EP #12 | Dr. Pamela Ravasio on advising a Company's C-Suite to re-invent business as a force for good

11/06/22 • 49 min

Episode Summary
Dr. Pamela Ravasio is an advisor to executive management & board of directors, a keynote speaker, author, independent non-executive director, and a board member of INSEAD’s International Directors Network.
In this 12th episode of the Naturally Innovative Podcast I talk to Pamela about the opportunities and barriers for transforming businesses as a force for good. Needless to say that her extensive experience working with a company's C-Suite in helping them develop and implement sustainability programmes made for an extremely engaging conversation about what a transition towards better, future-fit business models might look like.

What we talk about

how Pamela's career started and what led her to where she is today
how she defines responsible leadership and what accountability really means
possible visions and obstacles to re-invent business models and challenge existing concepts around economic growth and our current understanding of 'success'
how to help executive managers navigate complexity looking at the example of supply chains
the problems of Natural Capital and other ways to 'value' for businesses

About Dr. Pamela Ravasio
Dr. Pamela Ravasio is one of the global outdoor industry's leading voices, thinkers and - as founder and managing director of Shirahime Advisory - implementers of sustainability programmes, and expert sparring partner for senior leaders and boards of directors of medium to large sized companies in the luxury goods consumer sector.
Pamela is a practising INED, holds a certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD, as well as a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
She is a Swiss-Italian dual citizen, speaks 6 languages and feels most at home when travelling the world with a backpack or when in the Alps.

Resources mentioned

Use and Abuse of the ,Natural Capital' Concept

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What we talk about

how Pamela's career started and what led her to where she is today
how she defines responsible leadership and what accountability really means
possible visions and obstacles to re-invent business models and challenge existing concepts around economic growth and our current understanding of 'success'
how to help executive managers navigate complexity looking at the example of supply chains
the problems of Natural Capital and other ways to 'value' for businesses

Resources mentioned

Use and Abuse of the ,Natural Capital' Concept

Connect with Dr. Pamela Ravasio

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undefined - EP #11 | Marc Buckley, Ecological Economist, International Speaker, and Visionary, on futures that work for everyone and empowering 1 billion global citizens to live within planetary boundaries

EP #11 | Marc Buckley, Ecological Economist, International Speaker, and Visionary, on futures that work for everyone and empowering 1 billion global citizens to live within planetary boundaries

NEW: You can watch this entire episode on Youtube, by clicking here.
Episode Summary
This episode with Marc Buckley is full of wisdom and great examples of why and how we can change and create futures that work for everyone. Marc draws from his extensive experience as an international speaker, author, tutor, business mentor, climate activist, and SDG expert, and UN advisor to explain what we can do as individuals (or "crew members of spaceship earth"), as a society, and as entrepreneurs to create the transformation needed and what we can learn from the natural innovation of symbiosis to create healthier, more sustainable lifestyles within planetary boundaries.

What we talk about

Marc shares with me what his work involves and how he had to unlearn old economic models and pave the way for new ecological economic ways of doing business
We speak about the often dystopian future scenarios and the importance of creating visions of a more desirable next chapter for humanity and the needed transformation to get there
Marc highlights the correlation between climate change and food reform and the potential of new technologies

About Marc Buckley
Marc has been involved in Climate Activism for a long time and would love to show you how to run faster than climate change by being an impactful and exponential human being. One of the first to be trained by Al Gore as a Climate Speaker he has made getting through the Climate Crisis towards Resilient Desirable Futures his life's work.
He is an Advocate for the SDG’s, UN Advisor and Resilient Futurist, Social Innovation, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food, and Beverage Expert Network member of the World Economic Forum, Global Food Reformist, and Sustainable Futurist.
His aim is to reform the agriculture, food and beverage industry with impactful projects and moonshot companies. As a Social Serial Entrepreneur, he has been involved in many companies as well as several international family businesses.

Resources mentioned

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Website
Linktr.ee (full of interesting resources!)
LinkedIn
Instagram
Twitter

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undefined - Ep #13 | Florian Sorg and Alex Vavourakis on building a fair music streaming marketplace for artists and fans with NEWM while acting environmentally conscious

Ep #13 | Florian Sorg and Alex Vavourakis on building a fair music streaming marketplace for artists and fans with NEWM while acting environmentally conscious

NEW: You can watch this entire episode on Youtube, by clicking here.
Episode Summary
Florian Sorg (Co-CEO), Alex Vavourakis (Head of Marketing + Digital) and their team at NEWM are building the fair music streaming marketplace for artists and fans.
NEWM is an all-in-one ecosystem to fill every gap in the current music space and consists of a growing community of artists, fans and collectors. Through music co-ownership NEWM offers musicians an easy access to the WEB 3 space and allows them to own fractionalized music rights via NFTs and FTs, distribute music, trade music rights, royalty collection & distribution, stream music, and have power in community governance.

What we talk about

what sets NEWM apart and why the team is passionate about music
how NEWM ensures sustainable and ethical ways of working
why fostering trust in Web 3 is crucial to successfully grow a community and how NEWM builds relationships with its stakeholders

About the guests
Florian Sorg
Co-CEO at NEWM

Former founder, accountant and venture capitalist with more than 15 years of professional experience in growing and leading teams. His journey started when he founded his coaching company for SME Middle Management while in university. After a successful exit, he moved on and wanted to learn more about all business-related matters. This brought him to a large accounting firm where he participated in the audit of annual and consolidated financial statements according to HGB (GCC) and IFRS and in the audit of group reporting packages in accordance with IFRS and US-GAAP. With this experience and his drive and curiosity for innovation he moved on to be a part of the venture capital world where he was in charge of the software and deep-tech investments of a Swiss single LP venture fund due to his technology background (Studies in Microsystem technology). After a couple of years, he wanted to gain more operational experience and decided to help a startup as CFO/COO to successfully pivot during the last two years of the pandemic.
Alex Vavourakis
Head of Marketing and Digital at NEWM

Alex has nearly 15 years of experience in Marketing, Digital Marketing & creating campaign strategies for multiple startups. He has a proven track record of building communities from the ground up over different channels with a high interaction rate. As a DJ , art lover and former event manager, he has an international network and understands the needs of artists and consumers alike. Additionally, he has great leadership skills and pushes his team members to always strive for excellence, which is directly reflected in the team's work output.

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