Season 3: Purpose-driven Agency

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Episode #1: Making Decisions Based On Values Rather Than Fear with Bill Barbot

In this week’s episode, we welcome Bill Barbot. Bill is one of the founders of Threespot, an independent digital agency that is hell-bent on helping those, and only those, who are committed to helping others.

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Episode #2: Getting the Working Relationship Right with Nonprofits to Make Impact at Scale with Matt Schwartz

Today on the podcast we welcome Matt Schwartz. Matt is the Founder and Executive Director of Constructive, a social change brand strategy and experience design firm in New York City. The company works exclusively with nonprofits and educational institutions.

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Episode #3: From Accidental Founder to Building a Successful Creative Agency with Intention with Alana Range

Today on the show we are joined by Alana Range. Alana is a designer, photographer, digital storyteller, and founder of Radish Lab. Radish Lab is an award-winning, full-service interactive creative agency focused on design for social impact. They help social change-makers and organizations create and tell compelling digital stories that deeply engage their audiences.

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Episode #4: Converting Nonprofit Lessons to Build a Social Enterprise that Creates Lasting Change with William Stubbs

Today on the show we welcome on William Stubbs, founder of Spur:Labs and an experienced strategy and innovation consultant, with a passion for behavioural design and systems thinking based approaches to social change. His journey to agency life started with a nonprofit foundation created to tackle a tough issue in an even tougher market - talking suicide and mental health with males aged 18 to 44 in Australia.

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Episode #5: Values-based Specialisation and Challenges of Working with Nonprofits with Kerstin Heuer

In previous seasons of this podcast, we touched on the importance of clarity for marketing your agency services and that building trust and long term relationships with your clients is key to building a successful agency. My guest this week is Kerstin Heuer, and she is an excellent example of how doing this in a way that is driven by your own personal values and passions can bring massive benefits to your agency.

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Episode #6: Building a Values-Driven Agency and Supporting Sustainable Brands with Andrea Henao of 360 Agency Berlin

Today on the show we welcome Andrea Henao, the co-founder of 360 Agency Berlin. 360 Agency Berlin is an integrated advertising agency that, beyond their expertise in advertising, are driven by their values, working exclusively with sustainable brands.

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Episode #7: Finding Creativity Outside of Your Comfort Zone and Strategic Experimentation with Gopika Prabhu

Today on the show we are joined by Gopika Prabhu, the founder of San Francisco-based design studio, Elefint. Elefint’s mission is to help good causes, which includes nonprofits, B Corps and other changemakers. Gopika created Elefint as a way to bring informed and beautiful design to the social impact space.

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Episode #8: How To Build A Values-Focused Agency In Today’s World with Edward Wisniewski

In episode three, I spoke to one of the founders of Radish Lab, Alana. This week, I am delighted to be speaking with her partner, Edward. Edward started in the interactive and web development world as a teen in the '90s and built a career doing the work he loved. Despite that, he came to the realization that he couldn’t stand behind all the products and companies he was working for.

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Episode #9: How To Express and Actualize Your Values For Greater Impact with Eric Verkerke

In today’s episode we welcome Eric Verkerke, the co-founder of Emergence Creative, a global creative agency focused on social impact. Eric's career background is as comprehensive as it is impressive, from agricultural research for Oxford University to science journalism for National Public Radio, and from founding a startup medical device company to big agency leadership at McCann Global Health.

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Episode #10: Codifying a Company Culture Around Your Values In Social Impact Design with Julia Zeltser

This week’s guest is Julia Zeltser, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Hyperakt. Julia and her cofounder Deroy Peraza arrived in the US as refugees. She describes being very aware of how lucky they were as a key motivator to start their agency 16 years ago.