Podcasts about spring activator

Mike Winterfield is Founder and of Active Impact, Canada's largest climate tech seed fund. As a seasoned entrepreneur and dedicated advocate for environmental sustainability, his career spans over two decades across software, professional recruitment, and venture capital where he has continually demonstrated his commitment to making a positive impact. Following his role as COO at Traction on Demand and President of Traction Rec, Mike founded Active Impact. Through Active Impact Investments, he channels his passion for the environment into profitable ventures, driving sustainable solutions while delivering returns. Prior to his groundbreaking venture with Active Impact, as President of Randstad Professionals, Mike oversaw $300M in revenue and placed thousands of individuals in pivotal roles. His expertise in enterprise sales and team building has positioned him as a leader in the field. Mike's commitment extends beyond business; he advises accelerators like CDL Vancouver Climate and Spring Activator, and serves on the boards of Flair, RailVision, Future, and Agrology driving strategic growth and impact.  Join us as we delve into Mike's journey, insights into environmental entrepreneurship, and his unwavering commitment to a greener future!  

Josephine Kwan is the Founder and CEO of Flow 2 Freedom Apparel. Josephine's passion is to empower people to explore every opportunity by pushing through all uncertainties to unleash their potential. It's the reason she created Flow 2 Freedom Apparel and why she loves working with entrepreneurs at Spring Activator. Whether to ensure fair opportunities to participate by breaking down barriers for women and girls in sports or helping new immigrants successfully adapt their businesses in North America, it's watching others achieve their potential that drives her.Josephine's mission is to change the perception of periods through menstrual education and our line of patent-pending, eco-friendly leakproof activewear by providing tangible solutions to give women and girls the peace of mind and confidence to own their potential. Focus on the game and never let your period dictate what you can and cannot do.Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:How Josephine Kwan's love of sports, business, and desire to leave a legacy combined to create Flow 2 FreedomThe truth about the distinct lack of menstruation education How fear shapes what we will and won't talk about in societyWhy ‘own your potential' fits as the tagline for Flow 2 Freedom and the title of this episodeStatistics on how many period-havers suffer from heavy periods and their isolation despite how common it isThe pervasive negative popular media casts on periods and period productsHow dads and male coaches can help break the taboo and keep girls and young menstruators in sportWhy Martin believes in giving these topics space on his platformJosephine's advice on how to treat and track periods and symptoms holisticallyIn this episode…Josephine Kwan was born and raised in Vancouver, BC, and graduated with a degree in kinesiology from her hometown. She worked as a strength and conditioning coach, spent thirteen years in the commercial real estate industry, and though she was doing well, she felt something was missing. She wanted to contribute to society. And that's when she drew on her personal history of heavy periods to develop the sports menstruation apparel line Flow 2 Freedom.Josephine struggled through her formative years with a heavy period and little to no education about her cycles from any source. She had been humiliated by a volleyball coach openly shaming her for needing to leave the court during a game, so she chooses to devote her efforts to ensuring young menstruators stay in sports and have education and support surrounding them.In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Josephine Kwan talk about the taboo surrounding the topic of menstruation and how to combat that innate fear. Martin shares his views on the importance of inclusion and Josephine details physiological realities for women and menstruators, how education and nutrition can help combat period symptoms, and why regarding periods holistically and without shame will benefit everyone.Resources mentioned in this episode:URGEOContact email: info@urgeo.comMartin Hunter on LinkedInJosephine Kwan on LinkedInFlow 2 Freedom ApparelFlow 2 Freedom InstagramWhat CEOs Talk About Episode 63 ‘If You Don't Have Inclusion, You Don't Have Anything' with Katarina PolonskyDr. Georgie BruinvelsWild AI appFitr Woman appSponsor for this podcast...This podcast is brought to you by URGEO.URGEO is the Latin for urge: A strong desire to drive change, stimulate thought, incite feeling, and encourage action. Martin Hunter and his team provide liberation for the CEO and Board of a company through their fractional COO services.URGEO's fractional COO services help to move you through growing pains so that your company can flourish and improve its profits.They have worked with a multitude of companies in SaaS, CPG, mining, and transportation, from start-ups to large multinational corporations. They specialize in helping companies avoid roadblocks and stay on the right strategic and operational track for growth.If you are a visionary and want an integrator to get everything done for you, then you need toget in touch with URGEO today.To learn more about their services, visit https://www.URGEO.com or email them directly at info@urgeo.com

As much as investing for both purpose and profit is in vogue these days, there's still a wide gap between the number of people talking about impact investing and those doing it. The fact that impact capital doesn't flow nearly as freely as traditional investment capital, makes scaling a social enterprise or raising an impact fund all the more difficult. My guest today is Keith Ippel, CEO and Founder of Spring Activator in Vancouver, British Columbia. Spring Activator works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs at an early stage by providing incubation, acceleration, and investment readiness programming. The organization also works on the demand side of the impact investing equation by helping train impact investors to find and due diligence deals. Keith founded the organization nearly eight years ago and is still incredibly passionate about building the entire impact investing ecosystem. Keith is a reformed Management Consultant who, after being raised by entrepreneurs, was dragged back into entrepreneurship through the opportunities he was seeing for technology to solve real-world problems. After a successful run leading a variety of technology-based businesses, Keith began seeing the opportunity to nurture the field of impact investing and launched Spring Activator. During the episode, Keith and I discuss the state of the impact investing space globally and in Canada, what support early-stage social entrepreneurs need to scale their businesses, how to reduce the talk-action gap in impact investing, and how his organization helps investors learn how to become impact investors. And be sure to stay tuned to the very end where Keith discusses his outlook for impact investing over the next decade. Resources from this episode: Spring Activator Website Spring Impact Investor Challenge

Keith generously sheds light on the many facets of the entrepreneurial journey that he has witnessed over his 27yr career in this space. We discuss what it means to create a business with Impact, preparing your business for investment and much more in one of our most valuable and informative podcast episodes to date. https://spring.is/  If you have any questions, comments or feedback from today's episode please reach out : hayden@thepackheavypodcast.com

In this episode, we sit down with Keith Ippel the CEO of Spring Activator. We dive deep into the psychology of the SDR during the COVID Pandemic and where to prioritize accounts. Keith shares his strategy on how he closed $300K by talking to his customers! We also touch on why SDRs make the best entrepreneurs!! You will learn how to:- Having endless curiosity - Overcome Impostor Syndrome- How to prioritize accounts- SDR to  Entrepreneur

Keith Ippel is legendary in Vancouver, and he’s going that way globally as well. Keith is the Co-founder and CEO of Spring Activator, a startup accelerator. His background in startups, advising, investing, education, and ecosystem development (all centred around social impact) means he has no shortage of incredible insights for anyone in their journey. In this episode we discuss everything from the state of social entrepreneurship, particularly across geographies, how we’re educating the next generation of entrepreneurs, what makes a successful social enterprise, and building ecosystems within cities to foster innovation. So go right ahead and bookmark this episode, share it, and come back to it again and again, it’s incredible.

Mike is the founder and Managing Partner of Active Impact Investments, an impact VC with $10M in assets under management. Active Impact exclusively supports small to medium sized purpose-driven ventures scale their impact and profit by providing funding and extensive capacity building services to the portfolio companies. Prior to this, Mike was a Top 40 under 40 with 20 years in the tech industry specializing in services companies and SaaS products. He worked for 14 years in various executive roles for award winning companies, most recently President of Traction Rec and COO at Traction on Demand. Prior to that President of Randstad Professionals running $300M in revenue. Mike's greatest expertise is in enterprise sales, building high performing teams, improving operational efficiency and execution. He serves on the board of directors at DSRF and is a mentor/EIR at NVBC, Founder Institute and Spring Activator. Mike has a Queen’s BSC, INSEAD exec MBA and got his board training through the Beedie Directors Education Program (DEP).   Our team is inspired by what positive impact would these companies succeeded; We look for the business model the way that makes their money to be intertwined with the benefit that they are creating for the society and the environment. Mike Winterfield   2:42 – Active Impact; small venture capitals, they invest in companies that are solving a social and environmental issue 5:02 – Why they choose to invest in companies that have a positive impact on the environment 8:55 – The reason behind he created Active Impact 12:10 – The experience that makes him in the top 40 under age 40 14:22 – How Mike's company differs from other venture capital companies through support and control standpoint 16:47 – Mike's future plans for the company 18:27 – Where is venture capital leading towards 24:00 – His advice to the people that want to scale their business, factors that are to be considered before seeking investments   That’s all for today and don’t forget to subscribe for more updates.   For show notes and resources visit: http://pioneersofgood.org/ And, as always, if you want to get in touch with me, email me at: hello@pioneersofgood.org

In this episode, I speak with Keith Ippel from Spring Activator about ways of defining social entrepreneurship and how this way of doing business can fulfill its promise to make the world a better place.

In this podcast, Sana Kapadia, the Chief Impact Investor of Spring Activator, discusses impact investing with a focus on metrics for measuring social impact. She also shares how the average person can use their money to create positive change in the world while achieving a monetary return. A body of literature exists around social impact investing, and Sana discusses the different issues that could arise between social goals, such as measuring impact over time, particularly when the ripple effect of impact is difficult to discern. Podcast host: James Bowen,is an author, professor, and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

Mike is the founder and CEO of Active Impact Investments in addition to being the Fund Manager for Fund I. Active Impact exclusively supports small to medium sized social ventures scale their impact and profit by providing funding and extensive capacity building services to the portfolio companies. Prior to this, Mike was a Top 40 under 40 with 20 years in the tech industry specializing in services companies and SaaS products. He worked for 14 years in various executive roles for award winning companies, most recently President of Traction Rec and COO at Traction on Demand. Prior to that President of Randstad Professionals running $300M in revenue. Mike's greatest expertise is in enterprise sales, building high performing teams, improving operational efficiency and execution. He serves on the board of directors at DSRF and is a mentor/EIR at NVBC, Founder Institute and Spring Activator. Mike has a Queen’s BSC, INSEAD exec MBA and got his board training through the Beedie Directors Educ

Chin is Head of Growth with global startup school Spring Activator. He was on the Island as part of MoneyFest2 in March 2018. We talked about the Making Sales Workshop he ran for LIFT. We also talked about Spring, entrepreneurship, and the ideas and practices that animate Chin Hing Chang. FMI about Spring see http://Spring.Is

The first show of April is a fun one. Drew and James chat a little about April Fools, then get right into the previous week. They talk about using statistics for measuring team output, as well as the relationship between interview and performance later on. The guest this week is Ilya Brotzky, the Co-Founder & CEO of VanHack as well as a Facilitator & Mentor at Spring Activator.