The Change Makers Podcast
by The Change Makers Podcast
The Change Makers Podcast aims to raise awareness about changes needed in our behavior, in our society, and in our economy in order to preserve our planet and live more sustainable. Season 2 of this podcast has a clear focus: the SDGs. We have only one decade left to achieve the UN's SDGs and we need to speed up the process to make it happen.This podcast puts in the spotlight international thinkers and initiatives that are helping us get one step closer to the goals and will hopefully inspire listeners to start their own initiatives, in their own communities. Think global. Act local.
Episodes
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SDG 13: On the Green New Deal with Shannon Raponi
Shannon Raponi is a volunteer for the People’s Plan on the communications team. She is especially passionate about the protection of nature and the benefits of people connecting with the natural world. The People's Plan aims to put people’s voices at the heart of a green and just recovery from…
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SDG 4: On immersive, experiential learning with Izzy Ngo
Izzy Ngo is an ed-tech entrepreneur for Southeast Asia, and is deeply passionate about democratizing quality educational resources through technology. She is the co-founder of VERE360, an immersive content platform that makes experiential learning experiences affordable, quick, and easy to use.…
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SDG 8: Labor exploitation in the global supply chains
Annie Kelly is an award-winning human rights journalist for the Guardian and Observer. She is the editor of the Guardian’s Modern-day slavery in focus series. She also works as a writer and consultant for UN agencies and international NGOs. Previous clients have included UN Women, UNAIDS, Save…
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SDG 13: On greenwashing, activism and spirituality
Karry is a research and purpose consultant, helping companies implement the triple bottom line and re-imagine business as a force for good. As a B Corp Ambassador, she guides companies along their journey to becoming a Certified B Corporation and advocates for the B Corp movement in Germany, to...
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SDG 5: Warrior Women Leading with Karla Morales-Lee
Karla Morales-Lee is a thought-leader, community chief, brand strategist, and designer of unique experiences. Over the past 15 years, she has founded four businesses, one of which she sold. Today, she leads two ground-breaking businesses, both of which exist to accelerate positive change. Founded...
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SDG 8: Women & Informal Economy with Jaagruti Didwania & Sejal Maheshwari
Jaagruti Didwania and Sejal Maheshwari are 2 inspiring women who are co-leading the Blue Divide project, an endeavour to amplify the lives, voices, struggles and strengths of women confined by the intersectional divide created by gender, class, and the nature of work in the informal economy....
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SDG 7: Storytelling for a Green & Resilient Future
Lenka Homolka is a storyteller & marketer on a mission to help clean-tech companies find their rightful spot on the market. She places them as thought leaders and creates their future-proof tales that empower everyday people in making a positive difference in the world. For the last 6 years, she…
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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities with Giulia Marzetti
Giulia Marzetti is an engineer that works as a project manager for a portfolio of sustainable transport and energy projects. Giulia is the driving Persona of the European Footprints, a multimedia project raising awareness about the SDGs through storytelling; she is also a Local Leader for the...
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SDG 4: Education for life with Floris Koot
Floris Koot (1958, the Netherlands) is an experienced public speaker, writer, trainer, and since 2004, an active creative innovator in education. He is co-founder of Knowmads Business school Amsterdam and was involved in several other education startups. Floris studied to be a Teacher of Dramatic...
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SDG 7: Inclusion, equality and energy transition with Johannah Maher
Johannah Maher is the CEO and Co-founder of IMPACTR, an impact-tech startup company with a mission to inspire millions of people to do small things that together make a big impact. More on IMPACTR: https://www.impactr.world/ Prior to becoming an impact-entrepreneur, Johannah was an executive at…
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SDG 12: Towards circularity in the furniture industry with Robert Milder
Robert Milder is a designer, an environmentalist and the founder of Van de Sant- a sustainable design furniture company that makes fully circular furniture using recycled plastic gathered from land and oceans. Yet as sustainability gets more and more popular, the traditional furniture industry...
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SDG 3: Fighting cyberbullying with Agita Pasaribu
Agita Pasaribu is a child online protection enthusiast, cyberbullying policy analyst, and founder of bully.id - a future mobile app that combines psychology and law principles to proactively identify bullying & cyberbullying with an AI-analysis. Over a decade, she has been working closely with…
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SDG 9: Design for Human Connection with Larissa Menocci
Larissa Menocci is a communication professional, tech entrepreneur and human connection designer. She is an expert on how to use Design Thinking for team development. Since 2011 she has facilitated hundreds of workshops in three continents leading tens of teams to business success. Larissa is a...
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SDG 17: Change through systems and futures thinking with Alisha Bhagat
Alisha Bhagat is a senior strategist at Forum for the Future, a sustainability non-profit working globally with business, government and other organizations to solve complex problems. More on Forum for the Future. Follow Forum for the Future on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. In…
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SDG 11: Housing is a basic human right with Pratik Parmar
Pratik Parmar is a business developer at Build up Nepal, an organization empowering local people in Nepal to use local material to rebuild their own villages. Build up Nepal works as an implementation partner for INGOs, NGOs, and local entrepreneurs focusing on community-driven reconstruction and...
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SDG 17: Building an ecosystem to achieve the SDGs
Jeremy Liddle, Christian Walter, and David Galipeau are founding partners at SDGx, a global technology venture capital and advisory group offering a full-service ecosystem to achieve the SDGs. SDGx does integral investments in deep tech startups, provides tech transfer venture building and...
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SDG 8: From growth to good quality of life for all with Dorian Furlonger
Dorian Furlonger is a creative writer and explorer of ideas to enable EVERYONE to achieve a good quality of life, on a sustainable basis, treating our diversity of cultures and viewpoints not as a basis for conflict but as a rich knowledge resource that we can draw upon in mutually constructive...
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SDG 17: Leveraging fintech to scale green finance with Marianne Haahr
Marianne Haahr is the executive director at Green Digital Finance Alliance- a private-public partnership between the UN environment program and ANT Financial to leverage digital technology to scale green digital finance. https://greendigitalfinancealliance.org/ In this episode, we discuss the...
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SDG 4: Shifting towards experiential learning with Sudebi Thakurata and Probal Banerjee
Sudebi Thakurata and Probal Banerjee are the co-founders of D.epicentre, a transdisciplinary design collecting that uses a diversity of skills and approaches in delivering a unique pedagogy and learning experiences. D.epicentre has a vision about shifts in patterns of thinking, in looking at the...
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SDG 8: Accelerating opportunities for African youth with Stayce Nimusiima
Stayce Nimusiima is a freelancer and consultant working on innovation and communication projects that have the ultimate goal for behavioural change and social impact. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. We explore what is decent work, and...
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SDG 10: Building confidence within children from disadvantaged communities with Jigyasa Labroo
Jigyasa Labroo is the founder and CEO @ Slam Out Loud, an organization that uses performance and visual arts to enable children from disadvantaged communities to find their voice through creative expression. Find more about Slam Out Loud at: https://slamoutloud.com/ In this episode, we reflect on...
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SDG 17: Challenging organization models with Silvia Remotti, Fabrizio Pierandrei, and Stefano Anfossi
Silvia Remotti, Stefano Anfossi, and Fabrizio Pierandrei are members of the PACO design collaborative - an open organization that uses the potential of design and education in fostering social innovation, sustainable behaviors, and business opportunities. PACO believes that our organization…
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SDG 3: Reflecting on healthcare in Bangladesh with Sadia Afrin
Sadia Afrin is a community builder, teacher coach and curriculum developer who, for the last years, has been researching and working at the intersection of conscious leadership and mental health. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and wellbeing. We explore…
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SDG 4: Providing free quality education to all with Neelesh Bhatia
Neelesh Bhatia is the co-founder of Akadasia, a group of highly experienced educators, entrepreneurs, creative thinkers & technology professionals who are on a mission – to provide free access to a good, quality education to all in Asia. Akadasia believes that education is freedom & that good...
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SDG 17: Building partnerships to tackle complex problems with Merel van der Woude and Hanja Holm
Merel van der Woude and Hanja Holm are the Creative Director and Managing Director at Butterfly Works, a social design studio pioneering the use of co-creation and design thinking in international development. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the...
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SDG 3: Systemic change for an inclusive global health system with Margianta Surahman
Margianta Surahman is the spokesperson of Youth Movement for FCTC, the framework convention on tobacco control in Indonesia. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. We explore how the outbreak of the COVID-19, the coronavirus has been revealing the...
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SDG 12: Closing the plastic waste loop locally with Jan Jaap Folmer
Jan Jaap Folmer is the founder of Upp! UpCycling Platic, who wants to contribute to at least 100 zero waste cities in at least 10 countries by 2025. Upp! designs and builds Upp! Circular Plastic Factories or Upp! Mobile production units to process mixed plastic waste streams into durable and...
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SDG 17: The challenges of our economic model with Tom Ansell
Tom Ansell is the founder and CEO at Whyable, who has the vision to have a positive impact on the world by improving the global political and economic system from the inside. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals, the challenges in our current...
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SDG 2: Collaborating for an inclusive food system with Christine Gould
Christine Gould is the founder and CEO at Thought For Food, who is on a quest to bring more creativity and collaboration into the food and agriculture industry. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger, the complexity of our food system, and the power of...
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SDG 4: Increasing Civic Engagement with Jennifer Pfister
Jennifer Pfister is a social entrepreneur working towards a vision of increasing civic engagement and bringing communities closer together. In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 4: Access to Quality Education and the power of young people and communities in creating positive...
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Episode 33: Change through environment-centered design with Nicole A.A Calistri
Nicole Calistri is an advocate for the environment-centred design and the co-creator of the Planet Centric Deck. She is also the founder of Envision, a collective of designers, researchers and strategists who work on producing eco-responsible solutions. Find out more at: https://envision.london...
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Episode 32: Change through collaboration and partnership building with Nadim Choucair
Nadim Choucair spent a few years as an innovation consultant working at the intersection of the private and public sectors - in a role that is best described as an ecosystem builder. His job was to always answer the question: How might we enable organizations to innovate. He's still working on…
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Episode 31: Change through service design and social innovation with Valentina Salvi
Valentina Salvi is a service designer whose goal is to improve people’s lives and contribute to shaping meaningful, impactful user experiences. In her creative facilitator role, Valentina has been planning and leading over 30 Design Sprints and workshops that help her clients empathize with their...
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Episode 30: Change through creativity and personal sovereignty with David Chislett
David Chislett is a Chief Activator who helps people re-connect with their vision and tap directly into their own creative well. He draws on a lifetime of experience as a poet, musician, author, trainer, and artist to help people and companies discover and express their ideas. He offers 1-on-1...
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Episode 29: Change through impact branding with Elif Algu
Elif Algu is a pragmatic idealist and the founder of Branding a Better World, a creative impact agency who helps brands create and share their stories of positive impact. Elif strongly believes that we as consumers have so much influence in facilitating change, because our power lies with our...
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Episode 28: Changing our attitude towards AI with Nadia Piet
Nadia Piet is a driven multipotentiality currently finding herself at the intersection of service design, technology, and strategy. For the last 6 months, she has been researching the intersection of AI and design and looking into the questions of: How can we democratize access to AI and leverage...
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Episode 27: Changing Fashion with Mariel Jumpa
Mariel Jumpa is a driven social entrepreneur passionate about building communities. She has founded Slow Fashion World, a global platform and conscious agency empowering, connecting and enabling collaborations for social and ethical companies. Tune in this episode for insights on cultural...
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Episode 26: This could be our future
About Yancey Strickler: Yancey is the co-founder of Kickstarter and author of ’This could be our future’. Yancey is currently on a mission to end financial maximization as the dominant force, and as the dominant value that guides our decisions and actions by 2050. In this interview, we discuss…
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Episode 25: Sustainability in the fashion industry
Nanette Hogervorst is an entrepreneur active at the intersection of fashion, sustainability, and communication. She has been raised by parents who have lived in the Philippines for years. They saw and experienced what it is like when water, energy, and food are not always present in abundance.…
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Episode 24: The Culture Shift
Matilda Sundåker is a Swede based in Amsterdam who after a few years of working with companies such as Hyper Island, Adidas and Vice took the step into the freelance world and found her own strategy consultancy. Matilda believes that empowered people empower others - resulting in happier and more...
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Episode 23: Developers as agents of change
When we talk about change, nowadays we always think of technology as the main driver for it. So today, I invited three software engineers to join me in a discussion on this topic. We are talking about the role, responsibility, and ethics of a developer, lifelong learning in a fast-paced tech...
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Episode 22: Tranformation & Human(ity)-Centered Design
Marco van Hout is the co-founder of the Digital Society School, a new hub in Amsterdam focused on engaging, meaningful and impactful learning experiences for students and professionals. Marco CREATES, TEACHES and SPEAKS about transformation design, digital society, human(ity) centered and UX…
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Episode 21: Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable
Rona van der Zander aims to create sustainable change and innovation in the education sector and facilitate change for organizations and institutions. She is a true global citizen. Her curious spirit and her keen eye for interesting trends and developments have led her to work in 8 different...
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Episode 20: Creating a more meaningful working world
For the last 2 years, Tom has been leading his organization Extraordinary Life, a non profit foundation dedicated to empowering people to living more meaningful working lives. One core mission of EL is to evolve the notion of work. Essentially, Tom aims to create a more meaningful working world...
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Episode 19: "The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is"
Danielle is an Employee Journey Advisor at ING Bank, with a passion for meditation and mindfulness. She is a volunteer for very diverse causes, and she strongly believes in the power of giving back and strengthening the community feeling. She started her own charity, Stichting Enlight, a day...
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Episode 18: We all need to be "enfants terribles" to change the world
Marion King is the founder of Les Enfants Terribles, which is a school, a community, and an initiative for good new work. Marion confesses she always felt a little bit different from the other kids; with time and experience, she realized that being 'un enfant terrible' turned out to be a good...
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Episode 17: Education is the most effective tool for social change
Our guest today is Michael Sano, higher ed community manager at EdSurge, a news organisation focused on the future of learning. In this conversation, we reflect on the following questions within higher education: * The impact of the economic recession on education * the balance between financial...
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Episode 16: Together for a circular future
Today, we have as a guest Tamara Veldboer, an expert and consultant on Circular Economy, who aims to have a valuable contribution towards the realization of the circular economy and inspire others to think holistically. In this conversation, we reflect on the topic of sustainability, no waste and...
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Episode 15: Impact, Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation
In this Change Makers Episode we have Leon Reiner, the co-founder and managing director of Impact Hub Berlin, whose vision is to create an ecosystem where change makers bring their ideas into action. In this interview, Leon is sharing his thoughts on impact investing, the collaboration culture in...
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Episode 14: Inclusive Education
In today’s episode we have Celine Wuarin, a teacher at heart, driven by the question: what experiences do students need to build their identities, broaden their understanding of the world and make choices that will fulfil their lives? She is the director of Student Pathways at Compass Academy…
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The Change Makers Podcast aims to raise awareness about changes needed in our behavior, in our society, and in our economy in order to preserve our planet and live more sustainable. Season 2 of this podcast has a clear focus: the SDGs. We have only one decade left to achieve the UN's SDGs and we need to speed up the process to make it happen.This podcast puts in the spotlight international thinkers and initiatives that are helping us get one step closer to the goals and will hopefully inspire listeners to start their own initiatives, in their own communities. Think global. Act local.
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