Open Vision® welcomes leaders who lead with vision, embody their values, and are committed to shaping a better future. In each conversation, we explore how they are tackling some of the defining challenges of our time; across worlds such as venture capital, energy, mobility, fashion, art, and community. These dialogues surface ideas, perspectives, and solutions that seek to create lasting value for both people and planet.
Tune in to hear Dr. Zitouni Ould-Dada as he delves into the pressing climate crisis.
Drawing from his vast experience, Zitouni discusses global challenges, insights from co-creating the Paris Agreement, Agenda 2030, and the dynamic between international initiatives and local actions. Gain valuable perspectives on charting a sustainable path forward.
Who is Dr. Zitouni Ould-Dada?
Dr. Zitouni Ould-Dada, former Deputy Director at FAO and Head of Technology Unit at UNEP.
Dr. Ould-Dada has decades of international diplomatic experience, notably shaping the Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.
Renowned for diplomatic prowess, he chaired climate negotiations and led key policy committees. His international responsibilities include:
– UK Lead Negotiator on technology
– Chair of climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC
– Chair of European Union Expert Group on Technology
– Chair of IRENA’s Policy and Strategy Committee
– Member of International Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Working Party
– Member of UN Inter-Agency Task Team for implementation of Technology Facilitation Mechanism under the 2030 Agenda
– Member of UN Inter-Agency Task Team to develop a UN System-wide Approach to Climate Action for the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit 2019
Join Zsuzsanna Ferenczi on Open Vision as she shares insights from her journey as a conscious leader. Drawing from her experience at Citibank during Hungary’s transition from communism, she explores the power of trust and building businesses for social good.
Discover the essence of conscious leadership and how it can shape a brighter future for both people and the planet.
Who is Zsuzsanna Ferenczi?
Zsuzsanna Ferenczi brings over two decades of leadership experience from roles at HPE and Citibank, where she developed a unique leadership style.
As a global partner at the Conscious Business Institute, she fosters conscious leadership in leaders and business professionals through the Master Program.
Co-author of “Enter Your Flow,” she advocates for an authentic work life.
And, as a global partner at the Conscious Business Institute she transforms leaders in business by teaching them the principles of the Conscious Business Institute, founded by Peter Mathies.
Tune into Kemo Camara on Open Vision as he shares his insights on the transformative power of community.
Drawing from his extensive experience, Kemo discusses the importance of community in shaping a meaningful legacy for future generations.
Discover how fostering connections can drive positive change and empower individuals to thrive economically and culturally.
Who is Kemo Camara?
Kemo Camara, a global citizen. Having lived on three continents, he has been a catalyst for community-driven initiatives.
As founder and CEO of Omek, he fosters connections among African diaspora professionals to empower them economically and culturally.
With a passion for serving others, Kemo believes in the transformative power of collaboration and community building for future generations to come.
Join Marian Dang on Open Vision, as she shares insights on finding one’s voice, establishing true connections, and the importance of authenticity in sustainable leadership.
As the former Head of Sustainability & Public Affairs at H&M South Asia, she knows like no other the importance of using your authentic voice and creating a more sustainable future.
Who is Marian Dang?
Marian Dang is an expert in sustainability and social impact, spearheaded change as H&M’s Regional Head of Sustainability & Public Affairs in South Asia.
With a background spanning Google and television, she now empowers leaders through her company, Rise Beyond.
Marian’s journey from public affairs to founding Rise Beyond reflects her belief in authenticity and connection.
Join Erik de Groot, as he talks about the creation and ambitions of Iron Roots, offering plastic free and fairtrade active wear.
Erik de Groot is one of the co-founders of Iron Roots, a sports brand with a focus on creating a healthy alternative to plastic sportswear. His aim is to make the best sportswear on and for the planet.
Who is Erik de Groot?
Erik is a Dutch serial entrepreneur, who has found his passion in Iron Roots as a co-founder.
Iron Roots, a sports brand with a focus on creating a healthy alternative to plastic sportswear.
Within the brand, Erik is responsible for the designs, branding, and everything else in te creative space.
Through combining design, functionality, and sustainability they aim to make the best sportswear on and for the planet.
Join Ebele Tate, as she showcases the importance of the creative industry and media production in creating positive impact.
Ebele is the founder of G.O.A.T., an inclusive community for filmmakers, and the recipient of the coveted London Calling award – her film ‘COCOA’ was screened at BAFTA.
Who is Ebele Tate?
Ebele is a London born writer producer director, and alumna from the prestigious National Film and Television School and the NYU TISCH School of the Arts.
Ebele was also a recipient of the coveted London Calling award, whereby she wrote and directed a short film entitled COCOA, which went on to be a finalist at the FujiFilm Shorts competition and screened at BAFTA.
She is the founder of G.O.A.T. a member’s community for filmmakers by filmmakers, championing the voices of BIPOC, Women and the LGBTQIA+ communities across film and TV. Currently residing in the business residency of Somerset House.
Tune into Jonathan Moed on Open Vision as he explores the intersection of investing and positive impact. Delving into topics like the tension between ideology and outcomes, and redefining ROI through the lens of the 3Ps (People, Planet, Profit).
Discover how Venture Capital and investing can align with values and contribute to a more sustainable and just future.
Who is Jonathan Moed?
Jonathan Moed is a seasoned advocate for investing in companies tackling environmental and social challenges.
With expertise in Climate Tech Venture Capital, he fosters trust-based relationships and non-hierarchical dynamics, guided by his core value of justice.
Jonathan’s commitment to impact investing underscores his passion for leveraging business as a catalyst for positive change.
Join Maijke Receveur on Open Vision as she shares insights on navigating dilemmas and building impactful startups.
Through her experience at Lightyear, Maijke discusses the importance of values, principles, and integrating people and processes for sustainability and efficiency.
Who is Maijke Receveur?
Maijke Receveur, a Start- & Scale-up Strategist, is dedicated to helping founders build impactful organizations.
With a focus on fast-growing impact startups, Maijke brings extensive experience from her role on the board of Lightyear, a pioneering Dutch clean mobility startup.
Her passion lies in fostering co-creation, energy, and leadership within sustainable solutions.
Tune into Claude Fidelin, as he discusses the true definition of value. And, how value can be engineered – in creating future forward impact on a personal, collective, and future generations levels.
Claude is a value architect. Through The Black Negotiatior he establishes wealth equity for people of color. All the while he grows the future of Basketball culture as a General Manager at one of the leading global sports brands.
Who is Claude Fidelin?
Raised by a single mother in the French “Banlieue”, Claude earned his MBA from the renowned London and Columbia Business School.
His career in banking, consulting, and startups took him to London, New York and Miami. Claude is now back in Europe, in the Netherlands, with his wife and 2 kids.
Claude’s vision is for Black people to reach wealth equity. He realizes this through The Black Negotiator.
All the while leading a talented team of Merchandisers, Marketers, Planners and Digital experts to grow the future of Basketball culture at one of the leading global sports brands.
Inner Development for Outside Impact: IDG Summit 2024. We’re sharing key insights from the summit and connect them to our philosophy of Cathedral Thinking. This episode features various speakers.
Speakers in this episode
Daniel Hires (CMO IDG), Katharina Moser (Program Curator & Director, IDG Summit MC), Gail Whiteman (Professor of Sustainability, Arctic Basecamp Founder), Paul Mbikayi (Civil Servant to Humanity & the Government of the Netherlands), Tho Ha Vinh PhD (Former Program Director, Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan & Founder, Eurasia Learning Institute for Happiness and Wellbeing), Sophie Legendre (Transformation Specialist), Erik Fernholm (Co-Founder 29k Foundation & Co-Initiator IDG), Pamela von Sabljar (Founder), Simon Sharkey (ITAC Member, Artistic Director and CEO The Necessary Space), Jennifer Garvey Berger PhD (Harvard University; Co-founder & CEO Cultivating Leadership), Jan Artem Henriksson (Exec. Director IDG), Kristen Cordell (White House Leadership Development Program), Tony Bond (Exec. Vice President & Chief Impact Officer Great Place to Work), Mézu Ofoegbu (Artist & Founder Infinity Village Lab), Tommy Gärd (Filmmaker and Creative Director Visionary Films Stockholm), Rachael Jacobs PhD (Academic, Teaching Artist & Community Activist).
About the IDG Summit
The IDG Summit is the biggest annual gathering by the Inner Development Goals that aims to shift the narrative on sustainability and human development towards more hope and action.
It highlights best practice stories from business, governments, civil society & academia on how inner skills can lead to outer change and explores tools & methods how to develop these skills individually, in teams and as organisations.
Their aim – that aligns with Open Vision – is to co-create a feeling of inspiration, hope & community that participants will carry on into their respective fields of work.
Tune into Michael Ventura for a thought-provoking conversation that dives deep into empathy, embodiment, and leadership for a complex world.
Explore the wisdom of leading from the gut, lessons from scaling startups, and how indigenous perspectives and seven-generation thinking can shape decisions for a sustainable future. From the dangers of hustle culture to rethinking climate change as saving ourselves, this episode is packed with insights to inspire conscious action.
Who is Michael Ventura?
Michael Ventura is an accomplished leader, practitioner, and educator.
As the founder of strategy and design consultancy Sub Rosa, he advised influential organizations from the American Civil Liberties Union, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, and Nike to well-respected institutions such as The United Nations and the Obama-Biden Administration.
Alongside his thought leadership work, Michael serves as faculty at the Esalen Institute and in private practice working with individuals seeking personal growth and mentorship. His book, Applied Empathy (Simon & Schuster 2018) explores the intersectionality of these two worlds (leadership and self development) through the practice of empathy for each of us as individuals, for others, and for society at large.
He has served as a board member and advisor to a variety of organizations including Behance, The Burning Man Project, The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the United Nations’ affiliated Tribal Link Foundation, and a variety of growth-stage businesses. He is a visiting lecturer at institutions such as The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, Princeton University, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
An ardent steward of personal and professional development, Michael is frequently engaged as an advisor to leaders, teams, and corporate boards at moments of transformation and change.
What does leadership look like in complex times? Daniel Hires talks about visionary leadership, collective wisdom, and the power of polyculture. We explore impact, language, serendipity, and why compassion might be the most radical leadership tool of all.
Who is Daniel Hires?
Daniel Hires is a social entrepreneur, ecosystem builder, and CEO of Impact Calling, helping those who lead – formally or informally – navigate complexity to lead more wisely and effectively. Previously, he helped build the Inner Development Goals, one of the world’s fastest-growing ecosystems around leadership and inner transformation.
Born in Asia and raised between Germany and the US, Daniel has been a prominent voice for impact-driven innovation and collective leadership since 2010. His work weaves together inner development, systemic transformation, and regenerative leadership, both in thought and practice. As a facilitator, Daniel designs transformational workshops and experiences that deeply connect people to each other, themselves, and nature.
He is a Fellow of the RSA and a Responsible Leader at the BMW Foundation, and lives in Barcelona with his young daughter.
The power of symbols, communication systems and design is. Listen to Christina who has lead the design of some of the most transformative global systems, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the
KMGBF Biodiversity Plan.
Who is Christina Ruëgg Grässli?
Christina Rüegg Grässli is an award-winning Creative Director and designer with over twenty-five years of experience.
She is the Creative Director at the Stockholm-based studio The New Division, who are also known as Agents of Sustainability; a consultancy, striving to accelerate the transformation to a sustainable future.
Christina was the lead designer on the communication system for the United Nation’s 17 Global Goals – the UN Sustainable Development Goals – and the 169 targets, the Inner Development Framework, as well as the KMGBF, The Biodiversity Plan.
Christina is passionate about using design and communication to help create positive social and sustainable change.
Partner at Future Africa, Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani, shares how Africa’s bold founders are building global businesses. We explore the power of talent, technology, capital, and community to transform markets and create impact that resonates worldwide.
Who is Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani?
Mia is all about helping African startups realize their potential, and leveraging my precise strategic acumen mixed with a healthy dose of empathy.
She has learned that both are essential to a company’s success as an operator, VC, angel investor, and entrepreneur who co-founded and navigated her own startup through an exit.
Born in Germany, she attended Harvard Business School before moving to Africa in 2009 and adopting the continent as her own. After helping start the Johannesburg and Nairobi offices at the Boston Consulting Group, she co-founded the startup DukaConnect in the retail and AI space, which was exited to Mastercard.
Prior to joining Future Africa, she was a Partner at climate focused early stage VC Persistent Energy Capital and an active angel investor. Mia lives in Kenya with her husband Eston and four children.
Marco Funk, founder of Enerlink.ai and UN AI for Good award winner, explains why clean energy is a fundamental human need and how solar power, data and decarbonisation can accelerate the energy transition. Grounded in the principle of Ubuntu, he offers a clear, values-driven view on success, responsibility, and adding value to life within planetary boundaries.
Who is Marco Funk?
Marco Funk is the founder of Enerlink.ai, a platform accelerating the energy transition through project certification and energy impact data tracking. With a background in Operations Research, Investment Analysis, and Economics, Marco has combined global business experience, tech entrepreneurship, and private banking to create solutions that channel resources toward clean energy.
Driven by a passion for a sustainable planet, he focuses on localised energy projects that maximise impact, addressing the growing energy demand and carbon reduction challenges in an AI-driven world.
Founder of ArtSustainability and Director of Sustainable Investment within UBS Asset Management, Juliette Vartikar, discusses the role of art in sparking insight and debate on sustainability and social impact, art as a legacy across generations, and why the art world itself must take responsibility in becoming more sustainable.
Who is Juliette Vartikar?
Juliette Vartikar is a visionary leader in the realm of sustainability, with over 15 years of experience encompassing climate change, diversity, human rights, and corporate wellbeing. As the founder of ArtSustainability in 2024, Juliette has pioneered initiatives to integrate sustainable practices into the visual and performing arts, fostering a more resilient and responsible cultural sector.
In her role at UBS, she serves as a Director in Sustainable Investing, where she advances UBS Asset Management’s ESG offerings across the UK, Benelux, and Nordics, influencing a broad landscape of institutional investors. A prominent voice in sustainability, Juliette is a member of the UK Investment Association’s Socially Responsible Investment Committee and frequently speaks at global forums on environmental and social investment.
Originally from Boston, Juliette holds a B.A. from Yale University and an MBA from Oxford University. Her passion for the arts extends beyond her professional endeavours, having contributed significantly to art fairs, studios, and theatres worldwide. Through her work at ArtSustainability, Juliette continues to advocate for the transformative power of the arts in driving sustainable change.
Art reference: Ice Watch
Twelve large blocks of ice cast off from the Greenland ice sheet are harvested from a fjord outside Nuuk and presented in a clock formation in a prominent public place. The work by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing raises awareness of climate change by providing a direct and tangible experience of the reality of melting arctic ice. Ice Watch has been installed in three locations.
The first installation was in Copenhagen, at City Hall Square, from 26 to 29 October 2014, to mark the publication of the UN IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change. The second installation took place in Paris, at Place du Panthéon, from 3 to 13 December 2015, on the occasion of the UN Climate Conference COP21, and the third version of Ice Watch was on view from 11 December 2018 to 2 January 2019 at two locations in London – outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters and in front of Tate Modern.
https://olafureliasson.net/artwork/ice-watch-2014
Save Yourself through Empathy with Michael Ventura – OPENVISION.SPACE
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