CONNECTED BY DESIGN
To achieve the change necessary to tackle global crises, businesses and individuals must set aside their own agendas, break down silos and work collectively towards a common global goal to innovate and achieve change. Greater progress can be achieved when collaboration forms an intrinsic part of business and leaders look up and out to identify opportunities to create impact through collective efforts.
Breaking down barriers for good business, and trouble-shooting potential solutions, requires a collaborative force of like-minded pioneers to pave the way for a brighter future. This force is connected by design – a creative community of connected individuals, working as one – sharing, collaborating and inspiring a generation of changemakers.
Fundamental to prosperous collaboration are relationships and trust. Working together delivers many business benefits as well as positive societal impact, from gaining greater insight through network growth, to exposure to increased pools of talent, ways of working and markets.
True Zebra businesses consider the needs of all stakeholders in the development, design and delivery of products or services and work as part of a bigger picture – collectively with partners and competitors, alike in creating solutions to tackle the world’s pressing challenges and create impact.
Within our focus on connection and collaboration, we explore a selection of discussion topics such as democratisation, human-centred mindset and anti-fragility amongst many others. If you have a topic you would like to see covered, get in touch and we will explore it further.
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ZEBRA TALK
In conversation with Patrick Philpott, Founder of Visionpath, an organisation working with employers, schools and students to be future ready, talking about social mobility and the responsibility that business has to ensure social mobility and how it can benefit from it. Patrick also talks about social mobility in the context of Learning and Development and CSR and how businesses can make practical steps forward to get access to the best resources for their future.
In conversation with Liz Ngonzi, an international speaker on digital innovation, philanthropy and leadership, talking about the future relationship between businesses, Government and non-profits, what the world can learn from people it traditionally labels as disadvantaged and how corporations are responding to the social justice movement in relation to African Americans.
In conversation with Steven Dring, Co-Founder of Growing Underground talking about sustainability, ethical farming and providing a return for investors as the drivers behind building a farm thirty-three metres below the city of London. Steven also talks about the need for data scientists, academics and engineers in the future of food workforce and how not having an agricultural background but learning from different sectors has paid dividends.
