Darren Ward on catalysing impact, improving governance and NGOs
Darren has worked for many years in the NGO sector and now assists organisations to maximize social impact through Direct Impact Group. In this interview we talk about his childhood…
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Bill Murphy on the Purpose Capital Impact Fund
Bill Murphy is the founder of Enterprise Angels and of the Purpose Capital Impact Fund. In this episode we talk a lot about entrepreneurs, start-ups and impact investing. However, we…
Paradigm Shifts and Magic Eyes: Melbourne presentation at CLAANZ conference
This is a short presentation in Melbourne at the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ) annual conference. The topic was looking at private enterprise and business in…
Ian Kennedy on being Ambassador to Japan
Ian was the ambassador to Japan at the time of both the Christchurch and Tohoku earthquakes of 2011. In this interview we hear all about his childhood and what led…
What is your Cathedral?
A short reflection. The text of this is here. What do you think? www.theseeds.nz Photo from Pixabay by suetot: You can download this episode here.
Japanese decision making and what we can learn
Japanese decision making – how is it different? What can we learn? This is a short little presentation at the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce on doing business in Japan.…
Hannah McKnight on communicating your Vision
Hannah is a communications consultant and wordsmith who helps organisations focussed on impact to communicate their stories. She founded Ngātahi Communications and in this interview we find out about her childhood growing…
Israel Cooper on co-founding Home, and the importance of Community, People and Purpose
Israel has a clear sense of identity and purpose and we talk about what led to his co-founding the building company, home, which has a real focus on people and…
Glen Herud on failure, Happy Cow Milk, the hard road of entrepreneurship and what matters most
Glen’s start-up Happy Cow Milk failed. That failure resulted in an outpouring of support – so he started again. In this interview we talk about his dreams and what went…
Dave Sewell on Leadership in Business and beating Stress
Dave has been studying leadership and the key elements that make up a good leader. As well as that his focus is to understand stress and what that does to…
Bridget Williams on the SDGs and founding Bead and Proceed
Bridget cares about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and founded social enterprise Bead and Proceed to highlight them. In this interview we find out about the SDGs as well…
Hayley-Maree Litt on counselling and letting go of the past
Hayley-Maree is a counsellor and in this interview we talk about change, personal growth, addiction and moving forward in life. We also find out about her early years growing up…
