Stéphanie Schmidt (Ashoka)

Stephanie Schmidt

(Ashoka)

INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Vision, creativity, pragmatism, persistence to transform a sector

Primary focus, type of support

Business & Social innovations

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Muhammad Yunus Grameen Bank Founder

Challenges

• Fight FOREST LOSS

• Restore ECOSYSTEMS enabling better

LIVELIHOODS

• Demonstrate LOCAL & GLOBAL results and

impact

• BREAK SILOS between different communities:

scientific, business, NGOs, etc.

Nicolas Métro, Kinomé

PLANTING TREES Solution & Impact

Ethical Leadership & Geo-

localized impact indicators

4 mn trees replanted in 12 countries, 200 000 people

impacted positively

FOREST & LIFE

global community

IMPROVES human development

Nicolas Métro, Kinomé

Partnership-based

approach: Cartier, Yves

Rocher, Danone

Jean-Louis Khiel, Cresus

Challenges

• Prevent INDEBTENESS

• Avoid collateral dammage

• Fight social exclusion

• Make financial players accountable

education PREVENTION

EARLY DIAGNOSTIC

TARGET population at-risk

Partnership with

BANKS

117 centres

65 300 households supported

600 qualified volunteers

Jean-Louis Khiel, Cresus

Solution & Impact

Understanding of environmental stakes

Gülcan Nitsch, Yesil Cember

Challenges

• Promote eco-friendly practices

• Engage the Turkish minority

• Recruit women

• Promote civic engagement, integration and

intercultural relationships

1st TURKISH ENVIRONMENTAL

DAY in Berlin

Local influencers

SUITABLE EDUCATIONNAL

MATERIAL

Environment protection

TRAININGS

EMPOWER immigrants

communities

Turkish culture

Gülcan Nitsch, Yesil Cember

Solution & Impact

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46mn are obese 21mn struggling to heat their homes

12mn suffer severe housing deprivation

15mn are unemployed

50mn

poor people

Urgent action needed

Sample of 7 countries

Which requires better connecting sectors

Social entrepreneurs Businesses Public institutions

• Better leverage societal innovations and entrepreneurs

• Innovation to develop sustainable business models

• New type of leadership: – Empathetic and changemaking skills

– Teams of teams

• Multipliers: flagship organizations, investors, media, B Schools, management consulting firms…

Going beyond

Contact Stéphanie Schmidt

Director Full Economic Citizenship Europe

Paris

sschmidt@ashoka.org

Thank you