Karmic Capitalist - businesses with purpose
Business done right - Purpose, Values AND Profit.
In the Karmic Capitalist conversations, we talk to CEOs and founders of organisations with purpose and values at their heart. We dive into their journeys, and into the nitty gritty of what it takes to build organisations that make good and make money. Some are starting the journey, others are a long way down it, and still others still are changing direction.
But all are business leaders who believe that a successful businesses is defined by profit, purpose and values. And, oftentimes, fun.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 54
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
How Repc is closing the digital divide while fighting waste - Bevil Williams
To succeed in addressing today's large challenges, we need collaboration between business, government, the third sector and society.
But we also need it translated from big words into a difference in …
The Good that comes when your business model aligns perfectly with your purpose - Tumelo's Georgia Stewart
Stepping up to the global challenges we face today is going to need concerted action from us in all the various roles we play - as consumers, employees & bosses, voters & citizens, parents & role mod…
How business fits into History, Anthropology, Climate, Society and what to do about it! With Mark Maslin
"We have everything we need to fix things and make it better for everyone in the world. Perhaps not the billionaires."
Can business leaders make a serious dent in climate change? Mark Maslin, UCL prof…
How to make a profit AND donate 16% of your time to charity - Elaine Forth of Hyphen8
Purpose can be a real facilitator for growth and profitability. And in turn, growth increases your ability to make impact, while profitability allows the business to serve at a higher level.
It's a w…
"How do you drive the endless supply of money that is business into doing good?" - Neal Gandhi of The Panoply
This episode of #TheKarmicCapitalist podcast is so back-to-back full of real life, practical lessons that it was nigh-on impossible to fit it into our standard time limit.
But that's no surprise. Neal…
Tony's on a mission to bring power to Africa - Renewables in Africa
"We'd like to fully electrify Africa by 2040, with renewable energy at its core".
That's the vision that Tony Tiyou had when he set up Renewables in Africa (RiA), his engineering, consulting and media…
Would you give your shares away? It's about more than karma - Chat with Ben Brabyn, CEO GenieShares
Ben Brabyn's had a fascinating career across multiple touchpoints with entrepreneurship. He's ...
set up and sold his own company;
represented entrepreneurs for global investment at the DTI;
headed Leve…
Jan Rippingale, CEO Blu Banyan - The woman aiming to remove half a billion tons of carbon per annum from the environment
Jan Rippingale's ambitions were never small. At an early age, Jan was looking first to be an astronaut, and then president. Ironically, working with John Glenn turned her ambitions away from this, an…
"If you're giggling every time you say your values, probably time for a rethink" - Red Badger CEO, Cain Ullah
Red Badger is one of the UK's most successful digital transformation agencies. Founded by 3 friends coming out of Conchango, a successful previous generation agency, they decided they wanted to do th…
Bill Gates wanted to stuff it to IBM (probably!) - Alphalake CEO Olly Cogan
As far as BHAGs go, Eliminating Global Healthcare Inequalities has got to be out there with the best.
Though Alphalake being a British company, it's a little more modest.
"To work towards global health…
"I think I've just paid £50,000 for a word I already knew" - Answer Digital co-founder Gary Parlett
Many CEOs call their companies "people companies". Occasionally they mean it!
Far more occasionally still, it translates into every sinew of a company's being.
Answer Digital comes about as close as yo…
From Communist Hungary to Deepak Chopra's Digital Agency Partner - Peter Tiszavolgyi, CEO Stylers Group
Peter Tiszavolgyi's company, Stylers Group, started with a couple of mates at uni in Budapest. It's grown into a 50+ person company that is Deepak Chopra's digital partner in San Diego.
Not your typic…
Eric Edmeades on injecting passion into your accountants (and growing a few multi-million $ businesses along the way)
Eric Edmeades is a master story-teller. This week's episode of the Karmic Capitalist isn’t just packed full of sage moments, but is just... plain... fun. From parents rebelling against apartheid in S…
Purpose takes Marc Daniels from an arm hanging out of its socket to multiple 7&8 figure companies
A near-death accident led Marc to get serious on life while his friends were "getting drunk and smoking wacky backy". Getting serious on life for Marc showed up in how he injected purpose in his sta…