Talking Social Innovation Podcast Created by Scott Douglas and Produced by Anna Dollero

Welcome to the Green Lab Futures “Talking Social Innovation Podcast”.  

Where we bring you all the conversations we are having within industry, education and the community, to help us develop and shape our views on the future role of social innovation!  

Why is the human experience important? In todays episode we talk with Service Design Innovator Stephen Graham, who is an international trail blazer in this space of Service Design. Stephen will be talking about his past projects and the success that was shared through designing for the human user. Since returning to Australia, Stephen has launched his own startup design agency and works closely with both the Victorian and New South Wales government, to support the service design space!

The take away message from the chat, is that its all about the human experience! We can improve the actual experience, in order to move away from the assumed experience!

We hope you enjoy…  

If you are interested in the circular economy, sustainability, building ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship, then we have you covered.

Welcome to the Green Lab Futures “Talking Social Innovation Podcast”.

Where we bring you all the conversations we are having within industry, education and the community, to help us develop and shape our views on the future role of social innovation!

Todays episode is with Social Innovator and Business Mentor Liz Fleming, who has founded the Efficiency Coach, a business mentor and performance coach service who specialise in financial literacy, while supporting to grow and support the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem!

In this conversation, we talk about Liz's work and how she supports startups, and established businesses to move past financial stigma's, while striving to achieve their business and financial goals.

We hope you enjoy…

If you are interested in the circular economy, sustainability, building ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship, then we have you covered.

Welcome to the Green Lab Futures “Talking Social Innovation Podcast”.  

Where we bring you all the conversations we are having within industry, education and the community, to help us develop and shape our views on the future role of social innovation!  

Todays episode is with Social Innovator and Changemaker Phil Ore, who has founded and cofounded a number of ventures, all with the aim of growing and supporting the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem!

In this conversation, we will talk about Phil's work with 25Eight, a BCorp registered venture and the Regional Growth Summit which is a recent event that Phil and his team have put together to support the co-design of regional innovation across Victoria.

We hope you enjoy…  

If you are interested in the circular economy, sustainability, building ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship, then we have you covered.

Welcome to the Green Lab Futures “Talking Social Innovation podcast” Episode 2.  

Were we bring you all the conversations we are having within industry, education and the community, to help us develop and shape our views on the future role of social innovation!  

Todays episode is with hospitality innovator and leading voice Shaun de Vries Founder and Director of Open Pantry Co.

Shaun also runs his own podcast, where he chats with local, national and international guests who bring unique wisdom and knowledge to his hospitality focussed podcast episodes weekly!

Shaun has been lucky enough to work with amazing mentors along the way who have guided me, allowed him to grow and have always backed his judgment. It is for this reason that Shaun has led great teams. Shaun also deliver a high quality product and experience for my customers which grows sales and delivers results. 

We hope you enjoy…  

If you are interested in the circular economy, sustainability, building ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship, then we have you covered.

Welcome to the Green Lab Futures “Talking Social Innovation Podcast” Episode 3

Where we bring you all the conversations we are having within industry, education and the community, to help us develop and shape our views on the future role of social innovation!  

Todays episode is with Dr Merryn Paynter who has just completed her PhD exploring the storytelling narrative that corporate businesses use, to build their brand and narrative from. We talk about Merryn's work in this space, and how she got the opportunity to explore and analyse ASX listed companies and their brand stories, while also investigating if their narrative was in fact true! 

Storytelling is a key focus for social innovation, social enterprise, social impact and for purpose ventures. We also explore this role of storytelling and how social and for purpose brands can build success from the story they tell to their human consumer!

We hope you enjoy… 

If you are interested in the circular economy, sustainability, building ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship, then we have you covered.

Welcome to the Green Lab Futures “Talking Social Innovation podcast” Episode 1.  

Were we bring you all the conversations we are having within industry, education and the community, to help us develop and shape our views on the future role of social innovation!  

Todays episode is with Cofounder and Serial Entrepreneur Domenic Saporito from Outcome.Life. 

Domenic's work focuses on solving the global employability problem by placing interns into internships on behalf of Education Providers, as well as run employability events to help individuals become more employable. During our conversation with Domenic, we explore the work that Domenic is doing in the Student development space and how his company supports these students to build their capacity while gaining access to critical industry experiences. Domenic also talks about the future opportunities for the work Outcome.Life is doing at the moment internationally.

We hope you enjoy…  

If you are interested in the circular economy, sustainability, building ecosystems of innovation and entrepreneurship, then we have you covered.