Season 3 — Activists and Innovators
Hear from social innovators and employee activists from around the world who are speaking up in the face of questionable leadership and using their workplace positions to agitate, innovate and orchestrate change.
Are employees the social innovators and intrapreneurs that organisations now need to be able to lead by example? One thing is clear, innovators alone will not be able to drive the systemic change we need…
With many businesses confused about what ‘doing good’ means, employees are stepping up and pressuring their organisations to act on behalf of an interest greater than their company’s profits…
Full interviews
Listen to the full interviews with the experts, innovators and employee activists whom we spoke to for season three (in order of appearance).
Alison Taylor
Alison Taylor is a clinical associate professor at NYU Stern School of Business, and the executive director at Ethical Systems. She is currently writing a book on the new landscape for business ethics, for Harvard Business Review Press.
Megan Reitz
Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness.
Christian Vanizette
Christian Vanizette is founder of Regroop and Co-founder of makesense.org which aims to fight global issues such as climate change, poverty, and food security by working with local solutions developed in partnership with a global community of citizens, governments and businesses.
Gail Bradbrook
Dr Gail Bradbrook has been researching, planning, and training for mass civil disobedience since 2010 and is a co-founder of the social movement Extinction Rebellion (XR), which has spread internationally since its launch in in 2018: there are more than 1150 XR groups in 75 countries.
Manuel Salazar
Manuel Salazar is a technology strategist and a rising climate activist who joined Extinction Rebellion, Sea Shepherd and the Climate Docklands group with the conviction of protecting the environment and marine wildlife.
Desiree Fixler
Desiree Fixler is recognized as an advocate for change and impact in the practice of ESG investing and sustainability. She speaks about the challenges and detriment of greenwashing and provides her expert insight on topics including governance, reporting standards, diversity and the speak up culture.
Credits: Interview in Planetary Business podcast / Stefanie Hauer
Narrators
Tessa Wernink
Tessa Wernink is co-founder of the social enterprise Fairphone, co-initiator or the podcast What If We get It Right and founder of Undercover Activist, a learning hub for employee-led change. Her aim is to embolden professionals to confidently organise and take positive action around climate change and social justice in their workplaces. Tessa is host, narrator, content creator and researcher for this season.
Kwame Ferreira
Kwame Ferreira is an artist and serial entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Impossible, a global design agency. Kwame is a designer by training. He spent his early career at Fjord in service design after which he created Impossible.com a venture builder accelerating business innovation with a product led, evidence based approach for some of the largest corporations on earth. Impossible is also the home of Planet Centric Design. Kwame is the host, music and voice narrator for this season.