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NEXT NORMAL: Re-imagining Capitalism for Our Future

NEXT NORMAL: Re-imagining Capitalism for Our Future
Author: Amit Bouri
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Are you ready for the ‘next normal’? Join us as we re-imagine capitalism and explore the ways that money can do so much more than just make more money! We believe finance can be a force for good: helping tackle our biggest global challenges – like inequality and the climate emergency – while honoring the role of all stakeholders. Hosted by Amit Bouri, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, we are uncovering the path toward a transformed future with the most respected thinkers and the freshest voices on the topic – the leaders who will keep you one step ahead of our ‘next normal.’
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For Episode 14 of the Next Normal Podcast, Amit Bouri is joined by Solomé Lemma, executive director of Thousand Currents, to discuss how to build long-lasting, community-led initiatives to improve and “shift” the current socioeconomic system.
In Episode 13 of the Next Normal podcast, Amit Bouri welcomes Dr. Gunhild Stordalen, Founder & Executive Chair of the EAT Foundation, to discuss a vision for our food system that prioritizes health, sustainability, and nutrition for all people by default.
This groundbreaking episode represents a first for the Next Normal podcast! In Episode 12, Amit is joined by Jo Swinson, Director of “Partners for a New Economy” and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom – making her the first Next Normal guest with a background in elected public service.
For our newest episode of Next Normal, Amit welcomes one of the world’s leading authorities on an increasingly popular concept: regeneration.
In this tenth episode of Next Normal, Amit is joined by the guest most frequently recommended by other Next Normal guests, Ai-jen Poo.
This inspiring, must-listen new episode of Next Normal highlights the visionary thinking of South African leader, Kumi Naidoo.
In this newest edition of Next Normal, Hans Stegeman offers Amit captivating insight into his vision of a global economic system that centers the well-being of people and planet.
In this compelling seventh episode, we explore an increasingly vital pathway toward our “next normal”: narrative change. Amit is joined by Holly Gordon, the Chief Impact Officer at Participant Media.
For our first episode of 2021, Amit welcomes one of the leading corporate pioneers charting the path toward the “next normal” in our global economic system, Marcelo Behar of Natura & Co.
In this riveting new episode of Next Normal, Amit and his guest, Carol Anne Hilton, explore the ways that an indigenous worldview can inform a re-imagined and re-designed economic system.
For this fourth episode of Next Normal, Amit is joined by a leading voice in the push toward a new economy, Mike Kubzansky. Mike is the CEO of Omidyar Network, a social change venture established by Pam and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. With that deep heritage in the tech world, Mike and his team are positioned as insiders in the world of markets and capitalism: “We are fundamentally capitalists, who do want to re-imagine capitalism.” In this episode, Mike guides us through the five pillars of change required to build a new economy.
For the third edition of Next Normal, Amit guides a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with Rodney Foxworth, a community empowerment advocate and the CEO of Common Future. In this episode full of global implications, Rodney describes the ways that “we’ve designed inequality into the [capitalist] system.” Rodney and Amit dissect the complex intersections of race, economics, justice, and the American Dream in a context that is relevant to countries around the world.
On this second edition of Next Normal, Amit is joined by Harvard Business School luminary Rebecca Henderson, author of the newly released Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. Rebecca describes the structures – and the human emotions – that reinforce a version of capitalism that is “not delivering as it should,” and she details her vision for capitalism’s more inclusive, more sustainable potential. Together, Amit and Rebecca explore the urgent action needed to move toward that vision – and the ways that the COVID pandemic and fresh demands for racial justice are impacting the effort.
On our inaugural episode, Amit welcomes the “Godfather of Sustainability,” John Elkington. Together, they explore the broad ripple effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which John describes as a “global x-ray” of the world’s inequities. Then, they delve into John’s revolutionary vision of “regenerative capitalism” and the ‘recall’ of his famous “triple bottom line” concept. John describes how regular people can help drive progress – and names the global leaders whom, he believes, are moving us closer to a transformed future.