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- 2 days ago39 min
Katie Oliver: No child left behind
For nearly twenty years, Katie Oliver has been a driving force behind one of the UK’s most significant education charities, Ark. She was at the forefront of growing the Ark network from one academy to dozens of schools. In 2019, she took on a new mission: founding Ark Start, a group of five London nurseries that are built alongside the Ark schools network and is in the process of expanding across the country. Today, as Managing Director of Ark Start, she is demonstrating how to close the attainment gap from day one. This episode is part of our special series with our friends at Ark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 6 days ago38 min
João Abreu: Brazil's leading public health innovator
João Abreu is a Brazilian public health innovator and the co-founder and executive director of ImpulsoGov, a non-profit scaling data-driven tools and technology into Brazil’s universal public health system - the world’s largest single-payer public healthcare network. Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, ImpulsoGov has grown to partner with governments in hundreds of municipalities, helping health teams use data to act proactively, equitably and preventively. Joao's organisation has won international recognition, including selection to the MIT Solve Global Health Challenge, and reflects João’s deep commitment to closing gaps in access and quality of care by putting real-world data into the hands of frontline teams. This is the latest in our special series with our friends at 100X Impact. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago46 min
Luke Tryl: Do we have more in common?
Luke Tryl is executive director of More in Common UK, the research organisation that has become the reference point for understanding what British voters actually think - and how often the political class misreads them. In this episode, Luke walks us through More in Common's seven-segment model of British values, built on Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory and Karen Stenner's work on authoritarianism. He explains why the morning of 24 June 2016 convinced him the whole political class in the UK had missed something fundamental about the country, and why the answer is not government by focus group but better listening upstream of policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago22 min
77up
Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago40 min
Nigel Topping: Legend of the Climate Movement
In this episode we're joined by a legend of the climate change movement. Once a Cambridge mathematician, manufacturing executive and then on to the UN high level climate champion for COP26, Nigel Topping has spent decades bridging the gap between factory floors and the likes of the Paris Agreement. Now, as chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, Nigel is steering the UK towards its 2050 targets with the same data-driven precision he once used as a Cambridge mathematician. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago44 min
Kruti Bharucha: From McKinsey and the IMF to transforming education in India
This is the next episode in our latest series with our friends at 100X Impact. Kruti Bharucha is CEO of Peepul, bringing over two decades of leadership across some of the world’s most demanding institutions from McKinsey and the World Bank, to the IMF becoming an advisor to global CEOs on finance, risk and organisational performance. She could have stayed in global boardrooms. Instead, she chose to take that firepower into the education system. Kruti leads Peepul, an NGO that works shoulder-to-shoulder with state governments to improve education at scale across India. In Delhi, they run exemplary schools while driving system-wide reform across more than 1,500 primary schools. In Madhya Pradesh, they support 300,000 teachers across 100,000 schools and help to deliver the Chief Minister’s flagship school reform programme. In this conversation, we explore what it really takes to make a difference in the classroom, influence governments, and make a lasting impact. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago46 min
Seaweed can save us, with Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez
In this episode, Adam and Rafi speak to Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, co-founder and co-CEO of Notpla, a company replacing single-use plastic with materials made from seaweed. What began as a student experiment has become a manufacturing business operating across nine countries, supplying packaging to stadiums, global brands, and major food service providers. Notpla has been recognised with the £1 million Earthshot Prize, alongside awards from Fortune, Time, and Wired. Notpla has grown from a speculative invention to working with companies like Just Eat Takeaway and Compass Group, and replacing 35 million units of plastic so far. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Apr 19, 202643 min
Nick Hurd: the Big Society & fourth generation Conservative MP
Nick Hurd is the fourth consecutive generation Conservative MP in his family, the UK's former Minister for Civil Society, and he now chairs the Foundation for Social Investment and the GSG Impact network, which spans 48 countries. In this episode, Nick shares his family's tradition of public service (his father was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary), former Prime Minister David Cameron's vision for the Big Society, the growth of the UK’s social investment market, and the creation of the National Citizen Service (NCS). Looking to the future, Nick talks about the growth of the global impact economy, the role of government, and why long-term change is dependent on patient leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and cross-party support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
About The Impact Equation
Welcome to The Impact Equation, conversations with leaders shaping a brighter future, hosted by Adam Pike, social entrepreneur, and Rafi Addlestone, impact advisor, With our special guests, we unlock the secrets of those who dare to transform our world. We talk to architects of change, pioneers in their fields, working toward a brighter future for us all. In each episode, we dig into each element of the impact equation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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