In this episode, we speak to Jean Philippe Courtois (JP) who is one of Microsoft's top executives. His focus is on transforming national economies, helping to create sustainable and inclusive economic growth through digital transformation.  He was key in the creation of Microsoft's social entrepreneur program. He also co-founded Live for good with his family in 2015 after a tragic event. Live for good aims to unlock the potential of young people from all walks of life through social entrepreneurship.
 
JP is also passionate about promoting the concept of Positive Leadership: how purpose-led leaders can generate positive energy that achieves greater commercial success, individual happiness, team wellbeing, and positive social impact. He is the host of the podcast Positive Leadership. JP is one of those leaders that stays coherent and focused on his purpose. In every identity he has: as a top executive, as a co-founder, as a podcast host, he empowers to advance our social issues.

Please enjoy!

Here you will find the content we spoke about:
https://live-for-good.org/fr
https://podcasts.apple.com/mk/podcast/the-positive-leadership-podcast/id1574911588
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/02/21/creating-a-world-of-good-microsoft-launches-the-global-social-entrepreneurship-program/

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Today we speak to Julien Lescs, co-founder of Kimpa, the first family office in Europe dedicated to impact investing. Julien and his team are actively helping wealthy families and family businesses align their family values with their impact investment Strategy in order to invest for good, innovate to keep their family quest alive and win with the next generation on board.
He recently published a clinical perspective on ‘how the environmental urgency affects the psychodynamics between family members and within family businesses’. Julien is a Fellow member of the Family Firm Institute, father of 2 and fan of ultra trail. We speak about how Julien got to this strong and courageous mission, the current fear of the traditional banking sector when it comes to impact investing, we speak about responsible & sustainable finance- , ESG, impact investing, philanthropy...

Julien explained so many crucial aspects to impact Investing,  the importance of the 3 pillars of his impact strategy for example:

Intentionality/ Additionality/ Measurability

We really liked Julien’s  deep reflections on family business using Carl Jung’s Term : the collective unconscious.

“I truly believe that future generations of family business entrepreneurs will make successful transitions by focusing on the love they have for their family, their shared history and the future of the planet” JL

Resources

https://www.kimpa.co/

EMCC- Executive Master in Coaching & Consulting for change

https://www.insead.edu/master-programmes/mp/emc?CampaignId=GGL_Search_EMEA&SiteId=DP_GGL&marketingSource=EMC_01&CampaignName=EMEA-FR[EN]_Brand[GEN]-DP-EMC_MT-Exact&AdId=LandingPage&device=c&term=insead%20executive%20master%20in%20change_(e)&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_smX04vR8wIVxLKGCh2uLQhoEAAYASAAEgKZ8vD_BwE

Publications: https://flora.insead.edu/fichiersti_wp/InseadEMCCCtheseswave29/90138.pdf

Collective unconscious : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

Today we speak to Manuella Cunha Brito, the co-founder of CLIMATESCAPE, the go to platform for the low carbon economy: https://climatescape.org/about
Manella’s mission is  reversing climate change and reducing inequalities.
She co-founded Good Tech Lab and co-authored “The frontiers of impact tech”:
https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ebc463e30e8bd69378b5c117cf5d677ad8a2efc.pdf

We speak about her initial path towards a diplomacy career, her journey to becoming a researcher, then consultant, co-founder and now author.
We speak about how her platform is contributing to enhance the SDG’s, how vital it is to educate investors on impact, why we should focus on zebras and less on unicorns, the people that have inspired her: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/muhammad-yunus/198251/, and much more. 

You can contact Manu here: team@climatescape.org.
Thank you for all the great feedback and questions you have sent us. We look forward to bringing you more courageous leadership examples.