Why business leaders should help create joy and unity in our local communities - Olivia Sibony, SeedTribe

In part two of our chat with Olivia Sibony she shares why businesses shouldn't rush in to help their local communities like ill-informed knights in shining armour, but rather listen carefully in order to deliver value and not just impose what we think is the best thing to do. She also discusses her work trying to create other incentive structures, to better align investors and corporates and other stakeholders to the long-term value of a business, particularly when looking at delivering impact to society and the planet.

Olivia Sibony is an award-winning entrepreneur (Making the Top 10 UK Women Entrepreneurs 2019, in the WISE 100 Top Women in Social Business), a trailblazing ethical investment champion who left a career at Goldman Sachs to launch her foodtech startup, GrubClub, which she sold to Eat With in 2017. 

She went on to launch SeedTribe, a platform focused specifically on connecting “impactful” businesses marrying profit and purpose, with investors.

She is a Board member of UCL's Fast Forward 2030, which aims to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs to launch businesses that address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, as well as being Vicechair of the Mayor of London's Women in Cleantech Taskforce. 

She is also an advisor for the UK Department for International Trade, enabling more impactful entrepreneurs from around the world to scale their businesses, relocating to the UK. 

Liv is driven by the desire to see a world where all businesses marry profit and purpose; she feels that entrepreneurship and meaningful collaboration play a key part in achieving this goal.