The Impact Equation
Welcome to The Impact Equation, conversations with leaders shaping a brighter future, hosted by Adam Pike, social entrepreneur, and Rafi Addlestone, impact advisor, With our special guests, we unlock the secrets of those who dare to transform our world. We talk to architects of change, pioneers in their fields, working toward a brighter future for us all. In each episode, we dig into each element of the impact equation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ryan Kohn: From Popcorn to Climate
<p>Ryan Kohn has spent the last decade answering a challenge that stumps most founders: how do you scale a massive consumer brand while leaving the planet better than you found it. As the co-founder of PROPER, he took a kitchen-table startup and built it into Europe’s largest independent healthy snacking group. But alongside selling millions of packs across 15 countries, he embedded a deep commitment to the environment into the company’s DNA. Now, Ryan is turning his hand to climate philanthropy at scale, pioneering a new initiative called Point One to help reach more people to take responsibility for...
Professor Tim Spector: Microbiome revolution and future of public health
<p>Professor Tim Spector has spent three decades asking: why do people respond so differently to the same food? As a genetic epidemiologist at King’s College London and founder of the Twins UK registry, he built one of the world’s richest long-term datasets on health, genetics, and environment. The insight that our gut microbiome may matter as much as our genes when it comes to metabolism and disease risk, helped to launch ZOE, a science-led nutrition company combining large-scale research with consumer testing to personalise diet advice. ZOE’s studies, including the large Predict trials and the widely used Cov...
Edward Booty: Distributing essential medicines to the developing world
<p>Edward Booty is founder and CEO of reach52, getting essential healthcare products and services to people the system doesn’t reach. Edward has spent his career working across health systems in low and middle-income countries, where access isn’t just about clinics or medicines, but trust, distribution, and behaviour. Through reach52, he’s building a community-driven model that combines digital platforms with local health workers, integrating public and private sectors to reach millions of people typically left out of formal healthcare. This conversation is the third in our series with our friends and partners at Save the Children Global Ventur...
Didit Indraputra: Serving 3m families in Indonesia
Didit Indraputra is founder and CEO of Primaku, a fast-growing digital health platform transforming how parents in Indonesia access trusted guidance on child health and development. Muhammad, or “Didit” as he is known, began his career in finance, but a defining personal moment shifted his trajectory. Becoming a parent sharpened his awareness of how confusing, fragmented, and unequal early childhood health support can be, especially outside major cities. This is the second episode in our series with our friends at Save the Children Global Ventures. <p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
Katie Oliver: No child left behind
For nearly twenty years, Katie Oliver has been a driving force behind one of the UK’s most significant education charities, Ark. She was at the forefront of growing the Ark network from one academy to dozens of schools. In 2019, she took on a new mission: founding Ark Start, a group of five London nurseries that are built alongside the Ark schools network and is in the process of expanding across the country. Today, as Managing Director of Ark Start, she is demonstrating how to close the attainment gap from day one. This episode is part of our special series wi...
João Abreu: Brazil's leading public health innovator
<p>João Abreu is a Brazilian public health innovator and the co-founder and executive director of ImpulsoGov, a non-profit scaling data-driven tools and technology into Brazil’s universal public health system - the world’s largest single-payer public healthcare network. Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, ImpulsoGov has grown to partner with governments in hundreds of municipalities, helping health teams use data to act proactively, equitably and preventively. Joao's organisation has won international recognition, including selection to the MIT Solve Global Health Challenge, and reflects João’s deep commitment to closing gaps in access and quality of care by putting re...
Luke Tryl: Do we have more in common?
<p>Luke Tryl is executive director of More in Common UK, the research organisation that has become the reference point for understanding what British voters actually think - and how often the political class misreads them. In this episode, Luke walks us through More in Common's seven-segment model of British values, built on Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory and Karen Stenner's work on authoritarianism. He explains why the morning of 24 June 2016 convinced him the whole political class in the UK had missed something fundamental about the country, and why the answer is not government by focus group but better listening...
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Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests. <p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
Nigel Topping: Legend of the Climate Movement
In this episode we're joined by a legend of the climate change movement. Once a Cambridge mathematician, manufacturing executive and then on to the UN high level climate champion for COP26, Nigel Topping has spent decades bridging the gap between factory floors and the likes of the Paris Agreement. Now, as chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, Nigel is steering the UK towards its 2050 targets with the same data-driven precision he once used as a Cambridge mathematician. <p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
Kruti Bharucha: From McKinsey and the IMF to transforming education in India
<p>This is the next episode in our latest series with our friends at 100X Impact. Kruti Bharucha is CEO of Peepul, bringing over two decades of leadership across some of the world’s most demanding institutions from McKinsey and the World Bank, to the IMF becoming an advisor to global CEOs on finance, risk and organisational performance. She could have stayed in global boardrooms. Instead, she chose to take that firepower into the education system. Kruti leads Peepul, an NGO that works shoulder-to-shoulder with state governments to improve education at scale across India. In Delhi, they run exemplary schools wh...
