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Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 18: Evelyn Mora | France | Digital Sustainability transforming the fashion industry and beyondEvelyn Mora is a Finn living in Paris. A creative visionary changing the fashion industry and beyond. She is an entrepreneur and consultant, the Founder of Digital Village and Helsinki Fashion Week. Currently working as a consultant on brand strategy, communication, and sustainable product development and you can explore more about her at evelynmora.com
Evelyn has been working with companies such as Tesla, VTT Technical Research Institute, Vogue, European Space Agency, and Fashion For Good. She lectures at top industry events and Universities. Featured in Forbes, Vogue, Bloomberg, CQ, BBC, The Guardian and the list goes...2021-02-2631 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 17: Jennifer Pfister | Germany | Year 2020 and Personal GrowthThis episode is a bit different because instead of talking to an external guest, Andrea is talking to the fellow Co.Caster Jennifer Pfister.
Jenni just finalized her bachelor's degree from Leiden University in The Netherlands with a focus on Governance, Economics and Development. She got a scholarship to attend Berkeley University in California last year, diving through topics around Business and Sociology. She is a perfect representative of Gen Z - keen to make a positive impact in the world. She is actively pursuing this through her social enterprise Impactify, driven by the mission to...2021-02-1027 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 16: Alice Schmidt | Austria | Global Sustainability Advisor linking Climate Change & Our HealthHaving engaged at the intersection of social, environmental and economic issues for 20+ years, Alice Schmidt is a passionate advisor, advocate, speaker and writer on global health and sustainability. Her clients include a wide range of public and private institutions, from United Nations agencies, the European Commission and the World Bank to large corporates in the pharma, food and mining industries as well as various NGOs.
Alice has worked with 60 of the world’s best organisations in 30 countries on four continents. This has made her an expert at distilling the essence of complex societal, environmental and economic challenges an...2020-10-1900 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 15: Catalina Catana | Moldova | Head of Accelerator Program in Vietnam passionate about social Innovation for the SDGsCatalina Catana comes from Moldova and she lived in different European countries including The Netherlands, UK and Germany. Currently she lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is leading the accelerator program at ThinkZone Ventures and helping entrepreneurs apply Design Thinking principles and mindset to building their ventures. Drawing from the fields of social innovation, purpose economy, sustainability, philosophy and change leadership, she aims to equip young people with the mindset, tools, and knowledge to become agents of positive change.
She is the host at The Change Makers Podcast, a series of interviews with changemakers around the...2020-08-1931 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 14: Sherielyn Gardner | USA | Living purposeful life. Living with IntentionSherielyn Gardner is an HR professional trained in the corporate world of California, with vast experiences from the competitive environment of Silicon Valley. She is a social entrepreneur passionate about supporting the local community, which became even more clear during the current COVID-19 times. Sherielyn had the virus herself. She took to Instagram to share her experience of self-isolating at home with a little son and husband, the stigma linked to the diagnosis, and told us how learning and sharing helped her better cope with it all.
She shares with us a very personal story of how her...2020-08-0732 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 13: Steven Asei-Dantoni | The Netherlands | Education InnovatorSteven Asei-Dantoni, also known as the Great Teacher Steve, is a French-Cameroonian innovator and disruptor in the field of education. As a lecturer in the field of innovation and management, he works closely with universities and municipalities all over the world.
As a learning experience designer, his work primarily focuses on improving educational experiences with transformative learning. It is Steve’s primary goal to make education more human and create safe spaces of connectedness. Interviewed by Jennifer Pfister, Steve shares his personal journey and experience with human-centered design in education, the role of taking ownership in students’ lear...2020-08-0434 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 12: PJ Mistry | USA | Co-Organizer of the Action AcceleratorBased in Rotterdam, PJ is the Global Product Transformation Lead for Knorr at Unilever. A natural connector and bridge builder who is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals, PJ also co-organizes the Action Accelerator - an annual hackathon for changemakers working on the SDGs hosted by One Young World, Enactus Alumni, and the Circle of Young Intrapreneurs.
Tune in to listen about PJ's journey of finding her purpose of connecting and empowering people for a better world, her take on mindfulness, womanhood, leading with our strengths, and her passion project the Action Accelerator.2020-07-2023 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 11: Lucy von Sturmer | New Zealand | Founder of thought leadership agency The Humblebrag & brain behind Creatives for ClimateLucy is a Kiwi living in Amsterdam driving forward a ‘new economy narrative’ by amplifying the voices and visibility of change-makers. She is a founder of thought leadership agency The Humblebrag https://www.thehumblebrag.co/ and Co-Initiator of Creatives for Climate https://creativesforclimate.co/. The Humblebrag works with some of Europe’s best agencies, brands, artists, and sustainable fashion initiatives to use the power of ideas, opinions and creativity to challenge the status quo and create impact.
Lucy's mission is to support business leaders to take a stand on social, cultural, and environmental issues and to build a reco...2020-07-0832 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 10: Daniëlle Smissaert | The Netherlands | Philanthropist with a big heart despite a chronic heart diseaseDaniëlle Smissaert has always been enjoying life and finding joy in connecting people. Organizing fundraising events, supporting different charities, and even managing her our charity Stichting Enlight, all of that on top of her corporate job. Unfortunately, she got sick and after many exams and tests, she has been diagnosed with chronic heart disease. A young person with an invisible disability suddenly falling into the category "At Risk" during the current pandemic. This has however not stopped her, quite the opposite. Daniëlle is active within the Stichting VluchtelingenWerk - the Dutch refugee foundation and she al...2020-06-2922 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 9: Gosia Rychlik | Poland | Conscious Global ShaperGosia Rychlik is a member of the Global Shapers Community, a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change, initiated by the World Economic Forum. After 5 years of her corporate career, working for one of the global companies operating in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, she decided to join the global not for profit organization to support their fundraising division. UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. This year she decided to gain a ne...2020-05-2226 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 8: David Brown-Dawson | USA | Author, Motivational Speaker, Veteran, MBA CandidateDavid Brown-Dawson from California is a book author and motivational speaker on topics including resilience and mindset. He is currently obtaining his MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and has served as a civil engineer officer and air advisor in the United States Air Force for five years. Being passionate about education, he recently finished his first book “Enduring Urgency: Thinking Like a Tortoise in a Time of Hares” and in this episode, he talks to Jennifer about lessons learned and insights.
Tune in to learn more!2020-05-2034 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 7: Kristine Vilnite | Latvia | Where Technology & Sustainability MeetKristine Vilnite from Latvia is a digital nomad and a global citizen. She is an advisor and mentor to startups and also a Head of Partnerships at the ThreeFold Foundation building a decentralized peer-to-peer internet envisioning an equal, free and fair future for all. She lived in Silicon Valley where she got a chance to get first-hand exposure to the world of tech and fell in love with all the possibilities it can provide for us.
The change Kristine wants to see in the world is humanity led back in sync with nature. Kristine strives to...2020-05-1028 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 6: Sonja Lahtinen | Finland | Sustainability Research & Nature LoveSonja Lahtinen is a business sustainability strategist, doctoral researcher, and a big nature lover. She is advising companies, cities, and other organizations in addressing sustainability so they spend less time reacting to the changes in their environment and more time creating a positive impact. Her PhD research evolves around the broad field of business sustainability. The findings offer business actors a road map to reframing their business strategies, management activities, and co-creation practices, and shows why doing so will make their businesses, and our planet, thrive.
Sonja is also a passionate advocate and spokesperson on different...2020-05-0728 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 5: Hoessein Alkisaei | The Netherlands | Founder Nederland Maakt Impact on staying positive despite the COVID-19 disruptionThis episode features Hoessein Alkisaei, the founder and chairman of Nederland Maakt Impact, lecturer in Civil Engineering at the TU Delft and One Young World Ambassador.
Hoessein has quit his job as a civil engineer to focus on Nederland Maakt Impact’s first conference in March 2020. Then came COVID-19. Learn how he managed to stay positive and optimistic despite this disruption.
“In order to go from one mountain tip to a higher one, you will always have to go through a valley - and this valley is a challenge but always rewarding”2020-05-0628 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 4: David Zetland | USA | Lecturer at Leiden University - expert on water scarcity and political economyDavid Zetland is a lecturer at Leiden University College The Hague, host of the Jive Talking podcast, published author and expert on water scarcity and political economy. His specialties are analyzing, discussing and improving the management of natural resources using the tools of political economy. David traveled in over 100 countries.
In this episode he discussed with us politics, challenges like water scarcity and food insecurity, the role of leadership and many more crucial topics in the times of COVID-19. How does COVID-19 affect food security? What happens when so many people in the world have no access...2020-04-2826 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 3: Karla Ticona | Peru | Engineer. Coach. TriathleteKarla Ticona is wearing three hats at the same time - being an engineer, coach and a triathlete. Her mission is to help people & organizations connect strategy and spirit to become the best they can be and serve the world with their talents. She believes that everything is possible with faith and joy, and her commitment is to pay it forward by supporting education, environmental protection, and women entrepreneurs.
As an Industrial Engineer Karla trained and worked in 10 countries in Latin America, North America, and Asia. Karla is also an Ontological Professional Coach with Professional Certified...2020-04-2529 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 2: David Furlong | The Netherlands | Co-Founder of Deedmob & Coronahelpers.nlDavid Furlong is a co-founder of Deedmob and Coronahelpers.nl. Together with his team he is working on disrupting the charity sector to increase its leverage on the world using technology. Deedmob.com is a social start-up that strengthens society by increasing the impact of volunteering through using the newest technology and strategic partnerships with the private and public sectors. They offer an online platform that makes it easy for people to find volunteering opportunities in their area, in addition to giving charities cutting-edge technological tools to manage their volunteers free of charge.
Online platforms play...2020-04-2519 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherEpisode 1: Sara Rajabli | Azerbaijan | Founder BUTA ART & SWEETS and Social Business Youth CenterSara is an award-winning social entrepreneur. She is the founder of BUTA Art & Sweets which aims to increase the employment levels of women with special needs through the sale of homemade sweets. BUTA Art & Sweets is the first social business to represent Azerbaijan at the UN Level and gives women with special needs financial independence. The Social Business Youth Centre (SBYC) promotes social entrepreneurship amongst young people in Azerbaijan using non-formal education. This takes the form of free or low-priced masterclasses, training sessions, long term courses and meetings with experts. In just 8 months, with zero...2020-04-2519 min
Co.Cast - Creating the Future TogetherIntroducing Co.Cast - Creating the Future Together podcastIntroducing Co.Cast - Creating the Future Together | A podcast showcasing the amazing stories full of compassion, insights, ideas and hope from all over the world. The current COVID-19 situation will be over and we are curious to explore how different people deal with it and what future do they foresee. Run by Jennifer Pfister and Andrea Orsag2020-04-1603 min