management Platform, which harmonises leading ESG and impact disclosure and management standards. Impact Entrepreneur She has been recognised twice as one of America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs by Bloomberg Businessweek. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Sara founded SVT Group in 2001, has taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MSW from the University of Chicago. SVT Group

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