My projects: the highlights
New Books Network Podcast
I host the Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast on the New Books Network with my business partner and friend Kimon Fountoukidis. We interview people who have done something interesting and whose story we want to share with a wider audience. The New Books Network is the largest non-fiction author interview podcast in the world, publishing 15 podcasts a day, and reaches millions of listeners every month.
I invested in the NBN in 2020. It has almost unlimited potential to help serious authors spread the word about their work.
Village in the City
This project is run by Mark McKergow and supports people who want to build village-like communities in the places they live. I'm on the Advisory Board Any contacts to community builders, community support organisations are most welcome.
See Mark talk about VITC here. Mark wrote the book about Host Leadership.
CAMentrepreneurs
The organisation supports business and social entrepreneurship among Cambridge & Oxford Alumni, current students, and others. I founded it in 2016 and since then we have had about sixty events around the world. We have had gatherings in Cambridge, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Helsinki, Houston, London, New York, Oxford, Paris, Sydney, Vancouver and Warsaw.
I support the further growth of the network as and when the right local leaders are identified or make themselves known.
Newcomer WelcomeR Clubs
I've hosted over many hundreds of bi-weekly Open Coffee meetings in Krakow since 2013, and I know our format is much better & more efficient than most networking meetings. I'm happy to work with community leaders to pilot our format, see whether our format could "take" in a new context.
The Lisbon club is thriving.
Other community projects
I've hosted over many hundreds of bi-weekly Open Coffee meetings in Krakow since 2013, and I know our format is much better & more efficient than most networking meetings. I'm happy to work with community leaders to pilot our format, see whether our format could "take" in a new context.
The project is leader-less but barely needs one. The founder of the idea spoke on my TEDxKazimierz stage here, and we have (at the time of writing) a Polish language website, Google map, and a Pinterest page showing some of the benches. Contacts with people involved in pro-community building public space design are welcome.
This project led by Magdalena Błyskosz is run by and for teenagers/university students around the world. Any contacts to people who can help her reach teenagers directly (Youth leadership programmes, student societies etc) are most welcome. Hear her describe the project here .
The founder spoke at TEDxKazimierzWomen about this idea. I am keen to sign up for additional venues (which can be bars, cafes, libraries, coworking centres).
This is Southern Poland's major startups support foundation. I'm a donor, informal ambassador and on the board. If equivalent organisations want to chat about potential co-operation, I'm happy to initiate the contact.
Everywhere in the world needs a Newcomer Welcome Club. I’m piloting them where I can. There are also things that I do and enjoy doing/I could do as a one off guest that don't require a project.
If your community needs a welcome club, or you want my help on a project, please get in touch.
TEDxKazimierz, TEDx and TED Pre-events
I've done pre-events (events before events) before TED and TEDx events in Calgary, Cape Town, Edinburgh, Krakow, Rome, Taipei, Vancouver and Warsaw and am committed to the concept of building local communities among TED and TEDx fans. My TED profile give a sense of my commitment to the TED and TEDx community.
Doing Business
I am happy to talk about business on behalf of the companies I'm involved in. You can see almost all the companies listed on my Linkedin profile. If you want to consider me as an investor, mentor or advisor in your venture, please read this.