stéphanie schmidt (ashoka)
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Innovative EntrepreneurshipTRANSCRIPT
Stephanie Schmidt
(Ashoka)
INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Vision, creativity, pragmatism, persistence to transform a sector
Primary focus, type of support
Business & Social innovations
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Muhammad Yunus Grameen Bank Founder
Challenges
• Fight FOREST LOSS
• Restore ECOSYSTEMS enabling better
LIVELIHOODS
• Demonstrate LOCAL & GLOBAL results and
impact
• BREAK SILOS between different communities:
scientific, business, NGOs, etc.
Nicolas Métro, Kinomé
PLANTING TREES Solution & Impact
Ethical Leadership & Geo-
localized impact indicators
4 mn trees replanted in 12 countries, 200 000 people
impacted positively
FOREST & LIFE
global community
IMPROVES human development
Nicolas Métro, Kinomé
Partnership-based
approach: Cartier, Yves
Rocher, Danone
Jean-Louis Khiel, Cresus
Challenges
• Prevent INDEBTENESS
• Avoid collateral dammage
• Fight social exclusion
• Make financial players accountable
education PREVENTION
EARLY DIAGNOSTIC
TARGET population at-risk
Partnership with
BANKS
117 centres
65 300 households supported
600 qualified volunteers
Jean-Louis Khiel, Cresus
Solution & Impact
Understanding of environmental stakes
Gülcan Nitsch, Yesil Cember
Challenges
• Promote eco-friendly practices
• Engage the Turkish minority
• Recruit women
• Promote civic engagement, integration and
intercultural relationships
1st TURKISH ENVIRONMENTAL
DAY in Berlin
Local influencers
SUITABLE EDUCATIONNAL
MATERIAL
Environment protection
TRAININGS
EMPOWER immigrants
communities
Turkish culture
Gülcan Nitsch, Yesil Cember
Solution & Impact
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46mn are obese 21mn struggling to heat their homes
12mn suffer severe housing deprivation
15mn are unemployed
50mn
poor people
Urgent action needed
Sample of 7 countries
Which requires better connecting sectors
Social entrepreneurs Businesses Public institutions
• Better leverage societal innovations and entrepreneurs
• Innovation to develop sustainable business models
• New type of leadership: – Empathetic and changemaking skills
– Teams of teams
• Multipliers: flagship organizations, investors, media, B Schools, management consulting firms…
Going beyond
Contact Stéphanie Schmidt
Director Full Economic Citizenship Europe
Paris
Thank you