#56 Paul Klein - Impakt: Change for Good: How businesses can benefit from helping to solve social problems

In this episode of Products With Purpose, Eli spoke with Paul Klein founder and CEO of Impakt and Author of Change for Good

Impakt is a B-Corp that helps corporations to benefit from solving social problems that have been identified as UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). They have also helped leading non-profit organizations understand their social purpose and improve their impact.

Paul is a social change advisor, thought leader, and author. Aside from founding Impakt in 2001, he is also the founder of the Impakt Foundation for Social Change, a charitable organization that creates social change by building pathways to employment for newcomers and refugees.

Paul has also written extensively about business and social change for publications including Forbes, the LSE Business Review, The Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the LSE Business Review.

Some of the highlights from this episode:

• How Ben & Jerry's story inspired the creation of Impakt
• Simple actionable steps in activating social change
• B-corp as a way of getting out of businesses’ comfort zone
• The core purpose of business and its role in solving our biggest problems

-Relevant Links-

• Paul's LinkedIn
• Impakt

-Episode’s Recommended Read-

• Change for Good: An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems by Paul Klein
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
• Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Andrew S. Winston and Paul Polman
• Banker to the Poor by Alan Jolis and Muhammad Yunus

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