Impact Safari Scandinavia
Impact Safari Scandinavia: The Future of Cities
A glimpse into Impact Safari Scandinavia 2023.
Next Departure: May 19 - 29th 2024
Led by CEO of Regen Melbourne, Kaj Löfgren, we will travel through Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, to explore the future of cities and the interconnected challenges of the meta-crisis. Diving into pragmatic and systemic approaches to the next economy and our hopeful future from the cities leading the way.
Embrace once-in-a-lifetime connections and conversations with exclusive workshops, talks and meetings with some of the leading local and global politicians, systems thinkers, storytellers and innovators.
This Impact Safari is built for those who are seeking to activate their influence in service of a thriving planet, mobilising towards the next economy.
Safari Program
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DAY 1
Welcome to Copenhagen, welcome to Scandinavia! Be welcomed by Kaj and Liza to your Impact Safari journey. Get acquainted with our intimate group of purpose-led humans over canapes and sundowners overlooking Copenhagen.
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DAY 2
In breakouts explore policy areas of interest such as housing, education or employment. Followed by a local lunch with friends. Activist investor Silja Nyboe Andersen hosts us for dinner at her home, a unique insight to Danish home life.
Who’s this program for?
Impact Safari Scandinavia is designed for a diverse cohort of humans all activating their communities in service to a thriving planet. This may look like business leaders, impact pioneers, activists, policy makers and capital holders.
This Impact Safari is by application only, with limited capacity.
Dates
May 19th - 29th 2024
The kinds of people you’ll meet…
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Niklas Adalberth is co-founder, former Deputy CEO and board member of Klarna, the leading European payments company with investors such as Sequoia, Atomico, and General Atlantic. Niklas has a master’s degree in international business from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he founded Klarna together with his two co-founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO, and Victor Jacobsson. Klarna is used by 50,000 retailers and 35 million people across Europe and launched in the UK in July 2014. During 2015, consumers in the US will also start buying with Klarna. He is foundaer and CEO of the Norrsken Foundation.
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Founder & CEO The Index Project
From the very beginning, Index has sought to support and facilitate design focused on improving life around the world. Radical and humble, Liza has worked hard to build out and evolve the now very famous biennial Index Award, the world's biggest monetary design award.
Listen to Can Design Save us? With Liza Chong
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Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is an historian of religion, Ph.d., educated from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.
Rune has lived in many countries and done fieldwork in a number of contemporary (primarily Afro-descendant) religions, but since childhood he has had Nordic religion as a strong field of interest.
Today Rune is working on applying contemporary developments in anthropology to rethink the way we address Nordic religion both in terms of scholarship, but also as a reservoir of cultural knowledge for environmental activism and sustainability sensitization.
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Tharald Nustad is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech sector. He is the founder of Nordic Impact, a company that incubates and invests in social / environmental impact tech startups and impact funds. He is co-founder Katapult Future Fest, an event focusing on technology, impact investing and the future society, Katapult Accelerator, a leading accelerator for impact tech startups and Katapult Ocean, an accelerator helping and investing in ocean impact tech startups.
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Silja Nyboe Andersen is an avid connector with an inner activist seeking to enhance our sensitivity to vitality. Silja has more than ten years experience in the impact investing space and has worked tirelessly as an investment activist in several capacities within the financial sector and family offices. She works as a coach and curator of events designed to empower individuals to use their resources as a lever for positive change and empowerment.
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Paul van Zyl grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. He served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Paul co-founded The Conduit club in 2016. The Conduit serves as a home for those committed to improving the world by harnessing the power of creativity and entrepreneurship. The Conduit connects thinkers, leaders and innovators in various fields to force impact for the greater good.
Paul was named by London Tech Week as one of its 30 "Change Makers 2018", celebrating the companies and people harnessing technology to inspire social and economic impact and drive global innovation.
Bio taken from The Conduit Connect
The kinds of places you’ll stay…
The kinds of things you’ll see…
Listen Up…
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Nate Hagens & Berry Liberman Where Are We Headed? #1: Human Behaviour
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Kate Raworth & Nate Hagens: "The Superorganism V. The Doughnut"
“Impact Safari is intellectually, emotionally and spiritually challenging in all the right ways. I arrived back to Australia very much changed and feeling connected to a new community of thought leaders.”
“The ripple effect of my Impact Safari journey is beyond measure. ”
“It’s been ten of the most fascinating days of my life - indescribable days. The best form of travel I’ve ever done - I would pay twice as much and do it for twice as long. Just do it. Trust yourself and do it.”
We are living through what has become known as the "metacrisis". The Consilience Project writes “our civilization has never been more vast, complicated, and fragile. This systemic fragility is exacerbated by new technologies, geopolitical instability, an ecological crisis and a reliance on global economic supply chains. These interlocking, interrelated problems are known collectively as the metacrisis.”
Join us to explore the themes of ecological economics, collaboration, systems change, and leadership. Questions include:
How do we navigate our leadership roles in this context and find active pathways towards a more hopeful and regenerative future?
What is the role of government, the social sector and business in charting a new course together?
How can ecological economics reframe our collective purpose?
How can capital be channeled in service to our visions of the good society?
Content
Guides
Kaj Löfgren
Kaj (pronounced Kai) is the CEO of Regen Melbourne, a platform for ambitious collaboration, in service of Melbourne. Powered by an alliance of more than 160 organisations, Regen Melbourne is the host of bold projects that are moving Melbourne towards a regenerative future.
Kaj is also the Entrepreneur in Residence at Small Giants Academy where he collaborates on the Academy’s education and storytelling initiatives, including the Impact Safari program and the Mastery of Business and Empathy.
Liza Chong
Previously leading the 'Design to Improve Life Investment' program, an acceleration program that works with design entrepreneurs and impact investors in realising sustainable solutions to global challenges.
She has developed and coordinated the global partner programs that included cities such as Singapore, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Risør in Norway and Guangzhou in southern China.
Originally, from London, UK, Liza has a blended background in strategy, project management and implementation, and previously worked on local government projects in London and the Greater Sub-Mekong region with the UN in Bangkok.
Liza's experience is extensive, gained from private, public and third sectors. She has a BA in Politics from the University of London – School of Oriental and African Studies, and MA in Digital Media: Technology and Cultural Form at Goldsmiths College.
Liza is an active advisor and mentor to individuals and organisations at the early stages of establishing their social businesses.
I’m in. What next?
Smart move. To secure your place or ask any questions, please email Impact Safari Producer, Anna here: anna@smallgiants.com.au
Cost
This 10-day Impact Safari will cost between $14k - $16k. This is an all-inclusive cost for the duration of the program, including accomodation, in-country travel, meals, access to Impact Week Stockholm, intimate workshops with global leaders, and an immersive leadership experience delivered by the faculty at Small Giants Academy. This cost is exclusive of return flights from your origin to Scandinavia.
Details
Our curated trips guide you through engaging head, heart and hands toward self inquiry essential to mobilise toward a thriving society and a flourishing ecology. We believe our inner worlds deeply effect our influence on the earth and the communities surrounding us, therefore its necessary when diving into BIG work to create expansive containers to relate to and question the world around us.