As a service based business owner, you want to work with ethical businesses, social enterprises, campaigning organisations and charities. You want to be part of creating change in the world, and you see you can add value in this way with your knowledge and skills. You need to step outside of your comfort zone and create some new beliefs about wealth, value and pricing. In fact, we all need to shift our thinking when it comes to aligning price with value.
Read MoreSince launching Ferris-Ockwell Consulting in February 2020, Fran and her team have helped dozens of organisations to respond successfully to the challenges of the pandemic, and to develop and implement ambitious but sustainable strategies which support their social and environmental goals.
Read MoreMost social enterprise owners know they should be measuring their social impact, as it's core to who they are as an organisation, and demonstrating their social impact makes a huge difference to building trust and encouraging people to support, invest or buy from you....because you can prove you're actually doing and achieving what you say you want to achieve.
Read MoreGeorgina's been supporting leaders for positive change for over 10 years in enterprise and community using a variety of methods and tools. Her focus is to enable leaders and emerging leaders to unearth their potential and power and to move them towards action and creating change.
Read MoreDriven by her purpose, Brita believes that every woman has a fierce power to fulfill her dreams. (I can't agree more!) She coaches women to help them transform their lives by awakening and acting on, the power they have within. Brita is an advocate and promoter of women’s power, women’s rights and equality and the author of Fears to Fierce - a woman's guide to stepping into her power.
Read MoreProfit First is a fantastic cash management system, designed by Mike Michalowicz. Annette uses this as a certified professional to help small businesses apply it to their business, so they can generate a profit and pay themselves as well as everything else that has to be spent on in a business.
Read MoreIn this episode, I explain how important it is we re-evaluate and define what non-profit really means as social enterprises, as well as discuss lots of other issues and questions that have arisen as a result of covid-19 over the past 12 months.
Read MoreIf you're ready to choose to challenge, and explore how you and your business could benefit from funding and investment (even as a social entrepreneur) then this is the episode for you). Lisa is a Grants Assessor, Funding Mentor and Investment Associate drawing on 20+ years experience to create online programs for female entrepreneurs getting ready to scale their impact businesses.
Read MoreOne of the best approaches to creating social impact is not necessarily to create a brand new social enterprise, but to buy and existing business and turn it in to a social enterprise. Why? Because an existing business is already established, it has a client or customer base, it has established revenue streams, a well known brand and identity. It's already operating. So all the challenges of starting a new business or eradicated or at least significantly reduced. Yes there's obviously changes required in implementing a clear social purpose or embedding new ways of operating but it could be easier and cheaper.
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