One of my favourite groups of people in the world is our UnLtd* Future Entrepreneurs. They are part of our ‘proof-of-concept’ programme (i.e. a group of friends came together & made it up). It is designed to ‘accelerate alternative business models that connect people, planet and profit’. A ‘fully human professionalism’ We have developed an amazing culture in [...]
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One of my favourite groups of people in the world is our UnLtd* Future Entrepreneurs. They are part of our ‘proof-of-concept’ programme (i.e. a group of friends came together & made it up). It is designed to ‘accelerate alternative business models that connect people, planet and profit’. A ‘fully human professionalism’ We have developed an amazing culture in [...]
The Story of The Finance Innovation Lab
This is what I spend most of my time doing - The Finance Innovation Lab, a collaboration between ICAEW and WWF-UK. With the very patient design and audio support of Martin Martinoff and a lesson in video making from Tina Santiago, I made this short film to tell the story of the Lab so far, with the words of our wonderful [...]
Can you be a hero in the new system?
How does it feel to be a NESTA/Observer Radical winner? So I’m Radical. It’s official. It’s been official since Sunday when The Finance Innovation Lab, which I co-lead, was voted number 22 in the NESTA/ Observer 50 Radicals competition – people changing the face of Britain. How does it feel to be so rad? [...]
Can’t explain it? Visualize it!
How to stop boring people and make them want to understand Apparently doodling is good for you (I knew my school teachers were wrong). It must be true. Sunni Brown says so in her Ted Talk, Doodlers, unite; Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension — and our creative thinking. Great news for me because I’ve been [...]
The movement is bigger than you thought
A movement of movements of movements is happening and it’s changing the global financial system There’s a growing ecology of these movements, some orchestrated, some organic, that are creating the spaces where change can happen. And I’m not just talking about this: Grassroots Activism Umair Haque wrote this autumn about the rise of a global Metamovement. He said; Across the [...]
Personalities that make a movement
Who do we need to create a movement? I am not the type of person who writes about Occupy Wall Street on Facebook. I can’t bring myself to do it. I’ve been struggling to work out why since the movement kicked off over a month ago; observing, rather perplexed, my own reaction. I have had [...]
