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Connor Harbison: In 100 Years Our Cities Will Feed Us
📍Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Connor Harbison is the founder of Atlas Urban Farms. Using his product, you can eat fresh Basil grown from a vertical...
Erin Duddy on the Transition of Wealth into Sustainable Finance
📍Monterey, California, U.S.A. Erin Duddy is the Director at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, where she is leading their expansi...
Pascal Gally, and the Clash of Legends
📍Zurich, Switzerland. Pascal Gally is the founder of Choc des Légendes, an event that gathers Presidents, ambassadors, CEOs, and students to trade wi...
Kerry Healey on Building Bridges for the American Dream
📍Washington D.C., U.S.A. Kerry Healey is the President of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, and she shares her approach to creating...
Syed Sultan Ahmed on Film as a Form of Education
📍Bangalore, India. Sultan Ahmed is the founder of LXL Ideas, a company that uses film to teach young people about traditional academics as well as ho...
Kenneth Mikkelsen on Leading an Examined Life
📍Copenhagen, Denmark. Kenneth Mikkelsen is the founder of Futureshifts and the author of The Neo-Generalist: Where You Go is Who You Are.
UN S...
Carolina Ruiz Cubides on Forming Habits and Shaping the Perception of Yourself
📍Bogotá, Colombia. Carolina Ruiz Cubides is the founder of Happy Thinkers, where she helps people design the life of their dreams.
UN Sustainab...
Robert Gierke on the Next Level of Consciousness and Finding Purpose As Humans
📍Berlin, Germany. Robert Gierke grew up in the Eastern Bloc of communist Germany, attended university in capitalist America, and lived in the corpora...
Frannie Léautier on the Development of Countries and the Values Driving Sustainable Development
📍Tanzania. Frannie Léautier grew up in rural Tanzania, became the Chief of Staff of the World Bank, and is now the CEO of SouthBridge investments. He...
Nicola Peel on Consumption, Biodiversity, and Finding Solutions to Environmental Problems
📍West Sussex, England. Nicola Peel spent the last 20 years studying & living in the Amazon rainforest. She has a deep understanding of how our habits...
April Mendez: How Nature Can Protect, Replenish, and Revitalize our Communities
📍Minneapalis, Minnesota, USA. April Mendez is the CEO of Greenprint Partners and is scaling a concept called green infrastructure. The idea behind it...
Tanya Khotin: Impact Investing and Why Its A Trend That Isn't Going Away
📍Catskills, NY, USA. With 25 years of impact investing experience, Tanya Khotin understands how the space operates. Traditionally investors have eval...
John-Paul Maxfield on Change, Decentralized Finance, and Climate
📍Denver, CO, USA. The world is changing at its fastest pace ever. New technologies are emerging and growing while existing cracks in the system get b...
Gwen Dittmar: How We Can Use Our Breath to Live Better
📍Los Angeles, CA, USA. Gwen Dittmar is a coach who teaches people how to breathe properly and how to use your breathe to deal with things like anxiet...
Rastra Bhandari: Living in the Himalayas for 3 Months, and What It Taught Me About Climate Change
📍Abu Dhabi, UAE. For three months, Rastra Bhandari lived in the Himalayan mountains, studying how the water crisis impacted the communities living th...
Jason Graham-Nye on the Circular Economy and Reinventing Diapers
📍Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Jason Graham-Nye, and he is reinventing how a diaper is made. Current diapers are unsustainable as they are made out...
Mandar Apte: The Formula for Creating Peace in Your Life
📍Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Mandar Apte is the executive director of cities4peace. He is focused on building more peaceful and compassionate communi...
Dr. David Vik: The Story of How Zappos Created a Company Culture
📍Los Altos, California, USA. As the former Head of Culture at Zappos, Dr. David Vik was on the ground floor when Zappos designed their company cultur...
Tim Leberecht: Making Business More Beautiful through Love and Romance
📍Lisbon, Portugal. Tim Leberecht is the co-founder of The House of Beautiful Business, a global think tank on a mission to make business more beautif...
Dr. Harriet Fesq: It's Not the '80's Anymore, Business Has a New Relationship
📍Sydney, Australia. The original role of business was to provide goods and services to a community. If they harmed the community more than they helpe...
Eric McNulty: Leadership for 2022 and Beyond
📍Cambridge, MA, USA. Eric McNulty is the Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard where he works to amplify the work of...
Alisa Valderrama: The Price of Natural Disasters
📍San Diego, CA, USA. Alisa Valderrama is the Co-founder and CEO of Futureproof, a company building a better way to understand the financial risk that...
Rhys Roth: How Our Infrastructure is Becoming Sustainable
📍Olympia, WA, USA. As the Director of the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure, Rhys Roth oversees the systems that support our lives, yet we are bl...
Sarah Little: Amplifying a Generation of Girls’s Voices
📍London, UK. Sarah Little believes in the superpower of stories to inspire. Having lived and spent time in villages in Ethiopia, refugee camps in Ken...
Cheryl Heller: Preparing Us for The Intergalactic Design Competition
📍Norfolk, CT, USA. Cheryl Heller believes the design of our relationships is the key to solving our social and environmental problems. In today’s eco...
Peter Stein: Conserving the Forest by Turning It Into an Investment
📍Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. As a managing director at LymeTimber, Peter Stein and his team answer one of the toughest questions about the climate c...
Dave Chen: Investing in Scale, the Missing Ingredient in Driving Systemic Change
📍 Portland, Oregon, USA. Dave Chen is dedicated to creating a more sustainable future. An enormous part of that future is dependent on changing the o...
Bidhi Mandal: Creating the World You Want to See Through Entrepreneurship
📍Kathmandu, Nepal. Bidhi Mandal was born and raised in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Growing up there gave her a unique perspective of how our soc...
Cheryl Kiser: The $12 Trillion Opportunity
📍 Wellesley, MA, USA. Cheryl Kiser is the woman who plays at intersections. With her father being the first marine to stand up against the war and he...
Tim Coffin: Raise Capital to Change the World
📍Boston, USA. Tim Coffin thinks that if you want to change the world, you need to raise capital. Coming from a background in finance, Tim understands...
Arpit Bansal: Using Venture Capital to Provide for our Core Human Needs
📍Singapore. Back in 2011, Marc Andreessen said that software was eating the world. And it did. Now we are on the dawn of a new area in venture capita...
Todd Finklestone on Responding to Disasters & Helping Orphaned Children
📍 Taipei, Taiwan. Todd works for two non-profits, both of which are tackling a complex problem in a new way. He spends most of his time leading the o...
Shola Olabode-Dada: Empowering Minds for Healthy Decisions
📍Berkeley, California, USA. From a young age Shola was captured by the power of our minds. Her high school friends allege that her answer to the what...
Aria Mustary: Preventing Child Marriages
📍Bangladesh. Aria and I went to college together and lived in the same dorm our freshman year. I knew her before she started Mai Soli and got to watc...
Merlin Clarke: The Bright Side of Jewelry
📍Los Angeles, USA. With his wife, Merlin helps run Dogeared, a jewelry store that embodies the best version of a small business. They are a certified...
Nicky Scott: Dirt Kills Off Great Civilizations
📍Cornwall, England. Mr. Scott, better known as Dr. Compost in his academic circles, studies composting in England. He teaches kids about the benefits...
Robert Lewis Jr.: Invigorating Excellence in Urban America
📍Boston, MA, USA. “Some folks use the word discipline, but we love them hard.” Robert Lewis Jr. works with youth. Through his work at The BASE he is...
Minnie Baragwanath: Leading with Possibility
📍Auckland, New Zealand. After blowing through a stop sign during a driving lesson, Minnie realized she had a problem with her eyesight; she had no vi...
Christel Scholten: International Exposure Opens your Mind
📍 São Paulo, Brazil. Christel Scholten solves the problems that are affecting society the most, yet receive the least amount of attention. She works...
Abram El-Sabagh: Designing for Impact
📍Canberra, Australia. Abram El-Sabagh has dedicated his life to creating change. He grew up in a family with two parents who worked in the impact fie...