Shape the System

In our first foray into a fashion related impact led company we talk to Marshall Conley from Slo Jeans about how they are turning the traditional fast, disposable fashion model (business and marketing) on its head.

They have somehow pioneered a model that intersects bespoke, hype and sustainability (you'll have to listen to hear how they did it)

Slo Jeans are at https://slojeans.co/

Mountain of fast fashion clothing

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In our first formal interview under a new format, focused on conversations with impact led specialists, we speak with Jessica Marati Radparvar from reconsidered. She and her team at reconsidered operate at the intersection of strategy and change management, especially as it applies to mid to larger established organisations who are trying to shift to be more impact led.

Reconsidered is at https://www.reconsidered.co/ and their new program is at Sustainability Change Agent Accelerator

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

How do you enable and empower the next generation of impact led founders? You have to meet them where they are to help them solve the problems they understand and/or experience first hand by running a global network of impact focused accelerator programs.

The individuals best placed to solve the challenges in their local community are typically furthest from the resources and support we tend to think of for early stage founders. The Watson Institute helps to bridge this gap 

Watson Institute - https://watson.is/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

We completely unpack the retail energy market with a focus on the multi-tenant property market (retail spaces, aged healthcare etc), a cohort who traditionally have had virtually no way to pull levers to either improve their energy mix or energy prices.

We uncover how the high market volatility has decimated some of the options previously available and how the energy grids and business models simply haven't kept up with the seismic shift to renewables.

Finally, someone explains to me (and all of us) what 'the grid' actually is and we get a first look at Rex Energy's groundbreaking X1 technology that has enabled some early customers to be over 90% renewable ongoing.

Rex Energy - https://rexenergy.com.au/

About the Show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

We talk to Subpod founder Saadi Allan about how households hold the key to dealing with a huge amount of our food waste and how community is key to their mission to make composting a part of everyday life.

How dealing with food waste in a decentralised way creates a massive lever avoiding not only food waste itself but also the energy and resources required to achieve centrally.

Saadi talks at length about how community came first and the product itself followed.

Subpod - https://subpod.com.au/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

Understand how Giant Leap intersects impact and the high risk funding that is early stage venture investing.

Will Richardson. managing partner of Giant Leap, talks us through  how the changes in the world in the last 5 - 10 years has created a perfect storm for not only impact led ventures but impact lead venture investing.

With a mission of backing mission-driven founders solving the world's most pressing problems Giant Leap  has backed some of the best known founders and companies coming out of Australia on a thesis that investing for impact outperforms

We dive into a discussion of how Giant Leap actively work through not only the investment and governance but also the data and lens over the impact these companies set out to create.

GiantLeap - https://www.giantleap.com.au/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Show Links

Episode Link

Listen on Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shape-the-system/id1493362479?ls=1

Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OY3ZDbU5xWA==

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4KYGy7KyxEYgxiiNRRXbFZ

Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5KYBtEZWucvATSHcwGw1w

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 44 Rob Rastovich joins to talk about how his venture (Thinglogix) is using an array of sensors and the data they produce to understand from river to plate the nature of the food supply which addresses the huge levels of interdependency within the food supply.

How sensors and data across the food supply can transform the way we consume food and avoid wasting it.

We learn how the interdependency starts to transition to a source of network effects that have the potential to transform the way we produce, transport, store and sell food.

ThingLogix - https://www.thinglogix.com/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Show Links

Episode Link

Listen on Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shape-the-system/id1493362479?ls=1

Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OY3ZDbU5xWA==

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4KYGy7KyxEYgxiiNRRXbFZ

Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5KYBtEZWucvATSHcwGw1w

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In Episode 45 we speak with Marc Champagne of the INvested Podcast, Behind the Human and author of Personal Socrates.

A new format of mini-interview we are testing where we find interesting people who are adjacent to our core founder / venture interview format

Marc is also working with KPMG High Growth Ventures on a mini-series at the intersection of founder performance (and stress) and the investors that back them so we took the. opportunity to talk about the challenges and stress of running early stage companies, the impact of these stressors on the humans and the company in general and how founders and their investors are identifying and tackling these challenges

Marc Champagne - https://www.behindthehuman.com/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Show Links

Episode Link:  https://shapethesystem.org/episodes/marc-champagne-invested-podcast

Listen on Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shape-the-system/id1493362479?ls=1

Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OY3ZDbU5xWA==

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4KYGy7KyxEYgxiiNRRXbFZ

Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5KYBtEZWucvATSHcwGw1w

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

At the intersection of finance and sustainability, you will find Bloom Investing.

The Bloom Impact Fund helps to drive the adoption of investment in the clean energy sector.

Today we chat with Blooms co-founder Camille Socquet-Clerc about empowering people to understand the impact of investing sustainably.

If you want to learn more about our energy systems, the shift we need to meet climate change forecasts head on, and the scale we need to adopt new, clean technologies to see real impact, this is the episode for you.

Follow Bloom Impact

https://www.bloom-impact.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloom_impact/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bloom_impact

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloomImpactInvesting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloom-impact-investing/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Gy7Q8upB_tKJUvgWrJoBQ

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloom_impact

About Shape the System:

Find and tell the stories that inspire more people to rethink the way the world works. We interview people from all over the world who are changing our systems.. this might be food, energy, finance, education, health, environment, charitable.. anything really. They may be involved as founders or CEOs or providers to the specific vertical. The ventures they operate may be non-profit or for-profit but they will have found a way to create success, sustainability, and impact.

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realize their potential and the potential of their team and their business by connecting them to the expertise, skills, and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support and independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Show Links

Episode Link https://shapethesystem.org/episodes/camille-socquet-clerc-ceo-of-bloom-investing

Listen on Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shape-the-system/id1493362479?ls=1

Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OY3ZDbU5xWA==

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4KYGy7KyxEYgxiiNRRXbFZ

Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5KYBtEZWucvATSHcwGw1w

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 42 we talk to Peter Brennan, one of the four founders of Heaps Normal, a non-alcoholic beer company with a mission to change drinking culture that is now the leading non-alcoholic beer and brand in the space

Whilst there is some discussion around the product (find out just how they managed to brew an alcohol free beer that tastes great!) the super interesting system shaping that is happening here involves brands and how they have the power to change narratives which helps us to rethink our traditional modes of thinking, some of which have been set from a super early age.

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]