Jonathan Lee on Photography as Art
Jonathan Lee is a professional photographer who has traveled the world taking photos and through them telling amazing stories. In doing this he often supports social enterprises and other great…
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Ben Atkinson on finding your purpose and founding social enterprise ‘Fill Their Lunchbox’
Ben set up the social enterprise Fill Their Lunchbox and in this episode shares his journey. We learn about his childhood and hard times during high school, losing a friend…
Catherine Brown with a Funder’s perspective on social enterprises
Growing up in an international family that spanned the globe, working as a lawyer before starting to work for a variety of charities particularly in the health sector and then…
Mark Prain on Sir Edmund Hillary
Traveling the country at 11 as a boy soprano, studying acting and working as a professional actor and then working internationally as an opera singer before becoming an activist with…
John Hammond on choosing life
On falling in love at first sight, the impact of a friend passing in your 20s, a lifelong love of skiing and travel, co-founding a marketing agency, deciding to retire…
Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom on Space
Growing up in the Philippines with dreams of Space and interplanetary travel, how a scholarship to the International Space University in France has led to a unique career as an…
Martin Large on “Common Wealth”
Growing up on a Yorkshire Dales hill farm, living in South East Asia during the Vietnam War era, pursuing an academic career, founding the Hawthorn Press, developing ‘Stroud Common Wealth’…
Peter Townsend on Business Leadership
Growing up in Rotorua, being involved in the fishing industry and co-founding the New Zealand Salmon Company in the mid 1980s, working as Chief Executive at the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber…
Gary Shaw on having been an Anti Human Trafficker
Ambitions to be a superhero as a child and how that affected the decision to become a policeman and then work for many years as an anti-human trafficker, the highs…
Elena Casolari on Impact Investing in Africa and India
Growing up in Italy, working as a researcher of economic models at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, joining the finance world as an investment banker before co-founding OPES Impact Fund…
Dr James Austin on the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School
Joining the Peace Corps in 1964, studying at Harvard Business School and then joining the faculty before being involved in co-founding the Social Enterprise Initiative there. Dr James Austin is…
David Harland on the Eden Project, education by stealth and plans for the red zone in Christchurch
What the Eden Project is, the concept of weaving together entertainment with education, operating as a global social enterprise with expanding operations in China, Australia, America and a proposal for the red…
