Sustainability is a subject close to our heart and we are pleased to bring you the story of another sustainability warrior. Meet the Co-Founder of Upcycleluxe, Harshita Chandra, a passionate entrepreneur and an international sustainability consultant who has also won the Sustainability Initiative of the Year by Entrepreneur India.

A graduate of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Harshita is an engineer-turned-fashion technologist who has worked towards driving Fashion Businesses enabled by Technology, in Digitalisation, Business Strategy, Marketing, Automation, Technology Integration.

Upcycleluxe is India’s first zero-waste & sustainable fashion marketplace that “calculates environmental impact with plastic-free being the norm and zero-waste a lifestyle.” It was born out of Harshita’s experience at her fashion internship when she witnessed massive wastage of products from leading fast-fashion brands which left her asking several questions about the ethics of consumption and fair-trade practices in the fashion industry.

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[06:31s] The harsh realities of fast fashion
[22:22s] The genesis of Upcycleluxe
[26:48s] Artisanal greenwashing
[36:36s] The economics of a sustainable business
[42:28s] Vision for Upcycleluxe: Making sustainability a norm and accessible to everyone

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On today’s episode, meet Samuel H Kim, Founding President of the Center for Asia Leadership Initiatives (CALI), whose early work in diplomacy, international development, social entrepreneurship and research led him to start an organization that is today helping key leaders in multiple spheres in Asia build robust frameworks, devise effective policies, and formulate new strategies for increasing their communities’ growth and sustainability. Samuel oversees over 50 projects every year!

Samuel also co-leads the annual Asian Leadership Conference and Asia Leadership Forum, in which over 350 global leaders representing 280 entities from 110 countries join forces to discuss solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. Samuel has worked in a wide range of sectors, ranging from strategy consulting, social entrepreneurship, and international development to politics, the military, and Korea’s national government. He has also served as a Fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Center and at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds an MPA from Harvard, an MA from Seoul National, and an LLB from Handong Universities. Oh, and he has also edited fourteen books to date!

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[04:54s] His work in diplomacy
[14:22s] His work in research and academics
[26:48s] Samuel the author
[30:16s] Genesis of Centre for Asia Leadership Initiatives (CALI)
[40:09s] Vision for Centre for Asia Leadership Initiatives (CALI)
[45:54s] RWL: Explore resources from CALI at https://asialeadership.org/resources/publications/

Find out more about Samuel’s work at CALI at https://asialeadership.org/
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A passionate and pragmatic facilitator and trainer with a dynamic personality, a great sense of humour and the warmth of real humanity – that’s Gerardo de Luzenberger, our guest on today’s episode, in a nutshell. This Certified Professional Facilitator | Master is the current Global Chair of IAF (International Association of Facilitators) – before this, he served on the IAF Board from 2018 till 2022 as Director of Professional Development.

Gerardo’s journey in facilitation dates to the 90s – he was one of the first to bring facilitation to Italy, and he founded the Scuola di Facilitazione, the first Italian initiative aiming at training facilitators and team leaders, in partnership with Bureau Frank Little (the Netherlands). His consulting firm, Gerardo de Luzenberger sas specializes in stakeholders’ engagement, participatory planning, deliberative democracy, conflict and change management, organizational development.

Vinay traces Gerardo’s journey so far and his vision for the future of IAF and the global facilitation community. Hit play!

[04:30s] Journey into facilitation
[11:36s] Facilitation in Italy – Insights
[17: 40s] Journey into IAF (International Association of Facilitators)
[22: 00s] Spreading the power of facilitation
[28: 43s] Gerardo’s vision for IAF as it turns 30
[36: 10s] Gerardo’s top tip for facilitators and the larger global community
[41:18s] RWL: Harrison Owen’s works on the ‘Open Space Movement’; ‘Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter’ by Marvin R. Weisbord & Sandra Janoff

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