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Welcome to What If We Get It Right? the podcast for positive stories in business - hosting social impact entrepreneurs, innovators and employee activists from around the globe. We’re starting conversations about how people can lead our world in a new direction and looking at where we may be getting it right.
Listen to experts on employee activism and hear from activists from around the world who are using their workplace positions to agitate, innovate and orchestrate change.
Get to know changemakers in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are using the power of social business to create community value and contribute to long-term peace.
Hear from 17 entrepreneurs from around the globe whose curiosity has led them to question current systems and develop ethical and sustainable business practices. Inspired by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
About What If We Get It Right?
What If We Get It Right is a partnership between Impossible – a global planet-centric design agency and Tessa Wernink founder of Fairphone and more recently of the Undercover Activist - a learning hub for social intrapreneurs.
Our aim is to offer the business world new narratives, showcasing how to build and activate for-profit businesses to serve planetary and societal needs. Our aim is to start conversations about how people can lead our world in a new direction and where we might be getting it right.
Tessa Wernink
Co-founder, Host & Narrator, Editor in Chief
Tessa is co-creator and host of What If We Get It Right? She is on a mission to gather and embolden ideas that shape society for the better. She does this in her role as podcast maker, business activist and coach. Tessa was a founding team member of Fairphone, the social enterprise using the production of smartphones to drive systemic change in the electronics industry. She has been involved with campaigns for digital rights and climate activism and her latest project – The Undercover Activist – moves into the heart of organisations to support and train young leaders to address the urgent matters of our time through positive workplace activism.
Kwame Ferreira
Co-founder, Executive Producer
Kwame Ferreira is co-creator and producer of What If We Get It Right? He is an artist and serial entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Impossible, a global design agency. Kwame is a designer by training. He spent his early career at Fjord in service design after which he created Impossible.com a venture builder accelerating business innovation with a product led, evidence based approach for some of the largest corporations on earth. Impossible is also the home of Planet Centric Design.
Impossible is an innovation group, home of planet centric design. Creating, validating and growing purpose-led ventures.
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Contributors
James Powell
Production and
Sound Design
James is an independent sound designer, musician & university lecturer. His talent is in composing, whether it be music, stories or curricula. He has a degree in social sciences and online & distance learning from the Open Univeristy and studied sound engineering at Abbey Road Studios. He was signed to Universal Records with his band Mover in the 1990s and still releases albums and EPs through his label Waterpistol. James lives with Tessa and their three sons in Amsterdam.
Cláudia Delgado
Artwork & Communications
(Be A Peach)
Ana Germano
Artwork & Communications
(Be A Peach)
Cláudia is founder and strategist of BE A PEACH, a creative agency focused on using creativity for good. She studied Business, Marketing, and Art Direction in Lisbon and London before moving to Asia where she immersed herself into different social and environmental projects and initiatives. In 2017, Cláudia founded BE A PEACH and has been working with planet-centric projects from all over the world with a team of multi-talented creatives who want to use their creative skills for positive impact.
Ana studied Design and Marketing in Lisbon, finishing her studies in Paris. After returning from Paris where she was a top student at École de Communication Visuelle, she now divides her life between design and growing her artist career in which she challenges the normative perception of female sexuality.
Ana is the head of design at BE A PEACH where she finds her purpose and her contribution for a better and more human world.