Impact People

About Impact People

Impact People from Impact Europe turns up the volume on the people who make impact happen.

Publisher

Impact Europe

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Feb 2023

Latest episode

14 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 57 episodes have a transcript.

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   14 Nov 2025

   The Case for Culture and Creativity in Impact

   There is stubborn misconception that the cultural and creative sector represent riskier, less interesting investments. Nevertheless, in the EU, the two sectors combined currently account for 5% of its GDP and represents 8.7 million jobs, with this ratio expected to expand even more in coming years. The potential for impact, in particular, is immense. We sat down with Javier Arias, Director of Business Creation at EIT Culture & Creativity. They are supporting impact-minded start-ups ...

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   12 Nov 2025

   A Talk with EIB Institute on Competitiveness and Innovation

   With over 20 years of experience at EIB, Shiva Dustdar is one of the leading voice in the European impact discourse. Leading into Impact Week, she took some time of her busy schedule to discuss their most recent projects, how they contribute to European competitiveness and which innovations they foresee in the years to come.

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   16 Oct 2025

   Shared Stakes: The Take-A-Stake Fund as Exemplary Collaboration

   Collaboration is a magic word in the impact space, but it's not always easy to pull off effectively. The Take-a-Stake Fund, which supports SME's in the WASH and WASTE sectors, is a shining example of how to execute for maximal impact. We spoke to Åsa Skogström Feldt (IKEA Social Entrepreneurship), Kajetan Hetzer (WASTE) and Raj Kumar (Yunus Social Business) on their learnings, their complementarity and the impact the project has had on communities in Asia and Africa. The topic of collab...

Inside a recent episode

Impactful Funds & Friends Part 2

Published 2 May 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that for me has now been, especially in the later part of my career, my greatest focus. That in the middle part of my career, I would say I was building bridges. I was trying to figure out how we can bring more people on the journey. We still need that. But I hear and I feel more and more that that we also need to be very confrontational, that we need to shake people up, that we need to make people realize that there is really no business as usual possible if we're going to confront the poly crisis and the perma crisis. And that's really what my young, let's say, young self all the way through to now has taught me. […]

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