Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs


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Episode 31: Interview with Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute

Joe Pulizzi is the founder of the Content Marketing Institute and one of the world’s leading experts on content marketing-a term he started to started to use back in 2001 –to describe an approach to marketing focused on creating and distributing valuable,

Episode 30: Interview with June Sugiyama, Director of the Vodafone Americas Foundation

June Sugiyama is Director of the Vodafone Americas Foundation, a role which she has played for more than 10 years. June has led the Foundation’s transition towards impact through technology related programs. June also developed the Vodafone Americas Found

Episode 29: Interview with Scott Harrison, founder charity: water

charity: water is a non-profit organization based in the US that provides clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. It was founded in 2006 by Scott Harrison and has helped fund 13,641 projects in 22 countries, benefiting over 4.6 mill

Episode 28: Interview with Seth Goldman, Co-founder Honest Tea

Seth Goldman is President and TeaEO of Honest Tea, a company he co-founded out of his home in 1998, with Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management. The company’s mission was to create and promote great-tasting, truly healthy, organic beverages. In 1

Episode 27: Interview with Sophi Tranchell, MD Divine UK

Sophi Tranchell is MD of Divine UK, the Fairtrade chocolate company that is 45% owned by cocoa farmers. Sophi is a Social Enterprise Ambassador, Chair of Fairtrade London, and a London Food Board member.   She has led Divine for the past 15 years and has

Episode 26: Interview with Mark Hand, Venture Partner at UnLtd USA

Mark Hand is a Venture Partner at UnLtd USA and teaches Social Entrepreneurship at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Before completing an MBA at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School as a Skoll Scholar and Rotary Scholar, Mar

Episode 25: Interview with Huggy Rao, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Huggy Rao is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His teaching specialties include leading organizational change, building customer focused cultures, and organization design. Huggy has worked as

Episode 24: Interview with Aishwarya Ratan, Director of the Global Financial Inclusion Initiative at Yale University

Aishwarya is the Director of the Global Financial Inclusion Initiative at Yale University. The Global Financial Inclusion Initiative focuses on the design and delivery of effective financial services for the poor. It tests and replicates different policie

Episode 23: Interview with Akshay Saxena, cofounder and President of Avanti Learning Centers

Avanti provides low-income high-school students a world-class science and mathematics education in India. It has a radical approach to teaching: with no trained teachers and very little conventional lecturing and yet students perform at par with some of t