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Shifting to Ethical Systems#10 Ethical Investment | How Investors Create Long-Term Value Without Sacrificing ReturnsIf you’re an investor asking deeper questions about your role in shaping the future, this episode is for you.In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear re-examines ethical investing beyond returns, exits, and scale. Instead, she explores how capital shapes behaviour, how power flows through investment decisions, and why long-term impact depends on care, courage, and relationships.Drawing on JERICA Global’s Catalyst Kits work with young entrepreneurs across the globe, Jules shares three reflections that challenge dominant investment narratives. Fro...
2026-03-0405 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#9 Ethical Models | How Ecosystem Builders Share Power Without Losing ImpactIf you’re working across organisations, sectors, cultures, or geographies, you already know this truth: systems don’t shift through one leader or one organisation alone.In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear speaks directly to ecosystem builders. The leaders doing the often invisible work of convening, connecting, and holding complexity across systems.Ecosystem leadership comes with a quiet but persistent tension:“If I don’t hold it all together, will it fall apart…?”Drawing on JERICA Global’s experience s...
2026-02-1806 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#8 Ethical Investing | What Happens When Money Stops Being the CentreWhat if ethical investing isn’t primarily about money, but about what you’re willing to invest yourself in?In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear re-examines ethical investing through a different lens. One that centres time, care, and listening as the real forms of capital that help people and ideas grow.Drawing on JERICA Global’s Catalyst Kits Programme, which supports young entrepreneurs across the globe, Jules shares three reflections that challenge dominant investment narratives. From fast returns and scale to extraction and pressure, this e...
2026-02-0404 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#7 Ethical Projects | How Ethical Consortiums Build Relationships That Outlast the ProjectWhat if the real success of a project isn’t what gets delivered, but what lasts after it ends?As 2026 begins and many leaders are preparing to apply for new grants, partnerships, and collaborations, it’s a good moment to pause and ask this question.In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear explores ethical projects built through consortiums, and why relationships are the foundation of lasting systems change. Drawing on JERICA Global’s experience building multi-sector consortiums across six countries, Jules r...
2026-01-2104 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#6 Ethical Leadership | How Leaders Redistribute Power in Systems That Were Never Built to Be FairWhere does power really live in our systems, and how often do we benefit from it without noticing?In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear explores ethical leadership through the lens of invisible power. Not the obvious kind that comes with titles or authority, but the quiet power embedded in time, norms, expertise, and whose comfort is prioritised.Through real examples from global work and leadership practice, Jules shares three reflections that challenge leaders to notice how everyday decisions can unintentionally reinforce inequality. From meeting schedules and fear-based cultures t...
2026-01-0706 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#5 Ethical Leadership | Anchored by Values: Turning Pressure into PurposeWhat does ethical leadership look like when everything is under pressure?In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear explores what it means to lead with integrity during times of crisis. Through a personal story from a large-scale transformation program, she shares how high stakes, tight deadlines, and intense scrutiny reveal who we are as leaders long before they test what we know.From confronting inappropriate behaviour in a moment when silence would have been easier, to holding steady through exhaustion and uncertainty, Jules offers three reflections that show how crisis becomes...
2025-12-0307 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#4 Ethical Leadership | Listening Beyond Ego: The Quiet Strength of Moral CourageWhat does moral courage look like in real life, not the loud, heroic kind, but the quiet, steady courage to lead with integrity?In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear explores what it means to act with moral courage in leadership. Through three reflections inspired by the legacy of Nelson Mandela and the everyday practices of values-driven leaders, Jules unpacks how courage shows up through listening, humility, and collaboration.From listening as an act of respect to setting ego aside to building bridges across difference, this episode invites you to see...
2025-11-1906 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#3 Ethical Models | Beyond Silos: Businesses & Nonprofits Collaborating for Systemic ChangeWhat happens when collaboration becomes the bridge between difference and transformation?In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear explores how collaboration across sectors, organizations, and ecosystems can shift entire systems toward inclusion, regeneration, and ethics.Through real stories from pandemic response teams to community-police partnerships, Jules shares how embracing difference creates scale without compromise and resilience without competition. Collaboration, she reminds us, is not about uniformity but about holding space for diverse strengths, shared risk, and imagination.When we stay in the room together through discomfort and discovery, friction...
2025-11-0207 min
Shifting to Ethical Systems#1 Ethical Leadership | Leadership as Contribution, Not ControlWhat happens when leadership shifts from holding power to sharing it?In this episode of Shifting to Ethical Systems, host Jules Harrison-Annear discusses the importance of viewing leadership as a contribution rather than from a position of control. Through personal reflections and examples, she emphasizes how this mindset fosters collaboration, builds trust, and creates a lasting impact within organizations and communities. The conversation highlights the transformative power of small acts of contribution and the ripple effect they can have on systems and relationships.Key quote:“You do not need...
2025-10-3009 min
Shifting to Ethical SystemsTrailer | Shifting to Ethical SystemsSystems don’t shift overnight. They shift when people choose to lead, invest, and design differently.Welcome to Shifting to Ethical Systems, a podcast by JERICA Global. Hosted by co-CEOs Jules Harrison-Annear and Esteban Fernandez Drovetta, this series invites leaders, businesses, and investors to explore what it takes to move from extractive systems to ones that are ethical, inclusive, and regenerative.These aren’t theories from the sidelines. They’re reflections from inside the work. The mistakes, the lessons, and the daily practices that help us hold the tension betwee...
2025-10-3001 min
Humans At WorkStepping into the curiosity gap, with Paul McGregor “So, we need leaders who are jazz band leaders, where you agree on the key and get the drummer to set the tempo. And then actually it's up to the whole group to kind of be alive and paying attention to each other and having real honest conversations about what's going on. It's those tiny little glances between people when you're playing in a band that, of these little signals that you have to pay attention to. And so, the jazz band leader's job is very different. It's one of hinting and nudging and getting alongside people rather than bei...
2025-01-091h 01
Humans At WorkLeading with better, with Jasper Steinhausen
“…find that new and better version that better suits and deals with the problem at hand, whether that's one for you and or your client, and then go out and sell that. Now we've made a new and smarter version, oh and by the way, it's actually also better for the world, but it's not the other way around. Don't lead with green, lead with better, and then sprinkle green on top. That's what's going to make you set your path.”
In this episode of the Humans at Work podcast, Jasper takes us through his journey...
2024-12-1750 min
Humans At WorkTrust and Authenticity, with Dave Trausneck“News and information in general has never been more important. When we're looking at how we inform the decisions that we make in our lives and what we care about.
Just using the US as an example, whether it's related to what's happening in our Supreme Court and the cases that they're selecting, what's happening in our local governments, and our state governments, and our federal government?
Having an informed electorate has never been more important and that's one of the things that has always drawn me to news and information is about letting people kno...
2024-12-0254 min
Humans At WorkAdopting and adapting for impact, with Craig Pattison “As I look at how the world operates, that global community, even now we need even more attention and detail to being respectful, to broadening our perspectives on things and to reaching out and helping people. Rather than having our measure as individual success, have our measure as collective or community success cos then everyone gets to have some value.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Craig Pattison, Director of ChalknTalk, and COO of Capability Collective.
Craig and I discussed the privilege and opportunities that travel and engaging with ot...
2024-10-1736 min
Humans At WorkLeading with love, with Kent Frazier “How are we gonna lock arms with trust and love and care and move into this unknown, unshaped, unformed future and start putting some shape and form to it, born from love? Not fear, power over, scarcity, all that kind of stuff. That’s what I’m hoping, this book becomes an instrument in that way to bring forward those kinds of caring conversations.
This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Kent Frazier, CEO of ParadoxEdge.
Kent and I talk about polarities and becoming comfortable with the ‘edges’ of things. We traverse a w...
2024-10-161h 07
Humans At WorkUnleashing the Potential of Direct Solidarity, with Emanuele Santi“…so what we want to do is really unleash the potential of humans to really connect and help. It’s a bit of what we do in Africa – it’s unleashing the potential, the entrepreneurial potential to actually drive solutions, and what we’re giving is this tool that even any random individual can be a solution to local problems.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features a conversation with Emanuele Santi, co-founder and president of Afrilanthropy supporting African entrepreneurs, and Riding the Rainbow, an app connecting refugees and local communities in the sharing, circul...
2024-06-0657 min
Humans At WorkCreating Resilient Futures with Melissa Clark-Reynolds“The present is already really messy. What I’ve learnt is that the future will be really messy, too, and that there won’t be a single answer to everything. Coming back to foresight then, I think good organisations should really do the work of imagining multiple futures and there’s some really well-designed scenario methodologies out there for working out which kinds of futures you might want to think about. Let’s say you end up with four different futures for how you think the world might be, that’s really, really useful for strategising.”
This episode of t...
2024-04-101h 02
Inspiring Women LeadersEpisode 48 - Jules Harrison-AnnearJules Harrison-Annear is the founder of two companies (JHA Consulting and the Humans at Work podcast and blog) and co-founder of a third (JERICA).She is driven to bring uniqueness and humanity to the challenge of creating bolder, fairer andaudaciously regenerative futures for our societies, our natural ecosystem, and the sustenance of our planet.Jules is passionate about innovation that enhances the ability of diverse individuals to make anappreciable difference. She focuses on storytelling as a key enabler of change, and as a way of creating...
2024-03-271h 59Inspiring Women LeadersEpisode 48 - Jules Harrison-AnnearJules Harrison-Annear is the founder of two companies (JHA Consulting and the Humans at Work podcast and blog) and co-founder of a third (JERICA).She is driven to bring uniqueness and humanity to the challenge of creating bolder, fairer andaudaciously regenerative futures for our societies, our natural ecosystem, and the sustenance of our planet.Jules is passionate about innovation that enhances the ability of diverse individuals to make anappreciable difference. She focuses on storytelling as a key enabler of change, and as a way of creating...
2024-03-271h 59
Humans At WorkSystematising the wellbeing of future generations, with Sophie HoweAnd those of us who are 45 and up who are in that category of leaders at the moment, if you like, what if we’d all been through an education system which taught us to be ethically informed about what our actions were doing, not just on our doorstep but in other parts of the world? Or about the climate or about how the economic system favours some people and definitely not the majority of people, might we have a completely different perspective?
This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Sophie Howe...
2024-03-2659 min
Humans At WorkPostscript Moment: Forgotten Stories Matter More Than Ever, with Enver SamuelThis episode of the humans at work podcast features a Postscript Moment – a special follow-up conversation with one of our previous podcast guests. For those of you who can remember letter-writing, after you’d signed off your letter, you could write P.S. and add in one last story or commentary that you knew would appeal to your letter recipient! You wouldn’t have much space left on the paper, so you’d need to be more succinct and often P.S. information was the most informal and ‘juicy’ part of your news.
“So, you cannot pretend th...
2023-10-0638 min
Humans At WorkKindness Matters with Sophie Bretag“Kindness can look different to different people as well. Kindness for me is very specific around boundary setting; by setting clear and not rigid but I’m very strict with my boundaries around my time, my emotional energy, my energy levels, my mental bandwidth around what I will and won’t take on and what I will and won’t keep."
This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Sophie Bretag, Kindness guru and CEO and Founder of Metta Leaders.
Sophie and I talk about what kindness looks, feels and sounds li...
2023-09-081h 11
Humans At WorkLinking actions to goals, with Nina Field“One of those examples is, we talk about articulating strategy, because strategic thinking is no good if it just stays in your head. So, we talk about articulating strategy and how you can get clear on that in your head, in order to communicate it and articulate it. That’s not just how do you write a strategy document, that’s how do you have day to-day conversations where you’re being clear with people, you’re leaving space for them to come up with their own solutions.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast featur...
2023-09-0143 min
Get Savvy#20 - Embracing Your Uniqueness At Work with Jules Harrison-AnnearAre you ready to embrace your unique abilities and transform how you do business?
We're very lucky to be joined in this episode by Jules, owner of both JHA Consulting and Humans at Work.
Jules shares insights into the world of JHA Consulting, a boutique management consulting company. She shares her unique approach of using nature-based models to support organisations in becoming more sustainable and impactful.
Jules also discusses Humans at Work, a globally focused platform that features a podcast, blogs, and online learning courses. The Humans at Work podcast celebrates diversity and...
2023-08-2345 min
Humans At WorkThe ripple effect of change making, with Carlos Terol“I think that’s where we need to use our power as global citizens and keep putting that pressure on Governments and corporates. I believe that corporates are driven by profit and Governments are driven by votes. That’s what they want, so it’s us that we can actually force them to change. If we start putting pressure and being loud about what we want, ultimately, when we build this critical mass of people, they’ll have to change.”
“But if you can connect with three, four, five people in your street, in your neighbourhood who has aligned va...
2023-08-1149 min
Humans At WorkConscious marketing and social entrepreneurship, with Cláudia Guerreiro“That led me to believe that, no, there has to be a better way for us to do marketing because marketing has the power to change behaviour. Marketing is really important in society. And instead of perpetuating stereotypes, instead of promoting scarcity tactics or fear-based marketing strategies, there is a way to use marketing for change, for positive change.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Cláudia Guerreiro [Conscious Marketing Freelancer, Master of Chaos], who brings incredible optimism and creativity to the world of conscious and ethical marketing.
Cláudia...
2023-08-0656 min
Humans At WorkStrategic thinking and sustainable value creation, with Jeroen Kraaijenbrink“For me, strategy is a company’s or an organisation’s unique way of sustainable value creation. In my approach, in the very definition of strategy, there is this word “sustainable” and the way I mean this is not just planet proof but also sustainable from a commercial perspective, from a strategic point of view. If that’s the core, if sustainable value creation is your core and not competitive advantage, growth, profits and so on and you at least start with the right attitude, the right mindset.
Because it’s about contribution. It’s about thinking, who is this for...
2023-07-2457 min
Humans At WorkCreating a better future, with Dan Sherrard-Smith“That was probably the most formative 18 months, the best education I could’ve got was those 18 months in terms of what it took to launch a business. But crucially understanding that it is okay to fail if you fail for the right reasons. If your morals and values are in the right place, it is absolutely fine to test something out and fail.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features Jules’ conversation with Dan Sherrard-Smith, Founder of MotherTree, a ground-breaking social impact organisation giving its customers the information they need about how their money is u...
2023-07-171h 03
Humans At WorkOcean regeneration and climate action, a marine biology perspective with Johnny Singh“I think it’s not just up to one person, everyone needs to know about this, realise what’s really going on. You know, you don’t need to be a scientist to be in. Even in Fiji, ask any local people in any village, they’ll tell you. Climate change is real.”
“The question is what’s more important – the environment or the economics? We can live without the economics but the environment, we need it. It sustains us in multiple ways.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features a thought-provoking conver...
2023-07-1322 min
Humans At WorkThe importance of vocabulary for feelings and our gut instinct in decision-making, with Andy Longley“So, hearing a company purpose and talking about this, that might sound great, but that may not be what I need to access and understand consciously before I can really give myself to this organisation.
All of these different purposes, even in a great organisation, don’t mean we all share the same thing. That’s the, I think, the hard part with working with purpose and helping teams acknowledge it, is that everyone will have a different one and it’s really hard for an individual to put their finger on what theirs is.
If you c...
2023-07-101h 08
Humans At WorkPostscript Moment: Inclusion for Alternative Workforces and Action-Focused Decision Making, with Jeff MikeThis episode of the humans at work podcast features a Postscript Moment – a special follow-up conversation with one of our previous podcast guests. For those of you who can remember letter-writing, after you’d signed off your letter, you could write P.S. and add in one last story or commentary that you knew would appeal to your letter recipient! You wouldn’t have much space left on the paper, so you’d need to be more succinct and often P.S. information was the most informal and ‘juicy’ part of your news.
I think sustainability...
2023-07-0724 min
Humans At WorkPostscript Moment: Adaptive Leadership and Decision-Making in a world with AI and Purpose, with Diane WhiteThis episode of the humans at work podcast features a Postscript Moment – a special follow-up conversation with one of our previous podcast guests. For those of you who can remember letter-writing, after you’d signed off your letter, you could write P.S. and add in one last story or commentary that you knew would appeal to your letter recipient! You wouldn’t have much space left on the paper, so you’d need to be more succinct and often P.S. information was the most informal and ‘juicy’ part of your news.
I'm seeing that I've got m...
2023-07-0432 min
Humans At WorkNelson Mandela, moral courage and executive leadership, with John Samuel“When he was in prison, and prison was both a physical thing but also a metaphorical thing, because imprisoning you on Robben Island, they were not only trying to physically isolate you but also mentally imprison your mind. Mr Mandela knew this so he would always say to these fellow prisoners, “Never, ever give the upper hand to your jailers. Never.
…This is central to his ability to have managed all that time on Robben Island in a way that enabled him, first of all, to keep his dignity and, secondly, to do so in a principled manner.” ...
2023-04-2746 min
Humans At WorkWhy trees don’t have to go to school and rethinking solutions for global crises, with Jay Naidoo“We need new ideas, new data, new passion, we need new adrenalin. How can we create it? Through conversations like this, and then create the connections, connect the dots…and that will help us build a human connection between us, and also break down the divisions of nations, races, cultures, our languages, to a point where we see the one-ness of our humanity.”
This episode features a conversation with Jay Naidoo, political and environmental activist, elder and grandfather. Jay has lived almost two lives in one – the first, growing up in apartheid South Africa as a leader and...
2023-02-101h 10
Humans At WorkStar Wars, Christmas Ninjas and rewarding kindness, with Vince Warnock"I tried to be someone that wasn’t me and then at one point I just got tired of it and just accepted the fact that I’m a giant nerd and I should just enjoy the things I enjoy."
This episode of the humans at work podcast features a conversation with Vince Warnock, prolific host of the Challenging the Insights podcast, author, and award-winning Business and Marketing Coach and strategist.
From the Christmas Ninja to not fitting in and refusing to grow up, Vince has turned his ADHD into a super...
2022-12-161h 012022-12-1652 minHumans At WorkBaking, running and seeing behind the façade, with Enver Samuel“There was not even a second thought that the fact that I had to go back to South Africa because history was happening and couldn’t miss out on that.” The first chance to vote as an equal citizen, why would you not want to go back?"
This episode of the humans at work podcast features a conversation with Enver Samuel, international award-winning producer and director, and head of his own production company EMS Productions in South Africa.
From his first experience of picking up some video and sound equipment to work out...
2022-12-1649 min
Humans At WorkMartial arts, gig workers and post-pandemic work practices, with Jeff Mike"It’s one thing when an HR person says, “We need to humanise the workforce,” or, “Let’s talk about being human centric.” It’s another thing when the top five platform businesses in the world are saying, “We’re gonna humanise our offerings.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features a conversation with Jeff Mike, Head of Insights and Impact at FlexTrack, a global company providing an extended workforce solution that aims to support organisations to acquire, engage, and manage their contingent workforce.
From Martial Arts to teaching to researching and focu...
2022-12-1642 minHumans At WorkPastries, seeking purpose and the power of boundaries, with Diane White"I think people are very uncomfortable about talking about power and that especially we talk about it in different ways, we talk about it in terms of gender, or we talk about it in terms of culture or race. But it all comes down to power and until you name it and find space to talk about it comfortably, it can loom over organisations and people and society."
This episode of the humans at work podcast features a conversation with Diane White, Director – Strategy and Transactions, at EY, Melbourne Australia.
From bakin...
2022-12-1354 min