Louise Kjellerup Roper is my guest on Episode 168 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
As CEO of Volans Louise leads the team and is responsible for Volans mission, programmes and strategy, and ensuring Volans has the biggest possible positive impact, through what we do and who we work with.
After leaving her native Denmark to study PPE at the University of Oxford, Louise started her career with ‘bleeding-edge’ software companies such as Cisco and Check Point Software Technologies, before focusing on the role of business for good, launching Cradle to Cradle and B Lab pioneering companies like method and gDiapers into Europe and bringing circular economy business models and scale to ambitious small businesses.
Louise is a guest lecturer at both Cranfield University and the University of Exeter and part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE100 network. She also mentors young change-makers via the Aspire Foundation and the Aspire Trailblazing Women network.
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00:00 - Responsibility Resilience Regeneration
00:44 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Louise Kjellerup Roper on Episode 168 with Marc Buckley
03:30 - On Circular economy
07:50 - Create the system
11:35 - Product feedback loops
12:20 - What is Volans?
13:20 - The Green Swans - John Elkington https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw
19:53 - Recall Tripple Bottom Line
22:43 - The 3 Rs - Responsibility, Resilience, Regeneration
27:42 - Regenerative lens
31:08 - Silo infrastructure - policies
33:29 - Finance and funding
36:24 - Bankers for Net Zero initiative
39:23 - Giving away Patagonia - Earth is now our only shareholder https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/ownership/
40:20 - Regeneration - Daniel Christian Wahl https://volans.com/the-volans-fellowship/
42:15 - Transformations not projects
47:43 - The 6 Transformations to reach the SDGs
49:54 - The Transformation of our confidence as humans
53:10 - The Green Swans book club https://youtu.be/0BU15VHRH7o
56:30 - Resilience - different aspects
59:19 - Accept uncertainty
1:05:58 - Sustainability is a better business model
1:09:40 - Economic models emerging and courses
1:20:55 - How can companies best have an influence?
1:22:25 - What does a world that works for everyone look likes for you?
1:24:40 - A great book! The Web of Meaning - Jeremy Lent https://youtu.be/D5hSdVc-wZU
1:25:50 - More favorite books
1:30:40 - Continues learning and nurse curiosity
1:32:08 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:34:04 - What I wish I knew from the start
1:35:15 - Being quiet in Nature
1:35:45 - How do you Marc, wants your podcast listener to do or change?
