Where Ideas Launch - Sustainable Innovation Podcast (Katherine Ann Byam)

In this episode we review:

• Marketing a Physical Product
• Marketing a Service
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Development & Sales

From the poets, science-fiction writers, anthropologist, scientists, explorers of space and time, to the futurists, and the real experiences of those on the fringe, ideas come from a variety of sources.

We explore how to calibrate your ideas following the 5 guides below:

• Mission
• Skills
• Jobs to be Done.
• Market Research
• Idea selection
• Katherine Ann Byam is a consultant and strategic partner to leaders on sustainability, resilience and digital transformation.

From the Host: Katherine Ann Byam

Where Ideas Launch – The Podcast for the Sustainable Innovator

Every one of us can be the change. In fact, everyone of us must. The most important thing we can do is stay in the question.

Where Ideas Launch aims to answer the tough questions of how do we sustain our world, by asking deeper and better questions. It aims to prompt change not by staying in the analysis, but by originating a new genesis.

This podcast:

1. Challenges the status quo: show you how to speak truth to power, in a way that sparks momentum for change.
2. Explore creativity from the eyes of educators, business people, entrepreneurs, and artists.
3. Examines sustainable business models, impact models and other ways to support the UN sustainable development goals.

Join us every week to look at our shared future from a new perspective, so that we understand the questions, that give rise to better ones.

Interested in reviewing your Sustainability Strategy?

Why not get in touch with me on LinkedIn?

Torii offers tankless water heaters through a subscription-based model. Their unique service aims to reimagine water as a utility through high-efficiency technology and a focus on the circular economy. 

Gordon is passionate about the water heater industry as it relates to construction, plumbing, and energy production. He is also mindful of the environment and how technology can enable us to live lives of abundance.

Welcome To Torri (toriiway.com)

In this session we cover:

the framework for the transition
The teams and systems and structures you need.
The big picture considerations that need to become more central to your view.

This session is about the hard elements of leadership, and in a subsequent session, we talk about the softer elements.

Her latest project is encouraging teachers to set up Eco Clubs within schools by giving easy step-by-step weekly resources and ideas as well as starting points for weekly discussions.

After travelling in Asia in 2016, Cathy became more aware of single use waste and began to research the problems and solutions linked to it. She co-founded a company green team and started an account called sustainable ideas to share advice and guidance. She is a Keep Britain Tidy Ambasador and an Environmenstrual ambassador for the women’s environmental network.

Cathy Quit her job in December 2019 to focus completely on her passion for a cleaner planet. She became a recycling advisor, and began work on the Eco Protection Squad, a team of super kids helping to save Terra – Mother Earth from Bill McGreedy and his band of Eco squashers. I can’t wait to get my copy – can you?

She believes passionately that everyone should be able to do work that makes them happy, in an environment that makes them feel valued and heard. Happy people are motivated, energized, more efficient and more profitable – happy people make for better, more sustainable businesses. 

Kate is an ICF accredited and GiANT Certified coach. She has 20+ years experience in growing, developing and mentoring teams in high-pressure operational businesses, and is an experienced corporate change manager.

We talk about her journey to overcome adversity and build a successful business and life for herself and her children. I chose this topic, because many people need hope right now, and Dani delivers this in abundance. This is Part 2

About Dani Wallace
As a former serial self-saboteur, having grown up on the council estates of Preston, Dani has survived the adversity of domestic violence, homelessness and single parenthood to become a leading voice in empowerment around the UK.

Dani uses her knowledge of both traditional employment in the corporate sector and self-employment in the entertainment industry to deliver memorable, inspirational and thought-provoking talks. Through her world class courses, masterminds and VIP experiences Dani helps people all over the world create incredible talks that help them stand powerfully on stage, reaching more of their ideal audiences.
Fearless leader of the I Am The Queen Bee Movement and creator of the Fly Anyway Foundation, Dani helps people the world over Show Up Wise Up and Rise and is a reminder to anyone who enters her orbit that they too, regardless of their journey can #FLYANYWAY!

On where ideas Launch – the podcast for the sustainable Innovator, I raise this topic because Health and Well being is number 3 on the list of sustainable development goals, and because I know that many are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic on their mental health and well-being.

Today we’ll be talking to Charlotte Hopkins, who has dedicated two decades of her career to helping provide the right support to people experiencing addiction.  Charlotte works in the private sector, and has unique insight on how prevalent these issues are even amongst professionals who do not typically seek public support for their struggles.

This is a social enterprise with an artisan cluster of more than 200 grassroot artisans for handmade fabrics, Teracotta and hand embroidery.
The work unit is located in the interior of West Bengal. Maya weaves does handspun, handmade cotton, khadi, mul, linen, silk, Tussar and Jamdani stoles, sarees, and much more.
Antara is an ex investment banker (with American Express Bank) turned social entrepreneur. She is championing the cause of responsible consumption and production. From the UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Today she shares with us her experience in a world of grassroot artisans.

In 2018 they launched their first product IA. IA is a digital platform providing writers with an easy-to-use system to monetize their content. Followed by IB  An anonymous messaging exchange service that increases your mental health.

Miriam is also the founder and CEO of The Zen Zone Business model, an Editor at Tropicult Magazine, and the founder of Bootstrap Publications. 

Her passion for the community has led her to be the Meetup Host for Product Hunt South Florida, the Ambassador of Creative Industries for Venture Cafe Miami the Miami Community

Manager for Entre and Finimize and she is an active member on the organizing committee for 1 Million Cups Miami.

Miriam and I discuss her passion for community organising around sustainability, her work as an entrepreneur and artist, and her latest art project. 

Prior to OLIO, Tessa had a 15 year corporate career as a digital Managing Director in the media, retail and financial services sectors, and she met her co-founder Saasha whilst they were studying for their MBAs at Stanford University. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and about ‘profit with purpose’ as the next business paradigm.

The EGBC incubator will help you:

Plan, Brand, Market

Convert, Sell, Grow

Automate, Improve Resonate with impact

In this episode I explain how to amplify your business impact with 12 workshop modules to develop solid and essential business foundations, plus more than 30 other training modules on all social media, Pinterest, Wellness, operations. You name it, we've got you covered!

My name is Katherine Ann Byam - The Wing Woman to Your Genius.

I've got 20+ years of experience in senior management at a FTSE top 10 business, with a background in Finance, Supply Chain, and Change Management.

I hold an MBA specialising in Innovation Management and obtained a certificate in Sustainable Business from the Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Business.

I’ve been consulting and coaching leaders for the past 10 years pre and post entrepreneurship and am looking forward to helping you with your journey!

I believe this is the most comprehensive course on building a sustainability relevant business that there is!

The Modules are:

MODULE 1 - Micro and Small Business Enterprise Business MODULE 2 - Ethical and responsible Brand Stewardship

MODULE 3 - Copy & Content for Impact and Conversion MODULE 4 - Ethical Selling to Serve

MODULE 5 - Product Development & User Experience

MODULE 6 - Sustainable Supply Chains & Circular Models MODULE 7 - Organic PR

MODULE 8 - Data & Metrics

MODULE 9 - Finance & Legal

MODULE 10 - Sustainable Living

MODULE 11 & 12 - Using Linkedin to Drive Advocacy and Partnership

Check us out here 👇 https://katherineannbyam.thrivecart.com/ebgc-business-incubator/

Shane brings an international perspective, scientific rigour and pragmatic approach to connecting people with the right knowledge, drawn from both innovative ‘on-the-ground’ practitioners and the latest research.

Passionate about sustainable food systems, ecosystem restoration, as well as plant, soil & microbial ecology, Shane also works more broadly to engage people with visioning a better way forwards for humanity’s approach to energy, economy and agriculture - re-partnering with natural systems - so we might provide a chance for future generations to thrive on this planet.

 Katy’s natural ability to break things down and explain them simply means she can help her clients cut through the overwhelm, gain clarity in their business, and take action to get the life they want.

Using her Business MOT she works with her clients to sort through the tangle of ideas in their head and help them create a clear actionable plan to achieve their goals, solving any problems that pop up along the way.

 Helping them get organised, manage their time more efficiently, and understanding the online social media world and how to market their business.

For advice and tips join Katy’s Facebook Group: The Missing Piece or you can find her on Instagram and LinkedIn

https://linktr.ee/POCcoaching

Melissa has worked with companies and charities big and small (both in-house and agency side) for 11+ years; helping them achieve their communications goals. Brand experience includes: JustGiving, GoFundMe, Cancer Research UK, British Deaf Association, Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF), Madagascar Whale Shark Project and, more recently, Guide Dogs.

When she was 14, Marija wanted to know what happened behind the scenes of a Disney theme park, that led to thousands of customers turning up every year to have a good time. She’s always been interested in the behind-the-curtain process and how to streamline operations creatively. She worked in organisations such as the U.S. Peace Corps and has built managerial expertise, while experiencing the power of a diverse team building an intradisciplinary know-how.

“When we bring together the human factor with the with digital tools/ technology we are creating and introducing a formidable instrument in the creative process of driving solutions to local and present-day global challenges!”

We had a great chat recording Where Ideas Launch - The Podcast for the Unexpected Innovator, where we talked about the privilege of finding meaning when many are simply are trying to survive.

Efficiency is overrated he said, and effectiveness contributes to real value in an organisation.

Positioning himself as an “arms dealer for the creative revolution”, Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He is the author of four books (The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, and Herding Tigers) which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work.

He's got a new book on the way. The Motivation Code. Tune in to our podcast on your favourite player today.

To be an activist for change, an advocate for better ways of living with the flora and fauna and other humans on the planet, you have to believe a new future is possible, instead of being on track to hit 2.7 degrees of warming.

As much as I’m a hopeful optimist, I am nagged by the pessimism of doubt, understandably because we’ve known about the coming crisis since the club of Rome report in the 1970s.

Thats 50 years we had to start doing something, and now we leave a lot of work to get done in a short space of time.

What fills me with hope, is that our young people are learning things we didn’t learn. Yes there’s a bit of carbon tunnel vision in that learning, but it still beats denial, which seems to have finally left the building.

COP 26 takes place in Scotland over 2 weeks, and opinions are mixed on whether or not we will make meaningful change.

Listen in to my experts and what they've got to share with you.

Katherine Ann Byam (MBA, FCCA) is a business resilience coach and strategic partner to leaders who are championing sustainable change for their businesses stakeholders.

She collaborates with small and medium-sized businesses to address solutions that consider society and environmental resiliency at their core while preserving economic growth and a fair return for individual innovation and ingenuity. She also coaches leaders to connect with their purpose and design fulfilling career experiences in an evolving digital landscape.

Her Virtual Service Hub supports the digitization of back-office operations for medium-sized manufacturing firms. This service allows these firms to introduce more lean systems while carving out time and funding to increase attention to sustainable innovation.

With start-ups in scale-up, her services support the transition from agile to lean for parts of the business that have matured and can work more efficiently, freeing up funding for growth initiatives.

 The hub is led by her partner Christophe Nicault, CTO and data scientist with a strong background in business process and systems integration.

Career Sketching - a service tailored to the individual functional or line manager seeking growth, or opportunities to leverage their accumulated knowledge toward a new and greater purpose. As “the wing-woman to your genius”, Katherine supports ambitious leaders with personal systems and tools that assist them in becoming more effective, more balanced, and more consistent to boost performance for themselves and their teams. She also facilitates career transition coaching for mid-career executives seeking to pivot and redesign their careers and digital presence.

Where Ideas Launch - is a podcast inspired by sustainable innovation, modelled in theme by the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development goals. She hosts prominent educators, practitioners and ambitious startups. The show is ranked in the top 10% globally. 

Where Ideas Launch is also a training and digital business advisory service for sustainable brands and organisations. She works with a global digital community of 1.6K+ women creating eco-friendly businesses, and with the local chamber of commerce in Hampshire UK on supporting initiatives for green business growth.

Katherine holds an MBA, specialising in innovation management from Grenoble France, and multiple certificates from Cambridge UK on sustainability and digital disruption. She trained in building resilient companies with Strategyzer Ag and has become proficient at digital marketing via the real-life MBA entrepreneurship for the last 2 years.

Over her career, she worked on assignments in more than 30 countries, collaborating with people from over 150 nationalities. These experiences have given her practical insights, along with cross-disciplinary skill sets in risk and reputation management, governance, finance and supply chain developing her capabilities at putting solid strategies to work for you.

She has successfully led people and teams in programmes within billion dollar transformation initiatives at a FTSE top 10 firm. Today she directly works with education, food technology,

sustainable fashion and agriculture-based start-ups on their digital business strategies. 

She is a polymath who advocates for diversity equity and inclusion in all things.

Quote: “True success is resilience in practice”

She is supported in business and life by her partner. In her free time, she writes as an outlet for her creativity, drawing inspiration from the south coast of the UK and the west coast of France.

Get in touch with her by direct message on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram.

Who are you selling to specifically? What are the characteristics of people who have this problem, or what are the conditions under which this problem is experienced?

Use your research results to understand:

Ideal Client

Niche

Prototype and Test

Go to Market Strategy.

Supply Chain, Finance and Legal

Truth bomb: It will cost you far more to develop the wrong idea than it costs to start again and find a better idea. Development takes the input from your market research and aims to convert it into a mock-up of commercial reality.

Tune in to learn more!

Harry Vargas is a dynamic HR leader and change agent.

He’s passionate about driving transformation for capacity building and growth, through commercially relevant and pragmatic organizational and talent strategies.

He has 20 Years of multi-market & cultural experience, successfully leading and developing diverse teams at local, regional and global levels.

Harry joined Microsoft in 2020, to lead HR and the culture & people transformational agenda, for the growing regional hub based in Costa Rica, serving LATAM and the US.

Harry is Costa Rican and grew up in Colombia.

While doing his MBA at City Business School, he became inspired to change the direction of his career and left his firm for the unchartered waters of startup life. His first role was CFO of an Electronics and Lifestyle Startup in Los Angeles, Headquartered in Shenzhen, China. 

In 2020, he co-founded Found Lifestyle, a platform that enables food and drink venues to boost sales and productivity by allowing staff to focus on providing excellent service to customers,using the app for a better in-venue ordering and smoother checkout experience. For every order on Found, a meal is provided to a person in need through its partnership with Feeding Britain. 

We talk about Found and Shivaun’s Journey to create a business with purpose.

During the nearly 25 years she built a corporate career, but had a sense she was meant to do something more. She started toying with the idea of her own business, where she could set the values to align to what she really believed in. She left the corporate world to embark on the biggest adventure of her life, founding Green Cloud Nine.

A member of the prestigious Thinkers50 radar group and one of the top 8 innovation thought leaders in the world, Kaihan was a finalist for the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Innovation in 2019.  

Amidst a dizzying schedule of keynote speeches, consulting projects, and ongoing research, Kaihan finds time to teach at business schools globally (including NYU, FIU, and UA), write for major media outlets, and play an active role on four advisory boards.  

On Where Ideas Launch, I spoke to Kaihan about Sustainability, Innovation, and the barriers organisations face to re-build better.

They are our present and our future, although it’s not quite in their hands. This is the generation that’s already bringing change to pale, male and stale boardrooms around the world, but will they run out of time? We talk about careers, sustainability and the journey of these young women to create a future they want to be a part of.

Serena Coccioli 

Serena is a Colombian-Italian who graduated in Ecological and Environmental Sciences from the University of Edinburgh building her sustainability career.

Belinda Ng 

Belinda is a youth advocate for sustainable food systems who has just completed an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. 

Kailin Jo Spencer 

Kailin is a senior at the University of Washington – Seattle focusing on sustainable curriculum advocacy within the Foster School of Business and researching small business sustainability.

We talked about:

• Simple change in your beauty routine can save thousands of kilos of plastic waste ending up in landfill
• Moving from a linear to circular business model while retaining convenience, price and quality
• Staying true to your mission despite the challenges of 2020
  
  
• Circla contributes to 6 of the UN Development Goals but our main focus is Number 12 - Sustainable consumption and production

In her words:

 This was the start of my journey to starting Circla, born out of frustration on the amount of single-use plastic packaging in my beauty routine.  I raised pre-seed investment from Sustainable Ventures and in August last year quit my corporate job for good! The last year has been a rollercoaster, we have pivoted the business model twice due to Covid-19 and now finally about to roll out our new model across the whole of central London. I run the company by myself with help from friends and family.

Refillable beauty, delivered to your doorstep. – CIRCLA

This podcast aims to:

Challenge the status quo: show you how to speak truth to power, in a way that sparks momentum for change.

We will explore creativity from the eyes of educators, business people, entrepreneurs, and artists.

We will examine sustainable clothing brands, sustainable business models, and other ways to support the UN sustainable development goals.

The biggest lesson to take from 2020 is we have the ability of foresight, yet we ignore the signals. We allow our drive for instant gratification to blind our vision ahead. And we don’t adequately prepare because we believe our money protect us.

Yet many are beginning to realise that money for retirement is not necessarily the thing that will feed us, shelter us and keep us safe.

Katherine Ann Byam (MBA, FCCA) is a business resilience strategist, consultant and career coach. She’s the founder of Dieple, Digitally Enabling People, A digital transformation consultancy firm based in the UK helping start-ups to scale up.  

She supports leaders in tackling design challenges that create and sustain business and professional growth in an evolving global marketplace. 

She hosts Where Ideas Launch - The podcast for the sustainable innovator and a career show on Youtube called Harnessing the Courage to Lead. 

Kate spends her time between the coasts of south England and west France, enjoying writing as a creative outlet.

Fiona Mehmet from Brisbane is the founder of Allthingsfi a sustainable brand, marketplace and ethical business. Her mission is to end poverty and human trafficking through conscious fashion solutions and ethical decision making.

Terri is an Australian Lawyer with a boutique commercial law firm based in Sydney. Her aim is to create more legally compliant and productive workplaces.

Katherine Ann Byam (MBA, FCCA) is a sustainability business strategist, consultant and career coach. She is the founder of Dieple, Digitally Enabling People, A digital transformation consultancy firm based in the UK helping start-ups to scale up, and coaching executive business leaders.

Together they run a group and a purpose driven movement called collectively driven, a community for women to grow sustainable businesses and incomes for their families.

They formed this collective as they wanted to make an impact using collaboration as the model. They believe in a system that serves everyone and not just a few. They believe in levelling up incomes so that we all can live an outstanding life.

A former government minster of the republic of Slovenia, he became a Member of the European Commission in 2004. and From 2010 – 2014 he took on a second mandate as Member of the European Commission responsible for Environment.

In 2014 he was appointed as a Co-Chair of International resource Panel hosted by the UN Environment Programme.

We spoke in this session about what we understand of knowledge, and what’s flawed with it.

The focus of his work is Conversational Leadership – a style of working where we appreciate the power of conversation and take a conversational approach to how we connect, relate, learn, and work with each other.

This was certainly one of my best conversations.

He is the creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Café – a conversational process to bring a group of people together to learn from each other, build relationships and make a better sense of a rapidly changing, complex, less predictable world. He has facilitated hundreds of Knowledge Cafés and workshops in over 30 countries worldwide over the past 20 years.

He is also the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community – a global network of over 20,000 people in 160 countries.

He is currently writing an online blook (a cross between a blog and a book) on Conversational Leadership.

In her latest book The Sustainability Puzzle - which she co-authored together with business executive turned impact entrepreneur Claudia Winkler - she discusses how systems thinking, circularity, climate action and social transformation can improve health, wealth and wellbeing for all.

Having engaged at the intersection of social, environmental and economic issues for 20+ years, she has become an accomplished advisor, keynote speaker and writer on sustainability & social transformation, working with 60 established organisations in both the private and public sector and gained first-hand experience in 30 countries on four continents. 

For service businesses, as well as product businesses it is about audience building, generating a buzz and excitement for your product, being visible and discoverable online, and the different paid and organic means to realise these objectives.

In this section we will be covering:

• Operations Teams
• Launching
• Social Media and Organic Traffic as well as SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
• Paid Traffic – Advertising
• Digital Technology you need in your business.

If there was ever a story that sums up Where Ideas Launch, it's the story of this CEO and Chief Kelper of Carbon Kapture. Howard’s background may surprise you, but this is a story of genius, demonstrating that there is possibility, once the question is good enough.

In this episode we discuss

A pivot from HR to decarbonising our atmosphere.
How a sustainable business model was developed for his Kelp farming operation
What you can do to get involved in a supporting your planet to survive and thrive.

Her motivation to become an ally for social equality

The key focus areas for sustainable development

Lessons learned in creating partnerships between NGOs and the For Profit Sectors

Anna Derinova-Hartmann is a passionate social impact and international development activist. She combines extensive experience in Program Management, Community Engagement, Corporate Social Responsibly and People Management.

Her purpose is to challenge social inequality and institutional barriers by empowering vulnerable social groups and communities through innovation and meaningful connections.

Anna is incredibly lucky to have been exposed to various working environments and experiences: NGO sector, global corporations, social impact and tech start-ups.

Saleema Vellani is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, a professor, and the author of Innovation Starts With “I”.

Saleema is the Founder & CEO of Ripple Impact, which helps entrepreneurs increase their influence and impact through accelerating the growth of their platforms and businesses. She also teaches design thinking and entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University and is a frequent guest lecturer at business schools.

We discussed her new book, Innovation starts with I.

Here’s the link to pre-order her book
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/innovation-starts-with-i#/

And a link to her 100 Coffee Challenge.
https://saleemavellani.ck.page/100-coffee-challenge

We talk about her journey to overcome adversity and build a successful business and life for herself and her children. I chose this topic, because many people need hope right now, and Dani delivers this in abundance. This is part 1

About Dani Wallace
As a former serial self-saboteur, having grown up on the council estates of Preston, Dani has survived the adversity of domestic violence, homelessness and single parenthood to become a leading voice in empowerment around the UK.

Dani uses her knowledge of both traditional employment in the corporate sector and self-employment in the entertainment industry to deliver memorable, inspirational and thought-provoking talks.

Through her world class courses, masterminds and VIP experiences Dani helps people all over the world create incredible talks that help them stand powerfully on stage, reaching more of their ideal audiences.

Fearless leader of the I Am The Queen Bee Movement and creator of the Fly Anyway Foundation, Dani helps people the world over Show Up Wise Up and Rise and is a reminder to anyone who enters her orbit that they too, regardless of their journey can #FLYANYWAY!

In this episode we talk about Karen's journey to building her sustainable clothing line. We discuss the role of culture and inequality in shaping our path and creativity. I enjoyed this conversation - I hope you do too!

I met Alex virtually in May 2020 through attending his virtual masterclass on building invincible companies. At the time, we were still figuring out how to run massive scale virtual workshops, yet Alex and his team executed this with ease.

I was curious to learn what inspires the world's #4 Management Thinker.

I had the honour of asking Alex these 3 questions:

What’s your why – what question gets you out of bed every morning with a burning desire to solve it?

We know in our world today we have a burning platform of sustainability. What do you currently see as the role of business in solving these problems?

We know from your work that Innovation is heavily influenced by a company’s culture. What are the top 3 things that companies with a great innovation culture do to sustain that culture and expand their economic lives?

About our Guest - Dr Alexander Osterwalder

Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder is one of the world’s most influential innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started.

Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models.

He invented the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, and Business Portfolio Map – practical tools that are trusted by millions of business practitioners from leading global companies.

Strategyzer, Osterwalder’s company, provides online courses, applications, and technology-enabled services to help organizations effectively and systematically manage strategy, growth and transformation.

His books include the international bestseller Business Model Generation , Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want, Testing Business Ideas and The Invincible Company published in Spring 2020.

To learn more about Alex's work you can sign up for their newsletter via the following link https://www.strategyzer.com/

Where Ideas Launch - the Podcast for the Unexpected Innovator is hosted by Katherine Ann Byam and sponsored by Dieple Virtual Service Hub.

DVSH is her consulting firm that supports modern day service based and manufacturing start ups to scale up with Strategy, Process Optimisation, and Advanced Analytics. Check it out on the following link https://www.dieple.com/vsh/

She collaborates with small and medium-sized businesses as well as social organisations on their digital transformation in both marketing and operations, with a sustainability lens. Her aim is to address solutions that consider society and environmental resiliency at their core so that her clients preserve their longevity and a fair return for innovation and ingenuity.

She works with leaders toward championing greater purpose and designing fulfilling leadership experiences in an evolving complex landscape. 

Her brands include The Dieple Virtual Services Hub, Diep_Linked, Where Ideas Launch, Women in Sustainable Business, The Eco-Business Growth Club, Career Sketching and the Wing Woman to your genius.

This episode of the podcast covers Sustainable goal #8 Decent work and Economic growth, a common thread of the podcast. She examines

• Equality vs Equity,
• Brewed Indecency
• The International Labour Organisations take on Decency,
• And Contracts that favour the larger of 2 entities.

If you are enjoying Katherine’s work on this podcast, do rate, review and recommend this work to others. Season 3 starts on the first of July and will be an intensive season on building a business from the ground up, going from Idea to CEO and everything in between.

Isabelle is an inspiration to her students past and present, as she does finance with style and flair. Her articles have been viewed more than 350000 times, a testament to the value she brings.

This podcast explores:

1. The financial impact of the pandemic on luxury brands bottom line.
2. The trends in sustainable change and whats driving it.
3. The upskilling needed by people adversely impacted by the pandemic.

About our guest - Isabelle Chaboud

Isabelle Chaboud is an Associate Professor in the Finance Law and Accounting department of Grenoble Ecole de Management. Since December 2018, she has been Programme Director for the MSc in Fashion Design & Luxury Management and since September 2019, responsible for the MBA Brand & Luxury Management specialisation.

Her main areas of teaching are financial analysis (especially in the luxury sector), auditing and international accounting. She teaches or taught in Grenoble, London, Paris, Berlin, Marrakech, Moscow, Tbilisi (Georgia) and Singapore.

Before joining Grenoble Ecole de Management in 2001, Isabelle worked for 7.5 years for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Lyon, France where she was a financial audit manager. She had clients in various industries as well as in services. She was part of the European Internal Audit team of PwC and worked in Spain (Madrid) and Portugal (Lisbon).

Isabelle is a French native but lived for more than three years in the United Kingdom, two years in Germany, one year in the United States, one year in Spain.

She graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management in 1992 and from the International Teachers Program (ITP) delivered by HEC Executive Education, Paris in June 2014. She regularly publishes intellectual contributions in different media.

f you would like to learn more about this topic, please find her work in English below https://theconversation.com/how-the-covid-19-crisis-could-remodel-the-luxury-industry-138137

Where Ideas Launch - the Podcast for the Unexpected Innovator is hosted by Katherine Ann Byam and sponsored by Dieple Virtual Service Hub.

DVSH is her consulting firm that supports modern day service based and manufacturing start ups to scale up with Strategy, Process Optimisation, and Advanced Analytics. Check it out on the following link https://www.dieple.com/vsh/

We talk about diet change for climate change - tune in and let us know what you think!

How culture and diversity influences creativity and how combining mental and physical challenges open new possibilities.

On this episode, we explore the artisanal Journey in India, and how she intends to use Blockchain to help revive artisanal craft as luxury items.

"Abundance is a lie, but it doesn’t have to be. We can all thrive on this planet, but it’s going to need us to rethink how we design our lives and the planet.” Welcome to season 3 of Where Ideas Launch, where we explore how we build a better planet, one small business at a time. This is series is a guide to small and medium-sized eco businesses or green tech businesses.

Katherine Ann Byam is a consultant and strategic partner to leaders in SMEs on sustainability, resilience and business transformation.

He moved to Indiana from New York after graduating high school in 2009 to pursue his passion for agriculture with a vision set on revolutionizing local food systems.
Through his campaigns and contributions, he was named Top 10 Local Food Hero in the State of Indiana. In 2014, he created the first Sustainable Living group on Facebook which has grown to be the most popular group on the subject with almost 100,000 members.
Sustainable Living was featured by Facebook and Austin was voted one of the Top 50 Sexiest Environmentalists in 2021.
Last year, he founded a new digital media platform exclusively for sustainability, called Striver, which has already listed over 100 sustainable businesses in over 40 categories, with a goal to populate the world's largest all-in-one repository for green brands and campaigns.
He believes in cultivating purposeful connections that empower people to shape a sustainable future.

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The three engineers are on a mission to supply a book to every Primary school in the UK and encourage readers and children to join Scout’s team (the book protagonist) to help better the planet. Let me introduce you to the 3 Engineers. They are: Nick – Chartered Senior Systems Engineer - 10 years at Babcock International Matt - Chartered Assistant Chief Engineer – 14 years at Babcock International – Lead Technical lead for several large programmes Jon – Chartered Project Engineer – RWG Renewables  www.the3engineers.com/books

Roz Edwards has been a business owner now for 30 years, initially in African Art and now with a collection of thousands of mannequins rescued from landfill. Roz started Mannakin from nothing, not even the mannequins, but she was determined to use her business acumen and creativity to create a meaningful sustainable business. Whilst researching mannequins she found an opportunity to create a business out of hiring them, to provide for her children while freeing herself from the restrictions of poverty. Today, Mannakin Hall in Lincolnshire houses a vast collection of mannequins to hire, the majority of which has been diverted from landfill. The unusual scenery within the grounds has created a popular film location, and a major source of Roz’s wealth and business growth. Roz has also started Club Mannakin to help independent, creative business owners grow and scale.

Find out more about her here.

https://mannakin.com/guide/

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals came into being in January 2016, and act as the foundational lens under which to review the sustainability of our businesses, countries and entire planet.

The goal that threads my business together is 8 - Decent work and Economic growth.

Katherine Ann Byam (MBA, FCCA) is a sustainable business strategist, and high performance leadership coach. She founded Dieple, Digitally Enabling People, a consultancy helping sustainable start-ups scale up, and tackling design questions for the future of growth, leadership and entrepreneurship. She supports businesses and their leaders to build resilience in their strategies in an increasingly digital marketplace.

We talk about some of the difficulties surrounding water in our world, her intelligent water services business in the US and what we can all do too make a difference.

Jennifer Loudon is an environmental scientist with 20 years of laboratory experience.  She has a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Sciences and a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the United States, and has made a life out of being a water nerd.  For the past 11 years, Jennifer has been Laboratory Manager at Raritan Township Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey, U.S.A.  Recently, Jennifer founded Intelligent Water Services, a smart water startup that offers wastewater treatment utilities a streamlined way of managing their industrial users through the use of advanced technology.  Her husband and her rescue dog help keep her sane, and she can be seen dancing around the lab on extra stressful days.

Having launched in 2020 with a range of statement pussy bows and detachable collars, The Fruit Moth now offers shopper bags, reversible sun hats, dresses and reworked blouses handmade in her home studio in Manchester. All of The Fruit Moth’s collections are created using vintage and remnant fabrics and preloved clothing. 

With sustainability at the forefront of The Fruit Moth, no fabric will ever go to waste. Any offcuts are reworked into small accessories or donated to a local primary school, and all packaging and stationery is made from 100% recycled materials.​​

We talked about:

Important skills in organisations for the next 2 years.

Tips for organisational transformation

Vision for women in Technology for the future.

 Dr. Nicole Tschierske is a scientist and positive psychology coach who helps women in science and tech use their head and heart to get seen and noticed in their company.

She's an experienced change manager and coach, and we are going to be talking about her experiences and learnings on the change journey.

Nicole lives in Hamburg, Germany, is a food chemist by training and holds a PhD in chemistry next to certifications in coaching, positive psychology, change management and advanced problem-solving.

When she’s not buried in research papers and books on Positive Psychology and Positive Leadership you can find this scientist-turned-coach taking long hikes in the German countryside or mesmerised by Mary Poppins on the screen.

We talk about the journey to build a micro bespoke business in a world filled with automation and mass production.

We talked about:

What company cultures are more likely to ride the wave of disruption well.

We discussed sustainability, growth and transformation

What type of pirate we should be to make changes happen.

Tendayi Viki is an author and corporate innovation expert. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he helps companies innovate for the future while managing their core business. He has written three books; Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. He previously served as Director of Product Lifecycle at Pearson, where he co-developed an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York.

Tendayi has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. He is also a regular contributor at Forbes. 

In this podcast episode, Michelle Miller of Minty Made will discuss the importance of brand and website strategy to ensure that you successfully reach your buyers.

She will take us through the key stages of developing your strategy to ensure that your brand resonates with your audience. Furthermore, she will share some DIYs that you can immediately implement to help drive traffic to your website and be more discoverable.

Minty Made is a full-service creative studio that helps eco and wellness-centred brands make an impact through visual branding, web design and launch strategy.

With an ongoing 15+ years of a successful career in managing StartUp Centers, Incubators, Accelerators & TechParks, Gogo has built up a portfolio as an experienced business consultant & mentor, passionate about technology & brands.

 His background includes Operations Management, Startup Investments, Intellectual Property, Business Valuation, Innovative Growth. When he’s not supporting a world-changing start-up business, he loves outdoor sports!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gogo-rafajlovski-5431356/

We discussed how tech parks support startups, the importance of IP, and we debated open innovation. Have a listen!

Kelp-us-save-the-planet-a-thon is a virtual hackathon hosted by Carbon Kapture. It is free to join and takes place once a quarter.

Join Howard Gunstock and me as we discuss the journey to build a viable planet based business.

How she overcame challenges in the start up process

Advice for others wanting to make a positive impact on the planet.

Mathilde Jakobsen is CEO and Co-Founder of Fresh.Land, an award winning green tech startup with an innovative and disruptive model to the food industry.

Fresh.land shortens the journey from farm to table by connecting farmers, logistic partners and consumers in one integrated digital platform, removing the middlemen, increasing farmer income, and reducing carbon emissions from storage by 88%.

Fresh.Land has been identified by Forbes as "truly pioneering" and "one of the most promising green start-ups in the EU", and awarded the "Climate Solver Prize" by WWF.

The Typeface Group are on a mission to give ambitious businesses robust websites that not only help achieve growth but are carbon considered.

They work with ambitious organisations in the Built, FM & Clean Energy space to deliver persuasive websites that engage and inform audiences while being carbon concious.

They submitted a BCorp application in Spring 2021. 

Polly lives with her husband, two daughters and many chickens in the Hampshire countryside.

They skip steps and take shortcuts that are anything but the short root to success.

Every step we've spoken of in Season 3 including the Market research, Niche, I deal Client, Testing, and others all need to flow before the Go to Market Strategy can have a chance of success.

In this session we talk business models, product suites, planning and budgeting.

As the host of popular podcast, Let’s Talk Supply Chain, Sarah puts people right at the forefront of an industry that’s traditionally been about stats and numbers. From thought provoking questions and lively discussions to championing diversity and real people’s industry success, Let’s Talk Supply Chain and its sister shows Women in Supply Chain and Blended bring a breath of fresh air to logistics.

Sarah is also the co-founder and CEO of innovative bid-and-ship freight platform Shipz Inc. Ensuring she practices what she preaches, Sarah is on a mission to redefine International shipping by bringing collaboration and diversity to the supply chain.

Sarah has been voted ‘Top 100 Most Influential Women Leaders in Supply Chain (global)’ and ‘Top 100 Most Influential Women in Canadian Supply Chain’ and is a regular contributor in thought- leadership at leading industry events.