Levers of Exchange

About Levers of Exchange

Many people would have you believe that sustainability is a profession separate from all others. That there are special skills one needs to learn in order to become a sustainability expert. That sustainability products are additional to the products and services you buy every day. Not so. The sustainability of an organization is the whole organization, not just the responsibility of the sustainability department. In essence, we need sustainability accountants, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, marketeers, purchasing agents, and so on. Every job is a sustainability job. At Levers of Exchange, we help individuals embrace and enhance their existing abilities to make the sustainability changes that they want. In our community, we help individuals exchange, question and innovate new tools to do our own jobs better. And along the way, we can contribute to building a sustainable world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Jimmy Jia

Category

business · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Mar 2020

Latest episode

25 Aug 2021

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Aug 2021

   S03E11 Organizing your company to remove a Gigaton of Carbon

   What we discussed: We have a proliferation of agreements, commitments, and pledges to achieve climate mitigation. But what’s underneath the pledges? And which pledges achieve the action that we need? Kaya Axelsson and I discussed incentives, purpose of business, and pledges in our reflection of Season 3 interviews. Why it matters: What if every think tank, university department or company organized themselves with the responsibility of reducing 1 gigaton of carbon? This is a simple metric that allows people to thrive in their job yet organize the goal to meaningful impact. What it means for you: There is carbon being emitted from every sector – whether agriculture, real estate, manufacturing, retail, and so on. Which gigaton of reduction are you focused on? About Kaya Axelsson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaya-axelsson-7057834b/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaya-axelsson-7057834b/) About Levers of Exchange: Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com (http://www.jimmyjia.com)) Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com (http://www.seanhart.com)) Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ (https://www.leversofexchange.com/) Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/skoll-centre-social-entrepreneurship), at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   12 Aug 2021

   S03E10 Building collaborations by sharing a meal

   What we discussed: Systems change needs people who have broad views and understands the details. Kaya Axelsson and I reflected on the similarities behind the differences of electric utilities, water systems, telecom, financial and maritime sectors that our guests discussed. Why it matters: The general concepts of systems change needs to be implemented by practitioners who are deeply focused on the details of how their system works. When we zoom out to see the commonalities, we see how the challenges in one sector may have already been addressed by another sector. What it means for you: Bonus Content About Kaya Axelsson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaya-axelsson-7057834b/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaya-axelsson-7057834b/) About Levers of Exchange: Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com (http://www.jimmyjia.com/)) Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com (http://www.seanhart.com/)) Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ (https://www.leversofexchange.com/) Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/skoll-centre-social-entrepreneurship), at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   3 Aug 2021

   S03E09 Skills that students should learn

   Personal Resilience. Vision. Listening, and a sense of curiosity. These were the skills that our Season 3 guests recommended students and early career professionals learn today if they want to enter the sustainability sector. Our guests spanned across telecom, water, finance, maritime, electric utilities and cultural systems. I was curious, are the skills to succeed the same or different? I asked every guest, what skill they would advise a student or early professional to learn. The answers were very revealing. Natalia Pshenichnaya, the former Head of Programmes at the GSMA Foundation tied personal resilience to how this deeper inner awareness keeps the person grounded in what's important to them. Joaquin Viquez, a water consultant for the German Development Agency G-I-Zed, also pointed out the importance of a vision and personal passion. James Mitchell trained as a cellist before creating a career in Sustainable Finance. Now at the Rocky Mountain Institute, he pointed out that just like in a chamber music group, listening to each other, hearing each other, responding and reacting in kind with each other, is a critical skill to learn. Three of our guests, however, pointed out the power of curiosity and asking the right question, including Jeremy McDaniels, now the Senior Advisor for Sustainable Finance at the Institute of International Finance. Stuart Hilen, a Portfolio Developer at EnergyAustralia, put it differently. He considered the skills he looks for when hiring team members. Finally, Shruthi Vijayakumar summed it up beautifully. Questions invite others into our own space, to question with us. So, there you have it. Those are the skills that students and early career professionals should learn. It's not the textbook lessons that will create systems change. It's the interpersonal skills of inviting others in, of making chamber music together, that will create the new systems for everlasting change. Guests: · Stuart Hillen, EnergyAustralia, Melbourne, Australia https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hillen/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hillen/) · Jeremy McDaniels, Institute of International Finance, Washington DC USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mcdaniels/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mcdaniels/) · James Mitchell, Rocky Mountain Institute, London, UK https://www.linkedin.com/in/james20/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james20/) · Natalia Pshenichnaya, formerly GSM Association, Berlin, Germany https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-pshenichnaya-7107781a/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-pshenichnaya-7107781a/) · Shruthi Vijayakumar, Education New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthivijayakumar/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruthivijayakumar/) · Joaquin Viquez, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, San Jose, Costa Rica https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinviquez/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinviquez/) About Levers of Exchange: Interview by Jimmy Jia (www.jimmyjia.com (http://www.jimmyjia.com)) Music by Sean Hart (www.seanhart.com (http://www.seanhart.com)) Website: https://www.leversofexchange.com/ (https://www.leversofexchange.com/) Image by Juraj Varga (https://pixabay.com/users/coyot-2009089/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=1957451) from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=1957451) Season 3 is funded by a generous grant from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/skoll-centre-social-entrepreneurship), at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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