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Social impact trailblazer Lisa Kleissner co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation, Toniic, and Hawaii Investment Ready, all key players in the movement to bring down the barriers to impact investing. Lisa also brings her two decades of experience in impact investing and philanthropy to her work as a board member at Aqua-Spark and Real Good Fish. During this episode, she shares her story.Tuning in, you will learn about her holistic approach to her work and her commitment to end siloing in the impact investment space. We touch on allocating appropriate returns and why the answer is often none at all. Lisa shares her thoughts on the role of government and the private sector in helping to move the needle and finding the middle point between what people think they want and what is truly necessary.For full show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/lisa-kleissner/The spring cohort of the Next Economy MBA is officially open! Save 20% when you register before 1/29 with our early-bird sale ➡️ https://lifteconomy.com/mba
Seite an Seite arbeitete Charly Kleissner vor mehr als 25 Jahren mit Steve Jobs zusammen und trieb die technologische Revolution im Silicon Valley voran. Heute ist Charly Kleissner Impact Investor. Er glaubt, dass die wahre Bedeutung von Reichtum darin besteht, einen positiven Beitrag für die Menschheit und den Planeten zu leisten. Er ist einer der führenden Vertreter der Deep-Impact-Bewegung, die nicht nur die Symptome unseres scheiternden Wirtschaftssystems behandelt, sondern dessen Ursachen. Charly sieht Impact Investing nicht als eine intellektuelle Übung, sondern als Ausdruck dessen, was es wirklich ist. Im Podcast-Interview, das LIVE in der Regionalbank Raiffeisen Schwaz aufgenommen wurde, spricht Charly Kleissner mit Podcast-Host Robert Pacher über das scheiternde System, Spiritualität, seine Werte, Purpose und wie man es schafft, sein Ego beiseite zulegen. ⬇️ **Charly Kleissner** Impact Investor, Co-Founder Toniic & KL Felicitas Foundation und Mitglied des Club of Rome
In this episode we dive into: > How Charly's work with Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley informs his path to challenging the status quo and what is needed for true systems change > Defining success from having it all to being who you are meant to beThe essence of consciousness at the beginning and end of life > Intentionality and the choices we make on a daily basis > Practices of mindfulness that contribute to impact > Systems change and the Deep Impact Movement > Why ESG is not Impact Investing (ESG is 'the not contributing to harm (maybe)' in the three bullets above when investing. It considers environmental, social and governance factors in investment decisions vs. Impact Investing which is about contributing to solutions), and > Impact investing as a path to awakening consciousness About Charly Kleissner Charly Kleissner is an impact investor. He believes that the fundamental and real meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. He is a leader of the deep impact movement which is not only treating the symptoms of our failing economic system, but its root causes – with a level of awareness and consciousness that is non-anthropocentric, acknowledging that humanity is part of the evolutionary process, not outside of it. He sees impact investing not as an intellectual exercise, but as an expression of who he really is. Dr. Kleissner co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation, Social-Impact International, the Central European Investment Ready Program, and Hawai'i Investment Ready, which help social entrepreneurs worldwide accelerate and increase their impact. Dr. Kleissner co-founded Toniic, a global network for impact investors and Toniic's 100% Network, a global group of asset owners dedicated to 100% impact, currently representing over $6 billion in assets that are actively moving into impact. Dr. Kleissner serves as a full member of The Club of Rome, as Chairman of the Board at ImpactAssets, on the Board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Proof of Impact, and on the Advisory Board of Chi Impact Capital, Industree Foundation, Impact Hub Tirol, MCI Business School, Commonland, 4L Capital and Rainfall. Dr. Kleissner has over twenty years of experience as a senior technology executive in Silicon Valley. He held executive and senior engineering management positions at Hewlett-Packard, NeXT, RightPoint, and Ariba. Dr. Kleissner earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Vienna. Learn more about Charly: charlykleissner.com LinkedIn Connect with Stephanie: ▶︎ WEBSITE | https://www.stephanietrager.com ▶︎ YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/c/stephanietragercatalysttalks ▶︎ INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/stephanietrager ▶︎ LINKEDIN | https://www.linkedin.com/stephanietrager ▶︎ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/stephanietrager --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/catalyst-talks/message
Philanthropic investment funds are far less helpful than they would lead us to believe. This means that investing for the good of humanity needs to follow a different model. Today, we explore a concept called impact investing with Dr. Charly Kleissner, a novel approach he has been developing over the last 20 years that prioritizes impact over returns. Over this time, Charly has started KL Felicitas Foundation, Toniic, and ImpactAssets, three groups that try to orchestrate impact investing in different ways. This episode takes place in two parts. The first focuses on Charly’s investment philosophy and why he thinks the system is broken and needs an overhaul. In this section, we use the term Deep Ecology as a springboard to understand Deep Impact investing and how it presents an alternative investment model that is not born from an anthropocentric philosophy. We explore why philanthropy and ESG’s actually have a net harmful impact, how social impact bonds and tokenization of impact present a way forward, and the steps Charly’s different companies have taken to get impact investing off the ground. The second section of the show dives into the other half of the equation, a consciousness revolution Charly believes needs to happen before humanity can take the steps required to live in a way that benefits rather than harms the planet. For many insights into the world of investing and the channels that exist there as well as inside ourselves, be sure to tune in at one of the links below:Listen on SpotifyListen on Google PodcastsListen on Apple PodcastsRead the full summary here!
Advocacy started early for Lisa Kleissner. During her high school days in Hawaii, she pushed for environmental causes, earning the ire of school administrators when bringing in scientists and activists who challenged prevailing wisdom. Kleissner’s desire for change continued throughout her life, culminating in her founding of the KL Felicitas Foundation. Together with her husband Charly, she supports entrepreneurs who have the vision for a business with a social mission but require the mentoring, funding, and technical services to become viable. Her motto is, “change moves at the speed of trust.” After leaving an abusive first marriage, she went back to university, studying hard and looking for the next risk to take. She met and married Charly, building a life and supporting socially conscious capitalism. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website for more inspiring stories: www.TrailBlazersImpact.com and FOLLOW US! Subscribe to our email list to get all our latest podcasts directly to your inbox: http://bit.ly/2ZBeoW9 Did this episode get you thinking? Please share your thoughts with us at hello@trailblazersimpact.com Keep in touch with Trailblazers Impact here: Twitter: @TrailblzrsImpct Facebook: @TrailBlazersImpact Instagram: @trailblazersimpact LinkedIn: TrailBlazers Impact Podcast Rated #27 in Pretty Progressive: https://prettyprogressive.com/inspiring-podcasts-for-women-in-their-20s/ Rated #2 in Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/trailblazers_podcasts/
Joining us today on the Season 2 finale is Lisa Kleissner, co-founder of The Toniic Institute, KL Felicitas Foundation, and Hawaii Investment Ready. She'll be talking to us today about her pursuits to expand impact investing on both the local and global levels. From her beginnings in Hawaii and success in Silicon Valley to being a pioneer in the field of impact investing, Lisa has stayed true to her values in the midst of many challenges. Lisa is changing the landscape of financial investment and helping XLR8ALL by showing how impact investing can pay dividends financially and socially. This female investor is tackling the industry's inclusivity problem by investing in and impacting the communities that need help the most. We'll find out how she defines success in impact investing and how it can be expanded globally. Plus, we'll hear her take on how the financial industry can bridge the gap and promote inclusivity through transparency. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startup-catalyst-podcast/support
Dr. Charly Kleissner is a pioneer in the field of impact investment. He believes that the deeper meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. Dr. Kleissner co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation (www.klfelicitasfoundation.org), and Social-Impact International (www.social-impact.org), which help social entrepreneurs worldwide to accelerate and increase their impact. Dr. Kleissner co-founded...
Dr. Charly Kleissner is a pioneer in the field of impact investment. He believes that the deeper meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. Dr. Kleissner co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation (www.klfelicitasfoundation.org), and Social-Impact International (www.social-impact.org), which help social entrepreneurs worldwide to accelerate and increase their impact. Dr. Kleissner co-founded Toniic and the 100% Impact Network, global networks for impact investors. Dr. Kleissner serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Global Hub Company (www.the-hub.net), and as Board Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee of ImpactAssets. In this extended and wide-ranging interview, Charly paints an exciting picture of the state of impact investment today, talks about the importance of “deep impact investing”-and shares his abiding belief in the potential of changing the financial system to build a better world. Charly talks about his experience at TONIIC and the 100% impact network and highlights the results that have been achieved at the KL Felicitas Foundation (that impact investors can construct a 100% impact portfolio and achieve competitive financial returns in all asset classes while making a big impact). Charly highlights some of the important work the Foundation is doing supporting the impact investment ecosystem. Finally, he discusses how modern portfolio theory should be re-conceptualized to integrate positive impact. (This is edited version of an interview posted on the Financing Social Entrepreneurs podcast.) The post Episode 43: Dr. Charly Kleissner, co-founder KL Felicitas Foundation, discusses the power of “deep impact” investing and the importance of developing a new post-modern portfolio theory that includes impact appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.
Dr. Charly Kleissner is a pioneer in the field of impact investment. He believes that the deeper meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. Dr. Kleissner co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation (www.klfelicitasfoundation.org), and Social-Impact International (www.social-impact.org), which help social entrepreneurs worldwide to accelerate and increase their impact. Dr. Kleissner... The post Episode 23: Interview with Dr. Charly Kleissner, co-founder KL Felicitas Foundation appeared first on Financing Social Entrepreneurs Podcast.
In our first episode we speak with Dr. Charly Kleissner Dr. Charly Kleissner is an early pioneer of impact investing and has had a successful career in Silicon Valley, where he moved to from Austria in the mid-1980s. Charly and his wife, Lisa co-founded the KL Felicitas Foundation to support social entrepreneurs around the world by scaling impact enterprise, and educate and empower impact investors. For more information on Charly and Lisa’s work, please visit the KL Felicitas website at http://www.klfelicitasfoundation.org
In our first episode we speak with Dr. Charly Kleissner Dr. Charly Kleissner is an early pioneer of impact investing and has had a successful career in Silicon Valley, where he moved to from Austria in the mid-1980s. Charly and his wife, Lisa co-founded the KL Felicitas Foundation to support social entrepreneurs around the world by scaling impact enterprise, and educate and empower impact investors. For more information on Charly and Lisa’s work, please visit the KL Felicitas website at http://www.klfelicitasfoundation.org
TRE Podcast – The Responsible Capitalist – Charly Kleissner Hear Responsible Capitalist Charly Kleissner, co-founder of the KL Felicitas Foundation and Carol Sanford discuss how the financial system, and specifically impact investing, can leverage humanity to form healthy relationships with the finite resources on our planet. Toniic and the 100% Impact Network, which Kleissner co-founded as […] The post TRE Podcast – The Responsible Capitalist – Charly Kleissner appeared first on Carol Sanford.