SEVENTEENx - SDG Convos with Mick Hase

Nicole Forrester serves as the Head of Office of Purpose for Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand. Nicole joined Fujitsu in April 2021 as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for championing and driving transformative change across Fujitsu’s sustainability, diversity and inclusion and corporate social responsibility programs. Nicole brings to this role over 15 years of diverse...

Tim Duggan is an optimist who firmly believes in the power of business to do good. He has co-founded several digital media ventures, most notably Junkee Media, one of the leading publishers for Australian millennials.  Tim’s first book, Cult Status: How to Build a Business People Adore, was named the Best Entrepreneurship and Small Business Book at the 2021 Australian Business Book Awards. Hi...

Founder of Hello Good World and House of Eden Studio, Rachel Whitworth is passionate about using business as a tool for change. After working with social enterprise across the states, she has found herself in startup land building technology for a better tomorrow…one to watch in 2022! Head over to the website https://hellogoodworld.com/  Connect with Rach on LinkedIn  

Chris Wildeboer is the CEO of Balance Central which she formed in 2009.  She has been nominated for business and charity awards, co-authored a best-selling book and her passion is to create engagement to create connection, communication and productivity. In the first few years, Balance Central offered one-on-one sessions and grew rapidly through word-of-mouth referrals.  In the past 10 y...

Danielle Duell is a purposeful leader and entrepreneur. Her economic philosophy is “for profit and for the greater good” and her vision is for making profit purposefully to become the dominant mindset of business leaders by 2040. Danielle’s primary business role is Founder and CEO of Certified B Corp - People With Purpose - a consulting and leadership development company that helps businesses beco...

What do you do with an innovation that can change the world for milllions around the world? Kick down the front door of the UN of course! Meet our guest Simon Doble , Founder of SolarBuddy. Founder and Global CEO of SolarBuddy, a social impact organisation uniting a global community to gift six million solar lights to children living in energy poverty to enable them to study after dusk and improve...

Masami was born in Japan but her desire to expand her horizons took her on a global journey. She became deeply concerned about the inequalities and other challenges that existed in the world. Since then, she has endeavoured to create real WIN-WIN connections across all cultures, people and organisations to realise a different world.  She has been a serial entrepreneur since 2001, starting and...

Catia is a Partner at KPMG leading the People & Transformational Change practice. She has over 20 years’ experience working with public and private organisations from the 5 continents. As a management consultant, she advises large iconic national and international organisations on how to effectively manage complex transformation and how to minimise risk and accelerate change implementation. In...

Internationally, Jade is recognised as the host of surf and business podcast Barrels and Business, a transformational teacher (certified as both a Mindvalley and The Genius Group trainer), best selling author, global speaker, learning junkie, spiritual being, surfer and adventurer. To her clients though she is a fluffy baseball bat wielding, rule-breaking, serial entrepreneur that can’t help but p...

Tom is passionate about helping people, organisations and enterprises to unleash their greatest potential to create a better world. Founded Impact Boom, a global changemaker community, social enterprise accelerator, events, blog and podcast driving forward social innovation -> www.impactboom.org Leading and facilitating award-winning capacity building programs and workshops across social enterp...

Tabitha Jayne is the Director and Lead Coach at EarthSelf and the author of The Nature Process: Discover the power and potential of your natural self and Nature Embodied: How to love life .  She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, MSc in Applied Ecopsychology and MSc (Merit) in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpe...

As the CEO of Coreo, a catalytic circular economy consultancy, Ashleigh is unwavering in her commitment to shaping an economy that respects and values people and nature. With recognition of her strategic foresight and experience in the private and public sectors Ashleigh has been awarded as the Lord Mayor of Brisbane’s 2020 Young Business Person of the Year; is a Prime Minister’s scholar; an Austr...

2020 was such a pivotal year in so many ways for business, communities, and our "way of living", in part is now changed forever. Firstly acknowledging that so many people lost so much, including so many lives; 2020 was an historical year that we will not forget.  Now in 2021, how do we look back on the "COVID Year" and take away lessons to do it a new way and quote "build back better" into th...

Eli Harrell Co-Founder & Head of Strategy Valhalla.team - a company that builds amazing software development teams. Because of our passion to contribute to anyone shaping the future of learning, we support Education Technology companies by helping them form extended teams to round-out their skills needs during growth and product development. Founders of growing tech companies often feel overwh...

Get to know Lis Dingjan:  Lis has a background in product management, design, international development, law, and community building. She splits her time between business and the social enterprise Nowhere & Everywhere with a research and advocacy lens on climate change, biodiversity, systemic issues, waste & climate justice. Alongside this, Skwoodle teaches kids environmental and soci...

Annie is a Teach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ambassador and an Australian educator with a background that encompasses; - Advocate & Presenter for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Global Education - Program design & delivery within schools and for private sector education providers - Content creation for educational publishers and private sector education providers -...

As Co-founder & Managing Director at Third i Management, Marcus helps organisations align with the Sustainable Development Goals and communicate their impact/ how their actions create outcomes.  Third i Management puts the voice of community (and other stakeholder groups) into the heart of decision making. With a focus to measure, simplify and communicate complex social perspectives so or...

Ronan is the Founder of Cred, who work at the intersection of education and technology. Cred specialises in helping people and organisations change behaviors so they can build sustainable habits. Their work focuses in the areas of mental health, connection and social impact. He’s a Coach with the Neuroleadership Institute and has coached over 3000 people around the world A self proclaimed sporting...

The first time I sat down and chatted with Kerrie was over a coffee on the Gold Coast and it was honestly like catching up with a friend that I'd known for year. Kerrie is a master connector if we can coin that title. An International Speaker, Leadership Coach and Multiple title Author, Kerrie spins her impact into 'Connecting with Confidence". Her most notable book "Do Talk to Strangers" encourag...

Interesting facts about our guest on this episode.. Steve Pipe  Steve grew his business from a spare bedroom at home to 40 people  Sold it when he reached 50th birthday  He has personally made 5.7 million B1G1 impacts  And has inspired others to make a further 12.1 million B1G1 impacts  His goal is to make 100 million impacts – to create 100 smiles by giving 100 million days of help to those...

Darren Sutton is the Founder for the Common Purpose Collective a social innovation consultancy. Helping clients grow through the discovery design and delivery of programs products services and experiences that generate social environmental and economic value. Darren's career long experience in marketing and communications at some of the world's largest communication brands, including the Guardian,...

A different pace of interview with this conversation with an inspiring young woman from Sydney who I had the pleasure of meeting at our 2019 SEVENTEENx Sydney event.  An accomplished writer and motivational speaker; Gretta specialises in bringing awareness to the issues currently facing people with disabilities and ways in which we, as a community, can work together to overcome these challeng...

An energetic and resilient professional with a comprehensive knowledge of renewable fuels, environmental sustainability and biofuels. Tertiary qualified, Larissa has obtained a comprehensive knowledge and background in environmental studies, carbon & waste management, administration, project management, social media & business development. Managing Director and Founder of the Queensland Re...

You’re about to hear a story from a regular guy who had an upbringing which lead to his own lived experience with mental health and family tragedy. And how that personal experience has shaped his journey to become the person he is today. One of contribution, community and passion to help other people, and men in particular with their own experience with mental health and life in general. Some of w...

Say Hi to Heather Yelland! Heather is a leading authority in Values Based Leadership and is a respected thought leader in the international arena of consulting, business and corporate innovation and coaching. Having worked with such iconic brands as Macquarie Group, Mars, Nestle, Westpac, as well as New Zealand’s largest NGO, major departments of the New Zealand Government and over 30,000 individu...