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What’s at the center of the summit is the learning, contribution and experiences shared by the participants and events contributors.
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We are creating an event where the learning is based on lived experiences of the comunity of conscious leaders, the questions and challenges explored are the ones that are most relevant to you, and where the value of the experience is enhanced by everyone active involvement.
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We will do so by bringing “the art of participatory leadership” (aka “The Art of Hosting”) as a core element of our time together, inviting everyone to actively participate and engage in authentic conversations.
Keynotes speakers and Panelists
Prof. Raj Sisodia
Keynote:
“Finding the Courage to build healing organizations“
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A founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc.
Prof. Michael Pirson
“Europe needs more young conscious leaders! The role of Universities and Businesses”
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Prof. Michael Pirson is a scholar of humanistic management, which holds that business and commerce ought to protect human dignity and promote societal well-being. He is currently a full professor for Global Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship at Fordham University, New York and a Research Fellow at Harvard University.
He is the co-founder of the Humanistic Management Network, he is the also actively exploring the role of higher education in positive change making and social innovation, leading Fordham University’s efforts as ASHOKA Changemaker Campus.
Gloria Gubianas
CEO & Founder at Hemper
Panelist
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Although Gloria wanted to study medicine, a missing tenth in her grades made her reallize that she should take another path. She finished her Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation degree at LEINN only nine months ago and already co-founded two companies : Sheedo and Hemper.
Hemper is a brand of fashion accessories made from hemp in Nepal.
People belonging to vulnerable groups are employed throughout the value chain. In the most artisan part, the making of fabrics, it is women at risk of social exclusion who take center stage.
With a positive impact on the value chain, Hemper’s mission is to contribute to social and economic development by promoting sustainable fashion in Europe.
Astrid Schulte
CEO & shareholder Berendsohn AG
Panelist
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Astrid Schulte is CEO and shareholder of the BERENDSOHN AG – a traditional family business with more than 400 employees and over 100,000 customers. Next to strategy consultancy, her professional career includes various marketing, sales, and managing director positions at Kraft Foods, Richemont and Loyalty Partner (Payback) and others. She became an entrepreneur with the bellybutton brand in 2001, which she and her team successfully built up and developed into the leading European lifestyle brand for mothers and children. Since 2017, Astrid has been transforming the BERENDSOHN AG, founded in 1833. The transformation of the company consists in a radical change of the business model as well as a deep cultural change. Moreover Astrid has various advisory board memberships. Her passions are: value-oriented leadership, modern corporate cultures and the transformation and digitalization of business models. The full-blooded entrepreneur is the mother of three children.
Mark Goyder
Founder of Tomorrow’s Company
Panelist
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Mark Goyder is a champion of a better capitalism. He is an award-winning speaker, writer and broadcaster with over 15 years’ experience as a manager in manufacturing businesses. He is Founder of Tomorrow’s Company, a London-based business think tank which he led until 2017. Tomorrow’s Company has worked with business leaders, investors and policymakers and partners to inspire and enable business to be a force for good in society.
Andrés Cester
Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Colvin
Panelist
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Andrés Cester is the co-founder and co-CEO of Colvin, a startup founded in late 2016 that has revolutionized the flower and plant industry with a disruptive business model, creating the first intermediary-free network in the sector. Colvin’s vision is to create a better future for the floriculture industry by building a new digital ecosystem that connects farmers, wholesalers, florists, and customers more efficiently through the use of technology.
With extensive experience in the flower industry, having launched his first business at the age of 18, Andrés also dedicated part of his career as an expert in financial services and investment banking at Citi, where he helped international organizations with their IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate activities.
Currently, Andrés leads the company alongside co-founder Sergi Bastardas, with the goal of taking Colvin to the next level and building a better future for the floriculture sector. Enthusiastic about people and their capabilities, Andrés stands out for his closeness, passion for work, and his ability to envision business and leadership.
His favorite flower or plant? Andrés is great with plants and has saved more than one Monstera that a friend had already given up on.
Lisa Hehenberger
Director ESADE Center for Social Impact
Panelist
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Dr. Lisa Hehenberger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business School and Director of its Center for Social Impact. She is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, impact investment, and impact measurement. She is the Chief Impact Advisor of Oryx Impact, a member of the Board of Directors of the GSMA Foundation, and sits on the impact committees of Rubio Impact Ventures and Suma Capital. She is on the Scientific Board of the OECD Global Action “Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems”, is a member of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, and is a member of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium set up by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. She sits on the advisory boards of impact investing fund Creas, as well as Seastainable Ventures and Lyfebulb. For six years, she was the Research and Policy Director of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA), the pan-European association for venture philanthropy and social impact investment, and was their representative in the European Commission’s Expert Group on Social Business (GECES). She is the academic partner of the Spanish National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (Spain NAB) and served on the French National Advisory Board and the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Task Force established by the G8 (now GSG). Dr. Hehenberger is the author of numerous books, policy papers, and practitioner reports and has published in the most prestigious academic peer-reviewed journals in management, such as the Academy of Management Journal, as well as in practitioner-oriented publications, such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Dr. Hehenberger has a Ph.D. in management from IESE Business School and a master’s in business and economics from Stockholm School of Economics and HEC (CEMS). Previously, she worked in investment banking at Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in London and at GB Investment Banking in Madrid and Barcelona.
Javier Goyeneche
CEO & Founder ECOALF
Keynote:
“Inner Journey of a Conscious Leader”
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He embarked on a mission to create an entirely new concept that would combine his design sensibility and understanding of the fashion consumer with the latest in recycled materials. In 2013 he launched ECOALF.
Under his leadership, the company has grown steadily and now produces a full sustainable lifestyle collection of outerwear, swimwear, casual apparel, yoga, footwear and accessories.
Since 2018 Ecoalf has been certified B Corp (first Spanish fashion brand), recognized not to be the best in the world but the best FOR the world.
Javier has been awarded the Schwab Foundation’s social innovators of the year 2020 for revolutionizing the fashion industry and leading the shift towards a sustainable future. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is the sister organization of the World Economic Forum. Asserting Ecoalf as the first fashion brand in the world to prompt the award.
Learnshops
You can participate in 2 of your choice
The Art of Participatory Leadership
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Laure is a coach, trainer and facilitator in collective intelligence, specialising in issues of diversity and inclusion, interculturality and new modes of organisation at work. She has long held the position of Diversity and Inclusion Manager in an international consulting firm. She has been a partner of Païdià for 7 years, assisting organisations in the human challenges of their transformations through collective intelligence. A practitioner of the Appreciative Inquiry and Worldview Intelligence approaches, her deep conviction is that diversity is a richness, that fragility is a strength and that the most sustainable organisations are those who cultivate collective intelligence in order to make people truly engage and feel they fully contribute to the purpose of the company.
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Maïwenn is a certified coach, trainer and facilitator in collective intelligence, specialist in designing and deploying collaborative approaches to meet the human stakes of transformation. She has held operational as well as external consulting positions in Strategic Consulting and Human Resources in large international companies as well as smaller organizations. She has been for the past 7 years a partner at Païdià. She feels called to transform managerial models and practices in organizations for more innovation, to get out of silos and work more transversely, to engage people on purposeful projects, to build a common vision and take wise collective decisions. In other words, to renew the art to be, work and live together.
Participatory Leadership, a path to becoming a Conscious Business?
What really enables a leader to step into meaningful conversations with employees, customers, and clients?
What if developing your participatory skills were an accelerator to transforming your organization into a Conscious Business?
What topics will the Learnshop address
There are four skills that are key to the Art of Participatory Leadership, each skill feeding the other, called the four folds:
- Hosting yourself: taking care of yourself, getting to know yourself in a way that allows you to feel like the right person in the right place, fully powerful
- Being hosted: Engaging into conversations that matter with open mind, and heart, and in that state of mind of humility and letting go that allows you to put yourself in a position to really learn, to be inspired by others
- Hosting others: Take responsibility for opening up spaces and creating the right conditions for conversations that matter in your organization or with your stakeholders, for being influential
- Co-hosting: Contributing to the development of a community of practice, a tribe of conscious leaders
The Roadmap to Conscious Business
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Peter Matthies is a software entrepreneur, former Venture Capitalist and founder of the Conscious Business Institute (CBI). Before founding the CBI, Peter was a Principal for a globally leading Private Equity and Venture Capital firm, Apax Partners & Co, and for b-business partners, a $ 1 billion pan-European VC fund.
The Conscious Business Institute is a globally leading institute dedicated to creating more life-giving, inspiring and human-centric ways to work, lead, and conduct business. CBI provides the most comprehensive and proven system for building more conscious organizations.
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Timothy Henry is a co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement, and an experienced executive and consultant/coach with over 30 years’ experience helping organizations become great businesses. He has over 30 years of experience working as a trusted business advisor; from Fortune 20 to entrepreneurial, owner managed businesses, across the globe. He has been with Conscious Capitalism as Trustee and co-founder from the beginning, and together with Raj Sisodia is co-author of “The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide” from Harvard Business Press as well as host of The Conscious Capitalists Podcast.
How can we build a thriving business and flourishing organization?
What topics will the Learnshop address
- Provide a clear idea of what a thriving business means
- The cornerstones of building a thriving and conscious business
- Dive into a) self-leadership and b) purpose-culture
- Develop a sense of a shared mission and commitment with other leaders to go on this journey and support each other – the next steps as conscious leader
Conscious Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Anabel Dumlao
Partner at Axialent
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Anabel has over 20 years of experience in the field of human capital consulting. Her focus has always been on the human aspects of business transformation and how they foster or hinder effective execution of a company’s strategy. She has worked primarily with multinationals from a variety of sectors, ranging from Technology, Pharma, Chemical to Financial Services and FMCG.
Prior to joining Axialent, Anabel was director of compensation and talent consulting at Aon Hewitt Spain. She joined the former Hewitt Associates in 2004 after contributing for seven years as a management training consultant at Ernst & Young. Alongside her generalist human resources consulting experience, she project managed human resources due diligence and post-merger integration projects for more than 20 corporate transactions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Currently she is Partner at Axialent, and in this role she manages the end-to-end relationship with some of our largest clients and ensures we seamlessly deliver on our promises when a company engages our services.
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Carlos Agustin Moreno is a highly accomplished executive with over 25 years of experience in different industries. Currently serving
as the Partner & Chief Growth Officer at Axialent, Carlos has a proven track record of driving growth, optimizing operations, and
delivering innovative solutions to complex business challenges.
Carlos started his career in manufacturing, where he honed his skills in business strategy and family buisness management. Over
the years, he has held various leadership roles including the rol of CEO at Mexican based multisectorial conglomerate, where his
strategic guidance and forward-thinking approach led to significant improvements in culture transformation, efficiency and
profitability.
Recognized for his strategic thinking, leadership, innovation, Carlos has successfully led teams to deliver sustainables results and
business transformations. His leadership style is characterized by strategic thinking, change management, and global mindset,
fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
What does a conscious culture look like in your experience?
What key behaviors, symbols, and systems make your culture an asset for your business strategy, and which make it a liability
What topics will the Learnshop address
- Proposed definition of culture. You already have a culture – by default or by design
- How does my behavior as leader define the culture in my company
- The three sources of cultural norms: leadership behaviors, symbols and systems
- The power of cultural norms to drive change in a desired direction
Making your purpose actionable and Impactful
Jay Jakub
Chief of staff at Economics of Mutuality
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Dr. Jay Jakub is the Chief of Staff for the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) organization (www.eom.org) headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, though he is based near Washington, DC and serves concurrently as Director of the EoM Foundation.
Jay advises the Thompson Family Office in Richmond, Virginia and is an advisor to Singapore’s Alliance for Action on Corporate Purpose. He is an international speaker, author, and former Senior Director for External Research at Mars, Inc., maker of iconic brands like M&Ms, Snickers, Mars Bar, Wrigley’s gum, Pedigree pet food and more. Mars – with $45bn in annual revenue and employing 130,000+ associates – was the incubator for the EoM business model management innovation and supported the launch in 2020 of the independent EoM organization. EoM now consists of the not-for-profit EoM Foundation, which delivers the EoM approach through global educational partnerships, research, and advocacy; EoM Solutions, owned by the Foundation, but a for-profit consultancy delivering EoM pragmatically to corporate clients; the newly launched Jubilee Economics Foundation (JEF), which delivers EoM at the local community uplifting and individual vocational levels; and EoM Investments (owned by JEF) that is transforming the way investment capital is deployed to use measurable impact to drive superior value creation and performance.
Jay is the co-author of the EoM book Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World (Berrett-Koehler, 2017 & CITIC Press Beijing in Mandarin, 2018). He’s also a contributing co-author of Putting Purpose into Practice: The Economics of Mutuality (Oxford University Press, 2021; reprinted in Mandarin in Beijing, 2023). Jay’s doctorate is from Oxford University, St. John’s College.
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Entrepreneur from day of graduation in business economics and two years of philosophy. Founder of the first Dutch B2B internet auction and thereby valuing (post doc) and selling the healthy parts of bankrupt companies.
Then to help companies not go bankrupt and to help companies bring new products to the market with a positive impact. Ultimately understanding that it is not so much about the technical side and the business case. The most added value is in the development of the people, the culture they form together and what drives them (as an organization) at the core.
Does your company deliver purpose as strategy and use purpose to orchestrate the right stakeholder ecosystem to do so?
What topics will the Learnshop address
- The purpose of business: the importance of thinking externally about the purpose
- Making purpose actionable & measurable
- The 3 archetypes of purpose: Values, Description, Meaningful Challenge
- Translating purpose into strategy through an ecosystem stakeholder approach
- Engaging the workforce on the company’s purpose journey
Your Summit Hosts
Laura Grassi
Practitioner Participatory Leadership
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Laura Grassi brings together years of professional experience in facilitation, process design skills and mediation to accompany social entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs, developmental NGOs, social innovators and conveners of cross-sectors dialogues that are working towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Trained as a business engineer, she soon found her passion in helping organizations that want to work collaboratively to tackle our most pressing societal issues, create healthy organizational cultures and work on social justice. In her work she combines different methodologies such as “The Art of Hosting Societal Innovation”, Process Works, U-theory, Process Design, Deep Democracy and NonViolent Communication in order to offer a unique approach to collaboration and organizational development.
Her linkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/laura-grassi
Mansi Jasuja
Practitioner Participatory Leadership
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