SEVENTEENx - SDG Convos with Mick Hase

Nicole is a globally recognized expert and practitioner in project-based learning and youth entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Future Anything, an award-winning, curriculum-aligned entrepreneurship program for high school students, the founder of YouthX, Australia's only startup accelerator program for school-aged entrepreneurs, and the founder of Catapult Cards, a design thinking tool fo...

The "Talk" series on the SEVENTEENx podcast is a yearly panel with special guests from all over the globe and the social / impact world, speaking about lessons from the previous year. This year in Talk '22 - we invited Paul Dunn of B1G1 back to co-host the ocnversation with a teriffic panel of guests from the SEVENTEENx Community. Links to each guests LinkedIn is in their names below...

Jules (Julian) Pace is the Founder and CEO of the Happiness Co and is Australia’s emerging voice in happiness, emotional wellbeing, and lived-experience mental health. The founder of Happiness Co, he has the goal to positively impact 10 million lives in 10 years. An engaging presenter that uses his own story to create the best environment for your team to gain an understanding of what it really ta...

In this episode we connect with John Engelander , the founder and CEO of both The Planet Earth Cleaning Company and Ecobin. Purpose driven brands designed to simply clean the world with sustainable products and make recycling easy for workplaces and spaces all around the world. As you'll hear.. simply cleaning a toilet one day gave John a light buld moment to create something that worked for every...

Nick is the inaugural CEO of Social Enterprise Network Victoria (SENVIC); the community, peak body and catalyser responsible for accelerating the social enterprise movement in Victoria. He is an innovative, energetic and strategic leaders with over 20 years experience across public, private and community sectors in Victoria and the UK. Nick thrives in building new alliances and partnerships toward...

Dr Sharon Zivkovic is based in Adelaide, however an internationally recognised changemaker.  Sharon's specialty is enabling community and government systems to take a pragmatic approach to addressing community problems by recognising different types of problems (simple, complicated, complex, wicked) need to be addressed differently Sharon is the Co-Founder and Chiref Innovation Officer of Wic...

David has spent over 30-years in technology in senior management roles at global investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Nomura & Standard Chartered Bank.  David has also been the Founder and CEO of several successful FinTech, SaaS, and mobile start-ups. David was named by Future Agro Challenge (FAC) as Global Agripreneur of the Year 2018 for his work as CEO of AgUnity helping lif...

Anthony is the CEO of Green Gold Ventures in Australia with a deep experience in Clean Energy space and building partnerships between international businss communities. An internationally experienced Start-up founder, investor & global growth advisor committed to the decarbonisation of industry through the commercial application of new CleanTech/ AgTech & Environmental solutions. Country l...

Claire is a health and human rights academic at The University of Queensland, with much of her research interfacing with policy, planning and implementation of the SDG Agenda for the realisation and benefit of both environmental and population health and wellbeing, and social justice (social impact).  Research examples include Claire’s leadership examining three countries implementing positiv...

Tyler is the National Social Impact Manager for Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) in Australia and manages the Flight Centre Foundation, FCTG's Australian social impact initiatives and facilitates FCTG's Reconciliation Journey. Tyler is a public speaker, social entrepreneur, podcast host and country music singer! She is extremely passionate about collaboration, advocacy and innovation for the sake...

Sahera Sumar, Worldwide SHEroes to empower women across the globe through mentorship and leadership, and contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The mission is to develop "Women Leaders for a Better World" ie enabling women to be more self reliant, self empowered and women of influence so they can better impact their world. Taking 15+ years of global corporate experience in talent &a...

We're going to use Michael's own bio to introduce to you to him in his own words as they are so super!  I am a Human Being and support Others to be More Human! I have worked globally for over 35 years as a Human Development leader for & with International Companies in the areas of change management, organizational development and human relations. People know me as a networker, building br...

Dr Elizabeth Armstrong - Principal With more than 25 years delivering innovative, agile social impact in a range of challenging political, economic and transitional contexts, Dr Elizabeth Armstrong is a social impact and peacebuilding specialist working with companies, industry bodies, and chambers of commerce globally to help them identify and deliver genuine, strategically relevant social purpos...

Phil's passion is to Grow wealth through sustainable communities globally using the UN SDG's as his guiding framework. Phil is a Director of AidHub Services, Vitae Capital and Strategic Advisor to Cake Equity AidHub's Mission Empowerment platform is the world’s first free cloud based end-to-end solution for the Impact Sector. It is designed to more easily secure funding, efficiently manage pr...

Edwina Floch is the founder of the first ever Environmental Music Prize. Something that she started simlpy as any social entreprenaur does; an idea to drive her own purpose to enable change in the world. The inagural prize was a huge success with thousands of votes from all over the world selecting from a long list of artists such as Paul Kelly, Briggs, Tim Minchin, Montaigne and King Gizzard and...

Jennie McLaughlin is a career long leader in purpose , impact and company transformation using purpose pillars to redefine what a business is "here to actually do" and where they are headed. Jen's knowledge is deep, backed by extensive experience and insight but also in many ways what she talks about in this episode is as simple as it is practical. With both social enterprise start up and corporat...

Kylie Porter is a sustainability expert and business leader holding expertise in delivering responsible business strategies and guiding businesses on reputation risk management. As Executive Director, Ms Porter leads a team of experts across the fields of business and human rights, climate change and anti-bribery and corruption and who work alongside business to achieve the Sustainable Development...

The road to lasting positive change requires many hats. Right now Nick wears all of these as co-founder of Paper Moose — a company that focuses on sparking positive change through creativity that continues to develop some of the most exciting new purpose-driven brands and effective behaviour change campaigns of recent years. Having built Paper Moose from first principles, Nick is passionate about...

In this episode we're joined by Joshua Ross , co-founder of the tech platform that is not only a go to for so many events in Australia, but also our ticketing platform for our SEVENTEENx events, Humanitix. Joshua's story is almost a tech cliché, as you'll hear, working in garages, and family lounge rooms to get started, but with one stark difference. They we're chasing a dream to change the world...

Welcome back to our annual TALK series as we took time to explore lessons from 2021 with an amazing panel of guests ......and a special guest co-host. Each year we gather a group of amazing changemakers to discuss what lessons we can take from the year just past, and how we can improve, innovate and collaborate for a brighter and more sustainable future. Unpacking what role business and leaders ha...

Meet Richard Duncan. Partner of consulting fir Liminal and of social enterprise Team Building with Purpose. Richard is an experienced catalyst, facilitator and leader in initiating organisational change and solving tough business problems through unconventional creative ideation techniques with a track record of innovative solutions, market disruptions and category firsts. International and multi-...

Blaise Porter is the Group Director Sustainability and Social Responsibility at Sims Limited. In this role Blaise directs and oversees the execution of Sims Limited’s long-term sustainability ambitions and goals, integrate sustainability throughout the company’s divisions worldwide, and ensure that our sustainability strategy enhances business performance, mitigates risks, and aligns with the comp...

Mark's role as head of the Atlassian Foundation includes leading the efforts of all Atlassians to contribute to the Atlassian Foundation's goal of helping to educate disadvantaged youth globally, preparing them for the workforce of the future, and being the Australian lead for Pledge 1%. Pledge 1% is a movement encouraging business founders to pledge 1% of equity, 1% of profit, 1% of their people'...

Natalie, is a trusted and proven leader of building and driving successful global businesses. For 21 years, Natalie worked for Flight Centre Travel Group, driving the strategic growth of events, the group’s award-winning specialised meetings and events business. Natalie oversaw the growth of the brand from an Australian-based business of 2 people to a global business employing 300 people in 7 coun...

Jacqui Bloom is Director and Partner of Shepreneur. Shepreneur has been founded by Zash Ventures and is committed to bridging the gap between investors and early stage startups by blending foundation capital together with advisory to streamline the pathway for success. In line with Zash’s commitment to mobilise foundation capital and help streamline the startup culture in Australia, one of the big...