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Daniela Papi-Thornton is an educator, facilitator, and author whose work focuses on systems-led leadership: an approach to social innovation that centers on systems understanding. Daniela has served as a Lecturer at Yale School of Management, Watson Institute, and Oxford's Saïd Business School where she was also the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She designed an educational tool called the Impact Gaps Canvas used at accelerator programs and social impact education initiatives around the world and launched Map the System, a contest now running at 50+ global institutions. Daniela has served as a consultant, advisor, and leadership training facilitator at a range of enterprises, from public companies to private foundations. Daniela's work builds upon six years of emerging market entrepreneurial experience in Cambodia, running a hybrid educational organization. She co-authored a book, Learning Service: The essential guide to volunteering abroad and an influential report on "Tackling Heropreneurship" and her TEDx talk on Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship highlights some of her thinking.  Social Links    LinkedIn: @danielapapi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielapapi/   X (formerly Twitter): @danielapapi: https://twitter.com/danielapapi 

Get ready for a captivating exploration of the complex world of social impact with our special guest, Daniela Papi Thornton. A distinguished educator, facilitator, and author, Daniela is a luminary in the field of systems-led leadership. She generously shares her wealth of experiences, from running an educational organization in Cambodia for six years to the impact made through her work as an educator and consultant. Our conversation takes a deep dive into the intersection of business models and social impact, the dangers of orphanage tourism, the importance of acknowledging the systems at play in social impact, and the concept of 'Apprenticing with a Problem.' Daniela reminds us of the vital need to change ourselves before attempting to change the world, so we can fully experience the challenges and joys of making a meaningful difference. Key Takeaways: Explore the intricacies of systems-led leadership and social impact Understand the nuanced nature of development work and its intersection with business models. Learn about the dangers of orphanage tourism and the importance of systems thinking. Discover the concept of 'Apprenticing with a Problem' and its significance in social impact. Explore the challenges and joys of purposeful work and making a real difference. Gain insights into Effective Altruism and the concept of Inner Development Goals. Embrace humility and continuous learning in the pursuit of social change. Resources Mentioned: Impact Gaps Canvas Book: "Learning Service" Map the System Daniela's TEDx Talk: Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship Daniela Papi Thornton - Short Bio: Daniela Papi Thornton is an educator, facilitator, and author specializing in systems-led leadership. She serves as a lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder and consults with various educational organizations, foundations, and for-profit companies looking to contribute to systems change. Daniela's extensive background includes teaching at prestigious institutions like Yale School of Management and Oxford's Saïd Business School, where she also served as the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She is the creator of the Impact Gaps Canvas and the driving force behind Map the System, a contest running at numerous global institutions. Daniela's work is informed by six years of experience in Cambodia, where she ran a hybrid social enterprise educational organization. She co-authored the book "Learning Service" and authored an influential report on "Tackling Heropreneurship." Daniela's TEDx talk on "Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship" highlights some of her groundbreaking ideas. Join us for an insightful conversation as we navigate the intricacies of social impact, systems-led leadership, and the importance of understanding the nuances of the problems we aim to solve. Let's dive in!

"How can we collectively increase the quantity and quality of giving to nonprofits, to charities, so that they can raise more awareness, raise more funds, deliver more impact in their communities?"If there's a question that defines Lightful's work, I think Vinay shares it in this.My guest on the Karmic Capitalist podcast this week is Vinay Nair, co-founder and CEO of Lightful. Lightful uses technology to accelerate impact in the social impact sector.He'd just returned from an uplifting conference with the Gates Foundation (took some prodding to get this out - no easy namedrop from Nair!), and he shares with us how that works, and the amplification of good that comes from it.Having a for-profit organisation whose clients are mostly nonprofit can be quite a tightrope to walk, and Vinay shares how Lightful "positively correlate ours income and impact" and the importance of that positive correlation being structural to avoid conflict of interest.Vinay is also Resident Expert at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School (that's some mouthful!), and I probe into what he's seeing in the generation that is coming through Saïd.His shares an uplifting observation. When he's doing a session with students on impact investing or tech for good, they'll pretty much retort "of course, what else - Tech for bad? Non impactful investing?".For them, the default language is "as if it were ever thus or certainly how it must be from today going forward. And I find that powerful inspirational.Vinay is a thoughtful advocate. We run the gamut of business doing good and being profitable, of being a for-profit serving the nonprofit sector, the role of values, and much more.He's an engaging conversationalist. Listen in to this episode of the Karmic Capitalist._______________I host a weekly online workshop with CEOs of SMEs (10 to 100 employees approx) about scaling up, allowing them to step back and do more strategic work, and doing it in line with their values. Max 6 per session so we can have a real conversation.If you'd like to join me, find a date that works for you here. They aren't charged for - you and I will both get value from the conversation.Only CEOs / MDs apply - strictly peer-level conversation.

Sue Bethanis hosts award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget. Paulo is an associate professor at Oxford University's Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. His primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change, and innovation management.The emphasis of his work is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. He formerly served as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Skoll Centre and as an Assistant Professor at Durham University. Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, non-profits, and government agencies in Latin America, and the OECD. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar.Paulo is the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems, a smart guide that offers a behind-the-scenes look at groups around the world that have mastered the art of subverting the status quo.Sue and Paulo discuss: how ‘workarounds' can help solve systemic problems how to achieve massive wins with minimal resources how the business world can learn from the innovative wit and practical ingenuity of scrappy organizations

Over the past few years, we have seen an increasing number of companies take it upon themselves to engage with the issues climate change and sustainability on a voluntary basis - with firms' motivations ranging from an interest in the long-term sustainability of their company's activities, to a sense a moral duty to people and planet. There is a lot to be learnt from the organisations taking proactive steps to embed issues of sustainability at the heart of what they do. That's why in today's episode, we will be looking at this type of voluntary action, with a specific focus on the B Corp movement and their efforts to certify companies taking steps to think long term across all stakeholders. Hearing about firms that have made the transition to becoming a certified B Corp gives us a great insight into what it means for an organisation to truly walk the talk when it comes to something like climate change.   Links from today's discussion: B Corporation website: www.bcorporation.uk  Better Business Act: www.betterbusinssact.org  Boardroom 2030: www.boardroom2030.org    For more information on climate risk, visit GARP's Climate Resources Hub: https://climate.garp.org/ If you have any questions, thoughts or feedback regarding this podcast series, we would love to hear from you at: climateriskpodcast@garp.com   ------------------   Charmian Love - Co-Founder at B Lab UK and Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Said Business School, Oxford   Charmian is Co-Founder and Activist in Residence at B Lab UK, where she supports the growth of B Corps across the UK (and beyond) and is Co-Chair of B Lab's Global Climate Taskforce. Charmian is committed to helping accelerate the transition to a more regenerative, circular and inclusive economy. In her role as Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, Charmian is guiding the development of the Regenerative and Circular Economy Lab and designed and teaches a popular MBA course on this subject. Charmian also holds the role of Co-Director for the newly launched Oxford Climate Emergency Programme, has co-taught an Executive MBA course on Systempreneurship: Innovating for Impact, contributed to the core MBA class ‘Capitalism in Debate' and is a regular tutor in the GOTO programme focused on equipping students with skills and tools to engage in system change. She is a member of the Sustainability Advisory Council at the ICAEW (because she truly believes that accountants will save the world), a member of the ‘Regenerative Business' working group at the Institute of Directors (IoD), Co-Chair of the BAC's NetZero Working Group and an Advisory Committee member for GARP's (Global Association of Risk Professionals) Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate. She held the role of chair of B Lab UK for 5 years, was a founding trustee to the Future Fit Foundation and was on the UK board of the B Team until 2019.

What we discussed: We have a proliferation of agreements, commitments, and pledges to achieve climate mitigation. But what's underneath the pledges? And which pledges achieve the action that we need? Kaya Axelsson and I discussed incentives, purpose of business, and pledges in our reflection of Season 3 interviews. Why it matters: What if every think tank, university department or company organized themselves with the responsibility of reducing 1 gigaton of carbon? This is a simple metric that allows people to thrive in their job yet organize the goal to meaningful impact. What it means for you: There is carbon being emitted from every sector – whether agriculture, real estate, manufacturing, retail, and so on. Which gigaton of reduction are you focused on? About Kaya Axelsson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaya-axelsson-7057834b/About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What we discussed: Systems change needs people who have broad views and understands the details. Kaya Axelsson and I reflected on the similarities behind the differences of electric utilities, water systems, telecom, financial and maritime sectors that our guests discussed. Why it matters: The general concepts of systems change needs to be implemented by practitioners who are deeply focused on the details of how their system works. When we zoom out to see the commonalities, we see how the challenges in one sector may have already been addressed by another sector. What it means for you: Bonus ContentAbout Kaya Axelsson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaya-axelsson-7057834b/About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Personal Resilience. Vision. Listening, and a sense of curiosity. These were the skills that our Season 3 guests recommended students and early career professionals learn today if they want to enter the sustainability sector. Our guests spanned across telecom, water, finance, maritime, electric utilities and cultural systems. I was curious, are the skills to succeed the same or different? I asked every guest, what skill they would advise a student or early professional to learn. The answers were very revealing.Natalia Pshenichnaya, the former Head of Programmes at the GSMA Foundation tied personal resilience to how this deeper inner awareness keeps the person grounded in what's important to them. Joaquin Viquez, a water consultant for the German Development Agency G-I-Zed, also pointed out the importance of a vision and personal passion.James Mitchell trained as a cellist before creating a career in Sustainable Finance. Now at the Rocky Mountain Institute, he pointed out that just like in a chamber music group, listening to each other, hearing each other, responding and reacting in kind with each other, is a critical skill to learn.Three of our guests, however, pointed out the power of curiosity and asking the right question, including Jeremy McDaniels, now the Senior Advisor for Sustainable Finance at the Institute of International Finance.Stuart Hilen, a Portfolio Developer at EnergyAustralia, put it differently. He considered the skills he looks for when hiring team members.Finally, Shruthi Vijayakumar summed it up beautifully. Questions invite others into our own space, to question with us.So, there you have it. Those are the skills that students and early career professionals should learn. It's not the textbook lessons that will create systems change. It's the interpersonal skills of inviting others in, of making chamber music together, that will create the new systems for everlasting change. Guests:· Stuart Hillen, EnergyAustralia, Melbourne, Australia https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hillen/· Jeremy McDaniels, Institute of International Finance, Washington DC USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mcdaniels/· James Mitchell, Rocky Mountain Institute, London, UK https://www.linkedin.com/in/james20/· Natalia Pshenichnaya, formerly GSM Association, Berlin, Germany https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-pshenichnaya-7107781a/· Shruthi Vijayakumar, Education New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthivijayakumar/· Joaquin Viquez, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, San Jose, Costa Rica https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinviquez/ About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/Image by Juraj Varga from Pixabay Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you ever wondered if skills that got us to where we are today, may not be the same skills needed to solve the world's most pressing problems? For those who have been listening to Season Three, you know that we interviewed six practitioners who work deeply at the intersection of large systems. What are the skills necessary to thrive at those intersections?Shruthi Vijayakumar, a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and co-founder of the Emerge Institute, points out that making sense of cultural systems means understanding the historical context and how one fits into the social fabric. For Stuart Hillen, a Portfolio Developer at EnergyAustralia, as an engineer, he found his calling using his problem-solving skills to understand how things work and how things are made.Another trained engineer, Joaquin Viquez who works for the German Development Agency GIZ. He attributed a sense of knowing what's missing rather than noticing what was there.For all of us who work at the intersection of systems, it's communication that is the ultimate skill. Communication comes in many forms. For James Mitchell, Principle at the Rocky Mountain Institute, the stakeholder engagement he had to do in the maritime sector required a lot of listening in order to get the Poseidon Principles launched. Natalia Pshenichnaya, who spent many years at the GSMA Foundation, found new products and applications of how the Telecomm sector could alleviate poverty and improve agriculture businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. She pointed out the importance to articulate messages in the language and jargon of whomever she was talking to.Finally, Jeremy McDaniels credited facilitation skills at bringing people together across many sectors. As the Senior Advisor for Sustainable Finance at the Institute of International Finance, he interacts with global actors, across 400 institutions and tries to strive for consensus.So there you have it - it's the art of figuring out what's possible. Some of it is curiosity driven, some of it is breaking down big problems into its constituent parts. But time and again, we heard just how important it is to translate between stakeholders - the jargon, the expectations and the underlying mentalities. Hopefully this episode gives you an idea of what skills you have, and what you can develop for a successful future.Guests:Stuart Hillen, EnergyAustralia, Melbourne, Australia https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hillen/Jeremy McDaniels, Institute of International Finance, Washington DC USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mcdaniels/James Mitchell, Rocky Mountain Institute, London, UK https://www.linkedin.com/in/james20/Natalia Pshenichnaya, formerly GSM Association, Berlin, Germany https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-pshenichnaya-7107781a/Shruthi Vijayakumar, Education New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthivijayakumar/Joaquin Viquez, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, San Jose, Costa Rica https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinviquez/About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/Image by ErikaWittlieb from PixabaySeason 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What we discussed: Wouldn't it make sense, if climate change is a global issue, that we have a consensus in how to approach it? Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it seems. Although the financial sector is building consensus around required disclosures using the framework developed by the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), different countries are implementing it in different ways. Thus, a fragmentation of policies and approaches may unintentionally undermine progress.Why it matters: There is a tension between explore/exploit. Sometimes, the best strategy is to explore new options by segmenting, fragmenting, and allowing multiple solutions to crop up, while other times it's best to exploit the best option so as to achieve efficiency of scale. The question is: does the financial sector still need to explore ideas of how to align finance to environmental outcomes, or do we need to exploit the structures and methodologies already developed? What it means for you: As you go about implementing systems change, reflect on whether you need new ideas (explore) or you need efficiency gains of existing processes (exploit).Interviewee's Bio:Jeremy McDaniels, Institute of International Finance, Washington DC USAM.S. in Environmental Management (Dist.), University of Oxford, SSEEAs Senior Policy Advisor, Sustainable Finance, in the IIF Global Policy Initiatives department, Jeremy leads projects on climate risk assessment, disclosure, terminology and definitions. He also supports the IIF's engagement on sustainable finance policy and regulatory issues with international standard-setting entities. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mcdaniels/ In this interview, we discussed the following questions:What's your favorite movies and what's your favorite media?How we interact with sustainability data is becoming incredibly timely.How would you frame sustainable finance as you try to move the world towards net zero goals?Can you elaborate on what materiality means? When you say materiality, what viewpoint do you mean?What is the Institute for International Finance (IIF), and what is your role within IIF?Should there be a monolithic goal for the finance sector to minimize fragmentation, or should each subsector set their own localized sustainability goals?Can you clarify TCFD, Taxonomy and other standards because they each have different roles in sustainable finance?What are some global / geographic challenges that you think can be simplified for sustainability purposes?When you're working at such high levels, how granular do you need to be on the ground to make these decisions?Is any financial subsector more advanced in their sustainable finance thinking and approach?Do you notice a 'translation' issue as different financial sectors grapple with the common problem of climate change?We've spent a lot of time talking about risk, what do you see within the opportunity space?Finance, like legal, accounting, telecommunication, and many others, are just enabling infrastructures for the real economy.When we start bringing time into the equation, time introduces risk. Where is there a lot of uncertainty today? Where did you first get exposed to sustainability as the field you wanted to dedicate your career towards?What did you find at the intersection of media and the public? What do you consider to be your primary skill?To a current student, what skill or expertise do you encourage them to learn?About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What we discussed: From water, wastewater, biodigestion and agriculture, Joaquin and I talked about how growing up on a farm in Costa Rica influenced his approach to problem solving as well as some of the critical challenges faced by his country. Through his stories, we looked at how the issues he's worked on are interrelated, and which skills have been transferrable between sectors. Why it matters: Joaquin thoughtfully pointed out inquiry and curiosity as the critical skills to understanding how systems work and implementing change. He's not embarrassed to not knowing the answer, and he unabashedly asks “why” as a way of finding out.What it means for you: That confidence to explore what one doesn't know is a skill that systems change agents can adopt. Shruthi pointed it out too in her interview – there needs to be a humility in acknowledging what we don't know as much as we need to recommend best practices of what we do know. Interviewee's Bio:Joaquin Viquez, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, San Jose, Costa RicaMBA, Saïd Business School and Skoll World Forum Fellow Joaquin Viquez is an Agricultural Engineer and a passionate social entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in Latin-American working in environmental projects, water and sanitation. He currently works for the German Agency for Cooperation GIZ in its office in Costa Rica in a regional water and sanitation projects. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinviquez/ In this interview, we discussed the following questions:You grew up in an agriculture family. How did that shape your childhood?How do you view problems through experience? How old were you when you had that formative moment?What were some of the things you tried to do with the extra fruit?You won Technology Review 35 from MIT. That award was given to you for an extension of this idea.What was the technology you won for?Can you elaborate a bit about the methane problem, from the climate side?What were some of the value-added benefits you were able to get to the farmer?How do you personalize a biodigester?What questions were farmers asking of you and what were the factors you could tweak?So how did you pivot working in biogas to working in water? What's the connection there?Can you give us an overview of what are the key issues of wastewater treatment and sanitation?Do different geographic scales (national, regional) have different sanitation issues?Water can be super hyperlocal. How do you deal with that?Can you ever take a technology and plop it into a community, or do you have to tweak for that community?Tell us about GIZ and how it tries to tackle some of these water issues in Costa Rica.What would you say is your critical skill that you're bringing to the team?How important is it to work with local representatives to take care of one's own backyard?What's the web of moving parts that drive towards sanitation outcomes?Water and wastewater - is it more common for one company to manage both?The agriculture / water nexus isn't just watering plants, it's also dissolved phosphorous. Can you explain that?We talked about several different systems and their stakeholder groups. When you're getting introduced to a new system, how do you tease it apart?How do you create systemic shifts?When did you first notice the web of moving parts and when did you decide to do something about it?It's important to notice what's missing! How would you describe the sense of noticing what's missing vs. noticing what's there?The feeling of inquiry and naivety is a benefit of coming in as an outsider.What's your approach to problem solving?Do you see a type of urban development that's more sustainable than others?Most infrastructure tries to centralize for efficiencies scale. But in wastewater you see the opposite, so that localities can take advantage of natural-based solutions.Why is that? What's unique about water / wastewater such that decentralization is preferrable?To a student, what skill would you encourage to learn? About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What we discussed: In a developing country, the mobile phone is a person's first interaction with technology. Thus, the telecom sector is at the tip-of-the-spear to offer banking services, agricultural notifications and health services to hard-to-reach areas.Why it matters: Within 5 years, climate change will change the agricultural crops across much of the world. Yet for small-holder farmers, working on family plots, they are cut off and unaware of the disruption to their livelihoods that is coming their way. What it means for you: It took innovative business models in order to convince the telecom sector to offer new products and innovation in rural areas. Yet the ones who did, reached customer loyalty upwards of 70%, unheard of in the sector. This podcast is a classic case of getting to know your customers on-the-ground to develop life-changing products and services.Interviewee's Bio:Natalia Pshenichnaya, formerly GSMA Foundation, Berlin, GermanyMBA, Saïd Business SchoolAs Head of Programs, Natalia oversaw GSMA Foundation's global portfolio of telecommunication innovation projects. She managed multi-million progammes (£10-20M+) across all stages: from design to evolution, pivot and completion, including GSMA AgriTech, CleanTech and mHealth initiatives. https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-pshenichnaya-7107781a/ In this interview, we discussed the following questions:What are some of your favorite vegan recipes?What was it like growing up vegetarian in Russia?How did you start your career in the Telecom sector?When you got to GSMA Foundation, you fell into just the right mix based on your interests. What was your role?What is GSMA Foundation as an organization? Why do you think the telecom sector got interested in impact broadly, but also agriculture specifically? Is competition beyond your traditional industry sector going to become more common through internet-of-things and technology?When you were talking to the farmers on the ground in Kenya, what were some of the problems they would reveal to you?We're talking about small holders, independent farmers who own their own plots. They are subject to these massive shifts in climate.Where does the telecom technology come in and what were some technology solutions?Why could the telecom sector make a difference when other sector couldn't?What was it like when you started off in AgriTech? What was your north star? What do you think is the role of the enabling technologies to climate change?It hints at how societal acceptance of technology lags behind technology adoption. Did you see similarities in working with farmers and with medical tech? What do you consider to be your primary skill?How complex was this interconnected web that you had to work within?There is lot if inertia to not do things when there are multiple stakeholders. How did you find leverage to make change happen?What is what you're most proud of?When you jump into a project that not only you haven't done before, but no one has done before, what do you do first?To a student or early professional today, what skill or expertise do you recommend them to learn? About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What we discussed: Except for roads, we don't tend to interact with large, physical infrastructures. For sure, we see the wires of the electric grid, but we don't commonly see the electric power plans, refineries, and substations. Stuart and I discussed the business models and challenges that electric utilities face in Australia as they undertake decarbonization efforts. Why it matters: We often forget that we rely on infrastructure being available 100% of the time. Yet the cost of keeping the electric grid operating at that level is immense. Utilities build physical hedges in terms of overcapacity so as to provide certainty on uptime. What it means for you: As you think of system change, think of the failure modes of the system. How many failures are you willing to tolerate? How many can you avoid, and how many backup plans do you need to draw up to guarantee a certain performance criteria? Interviewee's Bio:Stuart Hillen, EnergyAustralia, Melbourne, AustraliaMBA, Saïd Business SchoolAs Portfolio Development Lead Stuart is responsible for originating and executing generation development opportunities to transition EnergyAustralia's 5,000 MW generation portfolio. Technologies covered include utility scale storage, pumped hydro and renewable investments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hillen/ In this interview, we discussed the following questions:What's your favorite infrastructure?What were the critical skills you learned as a civil engineer that helps you with your day-to-day jobs?What is the problem solving approach you take as a trained engineer? What's your role at EnergyAustralia?What stage of project development do you get involved in? What is the business model of EnergyAustralia?So you try to have the right physical portfolio mix to provide electricity. When you don't have it, you procure it from the market.Can you describe dispatchable power? Batteries time-shift resources, depending on what's available on the market. Given these movements of fuel shifting globally, what's the role of the utility in decarbonized future?There is quite a bit of indication to "electrify everything". It implies the need to double the size of the electric sector to absorb the transportation sector!You've mentioned a smattering of technologies. Technology cycles are usually 6-18 months, yet utilities need to think in 30 years. As a project developer, how do you match these time cycles?When you're project financing, how much do you have to take into account new business models? What is the not-often discussed field of Ancillary Services?Can you comment on the high costs to effectively maintain 100% uptime of the electric grid?Sometimes the overbuilding is criticized as waste, but to maintain nearly 100% uptime, one just need physical assets as hedges.Another way of creating that resiliency is fuel switching. What's the advantage of the hybrid power plant you worked on?Is Hydrogen a drop in fuel for Natural Gas? Have you seen the trend of hydrogen projects?Hydrogen electrolyzes produce the hydrogen. What sounds unclear is whether the electric utility should own the business model of producing hydrogen, right?When you're evaluating technologies, how do you know if a technology is "good enough"?Are we waiting for technology to improve, or for capital to implement?How many different stakeholders get involved and how many do you have to satisfy? When did you first get exposed to these issues that made you want to work with an electric utility?Were you surprised by the level of complexity of the stakeholders and issues involved?What is it about complexity that made you want to seek it out?So basically, complexity gives you job variety!To a student or early professional, what skill would you recommend them to learn?Curiosity has a humbleness of knowing that there's more to know, and a seeking of what one's lacking.About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the SaïdBusiness School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In episode 5, Innocent Drinks CEO Douglas Lamont and Amy Clarke, Chief Impact Officer at Tribe Impact Capital, discuss how business can be part of fundamental economic, social and environmental change by signing up to the UK's Better Business Act. The BBA coalition currently consists of more than 600 businesses and calls for a change in the law that would require companies to advance the interests of wider society and the environment alongside those of shareholders. This would revolutionise the nature of conversations in the boardroom, allowing for a more holistic approach to the challenges faced by company directors. Chairing the discussion are Oxford Saïd's Dr Mary Johnstone-Louis, Senior Research Fellow and teaching lead on the Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations programme, and Charmian Love, Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Mary and Char are both deeply involved in the B Corp movement – Mary as Chair and Char as Co-Founder and Activist in Residence at B Lab UK. Featuring: Mary Johnstone-Louis, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford's Saïd Business School; Head Tutor for the Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations programme. Charmian Love (@charmianlove), Social Entrepreneur in Residence, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University's Saïd Business School; Co-Founder and Activist in Residence at B Lab UK; Co-Director of the Oxford Climate Emergency Programme. Douglas Lamont (@douglaslamont), CEO Innocent Drinks; Trustee The Innocent Foundation. Amy Clarke (@PlanetBubble), Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Tribe Impact Capital, a dedicated impact investment wealth manager.

What we discussed: The fabric of society is a fine mesh of cultures. When we change world views – from western to Indian to Maori – we find different interpretations of how each culture considers their environment. Why it matters: A sustainable future requires us to make new connections and partnerships with unlikely stakeholders. Yet each of these stakeholder groups are going to have their own expectations, assumptions and modus operandi. Shruthi is really teaching us how to be aware of the different groups we identify with, and how we can translate across those groups to achieve a sustainable future. What it means for you: This episode highlights the importance of understanding a person's cultural roots and heritage as a lens of how they view sustainability. We can apply the same principles of listening, curiosity, and inviting others to join our journey, to our professional lives and our personal lives. Interviewee's Bio:Shruthi Vijayakumar, Global Shaper, World Economic Forum, Auckland, New ZealandMBA, Saïd Business School and Skoll World Forum FellowShruthi is an educator, coach, facilitator and strategist in the field of systems leadership, sustainability and innovation. She has been recognized as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and a Global Changemaker by the British Council. She has spoken at WEF's Annual Meeting in Davos and TEDx. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthivijayakumar/ In this interview, we discussed the following questions:What is your favorite Haka moment?What is the relationship between the Maori people and the New Zealand Government?How does your multi-ethnic background frame your work in equity, justice and inclusion?How would you frame environmental world view from these different frames?How would you say that influences the work that you do? What would you consider your most important skill?When you're facilitating these conversations, how do you impart that fabric of society onto the people you're facilitating?When did you first noticed the interconnected web of moving parts?About what age were you?What were some of the grassroots projects you participated in?When did you realize you could leverage change within this tangled web?What was it like being inside the Boston Consulting Group?How did you see innovation work within consulting vs. the work you do today? What's the difference between inclusion and building the table together?What does Emerge Institute do?Can you please speak to some of your work at ocean lab?When you have big systemic change goals, how do you bring people along?If you were to re-imagine the education system, what would you do?What skill or expertise would you encourage students to learn? About the Levers of ExchangeInterview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What we discussed: Systems pervade our everyday life and often go unnoticed. Yet making the world more sustainable requires system change. I asked each of our guests to describe when they first noticed the systems that they work within and to describe their formative moments that set them onto their careers. Why it matters: These formative moments become part of how each guest approaches problem solving in their unique way. They frame the thinking and the context of how each approaches the climate crisis. What it means for you: Each one of us has a formative moment. I ask that you, dear listener, reflect on yours. When did you notice the system? More importantly, when did you decide to do something about it? I hope that the six stories in Season 3 will offer inspiration to help us implement our own climate and sustainability strategies.Guests this season:Stuart Hillen, EnergyAustralia, Melbourne, Australia https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hillen/Jeremy McDaniels, Institute of International Finance, Washington DC USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mcdaniels/James Mitchell, Rocky Mountain Institute, London, UK https://www.linkedin.com/in/james20/Natalia Pshenichnaya, formerly GSM Association, Berlin, Germany https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-pshenichnaya-7107781a/Shruthi Vijayakumar, Education New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthivijayakumar/Joaquin Viquez, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, San Jose, Costa Rica https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinviquez/About Levers of Exchange:Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com)Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com)Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first episode of the new series, Peter Drobac and Cheryl Dorsey explore how innovation and justice are key to building a better future after Covid-19. Peter and Cheryl are both doctors working to treat society’s greatest challenges. They discuss the entangled crises of the pandemic and inequality, recent events in Washington DC, and why the world needs social entrepreneurs now more than ever. Featuring: Dr Cheryl Dorsey, president, Echoing Green. Dr Peter Drobac, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, Oxford. https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/ Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

“We grew up in a Tetris world of trust. There were rules, top-down enforcement and we looked up to people that we trust. Our kids are growing up in a Minecraft world of trust that is completely distributed.” In this special series we’ve been exploring how we might move from crisis to transformation in an age of pandemics. We’ve been challenged to rethink our place in an entangled world, and to be good ancestors who protect future generations. We’ve explored how to build equitable health systems, inclusive and sustainable economies, and how to address the climate crisis. And we’ve explored new frames to address entrenched inequality and injustice. In the last episode of the current series, Peter explores the two X factors of 2020 – leadership and trust. Ask yourself this question: what differentiates the places around the world that have responded to Covid-19 effectively from those that have seen uncontrolled viral spread, excess mortality and economic devastation? The answer is not the number of ventilators or hospital beds, not the concentration of scientific expertise, not GDP. It’s leadership.And trust goes hand in hand with leadership. High-trust societies have, for the most part, banded together with a sense of common purpose. Low-trust societies, or those in which leaders have squandered trust, have fractured and continue to flail.Trust is at the heart of what happens in humanity’s next chapter. Global threats call for solidarity, and systemic change can only happen when people with different worldviews come together. Trust is the glue that binds us together, but it seems to be in short supply these days.Rachel Botsman is a leading expert on trust in the modern world. She is the author of Who Can You Trust?, which explores how technology is transforming our relationship to trust. She’s the host of the Trust Issues podcast, and as the first Trust Fellow at Saïd Business School, Rachel aims to challenge and change the way people think about trust and related topics such as power, influence, truth and beliefs.Rachel also gave us the title for this episode - Tetris in a Minecraft World. It’s a neat metaphor for the profound transformation we’re experiencing in a world that’s moved from hierarchies to distributed networks, a world where the rules of the game are being upended.Peter chats to Rachel about trust in the era of Covid-19, especially when it comes to vaccines, the “Cummings Effect” that occurs when leaders flout their own rules, what Rachel calls the “trust leaps” that power reinvention, and the implications for leadership in a world rife with uncertainty.Reimagine is presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Rachel Botsman (@rachelbotsman), Trust Fellow @OxfordSBS, author What’s Mine Is Yours; Who Can You Trust.Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.Resources:Rachel BotsmanRethink NewsletterTrust Issues podcastRachel’s TED talksWant to learn more about the show? Check out http://www.reimaginepodcast.comHave a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

Social Reset: A New Equity Lens with Baljeet Sandhu “If we don’t think about the knowledge that is present in all our communities we will continue to privilege the few as knowledge producers and see them as having a larger stake in how we design the future.” In this series we’re meeting people who are shaking up the status quo, people who remind us that, in the words of the late Elijah Cummings, “we are better than this.”Equity is the only way out of this pandemic. That’s true of all the crises we face in this new decade. Usually when we talk about equity it’s through the lens of demographics or identity – race, gender, country of origin or income. In this episode we explore a different kind of lens – knowledge equity.Knowledge equity is the idea that expertise comes in many forms. It’s a commitment to elevate the knowledge in communities that have been left out, to value the insights that come from lived experience. Too often we see innovation as needing to come from the top down, from elites and technocrats. Knowledge equity might help us to flip the script.Peter talks to Baljeet Sandhu, a pioneer of the lived experience leadership movement who has been awarded an MBE for Services to Equality and Civil Society. She has seen that too often the “changemakers” around the table don’t actually understand the problems they are trying to fix. And that we can’t reform our broken systems without the insights from the communities most disadvantaged by them. To address the big challenges of our time, we need to connect traditional learned and technical knowledge with lived expertise. And that’s what Baljeet does at the Centre for Knowledge Equity, which she recently founded in the UK.Says Peter: “I love chatting with Baljeet. In our conversation about equity, inclusion and what she calls “wisdom leadership”, she managed to squeeze in a bit of quantum thinking, at least one Einstein quote and a whole lotta love.” Reimagine is presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Baljeet Sandhu, CEO, Centre for Knowledge Equity.Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.Resources:Centre for Knowledge EquityWant to learn more about the show? Check out http://www.reimaginepodcast.comHave a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

Economic Reset: With Halla Tómasdóttir“The pandemic pause has given us an awakening. Capitalism needs an upgrade. We need an inclusive economy that drives shared prosperity on a healthy planet.” We’re continuing our look at the big existential crises of this new decade, and what it will take to reimagine and reset our broken systems.In this episode, we’re talking global economic reset with the woman who was very nearly Iceland’s president, and is now leading a much bigger movement - Halla Tómasdóttir.This is not your average discourse on economic reform that you might expect from a top CEO. Halla is such good company and she’s not afraid to bring the personal into the professional – in fact she actively encourages it.So she chats to Peter about the perks of her imposter syndrome and the personal motivation behind her presidential campaign in her homeland, as well as the pitfalls of “hubris syndrome”, the “crisis of conformity” in leadership, and the need for feminine values to lead effectively in an entangled world.Today she is the CEO and “chief change catalyst” of the B Team, a coalition of heavyweight business and civil society leaders working to shift the culture of accountability in business to include not only numbers and performance, but people and planet. She also co-chairs Imperative 21 and the Reset campaign, both of which advocate for radical reform of our economic systems. As Peter concludes: “Halla is a special human.” Reimagine comes to you from Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Halla Tómasdóttir (@HallaTomas), CEO @thebteamhqHost:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.Resources:The B TeamImperative 21Want to learn more about the show? Check out http://www.reimaginepodcast.comHave a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

In episode 3 Peter Drobac reimagines what our future could be like if we reset how we live with global climate action leader Christiana Figueres.“Here we are stuck in the norm, without any reason to be stuck.” Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. And in this episode we’re talking climate change – what’s at stake, the cost of inaction and the opportunities that exist if we harness the sustainability revolution that Al Gore told us about in the last series. We’re in a perilous moment, but it’s not too late to act. This needs to be our decade of action, the decade when we make a climate reset.Our guide is the inimitable Christiana Figueres. Christiana has been a force of nature in fostering global awareness and collective action on climate. As head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, she brokered the Paris Agreement of 2015, a landmark international agreement that laid out an ambitious agenda to fight climate change and adapt to its effects.Since then, Christiana has continued work to accelerate the global response to climate change. She founded Global Optimism, which is currently persuading CEOs to commit to achieving net zero targets ahead of schedule. She’s also the co-host of the climate change podcast Outrage & Optimism.Earlier this year Christiana published a book, The Future We Choose, with her podcast partner Tom Rivett-Carnac. While she doesn’t shy away from the risks we face if we don’t solve the climate crisis, she also gives us an awesome vision of what our future could look like if we do.Reimagine is presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Christiana Figueres (@CFigueres), former executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Partner Global Optimism; co-host Outrage & Optimism podcast; co-author The Future We Choose.Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.Resources:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeGlobal OptimismWant to learn more about the show? Check out http://www.reimaginepodcast.comHave a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

Just before our third season starts we talk with Dr Peter Drobac, a global health physician and Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, and Dr Aoife Haney, Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, about the social, economic and environmental changes that may well be heading our way after our current pandemic.  Coming soon... Follow Professor Peter Millican as he talks to researchers from around the world about some of the devastating pandemics humanity has experienced. Peter and his colleagues will discuss ten major outbreaks: from the Plague of Athens to the West African Ebola outbreak, via the Black Death, Cholera and Smallpox, and ask how these outbreaks have shaped society, what we may be able to learn from them today, and where we might be heading? Find out more at https://bit.ly/TheHistoryOfPandemics 

Health Reset: With Joia Mukherjee and Paul Farmer“There is no contrast between fighting against Covid and fighting for black lives” In Reimagine Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone.In episode 2, Peter talks to global health activist Dr Joia Mukherjee about reimaging our health systems in an age of pandemics. Joia describes herself as an “ass-kicking optimist, healer, singer and lover of humanity”. She is the chief medical officer at social justice and global health non-profit Partners in Health, and much of her work explores the intersection between healthcare and racism. What does she think an equitable global health system should look like?Peter also catches up with Dr Paul Farmer, his guest in the very first episode of Reimagine, for an update on the long view of Covid-19 and what drove him to write his new book Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Dr Joia Mukherjee (@JoiaMukherjee), chief medical officer, Partners in Health; Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.Dr Paul Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health.Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.Resources:Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds by Dr Paul FarmerPartners in HealthBending The Arc Introduction to Global Health Delivery by Dr Joia MukherjeeNecropolitics, Achille MbembeWant to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

“Our actions in the next decade will determine the future of civilisation.” (Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs) The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown our world into disarray. Far more than a public health crisis, the pandemic has triggered an economic crisis, a social crisis, and a governance crisis. It has contributed to a long overdue reckoning on deeply rooted systemic racial injustice. Meanwhile, extreme weather events signal the increasing urgency of our unfolding climate crisis. All of these challenges predated Covid-19. But the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated flaws in our systems. While we all long for a return to normality after months of loss and sacrifice, is “back to normal” really what we want?In Reimagine Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone. Meet the visionaries who are revolutionising the story of who we are, and how we engage with the world. We’ll be talking about how to thrive in an entangled ecosystem, redesigning public health and economic systems, the kind of leadership we need in the 21st century, and more.It’s time for a declaration of interdependence.In the first episode of the new series, we explore what it means to think in systems. We’re going to go deep, exploring their invisible architecture, and then we’ll go long, discovering how radical long-term thinking can unlock innovation in the here and now. Peter talks to two great thinkers who say that in order to bring about change on the scale required, we first need to rethink how we see the world, and how we connect to it.Indy Johar is an architect and institutional innovator who is working to radically redesign our future. He is a founding director of Dark Matter Labs, an analytics and design team that is developing new working methods for system change.Dark Matter refers to the invisible architecture of our systems, which we tend not to notice until something goes wrong. But when systems fail, it’s usually catastrophic. That’s basically 2020 in a nutshell. Indy says our systems have errors in the deep code, and that it’s time for some reprogramming.Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher whose book, The Good Ancestor, offers us tools to flip the script and cultivate long-term thinking in a world beset by short termism.Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Indy Johar (@indy_johar)), founding director @DarkMatter_LabsRoman Krznaric (@romankrznaric), author of The Good AncestorHost:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.Resources:Dark Matters LabEmpathy MuseumWant to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac.Covid-19 has exposed the deep flaws in our relationship with the world and each other. We all long for a return to normality, but is “back to normal” really what we want?In Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone. Meet the visionaries who are revolutionising the story of who we are, and how we engage with the world. We’ll be talking about how to thrive in an entangled ecosystem, redesigning public health and economic systems, the kind of leadership we need in the 21st century, and more.It’s time for a declaration of interdependence.

Charmian Love wants you to shake up your mindset. More specifically, to stop worrying about whether you're on the right or wrong side of the climate conversation and instead focus on taking action. Newsflash: We all have a role to play and it is time to move beyond the blame game and focus on solutions. In this first episode of Climate Curious, Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst speak to Charmian Love, Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford and co-founder of B Lab UK. Charmian shares how we need to actively work towards systems level fixes while also taking individual action against climate change. From thinking like a sunflower to approaching problems and solutions as interconnected, our conversation explores how we can cultivate a mindset to access the climate conversation and why Charmian believes kindness and creativity are at the heart of a healthy planet. And don't miss Charmian, Ben and Maryam's ‘Climate Confessions' at the end of the episode to discover the shady secret hiding in their drawers.

Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good and has first-hand experience in what it is like to be an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur and a systempreneur. Charmian is the Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK, where she supports the growth of B Corps across the UK (and beyond) and is Co-Chair of B Lab’s Global Climate Taskforce where she is a member of the UNFCCC’s Marrakesh Partnership. Charmian is committed to helping accelerate the transition to a more regenerative, circular and inclusive economy. In her role as Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Charmian is guiding the development of the Circular Economy Lab and designed and teaches MBA and Executive MBA courses on this subject.

In this episode Peter Drobac, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship joins Paul to talk about the investments we need to make to create a more equitable healthcare system and the lessons we can learn from COVID-19, in Rwanda and beyond, to better prepare and rebuild our healthcare systems for the future. This episode is part of a new series, created in partnership with the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation, investigating the trends, challenges and opportunities in the global healthcare sector. What does it take to create a truly equitable healthcare system? From entrepreneurs to investors to community workers from across the globe, this series we’re speaking to the people aligning capital, technology and purpose to find the answer.

Tara Sabre Collier  is a social entrepreneur in residence for the Skoll Centre at Said Business School, Oxford University, as well the co-founder of Affiniti VC, an international network to back under-represented founders.

In episode 3, Peter Drobac and Eleanor Murray discuss Covid-19 and its implications for global public health.What are the lessons for healthcare systems andleaders more generally? Trust, transparency and the ability to adapt quickly to bring about collective action are key.Featuring:Dr Peter Drobac (@PeterDrobac),Directorof the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.Eleanor Murray (@EleanorJMurray), Senior Fellow in Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/For more Business Insights head to Oxford AnswersCredits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

“I’m here to prevent the next generation of Big Issue vendors.”Homelessness is an example of a wicked problem – a complex, messy problem with many causes, contradictory forces, and no easy solution. Wicked problems are rooted in broken systems.It’s estimated that 2% of the world’s population are homeless. But many more – perhaps 1 in 5 people worldwide – may lack adequate and secure housing.In this episode we focus on the situation in the UK, where an unprecedented number of people are without a home or living on the streets. That number has doubled since 2010, and continues to trend upward. What will it take to shift the status quo on homelessness? We start with a report from the frontline of care for homeless people during the pandemic, recorded for us by Sara Emerson of Brighton charity Justlife. The coronavirus lockdown has had the short-term benefit of getting people off the streets and into temporary housing. But that’s an emergency measure, not a solution. Peter digs into the roots of homelessness with Dr Elisabeth Garratt from the Sheffield Methods Institute, who leads a research project exploring people’s experiences of homelessness in Oxford. And he talks to the founder of the Big Issue, Lord John Bird, about possible solutions, and how his own lived experience of homelessness helped him to redefine how we think about the problem. Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Sara Emerson, Justlife, https://www.justlife.org.ukDr Elisabeth Garratt (@eagarratt), lecturer at the Sheffield Methods InstituteLord John Bird (@johnbirdswords), https://www.bigissue.comHost:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business SchoolResources:In 2019, Saïd Business School announced a three-year partnership with Homeless Oxfordshire, a charity that provides short-term accommodation to the homeless in the county alongside high-quality support and initiatives to help them regain and maintain independence.Want to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

“Illness is universal. Access to healthcare is not. That shouldn’t be true in the 21stcentury”In this episode we focus on health equity. Every single day people are dying of entirely preventable, treatable diseases simply because they are poor, or because they live too far from medical care. Children die from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition. A staggering number of women and babies don’t survive childbirth. Paul Farmer, who we heard from in Episode 1, has a name for this – Stupid Deaths. Every time we let someone die of a condition we know how to treat, that’s a stupid death. It’s a reminder that poverty is the most deadly pathogen of all.How big a problem is this? According to the World Health Organisation, half of the world’s population cannot access essential health services. That’s nearly 4 billion people. Millions of the most vulnerable families are forced to choose between healthcare and food. With all the wealth and prosperity and technology we’ve created as a civilisation, it’s nothing short of a moral outrage.Raj Panjabi wants to change that.Raj is the founder and CEO of Last Mile Health, which brings lifesaving primary healthcare to some of the world’s most remote communities. Many healthcare systems are built around hospitals, and most hospitals are in cities. But in Liberia, as in many parts of the world, for rural communities the nearest medical care can be days away, by foot. So what if we could bring the healthcare to the people instead? That was the question Raj and his colleagues asked. And their answer was to take an old idea – community health workers – and reinvent it for the 21st century.Raj is now taking his community-based healthcare model beyond Liberia. He has a big vision for what this can look like across the world. And how it could help in the fight against Covid-19.Reimagine is a new podcast about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Dr Raj Panjabi (@rajpanjabi), founder and CEO of Last Mile Health (@lastmilehealth) Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business SchoolResources:https://lastmilehealth.org/ On the urgent need to get PPE for ALL health workers, including community health workers:https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/covid-19-it-aint-over-until-theres-ppe-all-overWant to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

EPISODE 4: Beyond Greenwashing: The Business of Climate Action with Paul Polman and Cameron HepburnMore and more CEOs are sounding all the right notes on the climate crisis. But is big business really ready to be part of the solution? Peter talks to Paul Polman, who became an iconic CEO by putting sustainability at the centre of Unilever’s business, and Cameron Hepburn, Oxford professor of environmental economics.“We were pretty scared, but the challenges of climate change and growing inequality needed to be addressed with courage, and courage is on the border with fear.”In this episode we focus on the role of big business when it comes to the climate crisis. More and more CEOs are sounding all the right notes on sustainability. But is big business really ready to be part of the solution? Or is it just greenwashing?Host Peter Drobac talks to Cameron Hepburn, Oxford professor of environmental economics, about the vital role business has when it comes to combating climate change.He’s also joined by Paul Polman, one of the first CEOs of a big firm to walk the walk on this issue.For ten years Paul was at the helm of Unilever – one of the oldest and largest consumer goods companies in the world. Whether you’ve heard of Unilever or not you’ve probably got some of their products in your cupboard – from tea to ice-cream to soap, Unilever’s hundreds of brands have massive global reach. During his decade at Unilever, Paul became an iconic CEO by putting sustainability at the centre of the firm’s business. He was also an early champion of the Sustainable Development Goals, working with then UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, to build private sector support for the SDGs.Paul has since gone on to co-found Imagine, which aims to bring businesses together to combat climate change and inequality. This episode also features a special update from Cameron Hepburn about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the climate emergency.Reimagine is a new podcast about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Paul Polman (@PaulPolman), co-founder and chair of sustainability consulting firm Imagine. Cameron Hepburn (@camjhep), professor of environmental economics and director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business SchoolResources:https://imagine.one/https://www.cameronhepburn.com/Want to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

EPISODE 3: Higher Ground: Reimagining Higher Education“Talent is distributed evenly around the world. What is not is opportunity.”Around the world universities have closed their physical doors and temporarily moved online due to Covid-19. That creates all kinds of challenges. But it’s also a chance for us to re-examine the very idea of a university in the 21st century.Higher education has been broken for a long time. With costs out of control, in many parts of the world a university education is a privilege most could only dream of. While a mismatch between what’s taught and the skills needed for the 21stcentury means many graduating students are burdened with debt and can’t find jobs. Across Africa higher education has for too long been seen as a luxury the continent cannot afford. According to the World Bank, in sub-Saharan Africa just 9% of young people enrol in a tertiary education. That compares with 60% in the UK, and 88% in the US.Yet a vanguard of unconventional startup universities is flourishing there. One of them is perhaps the boldest experiment in higher education on the planet – the African Leadership University or ALU. Peter talks to ALU’s founder, Fred Swaniker, about his vision to transform higher education in Africa by making it cheaper, more accessible and purpose-driven. His goal is to develop 3 million ethical and entrepreneurial leaders for Africa and the world by 2035.Could this be the future of higher education? Peter explores global trends and possible solutions with international education specialist David Johnson. Reimagine is a new podcast series about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Dr David Johnson of the Centre for Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford.Fred Swaniker (@FredSwaniker), founder and CEO of the African Leadership Group.Host:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business SchoolResources:https://www.alueducation.comWant to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

As the world slips into recession, possibly even depression, Covid-19 has revealed the design flaws in our global economy.For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that there’s no problem the invisible hand of the market can’t fix. And while a relentless pursuit of growth at all costs has delivered prosperity for some, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots is at historic levels.Will this once-in-a-century pandemic create a once-in-a-generation opportunity for a real shift in our economic systems? If so, what should that look like?Six years ago, Ian Goldin predicted the next financial crisis would be caused by a pandemic. We talk with Ian about how we got here, and how to get out of it.Then we meet renegade economist, Kate Raworth, whose big idea - people and planet living in harmony “inside the doughnut” - may have found its moment.Reimagine is a new podcast series about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.Featuring:Ian Goldin (@ian_goldin), Professor of Globalization and Development, Oxford UniversityKate Raworth (@KateRaworth), author of Doughnut EconomicsHost:Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business SchoolResources:Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21stCentury Economist, by Kate RaworthThe Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, And What To Do About It, by Ian Goldin and Mike MariathasanA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster, by Rebecca SolnitWant to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.Have a question for Peter? Email him at peter@reimaginepodcast.com.Credits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

Welcome to a new and original podcast series from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac.In this series we meet the visionaries, the disruptors, the world’s problem-solvers, who are taking up the challenge of fixing the bits of our world that are broken.The people who see things differently, and we need them now more than ever.

Many of our panellists in season two have described barriers that are standing in our way if we hope to restrict global warming to the 1.5 degrees C limit that the 2018 IPCC report outlined, and some have advocated how our current economic system could be used to overcome them. But can markets really provide a tool to promote necessary action? In this episode we ask; can we be green AND capitalist? Joining Professor Millican on this latest episode of Futuremakers are: Thomas Hale, Associate Professor in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Charmain Love, ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at our Saïd Business School, and Ben Caldecott, Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme. And at the end of this episode there's a bonus conversation between Peter and Johan Rockström, joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, who in 2009 led an international group of twenty eight leading academics, in proposing a new framework for government and management agencies as a precondition for sustainable development on the planet Earth. Find out more about Oxford’s climate research at http://po.st/TruePlanet

Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Skoll Centre for Entrepreneurship, Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economic's Marshall Institute and advisor to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. Aunnie provides us with a unique insight into and particular approach to Impact Investing, using technology - AI, Blockchain, IoT & more - to achieve what we need: “… Maybe there is going to be the model that works, maybe we're going to adapt it, but maybe we're going to come up with a brand-new model that creates value and wealth for individuals that are actually for the end-users of these companies, as well as making money for investors. I hope that Impact Investing continues to push the boundaries of how we distribute capital, how we distribute wealth, and how we treat the environment.” Highlights in the episode: * How to use technology to solve difficult problems in impact investing such as capital allocation * Perpetual growth of cost model can be at odds with impact businesses  * A real lack of capital at the mezzanine level * The 144 impact investment platforms and 170 blended impact finance platforms * Sitting at 40,000 ft and looking at the different silos and seeing everything that is happening * How IoT will impact data collection for impact measurement * How to create structures to incentivise social enterprises * When offering impact investment products: multiple choice questions vs questions like “how do you feel about a product?” Useful links: Intelligent Impact - [https://www.intellimpact.com/](https://www.intellimpact.com/) Aunnie Patton Power’s Linkedin - [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aunniepatton/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aunniepatton/) IFC Impact Investing Principals [https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/Topics_Ext_Content/IFC_External_Corporate_Site/Impact-Investing](https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/Topics_Ext_Content/IFC_External_Corporate_Site/Impact-Investing) Innovative Finance MOOC: Hacking Finance To Change The World [https://www.coursera.org/learn/innovative-finance/](https://www.coursera.org/learn/innovative-finance/) New Forest Fund -  [https://newforests.com.au/](https://newforests.com.au/) Packard Foundation -  [https://www.packard.org/](https://www.packard.org/) Impact Finance Network -  [https://impactfinance.network/#findings](https://impactfinance.network/#findings) Dutch Good Growth Fund - [https://english.dggf.nl/](https://english.dggf.nl/) 60 Decibels (Lean Impact) - [https://www.60decibels.com/](https://www.60decibels.com/) Ruth Bader Ginsburg - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg) CogX 2019 + Expo & NetworkingInvitation from JP - [http://bit.ly/CogX2019_JP_EN](http://bit.ly/CogX2019_JP_EN) Time Stamp: [03:00] IFC Impact Investing operating principles [05:00] Wicked problems in impact investing [08:00] No decent impact investment data from IoT and blockchain [14:30] AI and ML for capital allocation and chatbots [26:00] Impact Investment platforms [31:30] Tokenisation of blockchain [33:46] Changing food and agriculture impact [36:00] Using knowledge of finance to change the world [39:00] Inspiring women behind Aunnie Patton Power Connect with JP Dallmann on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-dallmann/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/JPDallmann), or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbyjp/). How to incorporate SDGs into your business - [Fast Forward 2030](http://fastforward2030.com/) Find talent and careers with impact - [Realchangers](https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Leaders is produced by [Podcast Publishing](http://podcastpublishing.help)

Paul Jepson is course director of Oxford University‘s Master in Science in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. He’s also a Senior Research Fellow with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He’s held Senior Research Fellowships with the Environmental Change Institute and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School. Paul is […] The post Episode 12: Paul Jepson on Rewilding in Europe appeared first on Rewilding.

Pamela is the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Pamela’s work at Skoll is focused on advancing social entrepreneurship byleveraging top academic research, developing leadership talent and engaging with social innovators around the world to drive large scale impact on the world’s most pressing problems. Pamela...

Chair: Luke Johnson, Commentator, FT and Chairman, Risk Capital Partners   Panel: Oli Barrett, Founder, Make Your Mark with a Tenner; Stephan Chambers, Director of the MBA and EMBA, Saїd Business School and Chairman, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Skoll Foundation; Peter Higgins, Director, Charles Tyrwhitt, Joe Browns, Cath Kidston; Sam Roddick, Founder, Coco-De-Mer   Comment Conference: Enterprise - 7th April 2011 In association with BAE Systems, Cass Business School, Lloyds Banking Group, Financial Times, New Deal of the Mind, Smithfield Consultants

Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School and Howard Chase, R&D Director, Enval, and Head of the School of Technology, Professor of Biochemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, speaking at the Enterprise Tuesday lecture series in October 2010. Whose problem are you going to solve? Whose needs are you going to meet? The big challenges are to do with environment and social inclusion. Do these provide opportunities for new ventures and for you?

Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School and Howard Chase, R&D Director, Enval, and Head of the School of Technology, Professor of Biochemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, speaking at the Enterprise Tuesday lecture series in October 2010. Whose problem are you going to solve? Whose needs are you going to meet? The big challenges are to do with environment and social inclusion. Do these provide opportunities for new ventures and for you?

Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Mirjana Radovic, Professor of Business Management and Entrepreneurship talk about Social Entrepreneurship at the International Women's Leadership Symposium.

Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Mirjana Radovic, Professor of Business Management and Entrepreneurship talk about Social Entrepreneurship at the International Women's Leadership Symposium.

There is a great deal of innovation in the areas of green enterprise and clean technology in Oxford and the greater Oxford-London-Cambridge region, presenting an infrastructural advantage supported by world-class universities and businesses. The Oxford Business and Environment Network, with the support of Saïd Business School, the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, is organising the 2009 Conference: "Beyond Kyoto - Green Innovation and Enterprise for the 21st Century". The aim of the conference is to highlight the broader issues and opportunities for green innovation and technology, and to support the development of a supportive local ecosystem for entrepreneurship in this area. This opening address was delivered by Michael Liebreich, Chairman and CEO, New Energy Finance.