This year, we have created the Social Entrepreneurship Workshop to more deeply address the evolving world of social entrepreneurship - a definition that is tweaked in different contexts – essentially covering organizations that exhibit unique business models which contribute to solving social or environmental needs not addressed by traditional business or government activities. Creative business models demonstrate new ways of doing business that have important implications for the new generation of business leaders – inclusive, equitable value chains, complex ecosystems of private and public partnerships and profitable businesses that solve tenacious social and environmental problems with multi-faceted approaches. They are some of the most captivating and inspiring stories of how business can change the world you’ll hear at this year’s Doing Good & Doing Well Conference. The workshop aims to:
* Create awareness among conference participants of the ways profitable business can lead social change through a discussion with fascinating social enterprises and their founders
* Encourage the social entrepreneurship movement among business school students and conference attendees by offering a forum for the discussion of ideas and connection to resources
Audience members are invited to attend the Financing and Strategic Growth sessions as they would a traditional DGDW panel and participate In the Q&A sessions. The First Annual Social Entrepreneurship Workshop was organized by Ashley Metz Cummings, Josh Danielson & Katherine Fitzgerald.
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IDEA: “Out of Your Head and Into the World: Bringing your social business idea to fruition”
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Four students or professionals, chosen by short application, will meet in a closed session led by serial entrepreneur and strategy expert JC Duarte. Participants will discuss the viability of one another’s ideas, and explore the key elements required to turn an idea into an operating business. Participants will have a networking opportunity with the participants and moderators of the other panels.
JC works with fast growing company’s to reach 5 times their current size through strategic alignment and implementation of grass roots operational efficiencies. Results driven, for more than 25 years JC has traveled across 5 continents, operating in complex business environments. Regardless of the situations encountered, he's affected change through his ability to blend his extensive experience, and network, in favor of the action steps that will come once a success strategy has been defined. His practices are guaranteed to affect immediate results, and long lasting transition in enterprises of all sizes across multiple industries. His practices are based on the guiding principles of emotionally intelligence, such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and universal buy-in is a fundamental component of every engagement.JC lives by the belief that the execution of an idea is always more important than the brilliance of the thought. And that people will do something, including changing their behavior, if only it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own core values. In working with a team, JC regularly give tools, mechanisms & methodologies that will increase practical knowledge, with the ability to immediately implement. Unique in his ability to fulfill on academic requirements by explaining in clear enough terms what he's observed, he translates into actionable lessons how, or what, they can learn from to achieve success. In parallel, driven by his gut instinct, finely honed and supported by years of experience, JC will fulfill on practical requirements by "reading" relevant situations and finding the most appropriate solutions.From 1984 to 2001 JC's execution was based on knowledge acquired through “successfully doing". In 2002 he began to apply commonly available frameworks, methodologies & practices, whilst drawing on real world experiences, focusing on the emotional intelligence aspect of strategies, and adapting every solution to fit the culture the respective enterprise.The result is a winning solution, combining Human Capitol Management, Strategic Alignment, Planning & Executing Your Strategy, Leadership Development and Interim Executive Management. JC often boasts that he doesn't coach, he mentors. He doesn't give advice, he shares proven experiences and facilitates new ones. He doesn't stand back and watch, he steps forward, rolls up his sleeves, and gets into the thick of it!Organizations that have worked with JC, have experienced 30-40% revenue growth, increased gross margins of 10-25%, and / or significantly increased customer satisfaction & loyalty levels. All of these results witnessed within 3 to 6 months of his engagement. Some have referred to him as a Master Facilitator, but JC prefers to think of himself as the guy you’ll call when you need to deliver results.
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FINANCING: “Financing Your Social Business: Connecting with Investors and Exploring New Options.”
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Led by Rod Schwartz, CEO of ClearlySo, the first online marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment, this session will allow audience members and participants alike to learn about the elements that financiers look for in a business and what unique lines of funding are available to social businesses. There will be a pitch-and-feedback session from 4 successful applicants to a panel of experts, followed by an interactive discussion with the entrepreneurs, then a Q&A session with audience members.
Rodney is the CEO of ClearlySo
(www.clearlyso.com). He began his career with PaineWebber
(1980), Lehman Brothers (1988) and Paribas (1994) where he held senior
positions in the equity and investment banking area. He then
co-founded Catalyst Fund Management & Research in 1997, a
venture capital firm (www.catfund.com ), which is a pioneering fund
investing in profitable social businesses in “ethical consumerism”,
health, education, energy efficiency & the environment.
ClearlySo was spun out from Catalyst and launched at the Skoll World
Forum in March 2009. ClearlySo is the first online
marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and
investment. Social entrepreneurs can access capital,
services, information and each other via this pioneering
site. In addition, they host an annual autumn conference for
social businesses and selected investors and sponsor the “ClearlySo
in...” series of trips to study and learn from social enterprises and
businesses around the world. ClearlySo also maintains the widely-read
"Social Business Blog" and staff regularly lecture at leading business
schools (Rod has lectured at the Said Business School (Oxford), LBS and
IESE) and participate in third party produced reports on social
business and social enterprise, with a focus on the practical business
and investment side. Rod also advises leading social businesses and
enterprises (such as the HCT Group), predominantly in the UK and
currently sits on the Board of AXA Investment Managers, the Ethical
Property Company and the 2020 Public Services Trust. Rod is
non-executive Chairman of The Green Thing and a former Chairman of
Justgiving.com and Shelter.
Thomas F. Anglero is founder and CEO
of WiHood LLC/AS, a virtual PC desktopservice for children in the US
and developing countries. He has over 15years of
international IT and Telecommuncation experience. Mr. Anglero
hasbeen the CEO of Free World Dialup (USA), Truly Global (Israel), and
NucleiNetworks (Serbia) and held executive positions within Telenor ASA
(Norway).Mr. Anglero is married with 3 kids and is the head basketball
coach for asemi-pro basketball team and a triathlete.
Tobias Lorenz is the
founder of glovico.org, a startup-webplatform that will allow people
from Latin America and Africa to become entrepreneurs and market their
services as private language teachers via video conference in Europe.
Glovico.org is driven by three missions: a) to create income for people
in Latin America and Africa, b) to foster a dialogue between the
cultures based on learning and mutual understanding, c) to prove that
social businesses, companies created to support the poor, are a
feasible way to advance the fight against poverty. Tobias has studied
philosophy, business administration and linguistics in Stuttgart
(Germany) and Bergen (Norway) and is a PhD student at the University of
Witten-Herdecke. Before starting up he has been both in industrial
research (DaimlerChrysler) as well as academic research (INSEAD) and is
at the moment working as a project manager for Stiftung Wertevolle
Zukunft, a foundation active in the area of business ethics and CSR in
Hamburg (Germany).
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Shannon McGuire Mulholland - Executive Director of Rural
Development Connections and CEO, Safi
CoffeeMore
She
was born in the United States, attended university in Ireland and
currently resides in the New York City. Shannon‘s interest in coffee
has spanned more than ten years. Her Master’s thesis was entitled,
African Coffee Economies, How cultivating coffee encourages political
instability, economic devastation and social upheaval. She worked in
the retail coffee industry, both in Europe and the United States. In
2003 while working for Insomnia Coffee, Shannon was named the second
best barista in Ireland, by the European Coffee Making Association. Her
previous professional experience also includes over five years in
humanitarian relief and international development. She has worked for
both the United Nations and International Non-Profit
organizations. She has worked in Kenya, Pakistan, Myanmar,
Sudan, Paraguay, Haiti, and several other countries.
I am Hemant Sahal pursuing my B.Tech Biotechnology degree from VIT University, India. The need for ventures with environmental reimbursements especially in the field of technology has never been greater. But the real challenge is to turn this need into opportunity. The “dot com” bubble has burst, and is followed by a spurt in exciting breakthroughs in biotech sector. My acumen in the need of inclusive growth in the society along with technical students zeal to work on environmentally relevant projects strained me to work on ventures which aims to carry out an integrated intervention in socio-environmental issues and awareness creation to achieve behaviour change, capacity building to sustain and operate the services/systems, enabling networking with state and non-state stakeholders to leverage resources, accompanied by strengthening of existing infrastructure and provision of new infrastructure for the various venture needs.I have already launched a venture "CALLMAT" funded and supported by Ashoka Youth Venture and Lemelson foundation, USA. It aims to provide clean water to rural India plus prevent the intoxification of crops with heavy metal polluted water. I am working on a venture “GREEN MILL” which aims to manage paper generated in educational centres as well as provide employment to rural people. My third venture "CALLINTRIP" has just got funding from Villgro Student Project Funding for raising awareness in industrial pollution affected rural areas by developing simple technologies for pollution indication. I have been awarded medal by National Design and Research Forum, IEI, for my contribution in Environment engineering discipline. I have been shortlisted among Top social innovators and environment entrepreneurs of the world by SPROUT, Toronto, Canada for their e-course. I am the Programme Manager of Global Innovation Village, an initiative by Centre for Sustainable Rural Development and Research Studies which aims to steer students into rural social action. I am one of the core members of Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Development, VIT University also. I am also one of the participants of Acara Challenge 2010 for solving water problems here in India and in this we are working with University of Illinois, USA. I have undergone training for Leadership in Social development at American centre, New Delhi and another WES (water, environment and sanitation) project of CASP-PLAN, New Delhi.
Jonathan Jenkins, Director of
Ventures at UnLtd, has over 15 years experience in fundraising for
small and medium projects from his City career, which included time at
a UK merchant bank, and culminated in his role as managing director of
Plus Markets, a stock exchange created by his family to enable access
to capital for small companies. In his time at Plus, over 500 companies
raised a total of L2bn via the market. His career has been in
the commercial provision of investment readiness and investor
relations, utilising his contact base of lawyers, accountants, brokers
and both retail and institutional shareholders. He joined UnLtd in
September 2008 as Director of Ventures, specifically tasked with
creating the investment readiness programme and team, to meet the clear
requirement for such intermediary support within the social investment
market. UnLtd holds a L100 million endowment especially to
invest in UK social entrepreneurs and community activists. It was
established in 2002 by 7 leading not for profit organisations. UnLtd's
mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can
transform the world in which they live. UnLtd provides individuals and
informal groups with cash awards and practical support that includes
coaching, training and networking opportunities to help them develop
community projects. UnLtd has the biggest network of social
entrepreneurs in the world and since 2002 has invested over L00 million
of financial and non financial support in some 17,000 individuals,
impacting on many thousands more. UnLtd Research is leading the way in
best practice guidelines while the award winning UnLtdWorld.com allows
social entrepreneurs and social enterprise, as well as the broader
community, to share experience, knowledge and resources. Further
information can be found at:
http://www.unltd.org.uk.
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STRATEGIC GROWTH: “Scaling the Social Business: Overcoming Challenges to Take Your Business to the Next Level.”
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Led by social entrepreneur Sameer Hajee of Nuru Design, high-profile entrepreneurs Andreas Heinecke Founder and CEO of Dialogue Social Enterprises, Jean Claude Rodriguez-Ferrera Massons, Founder and Director of ACAF and Wren Aigaki-Lander, Marketing Director of Offset Options, will discuss their own challenges in growing successful social enterprises. Audience members will have an up-close look at the operational and strategic challenges involved in managing a social business.
Audience members of the Strategic Growth phase are highly encouraged to familiarize themselves with the entrepreneur’s histories in advance, as this workshop aims to address more complicated issues faced at later stages of development.
Sameer Hajee is the current Managing Director of Nuru Design, a social enterprise whose mission is to create an affordable off-grid electricity infrastructure that services the primary energy needs of base of pyramid (BoP) consumers. Nuru Design was seed-funded by the World Bank and was recently named by CNBC as having one of the top 10 "Ideas to Change the World".??Prior to Nuru Design, Sameer was the Global Business Development manager at Freeplay Energy plc, the developers of the world’s first hand-crank radio and flashlight. At Freeplay, Sameer created the international aid and development sales team, which in 2006 and 2007 generated $6 million US in revenue. While at Freeplay, he co-created and co-managed a World Bank Development Marketplace project that saw the creation of 50 rural energy enterprises in Rwanda. ??In 2005, Sameer launched and managed the Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) initiative at UNDP in Kenya, where he helped domestic and multinational companies, such as Tetra Pak and Microsoft, to develop and implement pro-poor business models in Kenya. ??As a leading authority on rural energy provision through micro-enterprise, Sameer was invited to speak on the development impacts of BoP business models at the Business with Four Billion conference at the University of Michigan in 2007. In 2007, Sameer was also invited to address the Cornell Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab on rural lighting issues and solutions. Prior to his work in BoP markets, Sameer worked as a microprocessor design engineer in Silicon Valley, California and as a telecom engineer for Afghanistan’s first mobile phone network provider, Roshan, in Kabul. Sameer has a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada and a MBA from INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools. He also studied at the Wharton School in the US through the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance. Sameer is a Canadian national with native roots in Kenya and India.
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Participants:
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Andreas Heinecke – Founder and CEO, Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH
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Degree
in
Literature and History, 1982, PhD; Formerly: Journalist;
Vice-Director, Foundation for the Blind in Germany, 1988; developed the
Dialogue in the Dark concept and put it into action almost 20 years
ago; Founder and CEO of Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH; Recipient of
various awards; first Ashoka Fellow in Western Europe, 2005; Global
Award Winner, YPO, 2009.
Dialogue in the Dark is an
awareness-raising social franchising company, offering exhibitions and
business training in total darkness, creating jobs for the blind,
disabled and disadvantaged worldwide. Its exhibition uses blind guides
to lead visitors through settings in total darkness where they learn to
interact without sight, helping change mindsets on disability. Over six
million visitors from 30 countries have experienced the exhibition,
giving 6,000 blind people jobs since 1988.
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Jean-Claude Rodriguez-Ferrera Massons – Founder and Director, CAFMore
Founder and director of ACAF, organisation that developes the “Self Financed Communities Model” in Europe. Chosen social entrepreneur of Ashoka in 2006. Winner of the World’s Creative Young Entrepreneur Award, CYEA, in 2007. Winner of the European Best Microfinance Model in 2009.He studied World Economy and has a PhD in Microfinance.He worked 4 years in indigenous communities in Guatemala, where he founded and directed “Mayan Treasures” (Best Latinamerican Indigenous Project Award in 2001). He teaches in Universidad Ramon Llull in Barcelona and in different MBAs. He has participated as a speaker in Germany, Austria, Colombia, Ecuador, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Sri Lanka and Venezuela.He wrote the book “World Economy and Development”.
Wren has 10 years of experience in marketing and sustainability strategy and communications, working with some of the world’s most successful agencies and brands, including: Fallon Worldwide (Publicis Groupe), Citibank, Apple iTunes, Stonyfield Farm, CLIF Bar, Patagonia, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews Band, and Live Nation, Musictoday, and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG).Aigaki-Lander combines this big brand experience with expertise in smaller, entrepreneurial firms and has played key roles in helping innovators build brands, garner recognition, and claim leadership positions in their respective fields. She has also led corporate social responsibility/sustainability strategy and implementation, including developing strategies for impact reduction (energy efficiency, waste, sustainable sourcing, carbon emissions), stakeholder engagement and communications, and corporate philanthropy.Wren is currently a Marketing and Sustainability Consultant based in Barcelona, and is a member of the Offset Options Board of Advisors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (International Finance and Economics) from the University of Southern California and an MBA from ESADE.