Episodes

Serge de Gheldere is my guest on Episode 56 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Serge is CEO and co-founder at Futureproofed, a company driven by the belief that a sustainable, fossil-free future is a better, more attractive future. Serge believes that it’s within our power to reverse the climate crisis and build a fossil-free, circular economy. Taking action represents the biggest business opportunity of the century, and action will sort the winners from losers both in business and amongst citi...

Rich Sheridan is my guest on Episode 55 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Rich is CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations, is a successful entrepreneur and author of two best-selling books—Joy Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love and Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear. Rich’s passion for inspiring organizations to create their own joy-filled cultures has led him to address audiences across the world—through four continents and 18 countries...

Olga Grönvall Lund is my guest on Episode 54 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Olga is a Swedish entrepreneur who has worked with food-related projects her whole professional career. She has mainly been active in Stockholm and Berlin but has also hosted events, catered, and done productions in other parts of the world such as Hong Kong, London, Bologna, Copenhagen, and Paris to name a few. In 2019 Olga founded Reformaten – a people’s movement for a new food system where everyone’s winner - hu...

Patrick Holden is my guest on Episode 53 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Patrick is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots, and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd, now made into a single farm cheddar style cheese. He was the founding chairman of British Organic Fa...

Bart de Witte is my guest on Episode 52 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Bart is one of Europe's leading and awarded experts on the digital transformation of healthcare, and one of the most progressive forward thinkers focuses on finding alternative European strategies for the current postmodern world to create a more desirable future with greater social benefits. He is the initiator of the HIPPO AI Foundation in Berlin, which aims to make artificial intelligence in medicine a common good. Wi...

Doris Naisbitt is my guest on Episode 51 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Doris Naisbitt is an observer of global social, economic and political trends. She is Director of the Naisbitt China Institute, author and co-author of bestselling books, and columnist in German, Chinese and Nepalese media. In addition to her research on future global developments Doris Naisbitt is dedicated to foster personal growth. Her personal experience to start a successful career later in life has inspired audie...

Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht is Marc's guest on Episode 50 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. The End of Evolution the nature of life and Biodiversity One of the most famous German evolutionary biologists Matthias sees the greatest loss of species since the dinosaurs became extinct as a worldwide biological tragedy. The greatest threat to the existence of all living beings is definitely humans, whose own future is at stake. The book published by C. Bertelsmann on "The End of Evolution. Man a...

Learning a fresh food future with Stephen Ritz Episode 49 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Stephen is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning educator, author of best-selling book, The Power Of A Plant and Founder of Green Bronx Machine. Known as America's favorite teacher, Stephen is responsible for creating the first edible classroom in the world. He and his students have grown more than 100,000 pounds of vegetables in the South Bronx, have been celebrated at the Obama White House three t...

Parenting, circularity and health with Majbritt Kristense Episode 48 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Majbritt Kristensen is my guest on this episode of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Majbritt’s Scandinavian & Mediterranean upbringing triggered her passion for Circularity. Her interest and understanding of circularity led to past and current experiences with startups in Silicon Valley, WEF Davos, local NGOs and private projects. Serious childhood health issues led her to explore lifestyle/food...

Energising the future, with Prof Jennie C Stephens Episode 47 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Jennie is the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the Director for Strategic Research Collaborations at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, and is affiliated with the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the department of Civil ...

Governmental futures and the SDGs with Felix Dodds Episode 46 on Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Felix Dodds has been a leading thinker in the area of global governance for thirty years. Now an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina where he is the Principal Investigator for the Belmont Forum funded project Governance of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Sustainable Development. At UNC he co-directed the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conferences on Water-Food-Energy and Climate. He...

Beyond limits with Victor E. Friedberg Victor E. Friedberg is my guests on Episode 45 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Victor has been at the forefront of innovation, investment and sustainability for over 20 years. As Co-Founder of S2G Ventures he was a principal force in developing the S2G mission, culture, strategy and team. Through his work at S2G, he pioneered system investing as a strategy for investing into food and agriculture and applied this approach in building the S2G portfolio....

Mapping the future of the world with Dr. Parag Khanna Episode 44 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Dr. Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag has been honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and has served on the WEF’s Global Future Council on Mobility, Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics, and advisory board of its Fut...

Hacking Luck with Simon Squibb Episode 43 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Simon is an entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor, podcast host, founder and Chief Purpose Officer at The Purposeful Project. He has started 17 companies, invested in over 60+ startups and has mentored hundreds of founders. Having sold his award-winning branding and digital agency, Fluid, to PwC, Simon now focuses on inspiring, motivating and guiding both budding and experienced entrepreneurs by sharing his personal expe...

Exploring the creative mindset for innovation and change, with Jeff DeGraff Jeff DeGraff is my guest on episode 42 Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jeff is both an advisor to Fortune 500 companies and a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. His simultaneously creative and pragmatic approach to making innovation happen has led clients and colleagues to dub him the “Dean of Innovation.” He has written several books, including Leading Innovation, Innovation Y...

Connecting Science & Farming with Dr. Anika Molesworth Dr. Anika Molesworth is my guest on episode 41 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. It was the decade-long Millennium drought on Anika's family's farm that spurred her interest in climate change, and to ask "How are we going to feed a rapidly growing global population well, in a climate challenged world?" With a passion for rural communities and healthy ecosystems, she is committed to help create sustainable and vibrant farming landscapes n...

Human business in a digital age, with Prof. Dr. Thomas Juli Episode 40 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Prof. Dr. Thomas Juli is the founder, managing director and curator of Motivate2B. He is a human business architect and coach for agile company and project transformation with more than 25 years of experience in various industries and organizations. His vision is to help human business establish itself as the new global normal within ten years. He is currently accompanying Allianz Germany...

Thoughts from the Future with Andre Micallef Episode 39 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Andre Micallef is a twelve-year-old from Rabat, Malta. He has always been interested in technology and innovation and like finding out of the box solutions for current issues. He is part of the Children’s Council within The Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society and is passionate about making the world a better place for his generation and those to come.

Changing food with Diane Hatz Episode 38 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Diane Hatz is a social entrepreneur working to create a more healthful, sustainable, equitable world, with a strong focus on food and farming. She is currently CEO & founder of Boma Grow USA as well as founder and executive director of the nonprofit Change Food and it’s latest program “Plant Eat Share” - an effort to provide resources for communities to grow and share healthy food. She also founded and hosted TEDxManhat...

Systems and Sustainability with Christian Berg Episode 37 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Christian Berg is Marc's guest on this episode of Inside Ideas. Christian has extensive professional experience as sustainability lecturer and keynote speaker for (corporate) sustainability. Among others, he worked as Chief Sustainability Architect at SAP and led the task for Sustainable economic activity and growth within German Chancellor Merkel’s future dialogue. His book Sustainable Action: Overcomi...

Food as medicine, with the founders of Tonklar Facai, Thailand Episode 36 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Jitrawadee Hemmondharop Henontarrop (Dao) & Wiwat Hemmondharop founders of Tonklar Facai are my guests on this episode of Inside Ideas. Dao is a pharmacist and nutritionist co-founder of Tonklarfacai restaurant. Suffering from depression for 10 years she wished to spend the rest of her life in a positive environment. In 2010, Dao & Wiwat started the social enterprise business Tonklar Fac...

Agility and opportunity in a changing world with Maks Giordano Episode 35 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Maks Giordano is a digital strategist and creative with a 25+ year track record in innovative digital projects. Maks started his career in the digital stone age at ID Media AG in the mid-nineties and was involved in numerous internationally awarded digital projects, like Volkswagen's digital launch campaign for the New Beetle, launch of Wallpaper magazine online, Sony-Europe, and Swatch....

Verifying sustainability and climate action with Marion Verles. Marion Verles is Marc's guest on episode 34 of Inside Ideas. Marion is the CEO of SustainCERT, a mission-driven company that offers simple, tech-driven solutions for verifying impacts in climate protection, supply chains, and investment products. Marion brings to SustainCERT her deep knowledge of carbon markets and her passion for pioneering new approaches to financing climate and development interventions. Prior to launching...

Families, systems and citizenship with Andreas Wil Gerdes Episode 33 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Andreas is an Entrepreneur, World Citizen, and a passionate father. Andreas sold his first business at the age of 20. Working out of a garage, he then successfully built what would become part of Orange PLC. Andreas has been at the forefront of the mobile telecoms revolution empowering lives for over 25 years." (from the 2017 Malta Innovation Summit). Andreas is a Malta based German entre...