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Innovation, leadership and culture expert, Nina Powell joins Xynteo

This November, Nina Powell joined Xynteo as senior partner and will drive our work within our Planet-Positive Growth and Leadership and Culture studios.

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Leading differently at the Xynteo Exchange 2019

Closing out Square 2 at the Xynteo Exchange 2019 was a conversation between Olympic champion Johann Olav Koss, Nada Ahmed, Senior Manager at Aker Solutions and Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa.

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Innovation

Prototypia: a new innovation framework with Monika Bielskyte

A mind-expanding challenge from futurist Monica Bielskyte, who powerfully demonstrated to the 500+ leaders at Xynteo Exchange 2019 the need to rethink the way we envision the future.

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Leadership

Navigating “what if’s” at the Xynteo Exchange 2019

Two experienced global leaders, former Norwegian PM Erna Solberg and Shell Projects & Technology Director Harry Brekelmans underlined the importance of building consensus and navigating steadily towards the future.

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Innovation

When it comes to digital technolofy, trust less, demand more!

Jimmy Wales and Hans Vestberg challenged our shared - but blind - faith in technology. As digital natives, many of us rely on and trust technology to constantly provide unlimited information and tools, right at our fingertips.

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Inclusion

Slogans to hashtags at the Xynteo Exchange 2019

Two leading youth activists voiced the urgency and rage that is sparking protests by the next generation at the Xynteo Exchange 2019.

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Leadership

Building partnerships to improve plastic waste management in India

The Revaluing Plastics team from 2019’s Leadership Vanguard cohort travelled to Chennai and Bangalore to explore and advance strategic partnerships with two local impact enterprises, Kabadiwalla Connect and Hasiru Dala Innovations.

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Strategy

Driving scale to achieve a new kind of growth at the Xynteo Exchange Marketplace

Given the scale of the challenge and the response needed, business must play a central role in any credible response to challenges such as climate change and social inequality.

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Strategy

Five jobs to unlock Europe's future

Europe is a powerhouse of innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship. And yet we face, like the rest of the world, a set of serious challenges – from the climate crisis and social inequality, to uncertainty around employment and threats to our global competitiveness. It’s time to rise to these challenges. It’s time to unlock a vibrant future for Europe.

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Innovation

Connecting kids for learning through innovation

During last year’s Xynteo Exchange/Norway, Verizon hosted an open innovation Studio that brought together a diverse group of leaders and practitioners to investigate societal problems that connectivity can help address.

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Collaboration

What cane toads can teach businesses about growth

The dreaded cane toad has few friends in my home country, Australia, writes Xynteo MD Chester Cunningham. In 1935, 3000 of them were released in the country’s sugarcane plantations in an effort to eat the beetles that were devouring the valued crop.

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Collaboration

Want to achieve the SDGs? Start by scrubbing your windows.

This need for change is what motivates us at Xynteo to develop a theory of change that is unique. It’s a theory of change built with a view towards creating collaborative action.

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Sustainability

Exploring partnerships for sustainable mobility in Bangalore

Leadership Vanguard’s Low Carbon Cities team travelled to Bangalore to explore partnership opportunities with a local impact enterprise, Vogo, that works to reduce the city’s pollution and congestion challenges.

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