Corporate Unplugged

Sasja Beslik is an international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been ranked the world's most influential person within green finance. Sasja is a true sustainability pioneer who has with passion taken on several leading roles in the world of finance: as head of responsible investments, as corporate governance, as CEO, and as head of sustainable finance. And today he's leading the sustainability work at the biggest Danish commercial pension company, PFA. His work has been recognised widely, for example, as a young global leader at the World Economic Forum, and he received a medal from the Swedish King also for Outstanding Contributions within environmental and sustainability theory. He's also the author of several books, the latest one is Where The Money Tree Grows. And his weekly newsletter ESG on a Sunday, is read widely by many impact makers around the world. In this podcast:It’s time to review the resultsThe answer isn’t driving an electric carWhy fleeing war changed his lifeThe power of the financial industry to bring about changeLinks:Where the Money Tree GrowsESG on a Sunday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charles Eisenstein is a writer, speaker and the author of several books including The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His work covers a wide range of topics such as history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and also the ecology movement, all topics which leaders today need to understand to evolve their companies. In this podcast:Why success doesn’t have to be goal drivenOur education system doesn’t create leadersHow to use business as a force for changeThe most important quality of a leader Kindness is the highest form of intelligence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

William Ury has a passion for helping people, organisations and societies get to seemingly impossible yes’s - i.e. agreements that work for everyone. He's trained as a social anthropologist, he’s worked as a mediator and negotiation advisor in many of the world's toughest conflicts from the Cold War to the Middle East. And he is co-author of ‘Getting To Yes’, a 15 million copy bestseller translated into over 35 languages, and author of the award winning ‘Getting to Yes With Yourself’. He co-founded Harvard’s programme on negotiation where he currently directs the global negotiation initiative, and he’s co-founder of the climate parliament, a forum for parliamentarians and civil society to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. In this podcast:How to get to yesHow to negotiate for important thingsWilliam’s vision for the futureLong term solutions for businessGo to the balconyWhat does a win look like?Links:www.williamury.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John P. Milton is an explorer and a true pioneer. He is a professor of environmental studies and has written books on ecology and environmental conservation. In the mid-1960s, he played a key role in fostering the environmental movement. He also helped author one of the earliest publications on the threat of rising global carbon dioxide levels. Starting very young, he pioneered bringing the ancient Vision Quest into a modern one, called Way of Nature. This is a quest on how to connect to the three nature's: the outer, inner and true. In this podcast:A pioneer for the environmentThe Way of Nature The Vision QuestWhy we need an educational system around the ecosystemThe fragility of modern highly centralised systemsHow leaders can come back into balance with natureLinks: WayOfNature.cominfo.wayofnature@gmail.comvimeo.com/wayofnature Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johan Premfors is an unconventional entrepreneur with a global experience that is hard to match. He has moved from investment banking to post conflict reconstruction, to building a global coaching school. And today, his focus is on mental health and his and his wife's passion project, Gozamm, a technological platform that will forever change how we consume life changing content, and also how you grow with the people you care most about. In this podcast:Getting closer to the people you care aboutGozamm as a platform for changeThe importance of human connectionCreate human change within organisationsThe future according to JohanAdvice to leaders and organisationsLinks:https://gozamm.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Batstone is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, on a mission to eradicate human trafficking and the global slave trade. And at the same time, he is what you might call a social justice warrior. David is the Founder and Managing Director of Just Business social impact investment firm. And he's also the founder of Not For Sale, which builds viable and successful companies and returns the profits back to the community. In this podcast:The Not For Sale modelFounding RebblSaving the Corporate Soul Designing a better worldEradicating human trafficking What David can teach the worldLinks:RebblSaving The Corporate Soul Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charles O'Malley works at the intersection of personal organisational and societal transformation. He has two decades of experience working on social and environmental issues with everyone from startups to large corporations and governments. Prior to that, he worked for a decade in finance and venture capital. He currently spends half of his time as Senior Systems Change Advisor at the UN Development Programme, where he focuses on how to accelerate transformation in global food and agricultural systems. He spends the rest of his time involved in a range of projects that bring together personal, organisational and systemic change.In this podcast:Personal organisational and systemic changeCollective sense-making processConnecting to a sense of purposeLong term solution for businessMake change with the resources you haveWhy leaders need to slow downLinks:The Power Of The Powerless Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Henderson is The John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and also a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rebecca is an expert on innovation and organisational change. Her research explores how much the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy.In this podcast:Her dream for the futureReimagining CapitalismWhy change in business is necessaryBeing a tree huggerLessons from deathLinks:Book - Reimagining CapitalismRebecca Henderson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason Lippert is the President and CEO of LCI Industries (LCII) listed on the New York Stock Exchange. LCII is a global manufacturer of components and engineered solutions for recreational vehicles, marine and transportation industries, with over 90 divisions and 14,000 team members worldwide. The key objective at LCII is to provide a positive experience for all of their customers, and at the heart of the company’s core values lies a culture of caring, which is transforming the company and the communities around it. In this podcast:The journey to caringSharing the knowledge with other companies Persuading stakeholders to invest in cultureImpressing culture on acquisitionsThe essence of LCII cultureThe business culture revolutionLinks:https://www.lci1.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Caswell created Group Partners as an antidote to the frustrations and missed opportunities of the leaders in the business world. He saw the lack of creativity and thoughtfulness forced on businesses through legacy processes, investment in the wrong objectives, and generally, how easy it was to solve the wrong problems really well. And above all, he saw how these things were all the better for being brought to life visually.In this podcast:The best way to have a visionPerpetual reinventionA passion for problemsWhat the world, businesses & leaders needLinks:https://www.grouppartners.online Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.