Organisations across the spectrum - from charities to corner shops to corporates - are all part of our economy and part of our society. Their aims, behaviours and outcomes inform our lives - and they must change if we are to build a just, green future for all. 

Now innovators in the UK are breaking down boundaries and creating new models that are driven by a positive vision of the future. Outside of the traditional commercial or non-profit boxes, new approaches are born - new ways to build, fund, collaborate and grow.

Esme Verity & Daisy Ford-Downes, Zebra Unite Chapter leads for London and Scotland will be joined by Anna Murphy from Future Fit Business, Rob Wilson, CEO of Toast Ale and Kelly Bewers, a Social Innovation leader to discuss their unique perspectives on this movement.

Kelly Bewers - Social Innovation Leader
Kelly has spent the past decade exploring the intersection between business, innovation, civil society and technology, most recently as Managing Director of Year Here, the UK’s leading early-stage social start-up incubator programme. She is now an entrepreneur herself - collaborating on a number of projects that aim to platform, fund and design for the New Economy. Kelly is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of two female-founded social businesses and writes a monthly column for social impact magazine Pioneers Post. Passionate about people, perspective, possible futures and plants.  



Rob Wilson - Chief Toaster (CEO) at Toast Ale 
Toast brew planet-saving beer using unsold loaves from bakeries and unused crusts from sandwich makers, with profits poured into the charity Feedback to fight food waste. Prior to Toast, Rob led Ashoka in the UK, a global support network for social entrepreneurs. Rob is an
award-winning serial social entrepreneur having (co-)founded a number of ventures over the years, including; READ International, a Tanzanian student-volunteer-led development organisation which to date has provided over 1.5 million books to school children and created 100 school libraries; Generation Change, a partnership of the UK's leading youth social action organisations, helping 600,000 young people a year take positive action in their local communities; and the youth-led campaign Undivided; a non-partisan campaign set up to get the best possible Brexit deal for young people. In 2011 he co-authored a book with his wife Nikki about social entrepreneurs in Africa called On the Up.



Anna Murphy - Analyst at Future-Fit Business 
Anna supports early Future-Fit adopters to embed the Benchmark across their operations. She began her career with a team building a stock exchange for impact investments before freelancing as an sustainability consultant. She also coordinates the Wellbeing Economy Alliance’s (WEAll) book club, a community exploring how economics, business and finance can create the system change needed to solve 21st century challenges.

This event is hosted by the Scotland and London Zebras Unite Chapters.

The Season of the Dazzle: Breaking the Paradigm - New Models for a New Economy