Jody Turner interviews young entrepreneurs, Charlie Thelin and Ludvig Berggren, about their dynamic business solutions for a particularly salient issue: immigration employment and integration.
Jody Turner met Jonas Berggren, who is working intensely on the cyber healthcare of tomorrow.
A co-production between Jaipur Rugs Foundation and impactmania was featured at the recent UN Global Compact Conference! It shows how a social enterprise at scale addresses women’s equality and responsible production through the example of one woman artisan.
Writer Jody Turner interviews Swedish social change maker André Bogsjoe whom she met while speaking at Lars Lings’ Nordic Future Days in Sundsvall, Sweden. André Bogsjoe talks about his current project UNITI, an eco focused car, a product that can be delivered directly to your door.
Writer Jody Turner interviews Anders Härén, Chief Technology Officer of Leeroy in Sweden. Anders Härén spoke about leaving the traditional, loud media behind, and working with customers to build and maintain loyalty in innovative ways: creative retail intelligence.
Living in the Creative Zone, Transforming the World One Idea at a Time is a collection of interviews with international figures driving change forward through […]
After featuring a number of social entrepreneurs and a few impact funds, we speak with Tom Bird, an entrepreneur and investor in early impact firms since 1988. impactmania spoke with Tom about impact investments and how he evaluates social enterprises.
Tomáš Sedláček, economist and university lecturer, is known for the bestseller Economics of Good and Evil, published by the Oxford University Press (2011). He provides insight to why people voted for Trump, our changing civilization, and why work will be leisure.
World-renowned trumpeter, composer, and managing & artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis is a nine-time Grammy award winner who also received the Pulitzer Prize for his work. In 2001, he was appointed Messenger of Peace by the United Nations.
Thomas van Thiel is realizing a plastic-free island in Croatia and dreams of a global expedition with other ships. Learn about the most important action you can take to minimize plastics flowing into the oceans.
Michael Towbes, engineer, developer, and bank chairman, speaks to impactmania on why he doesn’t give anonymously, shares his advice for entrepreneurs, and talks about one of the people who left an imprint on his professional DNA.
Tim Johnson went from a Defensive Lineman in the NFL, winning Super Bowl XXVI, to a pastor helping people get on a path back to self-sufficiency. He’s bringing together 120-plus organizations serving thousands of people.
Ernie Brooks, photographer and educator, comes from a family of photographers. Brooks, by inspiring students to take up the camera themselves, is creating a legacy of photography to capture and examine the world we live in.
Amir Abo-Shaeer, Founder of Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy and the first high school MacArthur Fellow teacher, discusses how DPEA prepares students for careers that don’t exist today.
NK Chaudhary (NKC) started Jaipur Rugs almost 40 years ago with 9 weavers working on two looms from his home. Today, it is an international company working with 40,000 artisans across 700 villages in India.
Originally competitors, Mikael (Micke) Bergström (founder of an advertising agency) and Jesper Johansson (startup advisor for the last 14 years), decided to collaborate to build Great Sp^ce of Sweden, a space to seed fertile grounds for startups.
Earlier this year, the fourth floor of 99 Bowery in Chinatown was taken over by B99. In a mere few months, the art space has hosted art shows, photo shoots, parties, and staged the short-play “An Upset”. Founder Ryan Foss-Skiftesvik believes investing in art is investing in humanity.
Trumpet maker Van Laar has no desire in scaling up his business; he’s perfectly content making some of the most sought after trumpets in the world and continually working to improve what he has.
Chris Schembra, Broadway producer, member of the Philanthropic Board of Trustees, Easterseals Foundation, and founder of the 747 Club speaks to impactmania about keeping your day job and realizing your passions while being philanthropic. How finding yourself can happen in your own kitchen.
Nand Kishore Chaudhary started Jaipur Rugs Company with two looms and nine weavers. In less than four decades, Jaipur Rugs has grown the floor covering business to approx. $18 million annual revenue working with 40,000 artisans in 600 villages. The social enterprise has been featured in the book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K. Prahalad. It is cited as an example of a social enterprise breaking the cycle of poverty.
Sameer Walia is the co-founder and Managing Director of The Smart Cube, a for-profit research and analytics firm serving clients ranging from skin care brand Elizabeth Arden to turnaround consulting firm Conway MacKenzie. The Smart Cube was founded to bridge the gap between data-rich, insight-poor research firms and valuable, but expensive, advisory firms.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle in action. The founder of Reap Benefit, Kuldeep Dantewadia, went out on a personal daily trash collecting exercise over the course of 8 months. At the age of 21 he founded Reap Benefit, a social enterprise centered on improving the environment, and mobilized other young people to be part of the solution.
Colin Finlay, POYi Award Winning, Documentary Photographer BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Colin Finlay, documentary photographer, has traveled to 90-plus countries to document apartheid, war, and genocide. […]
The SCAN Foundation President & CEO, Bruce Chernof, on Long-Term Care BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Long-Term Care, something we don’t discuss until often it is too […]
Innovator Daan Roosegaarde on Being Future Proof BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG Daan Roosegaarde, the global impact maker, designer, and innovator, has made a name for himself with […]
Paula Verhoeven is the Director of City Development of the municipality of Rotterdam. She shares her insights on fostering successful private-public-nonprofit partnerships and how the City is advancing as a Smart City.
Bobby’s Grandsons Find Gin Recipe and Export it to 25 Countries BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG The half-brothers, Sebastian and David Blom, found a bottle of jenever […]
Gilbert Curtessi on Crisis Driven Innovation BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG SUGU develops and manufactures products and services for new markets to accelerate the transition to the […]
GRNDPA has also produced the commercial for Hello Fresh that is currently airing on Dutch television. Read on to see how three talented friends who share a love for tattoos and tacos built a successful business in two and half years.
With our eyes on our screens most of our days, we sometimes forget to look at what we have living and growing in our own backyard. Featured Photographer and Sony Ambassador, Gustav Kiburg, reintroduces us to nature.
DUS is currently leading an international team of partners in “research and doing,” connecting science, design, construction, and community by 3D-printing a canal house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Marcel Wanders spoke with impactmania about what design can do in a political and social context. His whimsical design seeks to serve as a new connection between people beyond borders and across cultures.
impactmania speaks with Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum. Rüger offers some insight on the responsibilities that come with managing such a beloved and impactful organization and what he has learned from “living” with Van Gogh.
Soon you will be able to own a trumpet based on the horn used on Star Wars, The Force Awakens. Jon Lewis, First Trumpet for the movie, is working with horn maker Hub van Laar in Limburg, the Netherlands, on a limited edition production instrument based on Lewis’s trumpet.
