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".. Companies are saying data is the new oil - a lot of companies have really, really cool data that they just need to learn how to put into a story. And that's what Digital PR is, putting that data into a story to then get publications to pick that up and link to you, not mention you, link to you, because that builds your brand." - Harry Sanders, Founder of StudioHawk.Join me for a quick chat and a pile of insight, with a dominant force in Australian digital, that is expanding the StudioHawk #SEO magic globally.You'll also get the full transcript of this in my Smarter Impact Newsletter later this week, so make sure to follow my profile and subscribe to the newsletter (https://lnkd.in/grXqMebK).Harry and I get excited about Digital PR, take a look at 'how things are done these days' with a focus on treadmills and placing in Glamour, news.com.au and Nine, and how this all ties into Google's E-E-A-T score (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness).Ultimately, I'd suggest you do everything you can not to waste tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in effort and wages, and come out with a mediocre outcome, because you don't have a digital expert in your team.If you want great outcomes that work, you MUST ensure there is continuity and ownership of the final result, and that you give decision making power to the person leading the process.I regularly see companies using different providers at each stage, without someone leading the process, and critical things are always missed.- Business strategy-- Inc. defining your preeminent strategic driver, critical issue resolution and accountabilities- Digital content strategy-- Articulating that strategy into stories, Digital PR & SEO- Brand / website design / collateral updates- Website development- Completion of the Customer Journey Marketing loop- Team training for best use of new toolsThese all tie together, and this IS a hierarchy for a reason. You can work on any part of it as a individual project, though it must happen in context if you want effective results.Ignore this and you'll simply create greater drift in what you've already got, and expensive rework when you're sad at the mediocre outcomes.As my dad would ask me; why not DIRFT? Do It Right First Time!Reach out if you'd like to chat about your plans for 2024, and how to ensure you take effective steps towards them, whilst avoiding what could derail you.And if you've got all of this nailed, and you're confident to manage the integration of SEO with everything else, StudioHawk are the way!Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Q. What is the problem you want to solve, what's the impact you want to have in the world, and how does entrepreneurial thinking help you? Join Julia Spicer OAM and I as we discuss the challenge and opportunities of our time, and the similarities and shared understandings of community, whether you are in America, Canada, Uganda or Zambia.Julie takes us into;- her passion for alternative investment opportunities for female led startups and First Nations people- how the KPI's of Government align with that of Entrepreneurs- the research showing rural business requires 2 years and $150,000 to get to the same starting point as city-based startups- her recent visit to an island in the Torres Strait and their micro business innovations focused on the survivability of their next seven generationsI know many amazing people working to bolster the engagement and funding support for female entrepreneurship, in the past month alone I've seen Irene Tsang (LIFTwomen® Group), Tracey Warren (F5 Collective) Vicki Stirling (The Startup Network), Sangeeta Mulchandani, Nicole Stewart (The Deeply Satisfied Woman) and Vicki Saunders (SheEO™ ) leading from the front!Julia is active in many roles, including Network Lead at The Connection Table, as the Queensland Chief Entrepreneur, Chairperson of the Global Entrepreneurship Network Australia, Member of the Innovation Advisory Council with the Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport and Director of Engage and Create Consulting.This was filmed at the Global Entrepreneurship Network #GEC2023 in Melbourne, and thanks again to Jessica Grattan and Kate Elks Zadel for their support so that I could bring you this conversation!Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

"We're on the threshold of a paradigm shift in our economic system - within 2 to 3 years companies will be mandated in some countries to publish impact statements that show their revenues, their costs and their impact.When that happens the whole economic system will shift. Consumers, talent, investors and government will know which companies are delivering positive impact."Join Sir Ronald Cohen and I from The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) #GSGSummit, where we discuss the great work of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the recent International Foundation For Valuing Impacts (IFVI) that have got us to this point.If you are a company leader, investor or simply and most importantly, a citizen of our planet, transforming capitalism to genuinely increase prosperity and social progress for all is the necessity of our day, and you can be a part of it.How can you get involved?In addition to the GSG there is The Global Impact Investing Network, in  Australia we have the Climate Zeitgeist Climate Investor Forum, the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), and guides working directly with Foundations and Family Offices such as Kylie Charlton and the team at Australian Impact InvestmentsIf you want to learn via courses, I've completed and recommend;Catherine Clark's Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business 'Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs' is excellent, Durreen Shahnaz and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) series of learnings including Measuring Impact for Sustainability and Innovative Finance Solutions for Resilience.My deep dive with David Carlin on the ISSB S1 and S2 frameworks is well worth your time, you can grab 'No More Greenwashing - Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' via my website http://bravocharlie.globalAnd, Sir Ronald has a book called 'Impact' :)Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

".. We wanted the world to know Silicon Valley didn’t have a monopoly on entrepreneurship, and that we wouldn’t judge the citizens of a nation based on their geopolitics - the raw talent in Silicon Valley is not genetic or unique, it was a combination of factors untapped in large parts of the world, and we set out to create that globally - this was our theory of change.." - Jonathan Ortmans, President and Founder of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, speaking with me at Global Congress in Melbourne.Find out what he's changed his mind about recently when it comes to #Entrepreneurship, the factors needed to foster innovation, and what he learnt about striking the balance between a fast-paced world and ensuring the continuity of culture, by having a Father who Captained the Royal Yacht, the HMY Britannia!I'm always keen to talk to change-makers, investment funds and Government leaders seeking to improve their strategy and outcomes, and tell the right stories to the people who matter to them - if that's something you'd like to discuss, do reach out or have a browse of my website at http://bravocharlie.global to learn more.If you want to stay in touch with the latest from these communities, make sure to follow or connect with me on LinkedIn and get my weekly Smarter Impact newsletter.Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

How would the Head of Climate Risk for the United Nations get to Net Zero by 2035?  Find out, and lots, lots more."In the same way we don't give people medals for not robbing banks, the goal is to drive impact, avoiding greenwashing means that what you're saying and what you're doing are consistent." - David Carlin, Head of Climate Risk & TCFD for the United Nations Environment Programme.Together we go through many fascinating insights;- the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)- Aggregating emission reducers rather than looking for the silver bullet- Success for smaller countries without a $200bn Inflation Reduction Act- Pro-action over reaction and my recent whitepaper No More Greenwashing: A regulatory guide to ESG & Impact Investing (which you can get in the comments)- The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) and International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)- The high, justifiable fear of business towards regulatory fragmentation- The strength of adoption with TCFD, and the challenges of comparability, transparency and completeness. - Not having unadjusted & adjusted financial statements for climate change- Climate as a threat multiplier- Volatility and the cost of capital- The information that matters- Weaving this into your operational strategies- The lack of transition finance for developing and emerging economies- What you need to be doing if you actually want the world to decarbonise- His recent address at the ESG Investor Stewardship Summit- the $60BN AUD committed to fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed, by the ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac as outlined by Market Forces- Markets moving in rapid and volatile ways- Decarbonisation commitments & transition risk- Net zero becoming law of the land *****If you enjoyed this content, please give it a like, leave a comment, subscribe for more and share the video!If you're a CEO, Business Owner / Leader or Impact Investor, do take 3-5 minutes to get your FREE Investor Trust Score at http://bit.ly/InvestorTrustScore - Answer 33 quick questions, and see how you perform across the critical dimensions the world's leading businesses & investment funds score highly on.You can support my Smarter Impact show directly from as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/SmarterImpact - it really means a lot to see your support coming in :)Don't forget to join me on LinkedIn via http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman, sign up for my weekly newsletter at https://philipbateman.substack.com/ and there is much more of my client work on http://bravocharlie.global.Philip Bateman - Strategist & Communications Advisor"Helping funds tell the right story to investors"Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

I'm pleased to introduce Professor Durreen Shahnaz, discussing her soon to be released book 'The Defiant Optimist - Daring to fight global inequality, reinvent finance and invest in women' - it's a deeply personal tale of challenge and family dynamics, a childhood marred in protest and war during the birth of a new nation (Bangladesh), and a growing awareness of the power of supporting business and seeding change .. "(My mothers) only requirement of the shop owners and entrepreneurs she assisted was that they agree to educate their daughters".In 2020 and 2021 I had the opportunity to learn directly from Prof. Shahnaz by certifying in Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) 'Measuring Impact for Sustainability' and 'Innovative Financing Solutions for Resilience', both of which I'd highly recommend.Also look up the "Women’s Livelihood Bond" - the world’s first gender-lens impact investing security listed on a stock exchange - "To date, the WLB™ Series has mobilized US$128 million and is empowering over 1 million women and girls across Asia and Africa."You can pre-order the book by visiting https://defiantoptimist.com/As her bio goes;Durreen Shahnaz is a global leader of social impact and pioneer in impact investing. She is also the founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and IIX Foundation. IIX is the home of the world’s first social stock exchange and one of the world’s largest crowdfunding platforms for impact investing. IIX is also a leader in impact assessment methodology and innovative financial structures such as the world's first gender focused social bond, Women's Livelihood Bond Series.The company connects the Back Streets of underserved communities to the Wall Streets of the world by changing financial systems and innovating solutions for women empowerment, climate action, and community resilience, thus driving forward the Sustainable Development Goals.IIX and IIX Foundation’s work has unlocked over US$288 million of private sector investment capital and impacted over 159 million direct household lives.Shahnaz is the recipient of UN Women’s 2020 Asia-Pacific Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP) award, the 2019 Sustainability Superwoman award from CSRWorks International, 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Foundation Award, often referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize for Business’, the 2017 The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) Market Builder of the Year award, the 2016 Asia Society Asia Game Changer Award, in addition to the prestigious 2014 Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award given by The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. Recently, Shahnaz was named in the Forbes 50 over 50 list as a notable leader in the financial industry.Shahnaz holds a BA from Smith College and a joint degree, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University.If you enjoyed this content, please give it a like and leave a comment - if you're keen in helping me continue this independent journalism, you can support the show from $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/SmarterImpact - it really means a lot to see your support coming in :)Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.globalSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

"There is no doubt in my mind that if we continue on the path we are going, there will come a time when we will have no choice but to come together to deal with climate change, but by then it would be far too late." - Mr Anote Tong, Former President of the Republic of Kiribati.  Join me from the conclusion of the Climate Investor Forum, held by Climate Zeitgeist, for this short interview with the Special International Guest, having just completed his keynote and on-stage discussion with Peter Castellas, the dinner session being opened by Sally Capp.  Regularly speaking on the world stage, Mr Tong has been a stalwart of bringing climate change onto the global agenda, calling for a moratorium on new coal mines in 2015, saying "Let us join together as a global community and take action now" - though well before that, hosting Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General in the atoll nation of Kiribati, speaking with Pope Francis, Former US President Barack Obama and at the COP meetings.Kiribati is an average of 2 metres above sea level, to which the IPCC has stated with many other pacific islands, will likely be submerged within coming decades.  To this end, Mr Tong has brought 'Migration with dignity' into discussion, being quoted as saying "We are being told that we may have to abandon our islands, the places where our ancestors have been buried, where our children have a home."Anote is a passionate believer in family and respectful collective action, his work includes overseeing the creation the largest protected marine area in the world, 480,250 square kilometers, known as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), and later adopted as a UNESCO World Heritage site.".. so as long as we continue on the path that we are heading, then we will continue to be headed towards this catastrophe. And I can assure you, once that catastrophe comes around the corner, there will be no politicians, there will be no partitions, there's no division, because it's going to be a rush for survival. And we'll all be together on this.." - Anote Tong.Thank you to the sponsors of the Climate Investor Forum, and Michele Hartz for supporting Peter in the organisation:Major partner:  PollinationDiamond:  Trawalla Group | Kilara Capital | Wollemi Capital | Adamantem Capital Gold: Investible | Gaia Natural Capital | Ndevr Environmental | GHD Advisory | Silva Capital | Virescent Ventures | Sentient Impact Group | Mo Works | Small Giants AcademyEcotone Partners | City of Melbourne | CO2 Australia Limited | traceSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Welcome to the final conversation in my contributor series to our recent report 'No More Greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing', with Dr Jodi York.Jodi is the Chief Impact Officer at Kilara Capital, Principal of ImpactAbility Solutions, Chair of the Climate Impact Committee with the Climate Venture Capital Fund in New Zealand, part of the Social Performance Advisory Committee for Impact Investment Partners Pty Ltd and a Tutor and mentor in Social Impact Strategy and Management with the Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP).Generally as all-round awesome human adept at juggling many competing priorities whilst doing her best for the world, I've known her as a constant source of striving and inspiration, having a top-quality meme game for most situations, and being a global impact leader.Diving deeper into due dilligence, the continuation of gates that support your theory of change and the give and take of investees partnerning with specialised investorsWe go into the push-pull of market forces, access to skilled labour, data that shows up in The Global Impact Investing Network surveys, impact verification and its limitations from folks such as BlueMark and Tideline, and close on waste and circular economy.Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Introducing Rosemary Addis, Founding Partner of Mondiale Impact and Ambassador for The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), in the next of my contributor conversations for 'No more greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing'.We discuss the idea of perfect being the enemy of good, which came up during my conversation with Cliff Prior quoting Elias Masilela, and the reality that we've always been making decisions based on imperfect information.Moving into the trajectories of fund flows, market volatility and fiscal conditions, we discuss the step change occuring in impact methodologies, my discussion with Kristin Siegel and the Impact Management Project.Q. Where are all the skilled people? What does this labour transition look like and where is it coming from?In answer we talk through various channels including the excellent and very accessible course from Catherine Clark and Duke University on Coursera; 'Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs', and the work of Tideline and 'Bridges Insight' by Bridges Fund Management Ltd.Additionally, I ask questions that you need to be able to answer as a Directors or Business Leader; How do you go from being reactive to perceived risk, to asking “What would good look like? What would it look like for us to be able to manage this risk well and to move forward in ways that we're also using impact as an identifier of different types of opportunities to differentiate ourselves in the market?”If you haven't yet got our free report 'No More Greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' you can download it at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashingSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Introducing Terence Jeyaretnam, the next contributor featured in our recent release 'No More Greenwashing: Driving evidance-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' (which you can download for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing).  Terence works across a great variety of groups aligned with creating positive impact in the world, and his positions include:- APAC Leader & Partner for Climate Change & Sustainability Services, EY- Non Executive Director at Amnesty International, Global Citizen, Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand, Food Frontier, PWN, Australian Legal Sector Alliance- Member of the Technical Reference Group at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Senior Advisor Australia for SASB Standards and Member of the Global Forum on Sustainability for ACCA- Head of the Audit Panel for the Banksia Foundation- Advisor for the SAARI Collective- Adjust Professor at the University of Southern Queensland- Board member with the Office for Environmental Programs at University of Melbourne- Chair of the Sustainability Committee with the Group of 100- Ambassador, Bridging Lanka Ltd (Australia)- Instructor at GKR Karate InternationalApparently he can do all that because "I don't watch much TV and I'm really boring" though I think that undersells his contribution somewhat :DIn the second half of the interview, we go into the retrospective nature of punitive regulatory compliance, the director level resistance to making any Net Zero claims due to liability, the contrast of geographies, tips on compliance requirements, divestment, the opportunity of developing nations to leap-frog the challenges of our societies and the fundamental of change as Terence sees it; personal responsibility. Don't forget you can grab the free report 'No more Greenwashing - Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing' that Terence contributed to at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing, and if you're looking to improve your Investor and Stakeholder Relations, let's have a chat.Smarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.globalSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Join myself and Kristin Siegel, Head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) from https://toniic.com - the global action community for impact investing - as we discuss our latest report No More Greenwashing: Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing which you can get for free at http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashingSmarter Impact is hosted by http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.globalSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Meet Lyle Wildes, the real life Breaking Bad / Walter White, a philosophy professor that acquired a brain injury crashing his truck into a bridge, losing all empathy, becoming a drug dealer making synthetic cocaine, being arrested and spending twenty years in jail, enabling him to discover the key to reducing recidivism;85% of inmates have 3 or more ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) factors, compared with 7% of the general population that have 3 or less.  And we can fix it before kids get to jail.Join us in this deep-dive into humanity, the brain and the link between Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), as well as:- changing the culture of prisons- the 500 year old, failed model of incarceration- why it's an antiquated way of treating people who attack the power structure- domestic violence, neuroplasticity, Positive Attitude classes and ending cycles of trauma- the rolling door of the US prison population, with 25% being released each year and 25% being arrested (700,000 people) - how this creates the legal vehicle for slaveryI greatly appreciate those in our criminal justice systems who give so much to the safety and cohesion of our society, this conversation asks 'could we do it better?'Thanks to the ACLU, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Amnesty International USA, Center for Court Innovation, Charles Hamilton Houston Foundation, Inc., Color Of Change, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, FWD.us, Right On Crime, The Marshall Project, Southern Center for Human Rights, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), The Gault Center, InsideOUT Writers, Californians for Safety and Justice, Coalition for Public Safety, Critical Resistance, Dream.Org, Prison Fellowship International, Prison Policy Initiative, Right On Crime, The Sentencing Project, Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

To conincidence with the launch of our new report 'No more greenwashing - Driving evidence-based practice in ESG & Impact Investing', I've done a series of interviews with the contributors, the first of which is Cliff Prior, Chief Executive Officer of The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG).This report is an overview of regulatory initiatives in Australia, the UK and Europe, and what to do with them, and you can get it by visiting http://bit.ly/nomoregreenwashing.  You can also watch this interview in video form directly on my Linkedin profile - http://linkedin.com/in/philipbatemanFind out more about the GSG at https://gsgii.orgSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Join Mark Williamson, Executive General Manager of the Clean Energy Regulator and myself from Victorian State Energy Summit with thanks to the Smart Energy Council.We discussed the soon to be formed Australian Carbon Exchange, the new Guarantee of Origin program for our upcoming hydrogen economy which will eventually spread to ammonia, aluminium and steel, the specific role of the Clean Energy Regulator in the market, and discussed Australia's world leading rooftop solar penetration and the findings in the latest Quarterly Carbon Market report.In light of Zoe Daniels and Monique Ryan Chairing two of the day's panel discussions, Mark and I discussed the continuity of programs and outlook of the Regulator through the recent transition of government, and their prioritised focus on declining the baselines for Australia's big emitters via the CER's Safeguard Mechanism.I asked Mark for the simplest way he could give me to make power consumption relatable to someone outside the energy industry, and we talked through the country being on 50% renewables by 2026 and the governments 82% by 2030.Closing out, we touch on the breadth of innovation at scale related to the Certificate of Origin program with folks like Fortescue Future Industries and the Sun Cable project, our previous ultra low, negative energy pricing for solar during the day and our upcoming investment in and necessity for upgrading our transmission lines.Follow the links for more, and you can watch this episode and connect with business and industry leaders via my LinkedIn profile - click here to visit.Australian Carbon Exchange - http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/Infohub/Markets/australian-carbon-exchangeGuarantee of Origin - http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/Infohub/Markets/guarantee-of-originSafeguard Mechanism - http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/NGER/The-safeguard-mechanismThanks to John Grimes, Lindsey Guest, Nicola Card at the rest of the team at the Smart Energy Council for their efforts, and you can find this interview and many others on the Smarter Impact YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/smarterimpact.Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Join Paul Holthus, CEO of the World Ocean Council and I from the 2022 APAC Impact Investment Summit, as we discuss the purpose and scale of the World Ocean Council in creating industry leadership in keeping the global ocean healthy, such as by lowering emissions by reducing biofouling on vessels, and the need and opportunity for investing in and developing port reception facilities to tackle broad solid waste challenges.  These include the 150 million tons of plastics in the ocean, the 11 million tons being added every year, the 5 countries responsible for 95% of this waste.We move on to "Ships of Opportunity" which is working to use the 90,000 merchant vessels and three to four million fishing boat to collect data to help document and responsibly use the ocean. We also talk about the great need for investing in the creation of technologies that will improve our understanding, monitoring and management of oceans and climate change. I ask what Paul what he's changed his mind about over the past decades, and what needs to happen next when it comes to 'Corporate Ocean Responsibility', before we discuss the open oceans;Paul outlines how open ocean carbon sequestration is the only frontier big enough to enable us to sequester the gigatons of carbon needed to truly tackle a warming planet, and leaves our conversation with his one piece of advice for investors focused on climate change and leaving a better future for the world.Find out more and join the organisation at https://www.oceancouncil.org; Paul and team are particularly happy to help investors really understand where they can make a difference.If you enjoyed the interview, please give this a like, leave a comment, subscribe for more and share the video - you can connect with me on LinkedIn at http://linkedin.com/in/philipbateman and find out more about how we help world leading impact funds and business tell their story to investors at http://bravocharlie.globalSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

"Cascading, compounding and aggregating" - I caught up with Rosemary Addis at the close of the recent Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific, and in this episode we begin by talking about the last two years since we met in person, science, intersectionality, COVID and climate impacts, the latest IPCC report, our slip backwards in poverty and education and the impact this has on our ability to achieve the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  This is paralled with seeing a profound sense of the importance of human connection and shifts in peoples search for meaning and their investing choices.  We also touch on findings by the World Health Organization, supply chains, the unequal impact of natural disasters on women, the link between geography and inequality, and put a call out to people running organisations as to how they can get things back on track, and bring about equally cascading, compounding and aggregating positive change.We talk through David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific's recent call to action around lobbying Government, and then move into a series of reflections by Rosemary;Are you sacrificing being directionally correct for being precise?  And could you end up pricesely wrong?  What should we be focusing on?  Do we have the systems now to move with confidence?  What does Rosemary mean by "it's not about measurement - it's about management" ?  We also look at the new Impact Measurement and Mangement for the SDGs course which you can signup for here - https://bit.ly/impactforSDGsProduced by Philip Bateman and Bravo Charlie.  Thanks for liking and sharing this content.  It means a lot, and you can watch the video of this interview at https://youtu.be/p3qeDYVCVL8Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Listen in to Search for the Soul of the Nation, featuring Dr Monique Ryan (Independent for Kooyong), Nicolette Boele (Independent for Bradfield), Despi O'Connor (Independent for Flinders) and Julianne Schultz (Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture at Griffith University Centre for Social and Cultural Research, also Chair of The Conversation Media Group).You can also click to watch this recording on YouTube.As Julianne Schultz asks in her new book "The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation" from which our event derives it's name;“Maybe, because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration, have become the norm.Maybe, because the habit of not looking back has become so ingrained, we are incapable of imagining what we might become, as we have little idea of how we got here.Maybe, because we have for so long accommodated bullies, we retreated to smaller dreams in manageable spaces. Maybe, because so few of our political leaders have had courageous imaginations, they are in fact led by others.Maybe, because we are ashamed of our racialist past, we forgot how to hold onto the good bits. Maybe, Australia being home to the world's oldest continuous culture is just too difficult for its white settlers to comprehend.Australia needs to address these issues if it is to become more than a half-formed idea.”- Julianne Schultz.More about the guests and host:https://moniqueryan.com.auhttps://nicoletteboele.com.auhttps://teamdespi.com.auhttps://bit.ly/JulianneSchultzPresented by Philip Bateman and produced by Bravo CharlieSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Join the Professor of Practice & Co-Director of Yunus Centre at Griffith University, Alex Hannant, as deep dive into the necessity for and steps towards a systemic overhaul of our financial system.Discover more by visiting the Griffith Business School Yunus Centre and following Alex on LinkedIn.Smarter Impact is presented by Philip Bateman, who you can connect with on LinkedIn to see shorts of all our interviews, along with associated material - and the show is produced by Bravo Charlie.Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Speaking with Mark Ingram of https://www.brightlightimpact.com, on many topics including;- Mark, Brightlight, and the convergence of ethics and money - Faith, business, material prosperity and 1st world poverties- Achieving community values-driven investment by getting the right actors on the stage- Asia Pacific Impact Notes and market gaps to empower people- Entrenched, vested interest, that resist change- Developing Asia, Art, Science and Living - The rising tide in superannuation, religion and familyYou can find the complete video of this interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhOCXzGqebE and I'll be releasing segments over at http://linkedin.com/in/philipbatemanI'm always keen to talk to change-makers, investment funds and Government leaders seeking to improve their strategy and outcomes, and tell the right stories to the people who matter to them - if that's something you'd like to discuss, do reach out or have a browse of my website at http://bravocharlie.global to learn more.If you want to stay in touch with the latest from these communities, make sure to follow or connect with me on LinkedIn and get my weekly Smarter Impact newsletter.Support the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!

Leadership, opportunity, philanthropy, resilience, fashion and wine - join me for the inside word on one of Australia's most progressive leadership organisations, and hear from the CEO, Liz Gillies, as we talk purpose, entrepreneurship and building the next industrial age.Discover more at https://www.menziesfoundation.org.au, and if you enjoyed this content, please give it a like, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment and share the video.You can watch the interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnSEBDfExoY and join the conversation, segment by segment of each episode, at http://linkedin.com/in/philipbatemanKeen to see more independent journalism like this?  You get what you pay for!  You can get behind Smarter Impact for as little as $5 at https://www.patreon.com/SmarterImpact.Smarter Impact is hosted by  Philip Bateman and produced by http://bravocharlie.globalBravo Charlie support CEO's to get attention, increase investment, and close deals for their businesses and funds.With a particular focus on the Impact Investment industry, we use our SMV process to deliver superior outcomes.Our best work is done with leaders that consider themselves proactive change makers, who’s companies are at a tipping point, that have strong offerings, and are ready to launch into the next stage of their greatness. We specialise in:- Documenting your Impact Measurement and Management- Making complex businesses and technologies simple to understand- Coaching senior executives to deliver at their best on camera- Creating compelling pitches and content, to support Seed/series funding and IPOs- Crafting digital marketing systems, engagement and growth strategies- Capturing the passion of your team and clientsSupport the showFor the latest insights on leadership, impact investing, global challenges, business strategy and storytelling, make sure to join me on LinkedIn, and get the newsletter, Smarter Impact - Every Thursday!