Sofia gives her observations and lessons learned from a decade spent supporting social innovation. We dive into current trends and drivers of direction and momentum of social entrepreneurship and innovation.

In this episode, the national coordinator for mental health, Ing-Marie Wieselgren from the National Association of Regions and Municipalities, discusses the state of mental health in Sweden and what we can do to improve and innovate for a mentally healthier Sweden. This episode is in Swedish. A catch up episode in English will follow.

Norrsken Foundation CIO Tove Larsson expands on investment themes, trends and the challenges of impact investing

Social democrat and chairman of Norrköping municipality Lars Stjernkvist speaks about municipalities innovating approaches to social investments and social innovation.

Andreas König CEO of Just Arrived and Just Tech talks about innovating with tech for labour market integration of migrants coming to Sweden.

Kristian Ranta of MERU Health discusses the opportunities and challenges of innovating in clinical mental health and how MERU created its own innovation platform to validate new solutions.

Annica Johansson from Reach4Change expands on how impact is measured in social enterprises and how to take measurement beyond tedious reporting toward an everyday resource for improving business and learning.

Martin Siltberg from Sana Labs speaks about how artificial intelligence can improve education and even crack scale language training for migrants integrating in new societies.

Erik Fernholm, CEO of 29k talks in this first of two episodes about the need to democratise personal growth and development to drive sustainability in society. 29k seeks to make cutting edge personal development available globally for under 1 USD per person.

CEO Johan Oljeqvist tells us about the secret sauce that made Fryshuset one of the most successful non-profit organizations in Sweden and how they mastered hybrid organisation, how to be a non-profit and a business at the same time.

Lars Mac Key from Danske Bank unpacks sustainable bonds, social and green and explains Swedens leadership in the area and where the market is looking next.

Tomas Bokström, program manager of the Social and Health Impact Center at RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden speaks about the status of social innovation and social investments in Swedish government and local public sector service provision.

Tove Toll, co-founder of Competencer recounts the journey of growing personally and professionally leaving a job and starting an impact business,

In this fourth episode Malmö University academic Fredrik Björk unpacks the history of social innovation. Is social innovation really something new, or just a rebranding of old traditions of evolving society? What if effective altruism and impact entrepreneurship is just old school social engineering and neo-colonialism in emperors clothing?

Angel investor & VC Hampus Jakobsson and I take a look at the realities of impact business in tech and the 'goodie two shoes'/politically correct hype around the scene.

Angel investor & VC Hampus Jakobsson and I take a look at the realities of impact business in tech and the 'goodie two shoes'/politically correct hype around the scene.