Yunus Social Business y Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship se asocian para apoyar a los intraemprendedores sociales en su búsqueda por transformar las corporaciones

La organización del Premio Nobel de la Paz Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Social Business, junto con socios de la Fundación Schwab para el Emprendimiento Social y la Fundación Porticus, han lanzado una plataforma ambiciosa para reunir a estos intraemprendedores sociales corporativos para aprender unos de otros y escalar: The Unusual pioneros

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Usando los recursos, la experiencia y los activos de la empresa, los empleados dedicados están desarrollando soluciones a los problemas sociales y ambientales, con un modelo comercial en su corazón. Estos “intraemprendedores sociales” asumen un rol emprendedor dentro de su empresa y, con la bendición del CEO, están creando empresas sociales, que están 100% enfocadas en resolver un problema social y reinvertir las ganancias. The Unusual Pioneers es una plataforma creada únicamente para apoyar a estos intraemprendedores sociales

“Las grandes corporaciones finalmente sienten la presión de mejorar las sociedades a las que sirven. Pero es un movimiento que viene de sus empleados. Comenzamos a investigar a estos intraemprendedores sociales emergentes y descubrimos que lo más importante que podíamos brindarles era una plataforma para conectarse entre ellos. Cuando estás haciendo algo contra la corriente, es muy importante saber que hay otros como tú”. Saskia Bruysten, CEO y cofundadora de Yunus Social Business

“Los ciudadanos, los activistas y los jóvenes claman por una acción enérgica que requiere cambios complejos dentro de las empresas. Hemos visto esta llamada respondida por un grupo comprometido de innovadores sociales que actúan como agentes internos de cambio. Estos intraemprendedores sociales desarrollan nuevos productos, servicios y modelos comerciales que crean valor tanto para la sociedad como para sus empresas en formas que están diseñadas para durar, mientras se esfuerzan por lograr los cambios internos necesarios para lograr el capitalismo de las partes interesadas”. François Bonnici, Jefe de Innovación Social del Foro Económico Mundial y Director de la Fundación Schwab para el Emprendimiento Social.

La cohorte de Unusual Pioneers será dirigida a través de un extenso plan de estudios, intercambio entre pares y tutoría para escalar sus iniciativas con la ayuda de organizaciones asociadas, incluidas Acumen, Impact Hub, The UNDP's Business Call to Action, Fundaçao Dom Cabral, League of Intrapreneurs , Craigberoch Business Decelerator y muchos más. Vea la cohorte completa de intraemprendedores sociales corporativos anunciados hoy en Global Intrapreneur Week:

Garance Wattez-Richards is CEO of AXA Emerging Customers, a business she founded that provides insurance products aimed at low-income communities. Established in 2016, they cover over 22 million people across the world, ranging from migrants, small retail merchants, smallholder farmers and gig economy workers.

Agnes Weil - Director of Sustainability and Philanthropy at Club Med. Club Med are organising lasting supply relationships with local farmers who live in the proximity to their resorts and are thereby helping to reduce poverty and protect the local environment. They are already working in six countries and have been highlighted as a best practice by the World Tourism Organisation of the UN.

Ruchika Singhal, Vice President, Global Health at Medtronic Labs. Medtronic is running a social business which helps some of the most vulnerable patients access vital healthcare across West Africa, & East Africa, and Southern Asia. They are expanding access to healthcare for people living with non-communicable diseases. Ruchika told us “I’m at a company that has the resources, the capabilities, the talent and the ideas. If we don’t step up to solve these challenges and play a meaningful role, who will?”

Gisela Sanchez, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at FIFCO. Nutrivida is a social business committed to eradicating ‘hidden hunger’ in the world by selling highly nutritional food products at an affordable price. So far they have provided food for more than 2.3 million people at a very low cost in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The social business is now financially independent from the parent company FIFCO.

Cristina Campos, Head Integrated Access Programs & Markets at Novartis. Cristina is currently working on transforming health in lower-income populations. Associated solutions focus on providing access to quality healthcare, medicines and health education – and have reached 70 million patients across 18 countries to date.

Lisa Neuberger, Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation for Corporate Citizenship at Accenture. Lisa and her team created Social + Eco Innovators to harness the power of Accenture talent collaborating with pioneering clients, suppliers, start-ups, and NGOs to tackle pressing societal and environmental challenges.

Benoit Bonello, Social Innovation Director at Suez. Benoit leads Suez’s business branch dedicated to inclusion and delivering access to essential services of water, sanitation and waste for low-income populations, via Suez’s own business solutions and through partnerships with social entrepreneurs.

Juddy Gichuki, Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy at Safaricom. Juddy is leading the charge to transform Safaricom from the renowned Kenyan telecom firm into a purpose led technology company. She is implementing a cloud based platform to connect informal businesses and SMEs to payment services to make payment services more accessible to all.

Saad Arshad, Senior Manager Program & Research at HBL Habib Bank. Saad’s initiative ‘Food to Fork’ is building a sustainable value chain of partners to uplift the rural areas in Pakistan by providing smallholder farmers with access to training, machinery and the financial services they need to succeed.

Saulo Di Pizzo, Head of Social Innovation & Community Engagement at Givaudan. Saulo is establishing a social innovation space in Givaudan, empowering employees and to create new business opportunities to address social and environmental challenges.

Sharda Gautam, Zonal Head-North at Tata Trusts. The initiative from Tata Trusts blends both professional and life skills training, as well as a platform that showcases a curated collection of handwoven goods crafted by women weavers and artisan entrepreneurs.

Ritesh Agarwal, Assistant Vice President at Educational Initiatives, which is an Ed-tech organization that builds products that focus on diagnostic assessment and personalised learning to ensure that students learn with understanding.

Nicola Galombik, Executive Director at Yellowwoods Ventures Investments is currently Incubating and growing social enterprises and system change innovations.

Salah Goss, Senior Vice President, Global Markets Humanitarian & Development at Mastercard. Salah is leading the Center for Inclusive Growth, which leverages the businesses core competencies to produce independent research, scale global programs, and empower communities of thinkers enabling access to sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world.