The Blue Marble

As one of the pioneers in the crowdsourcing ad space, Epi Ludvik has established himself as a radical thinker and leader in crowdsourcing. As a global citizen, Epi has worked with clients throughout Asia, Europe and the US and understands the purpose-driven influence the crowd economy can have, not only on brands, but also on the greater society. With this knowledge and experience Epi founded Crowdsourcing Week in 2013. Since the first CSW Global conference in 2013, over 20,000 people from 75 countries have attended various CSW events, marking them as the crowdsourcing events to attend.

A serial entrepreneur since graduation, Epi creates the strategies needed to leverage the crowd and drive exponential business growth.

You can find our more or contact Epi on the following links:

https://crowdsourcingweek.com

https://sg.linkedin.com/in/epirot

John started his working life as a professional soccer player, having played for England schoolboys, but was forced to retire from this sport following a serious injury, after which he pursued a career in finance.

He achieved a first place in the ACCA Accountancy Examination and worked in the motor and advertising industries before joining Heuga, moving to Holland with the Company in 1978 as group finance director.  He transferred to Sales and Marketing during the eighties with profit responsibility for just about every part of Heuga (now Interface) stretching from Western Europe to Australia and Japan.  In addition, he pioneered the opening of a number of businesses for Interface in Eastern Europe in the early nineties.  He also helped to develop and initiate a strategy to enable Interface to become the first name in industrial ecology and a truly sustainable enterprise.

Since retirement, John has set up and helped to develop a number of successful businesses in the following business sectors: change management consultants, a nursing home group specialising in care for mentally ill patients, a company specialising in development of software products for the recruitment industry, a business to business mobile/landline communications company, a digital advertising company and a tennis centre incorporating a top tennis academy.  He also advises several other companies and in a number of cases has been appointed chairman of the board.

He chairs the board of a growing company, which provides a performance improvement product and service to the NHS and is engaged in leadership development and coaching with senior management of a significant hospital trust.

Investigating homicides, leading international teams into scenes of crisis and disaster is not your normal path to global keynote speaker and business consultant. It was this unique path that provided insights into leadership which are so different yet offer relevant reflections and learnings to businesses facing change, growth or challenges of their own.

Peter Baines worked in countries following major crisis including Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. His grounding came from two decades as a forensic investigator that saw him unravel the mysteries and discover the secrets of criminals thought rested solely with them.  Prior to finishing his career as a forensic investigator he would spend time working with both Interpol in Lyon, France and the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime advising on Counter Terrorism and capacity building.

But it was the work in Thailand that brought the biggest change. In response to the needs of the children left without a home or parents he would form Hands Across the Water and commence fundraising in Australia to build them a home.  Ten years after starting the charity he now spends much of his time helping other charity leaders through The Growth Project and advises business on how they can and indeed should benefit from their engagement with their community partners through corporate social responsibility programs.

If you'd like to speak with Peter to enquire on his services or support his charity, you can do at his website.

On this episode we speak with Fredrik Haren, The Creativity Explorer, who is an author and global keynote speaker who speaks on business creativity and human innovation, on embracing disruption and change, and about the importance of having a global, human mindset. He has been invited to speak at over 2,000 conferences and internal events in 70 countries, across six continents of the world, and usually speaks in 20 to 35 countries per year.

Fredrik is the author of 10 books, the most significant ones being The Idea Book which has sold over 200,000 copies (self published), and which was included in “The 100 Best Business Books Of All Time”.

Fredrik is driven by his Inner Theme: “Humanity to the Power of Ideas” and he believes in the potential of humanity and in the power of human creativity. He is passionate about helping as many people as possible reach their full creative potential.

He travels all across the globe to learn as much as possible about humanity’s ability to have and develop great ideas. From North Korea to South Africa, and from the vast plains of Mongolia to Silicon Valley, he goes do the most exotic and undiscovered places in the world as well as to the hotspots of global innovation.

For the last 20 years he has interviewed thousands of creative people from all walks of life, and inspired over a million people from the stage.

His latest video: "Join The Creativity Explorer. Discover your full creative potential.” : Watch it here

Simon Meyer is a successful serial entrepreneur operating in the recruitment space in Australia just on the cusp of launching his new start-up Compono.

He has also joined the advisory board of Task - and we're very happy to be bringing his expertise and advice to the Task team.

In this podcast we examine the role of purpose and value in businesses, whether the affects of Covid-19 will see increased need for purpose within the work place, and how the investments landscapes might change as a result.

If you'd like to speak to Simon, contact him via LinkedIn or get in touch via the Compono website.

On this episode of the podcast we speak with Samridh (Sam) Goyal. Sam founded Singapore based Solar Horizon back in 2014, a solar leasing company operating in south east Asia. He’s a leading voice in cleantech, and earlier this year Sam was recognised amongst the 50 Global Green Leaders by the World CSR Congress in Mumbai, India.

We talk about solar and where the industry is heading as well as touching on the current impact of Covid-19, a somewhat unavoidable topic for all of us right now. You can find out more about Sam and Solar Horizon at the website: Solar Horizon

We originally spoke to Dr Matt Yoxall at the beginning of 2019, hearing about his experiences working with NGO's helping to reduce trafficking, being part of theatre groups in Chin State, and his emerging work with corporates on the power of story telling. That podcast can be found under the title - Why we should all tell stories (published 31.1.19). In this episode we go in to greater depth on that corporate work and how attributes such as silence, play a key role in top level communication.

For more on Matt Yoxall visit his website: https://dryoxall.com

In the episode of the Task podcast we talk to Rosalind Grubin from SeedTribe.com.

SeedTribe believe that "business can be our most powerful driver to enact meaningful and positive change in the world."

Rozzy talks us through the background of SeedTribe, success stories, the thinking behind impact investing and what they hope to achieve as an organisation which extends services beyond just finding start-ups investment.

Visit SeedTribe.com to speak to their team, and enjoy our conversation with Rozzy.

On todays episode I am speaking with Craig Ryan, an actor and producer based out of LA. Craig first came to Thailand in 2017 to shoot an action film in Bangkok, Haphazard. I met him shortly after that and we worked on my own film project, Dark Karma. We talk movies of course, Thailand and travel, as well as covering some of Craigs up coming projects. You can find out more about Craig at his IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7477601/

LEGEND is a word frequently used by people when they talk about Graham Gold, one of the most influential and ground breaking DJ’s ever on London’s Kiss 100. 5 years in the DJ Mag Top 40, when it truly meant something, over 700,000 mix albums sold (6 x British Phonographic Institute artist) and played in clubs and festivals in over 150 cities across 50 countries. Fast forward to 2019, and whilst those heady days of global fame are gone, he remains very much a recognised name as a dance music pioneer, and as such plays his deep house, progressive house, progressive trance and melodic techno at all of the parties on Koh Phangan, Thailand where he now lives including Guys Bar, Eden Garden, LostParadise, Loi Lay, Maya, Addict and Lighthouse

Graham previously ran the Koolworld, Peach and Good:As record labels where he took numerous tracks from the underground and turned them into commercial successes. One of his biggest singings was Mat Darey’s ‘Liberation”’ which made the UK Top 20. Good:As also managed the UK & Ibiza diaries of Armin, Tiesto and Ferry Corsten from 1998-2001. He was a sought after TV presenter and hosted the clubbing TV show ‘BPM’ which aired on the UK’s number one commercial channel as well presenting a few shows from WMC for MTV.

Graham has been a DJ his whole life and lived through disco, soul, jazz funk and was there at the beginning of the house music phenomenon. In 1985-1986 after years on London’s Pirate radio stations he presented the soul show on London’s Capital FM ahead of his move to Kiss 100FM. His real ‘craft learning years’ were at Gullivers in London’s Mayfair from 1980-1989 where he played 6 nights a week, 7 a hours a night to the capitals movers and shakers. It’s no wonder clubbers and the whole industry call him a legend! He is to be found in the global online dictionary WIKIPEDIA.

www.grahamgold.com

www.facebook.com/DJGrahamGold

www.soundcoould.com/dj-graham-gold

twitter.com/DJGRAHAMGOLD