The Impact Equation

The Impact Equation

By Rafi Addlestone and Adam PikeBusinessEntrepreneurshipScienceNon-ProfitEarth Sciences
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The Impact Equation episodes

  • 77up
    Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests.

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    23 min
  • Nigel Topping: Legend of the Climate Movement
    In this episode we're joined by a legend of the climate change movement. Once a Cambridge mathematician, manufacturing executive and then on to the UN high level climate champion for COP26, Nigel Topping has spent decades bridging the gap between factory floors and the likes of the Paris Agreement. Now, as chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, Nigel is steering the UK towards its 2050 targets with the same data-driven precision he once used as a Cambridge mathematician.

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    41 min
  • Kruti Bharucha: From McKinsey and the IMF to transforming education in India

    This is the next episode in our latest series with our friends at 100X Impact. Kruti Bharucha is CEO of Peepul, bringing over two decades of leadership across some of the world’s most demanding institutions from McKinsey and the World Bank, to the IMF becoming an advisor to global CEOs on finance, risk and organisational performance. She could have stayed in global boardrooms. Instead, she chose to take that firepower into the education system. Kruti leads Peepul, an NGO that works shoulder-to-shoulder with state governments to improve education at scale across India. In Delhi, they run exemplary schools while driving system-wide reform across more than 1,500 primary schools. In Madhya Pradesh, they support 300,000 teachers across 100,000 schools and help to deliver the Chief Minister’s flagship school reform programme. 

    In this conversation, we explore what it really takes to make a difference in the classroom, influence governments, and make a lasting impact. 



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    45 min
  • Seaweed can save us, with Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez

    In this episode, Adam and Rafi speak to Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, co-founder and co-CEO of Notpla, a company replacing single-use plastic with materials made from seaweed. What began as a student experiment has become a manufacturing business operating across nine countries, supplying packaging to stadiums, global brands, and major food service providers. Notpla has been recognised with the £1 million Earthshot Prize, alongside awards from Fortune, Time, and Wired. Notpla has grown from a speculative invention to working with companies like Just Eat Takeaway and Compass Group, and replacing 35 million units of plastic so far.



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    47 min
  • Nick Hurd: the Big Society & fourth generation Conservative MP
    Nick Hurd is the fourth consecutive generation Conservative MP in his family, the UK's former Minister for Civil Society, and he now chairs the Foundation for Social Investment and the GSG Impact network, which spans 48 countries. In this episode, Nick shares his family's tradition of public service (his father was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary), former Prime Minister David Cameron's vision for the Big Society, the growth of the UK’s social investment market, and the creation of the National Citizen Service (NCS). Looking to the future, Nick talks about the growth of the global impact economy, the role of government, and why long-term change is dependent on patient leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and cross-party support.

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    44 min
  • The Finkelsteins: From the Shoah to lives of service
    To mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on 13th April, Rafi and Adam interview three remarkable figures in British public life: Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, and Dame Tamara Finkelstein DCB. The children of two survivors who endured the camps of the Holocaust and the wastes of the Siberian Gulag, they have together risen to eminence in journalism, the civil service, and science, making a truly significant impact to Britain and the wider world. Recorded before a packed audience at JW3, London’s Jewish cultural centre, this is the first time all three siblings have appeared together in a public conversation of this kind.

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    1 hr 27 min
  • Nick Atkin: AI, Affordable Homes and Yorkshire

    As Chief Executive of Yorkshire Housing, Nick Atkin leads the region’s largest provider of affordable, eco-friendly homes. He also chairs major regional partnerships and is pushing the government to treat housebuilding as a national priority. His team is at the vanguard of using data, sensors and AI to make housing services work better for the people living in those homes. In this episode of The Impact Equation, Nick joins Adam and Rafi to talk about why housing matters so much to health, dignity and life chances, and why leaders in the sector cannot afford to get stuck in spreadsheets and slide decks.



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    37 min
  • Rhea Yadav: 7m users in 40 countries

    This is the first episode in our second series, Scaling Tomorrow's Social Unicorns, with 100x Impact. Rhea Yadav leads impact and strategy at Wysa, the AI-led mental health platform that has supported more than 7 million people across 95 countries. She founded the organisation’s impact business and now works across governments, health systems, NGOs and employers to take evidence-based mental health support into places where care is scarce.



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    42 min
  • 70up
    In their latest wash up episode, Adam and Rafi reflect on recent episodes to explore how systemic change happens at a local and global level. They discuss the "triumph of place-based localism" through Simon Case’s work in Barrow and Claudine Blamey’s community-led flood resilience at Aviva, emphasizing that impact is most effective when rooted in the reality of people's lives. They examine the power of "harnessing capitalism for climate," contrasting Alyssa Gilbert’s focus on scaling innovation at Imperial with Luke Leslie’s investor-led approach to carbon markets and nature-based assets. The conversation also highlights the human side of leadership, from Madlin Sadler’s evidence-based humanitarian work at the IRC and Edward Timpson’s navigating of complex legislative systems for children's services, to Ed Davey’s "clear-eyed hope" regarding international cooperation and land use.

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    25 min
  • Madlin Sadler: Delivering humanitarian relief across 40 fragile countries

    What does it really take to deliver humanitarian aid in the world’s most fragile places? In this episode of The Impact Equation, we sit down with Madlin Sadler, Chief Operating Officer at the International Rescue Committee - an organisation working at the sharpest edge of conflict, disaster and displacement.

    Madlin offers a rare, inside view of what it means to operate in over 40 of the world’s most crisis-affected countries; where systems have broken down, need is accelerating, and resources are shrinking. Madlin shares what it looks like to deliver vaccines to children in remote conflict zones; how humanitarian organisations make impossible decisions when funding is cut; why evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scale matter when lives are at stake; and why, despite everything, she still feels lucky to do this work.



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    36 min

About The Impact Equation

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Welcome to The Impact Equation, conversations with leaders shaping a brighter future, hosted by Adam Pike, social entrepreneur, and Rafi Addlestone, impact advisor, With our special…