The Green MBA Podcast
Learn how to build sustainable businesses with Tia Collings, as she interviews experts from around the world in the fields of sustainability and green business initiatives. Helping you keep people, profit and planet front and centre in your own company. The current rules of business are broken. These rules start to be taught at university and are then applied to the real world. However, should we be teaching old rules for a new world? A world that can't carry on business as usual? Enter The Green MBA, where we explore what needs to be included in a new-age MBA, one that tackles the problems that businesses will face in the decades to come and allows listeners to come away with practical advice that they can implement straight away. To visit our full website go to www.greenbusinessmba.com
Episodes
In this episode, host Tia Collings sits down with Ellie Moss, the Managing Director of Focus Group. Ellie brings over 15 years of experience in marketing and a passion for sustainability to the table. She even gave a TED talk on how marketing can combat climate change. Ellie's main focus, however, is her latest research that unequivocally demonstrates that companies with an authentic sustainability strategy outperform their co...
Welcome to Episode 13, in this episode I chat with Tsung Xu, the founder of Materially Better and a serial entrepreneur. Tsung is passionate about exploring new performance materials that will play a big role in unlocking innovation and help solve big problems on a global scale.
Show Notes
As you’ll hear Tsung is very positive about our future, he believes that now is the best time in history for a startup to build products made of ...
Talking to Elizabeth it’s hard not to be inspired by her energy and vision for regenerative agriculture. Her deep understanding of the systemic issues around historical and current farming practices damaging our planet, degrading animal welfare, and the human rights issues within the farming industry are vast and fascinating. Tune in to hear how you and your company can get involved and help this important movement.
Here are a few...
Where should your business focus its efforts to have the biggest environmental and social impact? As Christina points out in this interview, often the answer is not always obvious. Tune in as we discuss how to find areas to focus on to drive meaningful impact.
Christina Lampert is the Director of Growth & Innovation at HowGood, the world's largest product and ingredient sustainability database. In her spare time, ...
Jack is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Sustainability & Climate Change team, based in Sydney. Jack works with organizations of all shapes and sizes to develop and embed sustainability strategies in order to improve their social and environmental impact. This covers everything from developing ESG targets, sustainability reporting and disclosure, emissions reduction strategies, responsible supply chain, circular economy, and dive...
Andrew Davies is the current CEO of B Lab in Australia and New Zealand. B Lab is the not-for-profit that supports B Corporation Certification.
Their mission is to help transform the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.
As Andrew shares in this episode, businesses today are facing three challenges, the pandemic, a climate crisis, and a social crisis. He believes that wealth creation for busine...
Carbon removal is an essential strategy to tackling climate change, yet the industry remains small. How can businesses play an important role in helping to grow the availability of carbon removal projects, and reduce the legacy load of CO2 already in our atmosphere?
This legacy load of Greenhouse Gases will continue to warm our planet for decades if not centuries, even if we stopped emitting CO2 today. Join me as Antti Vi...
Gunter Pauli has published over 40 books, including his most famous, The Blue Economy. He is an economist, serial entrepreneur, Ted talker and founder of ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives). Gunter was the first person to register ‘Zero Emissions’ as a trademark and recently won the 2021 Goi Peace Award for his contribution to society. He continues to contribute by sharing different business models that aim to leave the ...
In this episode, I chat with Zoltan Csaki about a business he co-founded called Citizen Wolf, a sustainable fashion brand that produces made-to-order garments that use 48% less C02 than fast fashion.
The fashion industry is faced with huge environmental challenges if it is to become sustainable, Citizen Wolf is an example of how businesses can create revolutionary change by changing the way they do business from the ground up.
Thei...
Elliot Coad is the Founder and CEO of Ecologi a subscription-based service that helps businesses and individuals take action on the climate crisis via funding climate projects and planting trees. To date, they have planted over 18 million trees and removed over 430,000 tonnes of CO2. Elliot has built an amazing movement and growing movement with over 20,000 community members and 5,000 businesses in just two years. Recently they als...
In this episode, I chat with Rachel Whitworth Founder of House of Eden Studio, a Social Enterprise Marketing Agency born out of a mission to use business, and marketing as a tool to change the world for the better. Rachel is a strong advocate for social entrepreneurs with a passion for helping cause-driven businesses find a way to increase sales and their positive impact.
She is also the founder of and Hello Good World, a...
In this episode, I chat with Tom Dawkins CEO and Co-Founder of StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform that boasts the highest project success rate in cause crowdfunding.
Given the success of those launching their projects on his platform, I chat with Tom about his advice when it comes to launching a social enterprise on a crowdfunding website, and also common mistakes that are easy to avoid once you know what they are!
If you’ve bee...
In this episode, I chat with Bertie about his journey from selling his prior company, an eCommerce website, to heading up Clean Planet Energy (CPE).
CPE's mission is to provide solutions to both the plastic & carbon crises by converting non-recyclable waste plastic into ultra-clean fuel. In 2020, Clean Planet energy won the top 10 cleantech award in Europe by Silicon media.
Join us as we discuss how the rules of b...
In this episode I chat with Lindsey Boyle, the founder of Circular Citizen and Senior Associate at OneEarth, about why it is important companies go beyond the 'green' niche stereotype when forming company strategy.
In particular, we discuss research Lindsey helped conduct with OneEarth and Sitra, that uncovers consumer motivations for circular goods and services.
You can find more on this research here: https:...
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