Magnify Your Impact Craig Goldblatt

Strength in community and fighting inequality 
A Ghanaian who has spent his life in the thick of it with no rose-tinted glasses. Francis’s strength is having African blood, surrounded by a culture of community coupled with adversity and inequality. Whilst working in West Africa myself, to bring the opportunity of education to communities. Such a big part of my learning was in fact to give what is necessary and asked for, rather than what I thought was needed and this was a steeper learning curve than I could have anticipated.

Francis echoes what took me some time to learn due to my culture, put so simply with a reflection of the love and positivity so readily available in West Africa. He has much clarity as to what this piece is. This is a must-watch for anyone who has a passion to work in this part of the world.

Francis has a clear vision, with an admirable lack of ego. Knowing that ultimately it's the people who he is supporting that will make his cause a success. That's a key learning for me!

This is a fresh and basic interview in all the right ways, speaking of foundations and simplicity as to what is needed. Francis doesn’t talk of red tape, time management or how to recruit the right team around him. Although all of that which I’ve mentioned is important, I guess this is simply about purpose, humility and compassion.
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Connect with Francis
We Believe Foundation: https://www.webelievefoundationafrica.org/
We Believe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_believe_foundation/
 

Grit, determination and courage personified
After reading Economics and Politics at Exeter University, Sanger trained as a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young before moving to an advertising agency. Frustration with the decision-making process led Sanger to open his own business, a chain of sandwich bars in West London.
David is an award-winning entrepreneur with experience in corporate acquisitions, shareholder exit and corporate sales, he has the ability to grow turnover & profitability.
Key Takeaways
Some of the things we do in our beginnings, specifically towards our work and bigger personal decisions, we realise that we could have made ones that were far more in keeping with the direction of who we are and what we want to achieve. Upon reflection and with hindsight we can look back and with a positive attitude can see that in their own way, these decisions have been monumental on our journey and have the potential to lead us to great things. David talks about his recognition of this piece.
 
In so many areas of our lives, we learn what we need through the contrast of experiencing that of which we don’t. David has a fear of failure and an overwhelming need to win. It’s of course an ongoing debate as to how much of our drivers we are born with versus our experiences in life that create these. 
 
Something that definitely rings true for David, is that a will to win is born of confidence. I guess that can be confident in ourselves, a product or a cause, the ultimate would be all three. 
 
The biggest piece David talks about is a winning culture and how to create that. He has a lot to say around this subject and I feel that he could give us all a master class on this. His clarity around the strategy and his passion to successfully achieve this is inspiring, and I believe if we were to listen to what he has to say and tick off his bullet points one by one, we would be very close to achieving this too. 
 
After mentioning confidence, it is clear to see that David has this in spades and in every fibre of his body his statement ‘never forget the power of one individual’ is born from his confidence. As he so rightly says ‘if you think you can or you can’t, you’re probably right! 
 
In the process of creating meaningful impact, this is a great watch!
 
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Connect with David
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbsanger/

So skilful, humble and leading with strength from the very front 
Caron Bradshaw is Chief Executive of Charity Finance Group. She joined CFG in June 2010 from the ICAEW, where she was Head of the Charity and Voluntary Sector. In addition to supporting a number of small charities and community organisations Caron has been a member of the NCVO’s National Assembly and the Charities SORP Committee, has sat on a number of government working parties, is a member of the Church of England Pension Board’s Audit and Risk Committee, and is Chair of the Board of the Directory of Social Change (and her local hockey club). Caron is a trained Barrister and has a wide array of experience across charity, regulation/law, policy, member support, and professional ethics.
Caron is an avidly ‘social’ CEO and was been named in the top 30 social CEOs in 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2015 she was named Charity Principal of the Year at the Charity Times Awards. In 2016 she received the Association Excellence Award for Leadership. She was named in the top 30 UK social influences in Risk, Compliance and Regtech 2017 and in the Charity Times top 25 Influencers in the charity sector 2019.
Key Takeaways
A great conversation with Caron where we spent much time talking about the deeper structure of who we are, coupled with practical application. This is a lady who quite openly will discuss her hard times with as much passion and value as her greatest achievements. An example of this is discussing how before she had even started her studies as a barista, she represented her dad at a planning tribunal at just 15 years of age. Then in the next breath, we’re talking about her experience of having a nervous breakdown. These very different experiences have added to her successes equally.
Caron has a belief that we use the world to create platforms, as a means of expression - a way to express who we are and our purpose. Therefore spending quality time to know as much about our purpose is vital in order to get the most out of our time on this planet, to magnify our impact for ourselves and others.
Talking practically about where she feels her strengths are as CEO of a charitable organisation, she has learned that a CEO position, certainly for her has very little to do with decision making. Caron talks about this with much clarity - her leading role is to ask the right questions to people that have far more experience in their field than she does. Effectively coaching them through a process for them to make valuable and impactful decisions.
The way Caron works and her ability to articulate this has made this interview a great tool for us as leaders, emotionally and practically. There is a lot to take away.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caron-bradshaw-2b401813/
CFG Website: https://cfg.org.uk/team
 

A true empathetic leader of both head and heart
Carole has a broad knowledge of growing business through face to face development and sales knowledge. She's a risk-taker and entrepreneur, who loves coming up with new ideas, implementing them and then watching them develop (through hard work!)
Carole specialises in Idea implementation - growing the business from an idea to a full-blown concern. Understanding people, what their needs are and then finding something they want!
Key Takeaways
A philanthropic mindset is something that I see a lot of and is, of course, a great support for the change we want to create. However, what I see in Carole is quite different to that. Holding two major focuses, one being entrepreneurship and the other charity, with these being of equal importance to her. As the purpose of these interviews are to help us all to magnify our impact, with a different slant on the psychology this is one to watch.

Asking Carole what her main driver is, with no hesitation she was able to tell me it was a feeling of injustice. The injustice of individuals and communities living in and with ways that aren’t necessary. Such a simple definition but this struck me. As a community of individuals that want to see change in the world, which is what I believe we are, the change that is not impossible and is absolutely right. Carole really got me thinking about injustice and where that sits with me.

A great take away for me from talking to Carole was the advice to question myself regularly. To measure how much of me is coming from a place of privilege and how much of me is in touch with the reality of the situation. Carol always checks these two simple points and believes it’s vital for her to do that.

Watching others offers the potential for us to learn so much about ourselves. Let’s continue to do this and grow.
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A courageous leader who combines a never say die attitude with heaps of compassion
Started the Infusion100 movement 5 years ago as part of a fusion project to give back to communities around the world. 
Since its inception, Infusion100 has built 5 schools and 1 house.  The 5 schools are in:  Malawi (2), Senegal, Haiti, Nicaragua and the house build is in Mexico.
Over the 5 years over 8000 children have been educated as a result.  To raise the funds every year 100km is walked in different countries and so far
1300km has been walked in UK, Canada, China, USA, Hong Kong and Mexico.  Linoy has walked across the North Island of New Zealand over 600KM for charity in 1.5 months.
A mother to a 24-year-old and currently works at HSBC as the GBM MENAT CIO.
 
My Key Takeaways
My time with Linoy started off with us talking about her successfully getting 33 individuals to walk 100 kilometres, each raising £1000. This was the exact amount needed to build the first school, of which Linoy has built a further 5 more. The piece that struck me with Linoy’s story, is that the people, her included did so with their own hands. You will see for yourself, that this is what really made the difference for what she was going to create next. What I’m talking about is an emotional investment, specifically a first hand one. I know this isn’t always possible to get so practically involved but in some way, it seems that when we connect a vision to our very own selves, the potential for impact is magnified. Having the team you’re working with personally invested too can only compound this.

Speaking to Linoy about her path and what she believes led her there has a real positive story. Looking back she can see that her story helped her create a vision. That coupled with having the tools and the right people around her is what made it all possible.

This is a great interview with much clarity from Linoy. Using her very own personal story, in detail, which showcases how our human, our skill and a heavy dose of perseverance can create truly impactful things.
 
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Website: https://infusion100.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infusion100/
 

How to really deliver on your vision
Nathan is Founder and CEO of Ultimate Performance, previous founder and CEO of Inspire, Nathan is president of Malta’s largest non-profit organisation the Inspire Foundation, as well as the chair of the Voluntary Organisations Council, and a trustee of Children in Need and supports a wide range of other philanthropic initiatives through his endurance challenges. Nathan co-owns Hellfire Events, the country’s toughest endurance race series, He is a lecturer at the University of Malta, the Malta Institute of Management and guest speaker at many educational conferences.
Nathan graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Malta and read an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate School of Business. He has won numerous awards both including Malta Social Entrepreneur of the Year, JCI Humanitarian Leadership, Malta Sports Award, and is a top 10% worldwide age group Ironman Athlete.
My Key Takeaways
Nathan has pushed himself both physically and mentally for much of his life and in this interview shares his strategies for his success with much clarity. The more I do these interviews, as obvious a point as this may sound, it becomes not just a belief but a fact that our successes are all to do with the mind and heart, not our skills. Our skills are what we gain in order to support this but they are not the driver and the level at which Nathan has succeeded and how he got there definitely highlights this point, although I’d like to add, he clearly has huge skill!
 
When I ask him what it is he does or tells himself in order to keep going when things are at there toughest, he tells me how his strategies have evolved over time; as he has evolved, so have his strategies. This piece to me was very powerful as it highlights the need for flexibility and self-awareness - if Nathan had have continued without evolving how he does things, perhaps he wouldn’t have been so successful. I can definitely relate to this and the way in which I run my deeper structure internally, this has changed hugely.

Nathan, throughout our time together talks in intrinsic detail about strategies, how they change, why they change, how that supports us and the awareness of ourselves which we need so as to be as effective as possible.
 
There’s lots of detail within this great interview that organically took the direction of our internal world, rather than our external world. Much food for thought!
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Connect with Nathan
Website: http://upyourlevel.com/top-performers/nathan-farrugia/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanfarrugia/