The impactivist podcast brings you the stories of social innovators who are solving market failures and have demonstrated more sustainable models to build inclusive economies. They walk us through how they started, what helped them succeed, their key learnings, how to raise funds, why sticking to their purpose and values is fundamental and much more. Our hope is that these individual stories will provide you a better understanding of how we can solve our collective problems from the perspective of pragmatism and hard-earned experience. Join us on this journey.
A look into the identities of a positive leader with Jean Philippe Courtois
In this episode, we speak to Jean Philippe Courtois (JP) who is one of Microsoft's top executives. His focus is on transforming national economies, helping to create sustainable and inclusive economic growth through digital transformation. He was key in the creation of Microsoft's social entrepreneur program. He also co-founded Live for good with his family in 2015 after a tragic event. Live for good aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entr...
8 Nov 2021
How The 1st family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing is helping families invest with Tangible Impact
Today we speak to Julien Lescs, co-founder of Kimpa, the first family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing. Julien and his team are actively helping wealthy families and family businesses align their family values with their impact investment Strategy in order to invest for good, innovate to keep their family quest alive and win with the next generation on board. He recently published a clinical perspective on ‘how the environmental urgency affects the psychodynamics between family ...
18 Oct 2021
Catalyzing the Climate Tech ecosystem
Today we speak to Manuella Cunha Brito, the co-founder of CLIMATESCAPE, the go to platform for the low carbon economy: https://climatescape.org/about Manella’s mission is reversing climate change and reducing inequalities. She co-founded Good Tech Lab and co-authored “The frontiers of impact tech”: https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ebc463e30e8bd69378b5c117cf5d677ad8a2efc.pdf We speak about her initial path towards a diplomacy career, her journey to becoming a rese...
21 Sept 2021
Creating a second home in rural areas though social emotional education
Today we speak to Yessica Flores, Founder of Kantaya. In this episode, Yessica shares her corporate journey, why she chose this cause and how it has brought meaning and purpose to her life. Kantaya brings education to rural areas in Peru. 5 and 15 years old receive a holistic curriculum that allows them to keep being children in a safe space. The results have been astonishing and this in part to the focus on social-emotional skills. You can be part of this cause in many ways: https://k...
9 Aug 2021
Learning to See- Bonus episode Season 1
Andres and Maria have a conversation about their most important takeaways to finish the season. They speak about values, reconnection, rethinking, awareness, developing the left hemisphere of your brain, a new version of capitalism and much more. All this was inspired by the impACTivists that have been in the show. The impACTivist podcast crew will take a break and come back in September. Thank you for listening. "So who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexte...
26 Jul 2021
The Power of Scientrepreneurship to bring access to water and sanitation as a universal right.
Today we speak to a young leader who started to fight for sanitation as a universal right at 17 years old. We speak about how people like Marie Curie and books inspired her to be a scientist. We also speak about her experience as a young woman entrepreneur with investors, gaining credibility as a young innovator, how she decided to unfocus from her set of solutions to help society during the COVID pandemic, her new blockchain project and much more. Anna has won numerous awards lik...
5 Jul 2021
Democratizing Human Health Through a Fast and Low-cost diagnosis of human diseases
In this episode Laura Mendoza, Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of UNIMA tells us her rich story experimenting with her identity without being afraid of “ridicule”, what she translates as not being afraid to fail. The value of family, how science, medicine, chemical engineering and marketing shaped her and a lot about entrepreneurship and how she is contributing to making the world a better place. UNIMA is a combination of vision, passion, purpose, and science. UNIMA is a b...
14 Jun 2021
Focusing on what people with dissabilities can do, he is helping businesses scale in an untapped 3 trillion market.
One billion people that is 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability, and disability prevalence is higher for developing countries. Between 110 million and 190 million people, experience significant disabilities. People with disabilities are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes such as less education, poorer health outcomes, lower levels of employment, and higher poverty rates. Xoan Fernandez explains why supporting minority disability groups is im...
24 May 2021
How a social scientist blended art, industrial design and technology to solve water shortage.
Enrique Lomnitz merged the technical skills and soft skills to provide a practical solution to solve water scarcity in Mexico City. Enrique comes from a family of migrants and refugees. His childhood was surrounded by art, and his parents cultivated his social awareness. He migrated to the United States with his family when he was 5 years old. During the time he lived in the United States, he graduated from Industrial Design, and after the completion of his studies, he returned to Mexic...
3 May 2021
How traveling and curiosity boosted her quest to work for a more sustainable world with Carolina Meza.
Carolina Meza tells us why and how she collected stories about sustainability initiatives while travelling the world, why we need to reconnect to the basics of life, to nature and how she is bringing all her learnings and knowledge to her municipality as an elected representative. Carolina is also speaker's curator and cities program lead for the largest impact event in the world. The world’s largest event for the planet is on the 27,28, 29 May. Check out the amazing line of spe...
19 Apr 2021
How humility and moral leadership lead Felipe Chajin to take extraordinary decisions.
Felipe incarnates what moral leadership is all about: humility, feminine leadership values, courage, managing incertitude and much more. He recently was appointed as Solunas- General Manager. Soluna brings electricity to the Non-connected-zones in rural regions in Colombia. According to the World Bank, 940 million people do not have access to electricity, and 3 billion (approximately 40% of the world population) do not have access to clean energy sources. This problem comes at a high health...
11 Mar 2021
How teaching green business is helping restore and protect the Amazon.
Interview with Julio Andres Rozo- Amazonia Emprende More than 1 million acres of forests have been lost since 1990, leaving the global stock at near 10 million acres, according to a July 2020 report by the United Nations (FAO) Julio Andrés Rozo believes in green business as an instrument for the conservation of ecosystems. He has worked with social entrepreneurs in Asia and Latin America since 2008. He is an advisor to government and international cooperation entities su...
8 Mar 2021
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The impactivist podcast brings you the stories of social innovators who are solving market failures and have demonstrated more sustainable models to build inclusive economies. They walk us through how they started, what helped them succeed, their key learnings, how to raise funds, why sticking to their purpose and values is fundamental and much more. Our hope is that these individual stories will provide you a better understanding of how we can solve our collective problems from...
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