Positive change is what John Chambers is enabling through his life’s many aspects: start-ups; helping corporates innovate in a way that suits them best; working with people to help them grow; seeking ways to grow awareness and connection with Aboriginal Australians.
Subtle Disruptors
Garry Williams has navigated his way out of the corporate world, through General Assembly, Inspire9, FuckUp Nights Melbourne, and now working to help nurture Melbourne’s innovation community at the University of Melbourne.
There is a gender imbalance amount female entrepreneurs and business founders. One Roof is a coworking community designed specifically to help correct this, designed with intentionality to meet the needs of women in business leadership.
Will probably has many audacious goals, but two that I know about are to travel to Mars, and to make a quality alternative education financially accessible to the masses, which he is currently doing through the Fitzroy Academy.
Xian Han has decided to take on the momentous trend of ever increasing personalisation we all experience in our digital world. She has founded Refni, a start-up aimed to help people become aware of, and expand the boundaries of, their filter bubble.
There are obvious problems to the economic system we have created for ourselves, but no obvious solutions. Jodie has created a platform to enable a sharing economy, a system she sees as one they could help us transition from what we have now to something more inclusive and connecting.
To have a sustained positive impact through business, it is paramount to get the business foundations right. Ben and Harvee are partners in an accounting firm helping purposeful businesses get their profits sorted so they can continue to positively impact people and our planet.
Jason is the author of two books (The Game Changer, How to Lead a Quest), a sought after keynote speaker, and an expert in motivation and work design. He is on his very own quest to rid the world of poorly designed work.
Melina Chan is one of Australia’s experts in creating a vibrant community and culture within workplaces. Melina is on the leadership team of Inspire9, the original coworking space of Melbourne located within the inner-city suburb of Richmond.
If you were an equity holder in a startup business with a lot of success, and a lot of upside, would you be willing to give back a big chunk of your allocated equity because you felt you did not deserve it? Because you had not been able to do all that you committed to doing when your equity was first allocated to you?