Yesterday marked the launch of The International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the United Nations’ Secretary-General, HE Ban Ki-moon, at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. The Secretary-General’s objectives, to be achieved by 2030, are:

1.  To …

… A serious concern for many at this time of year, and one which makes this TED talk essential viewing:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html…

Good luck starting the next dance craze, and merry Christmas from everyone at The Foundation!

Spirited.

A few weeks ago we had a team trip to Leander boat club where Olympic Champion Steve Williams helped us apply some principles he learnt training for the Olympics into business teamwork. It was a fantastic two days which…

We had a brilliant turnout at our forum event last week where the subject for discussion was ‘social innovation’. Our three speakers (Cliff Prior, Chief Executive of UnLtd…, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, Alison Hutchinson, Chief Executive of the electronic

James Alexander, one of our partners and also founder of Zopa (the marketplace where people lend and borrow money) talks about the financial and social reward of being part of a peer to peer money market.

View the clip on TEDX here…

I’ve been hugely privileged to represent The Foundation at TED Global …this week – and I hope that this becomes an annual tradition for someone in the firm.  Why? – because much of our work is about helping our clients

Another Foundation Forum, another evening of meaty discourse in the grand surroundings of The Arts Club. This time, it was the world of digital that was up for dissection – “Digital is now mainstream; the revolution is over” – and,…

Ray Eitel-Porter – the data analyst’s view…

To champion a blind reliance on data, divorced from intuition, would be a foolhardy move. But to overlook the potential for data to help us make better decisions would be equally unwise.

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