ImpACTivist Maria Latorre & Andres Neira

In this episode, we speak to Jean Philippe Courtois (JP) who is one of Microsoft's top executives. His focus is on transforming national economies, helping to create sustainable and inclusive economic growth through digital transformation.  He was key in the creation of Microsoft's social entrepreneur program. He also co-founded Live for good with his family in 2015 after a tragic event. Live for good aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entrepreneurship.
 
JP is also passionate about promoting the concept of Positive Leadership: how purpose-led leaders can generate positive energy that achieves greater commercial success, individual happiness, team wellbeing, and positive social impact. He is the host of the podcast Positive Leadership. JP is one of those leaders that stays coherent and focused on his purpose. In every identity he has: as a top executive, as a co-founder, as a podcast host, he empowers to advance our social issues.

Please enjoy!

Here you will find the content we spoke about:
https://live-for-good.org/fr
https://podcasts.apple.com/mk/podcast/the-positive-leadership-podcast/id1574911588
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/02/21/creating-a-world-of-good-microsoft-launches-the-global-social-entrepreneurship-program/

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Today we speak to Julien Lescs, co-founder of Kimpa, the first family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing. Julien and his team are actively helping wealthy families and family businesses align their family values with their impact investment Strategy in order to invest for good, innovate to keep their family quest alive and win with the next generation on board.
He recently published a clinical perspective on ‘how the environmental urgency affects the psychodynamics between family members and within family businesses’. Julien is a Fellow member of the Family Firm Institute, father of 2 and fan of ultra trail. We speak about how Julien got to this strong and courageous mission, the current fear of the traditional banking sector when it comes to impact investing, we speak about responsible & sustainable finance- , ESG, impact investing, philanthropy...

Julien explained so many crucial aspects to impact Investing,  the importance of the 3 pillars of his impact strategy for example:

Intentionality/ Additionality/ Measurability

We really liked Julien’s  deep reflections on family business using Carl Jung’s Term : the collective unconscious.

“I truly believe that future generations of family business entrepreneurs will make successful transitions by focusing on the love they have for their family, their shared history and the future of the planet” JL

Resources

https://www.kimpa.co/

EMCC- Executive Master in Coaching & Consulting for change

https://www.insead.edu/master-programmes/mp/emc?CampaignId=GGL_Search_EMEA&SiteId=DP_GGL&marketingSource=EMC_01&CampaignName=EMEA-FR[EN]_Brand[GEN]-DP-EMC_MT-Exact&AdId=LandingPage&device=c&term=insead%20executive%20master%20in%20change_(e)&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_smX04vR8wIVxLKGCh2uLQhoEAAYASAAEgKZ8vD_BwE

Publications: https://flora.insead.edu/fichiersti_wp/InseadEMCCCtheseswave29/90138.pdf

Collective unconscious : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

Today we speak to Manuella Cunha Brito, the co-founder of CLIMATESCAPE, the go to platform for the low carbon economy: https://climatescape.org/about
Manella’s mission is  reversing climate change and reducing inequalities.
She co-founded Good Tech Lab and co-authored “The frontiers of impact tech”:
https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ebc463e30e8bd69378b5c117cf5d677ad8a2efc.pdf

We speak about her initial path towards a diplomacy career, her journey to becoming a researcher, then consultant, co-founder and now author.
We speak about how her platform is contributing to enhance the SDG’s, how vital it is to educate investors on impact, why we should focus on zebras and less on unicorns, the people that have inspired her: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/muhammad-yunus/198251/, and much more. 

You can contact Manu here: team@climatescape.org.
Thank you for all the great feedback and questions you have sent us. We look forward to bringing you more courageous leadership examples. 

Today we speak to Yessica Flores, Founder of Kantaya. In this episode, Yessica shares her corporate journey, why she chose this cause and how it has brought meaning and purpose to her life.

Kantaya brings education to rural areas in Peru. 5 and 15 years old receive a holistic curriculum  that allows them to keep being children in a safe space. The results have been astonishing and this in part to the focus on social-emotional skills.
You can be part of this cause in many ways:
https://kantayaperu.com/en/team/

video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S8NXPwixQQ

The content from UNICEF can be found here:
https://www.unicef.org/education

Andres and Maria have a conversation about their most important takeaways to finish the season. They speak about values, reconnection, rethinking, awareness, developing the left hemisphere of your brain, a new version of capitalism and much more. All this was inspired by the impACTivists that have been in the show.

The impACTivist podcast crew will take a break and come back in September. Thank you for listening.

"So who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here, right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere, where we are. I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is. Or, I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere, where I become a single individual, a solid. Separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: an intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the "we" inside of me. Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading. "
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight

Today we speak to a young leader who started to fight for sanitation as a universal right at 17 years old. We speak about how people like Marie Curie and books inspired her to be a scientist. We also speak about her experience as a young woman entrepreneur with investors, gaining credibility as a young innovator, how she decided to unfocus from her set of 
solutions to help society during the COVID pandemic, her new blockchain project and much more.

Anna has won numerous awards like the UN Young Champions of the Earth Award, the main United Nations Environmental program award for young people. 
Today, her solutions are bringing a tremendous impact for example Safe Drinking Water for all (SDW) impacts more than 1,500 people in Brazil.

If you want to follow Anna and safe drinking water for all you can find them in 
https://www.sdwforall.com/ as well as in Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

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