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Hosted by Rafi Addlestone and Adam Pike · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 115 episodes
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Welcome to The Impact Equation, conversations with leaders shaping a brighter future, hosted by Adam Pike, social entrepreneur, and Rafi Addlestone, impact advisor, With our special guests, we unlock the secrets of those who dare to transform our world. We talk to architects of change, pioneers in their fields, working toward a brighter future for us all. In each episode, we dig into each element of the impact equation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rafi Addlestone and Adam Pike hosts The Impact Equation, a business show with 115 episodes published.
We’re joined by Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie. A seasoned leader with a deep history of transformation at global companies - including Centrica, Cable & Wireless, and BP - Phil has redefined Mitie from a traditional facilit
For the 100th episode of The Impact Equation, we’re joined by Paul Ronalds, CEO of Save the Children Global Ventures, to explore how venture capital, technology and innovative finance can scale solutions for children aro
In this episode, we sit down with Sam Staincliffe (Uplift360), Nicolas Brien (Wastetide), and Elisabeth Bröring (MWT GmbH & Co. KG) for a deep dive into the practical realities of the circular economy. While they approac
Michael Young is co-founder and co-CEO of Lindus Health, an AI-native contract research organisation that runs clinical trials end-to-end and has begun licensing therapeutics to take through trials itself. A former speci
Maia Ramarosandratana is the Founder of Projet Jeune Leader, an organisation she launched in 2013 and has since built into one of the most ambitious efforts to drive to deliver comprehensive sex education through public
Mary Long-Dhonau OBE has spent more than 25 years helping people prepare for one of the UK's fastest-growing climate risks. Known across the country as Flood Mary, she became an advocate after her own family home flooded
Mati Carbon, led by founder and Mulago fellow Shantanu Agarwal, made history in April 2025 by winning the $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal. In this episode, Shantanu shares how Mati uses enhanced rock weathering to tur
Today's episode we welcome Peter Briffett, CEO and co-founder of Stream. Most people are paid at the end of each month but bills and emergencies don't keep to a calendar, so the lowest-paid end up borrowing - through ove
Folake Owodunni is the co-founder and CEO of Emergency Response Africa. ERA is a healthcare technology company improving how medical emergencies are managed across Africa, starting in Nigeria. They operate the large
Lord Francis Maude is a senior British political figure and former minister. His career spans three Governments, four decades and multiple continents. Having had his first ministerial post under Margaret Thatcher, Franci
Adam and Rafi review the last seven episodes in our regular wash up conversation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mark Bjornsgaard has scaled and exited seven businesses in healthcare, finance and music. As founder of Deep Green, Mark has worked out how to turn waste heat from AI data centres into heating local infrastructure and ho
How does a trained chemist transition into an investment banker, a senior British diplomat in Beijing, and ultimately, the CEO overseeing the world’s most critical environmental disclosure platform? In this episode Rafi
Lord Michael Barber is the founder of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit under Sir Tony Blair, author of How to Run a Government , and the global pioneer of deliverology. Over the past three decades he has advised govern
This roundtable special brings together three founders working at different edges of the same question: how do we rebuild our relationship with nature through markets, products, and everyday economic choices? Cain Blythe
Lucy Kellaway is an award-winning journalist, former Financial Times columnist, Business Journalist of the Year, and recipient of an OBE for services to education. Shortly after her 58th birthday, she left a 30-year care
Yossi Abramowitz is a renewable energy pioneer, co-founder of the first utility-scale solar fields in both the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, co-founder of Gigawatt Global, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Over the
Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim Spector
OBE FMedSci - Epidemiologist, medical doctor, & science writer · King's College London
1 appearance on this show
Luke Tryl
UK Director · More In Common
1 appearance on this show
Sir Ed Davey
MP for Kingston and Surbiton, leader of the Liberal Democrats · Liberal Democrats
1 appearance on this show
Alyssa Gilbert
Director of Undaunted and Director of Innovation · Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
1 appearance on this show
Tiffany Yu
social impact entrepreneur, diversity and inclusion community builder, and disability advocate · DiversAbility
1 appearance on this show
Lord John Browne
Chairman of BeyondNetZero and Former CEO of BP · CHAS Health
1 appearance on this show
Michelle Brown
financial advisor and retirement planner · Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority
1 appearance on this show
Matthew Gould
CEO · Zoological Society London
1 appearance on this show
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
Thousand Year Trust
1 appearance on this show
Jessica Smith
Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department and Dean’s Fellow for Earth and Society Programs · Colorado School of Mines
1 appearance on this show
Sam Freedman
Education reformer & co-author of UK's most popular political substack · Anthony & Sam Freedman Racing
1 appearance on this show
Sir Ronald Cohen
1 appearance on this show
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The Impact Equation is hosted by Rafi Addlestone and Adam Pike. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 115 episodes.
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