Radical Truth

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Jacqueline van den Ende, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Equity — the Amsterdam-based climate fintech platform on a mission to connect next-generation capital with the world's most impactful climate investing opportunities. Her weapon of choice for fighting climate change? Finance. Jacqueline's radical truth: trading ESG shares in public...

What if your family's legacy is not a burden to manage — but your greatest competitive advantage? In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Zita Nikoletta Verbényi, Founder and Legacy Aesthete of The Legacy Atelier™ — a cutting-edge bespoke legacy practice guiding multigenerational business families to map, understand, and thrive through their intertwined legacy layers for genera...

Is food the most polluting industry on the planet — and are we finally ready to fix it? In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Johan Jörgensen — founder of Sweden FoodTech, widely known as "Mr. Foodtech," and one of the most provocative and visionary voices in the global movement to transform the food system. Johan's radical truth: food is not what is on your plate....

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Nadine B. Hack, CEO of beCause Global Consulting and internationally recognised pioneer of Strategic Relational Engagement (SRE™) — a proprietary framework that has turned adversaries into allies across some of the world's most complex and high-stakes situations. She got loggers to work with environmentalists. She got AIDS activists to wo...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Raj Thamotheram — one of the most influential and uncompromising pioneers in the global responsible investing movement. After 12 years inside the system at two of the world's largest financial institutions, Raj concluded that meaningful change required a different kind of leverage — and founded Preventable Surprises, a think-do tank d...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Wal van Lierop — founder of Chrysalix Venture Capital, one of the earliest and most recognised private equity firms in the world focused on industrial innovation and cleantech. Over a career spanning more than two decades, Wal has raised over $350 million for Chrysalix and facilitated more than $3.5 billion in venture capital funding for...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Giulio Franzinetti — a 30-year financial services veteran who has spent decades navigating one of the sector's most uncomfortable and rarely spoken truths: that many of the most talented, well-compensated people in finance are quietly asked to push products and strategies that are fundamentally out of line with their values. Dr. Franz...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Leesa Soulodre, Founder and Managing Partner of R3i Capital — an emerging manager at the forefront of deep tech, ESG-integrated venture investing, and the democratisation of private market access. Leesa's radical truth: the most promising investment opportunities are not inaccessible because they are too risky — they are inaccessible beca...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with James Arbib — co-founder of RethinkX, founder of Tellus Mater Foundation, co-author of Rethinking Humanity , and one of the most intellectually rigorous and genuinely optimistic voices in the global climate conversation. Jamie's radical truth: the climate challenge is not primarily a problem of will or policy — it is a problem of imaginat...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Claudia Segre — economist, gender equality activist, TEDx speaker, and the extraordinary driving force behind the Global Thinking Foundation. Her story of how she founded, funded, and built the Foundation is, as Robert Rubinstein puts it, absolutely brilliant and inspiring. Claudia's radical truth: financial exclusion is not just an incon...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Arthur Wood, Founding Partner of Total Impact Capital — one of the world's most original and rigorous thinkers on the structural failures of development finance and the urgent need for a fundamentally new approach. Arthur is the "sheriff of impact investing": the person who will tell you exactly what is not working, why, and wha...

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Filippo Addarii, Co-founder and Managing Partner of PlusValue — one of Europe's leading experts in social impact finance and socio-economic transformation. With Mario Draghi at the head of a national coalition government, Italy hosting the G20 for the first time, and the EU deploying its largest-ever recovery stake in the country, Filippo argues that Italy o...

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz Corzo — the extraordinary founder of Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda, a woman who left a comfortable life as a musician and music teacher in Querétaro City, moved her family to the remote mountains of Sierra Gorda, and built a grassroots movement that has become one of the world's most celebrated models of biodiversity conser...

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt — founder of KUNO Leadership Community, former international CEO of global brands including IKEA and Georg Jensen, and one of the most compelling voices on the urgent need to transform how we think about leadership, purpose, and value creation in the 21st century. Her radical truth: you cannot be a great leader in 2026 by o...

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Simon Clark and Will Louch — the two Wall Street Journal investigative journalists whose reporting brought down Abraaj, one of the world's largest impact investment firms, and whose book The Key Man became one of the most celebrated financial exposés of our time. Their story is not just about one man's fraud. It is about the entire impact investing ecosy...

Could accountants save the world — and why haven't they already? In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Sara Olsen, founder of SVT Group and one of the most influential practitioners in the global impact management profession. Sara has spent over two decades doing something the broader impact sector says is impossible — measuring, managing, and verifying social and environmental impact rigorously...

Is "financial inclusion" the fintech industry's biggest lie — and who is really paying the price? Emmanuel Daniel, award-winning founder of The Asian Banker and Wealth and Society, and author of The Great Transition — the personalization of finance is here , delivers a verdict that will unsettle the fintech world: "financial inclusion" as the industry describes it is a lie....

The carbon bubble is real, it is enormous — and most investors are still not paying attention. Why? In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Mark Campanale, one of the true pioneers of sustainable investing and the founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative. Mark coined the "unburnable carbon" thesis, gave the world the concept of stranded assets, and has spent over three decades re...

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Marko Oksanen, CEO and co-founder of Coventures, a Helsinki-based venture builder that bridges the gap between established corporations and entrepreneurial talent. With 20+ digital ventures built across Helsinki and Berlin, Marko has seen every flavour of corporate innovation — the bold bets, the missed opportunities, and the avoidable mistakes....

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Johan Jörgensen, founder of Sweden FoodTech and the man widely known as "Mr. FoodTech." Johan co-founded the Smaka Good Food Festival — one of the world's largest food gatherings — and has spent over a decade building the Nordic foodtech ecosystem into a global reference point for what a healthier, more innovative, and less destruct...

Can a pension fund become an industry leader on net zero — starting from zero? Denise Le Gal did exactly that. In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Denise Le Gal, founding Chair of Brunel Pension Partnership, one of the UK's largest and most progressive LGPS pools, managing assets on behalf of over £30 billion across 10 likeminded public pension funds. Denise helped sign Brunel...

What does it take to build a conscience into the financial system — and then do it all over again in China? In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Wayne Silby, one of the most consequential pioneers in the history of impact investing. In 1982, when colleagues told him he was "on drugs," Wayne co-founded the Calvert Social Investment Fund — the United States' first social...

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Professor Tim Jackson, one of the world's foremost ecological economists and the author of the landmark book Prosperity Without Growth — translated into 17 languages and named a Financial Times book of the year — and his follow-up Post Growth: Life After Capitalism . For three decades, Tim has asked the question that terrifies politicians and...

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Barney Swan, founder of ClimateForce and one of the most hands-on regenerative practitioners working in nature today. Raised off-grid and shaped by a lifetime of polar expeditions, Barney has moved from surviving on NASA-designed solar ice melters and biofuel in Antarctica to leading the restoration of over 450 acres of the Daintree Rainforest in...

This is one of the last interviews Hazel Henderson gave before her passing in 2022. She will be deeply missed. Is ESG broken — and what would a truly science-based approach to investing look like? In this special TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with the legendary Hazel Henderson — futurist, evolutionary economist, author of nine books, and one of the most original and courageous voices in t...