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Steward Leadership: Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit

Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO of Stewardship Asia Centre

Tune in for fresh perspectives, impactful stories, and a call to action for Steward Leadership that empowers listeners to make a meaningful difference. This series highlights real-world examples of leaders and organisations that have successfully merged profit with purpose, showing that sustainability doesn’t need to be a sacrifice—it can be a catalyst for growth and innovation.

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00:23:28

Bhargav Sri Prakash on digital vaccines and...

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2025/12/02

Bhargav Sri Prakash, Founder & CEO of FriendsLearn, joins Rajeev a year after their first podcast together to share how his ambitious “digital vaccines” could redefine global health and disease prevention. Built on 12 years of scientific research and international collaboration, Bhargav’s team, together with Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a patented neuro-cognitive training technology that activates the body’s natural immune system through non-invasive digital interventions. Rajeev

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00:33:03

Delivering Healthcare for the Underserved | Edward...

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2025/11/26

On this episode of Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit, Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO of Stewardship Asia Centre, and Edward Booty, founder of reach52, discuss how reach52 addresses the challenge of healthcare for the 52% of the world left behind by traditional systems.Drawing on experience in social enterprise and healthcare innovation, reach52 has designed a model that maximises both purpose and profit, delivering essential medicines and health education to underserved communities. By combining health-worker

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00:28:14

Benjamin Towell on architecting and financing an...

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2025/10/15

Benjamin Towell, Executive Director of OCBC’s Wholesale Banking Sustainability Office, helps shape the bank’s net‑zero roadmap for the built environment, drives innovative finance solutions for customers with a special focus on SMEs, and contributes to global efforts like CRREM and the World Green Building Council to ensure credible 1.5 °C aligned pathways.Benjamin explains OCBC’s SL25-award winning SME Energy Efficiency Assessment (SMEEA) tool: what it is, how it works, and why it was developed. We

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00:29:04

Steve Willis & Jan Lee on using fiction as a force...

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2025/09/22

Steve Willis and Jan Lee, authors of Fairhaven: A Novel of Climate Optimism, imagine a hopeful climate future. Drawing on their backgrounds in engineering, sustainability and journalism, they chose to use fiction as a force for good, crafting a novel that inspired and galvanised its readers to take charge of the future.By researching real innovations like rigs‑to‑reef and Arctic refreezing as well as how traditional energy sectors might become part of the solution, they leverage human innovation to

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00:35:41

Dr. Shuchin Bajaj on making healthcare a right, not a...

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2025/07/16

Dr. Shuchin Bajaj, Founder Director of Ujala Cygnus, shares the powerful mission behind his healthcare network: to ensure that no one is denied quality medical care due to financial, geographic, or social barriers.At Ujala Cygnus Kashmir, turning away a patient for financial reasons is a fireable offense, a testament to the organisation’s unwavering commitment to healthcare equity.Dr. Bajaj dives into their cross-subsidy model, which enables the hospital to sustain a high-cost, low-volume approach

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00:23:36

Eugenia Koh on breaking barriers through inclusive...

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2025/06/24

Eugenia Koh, Global Head of Sustainable Finance, Wealth and Retail Banking at Standard Chartered, discusses the bank's strategic initiatives to empower women entrepreneurs and drive inclusive economic growth, including the SC WIN program, which has provided $300 million in financing to women-led SMEs and aims to reach $1 billion by 2028. Eugenia also delves into the Women in Entrepreneurship program, part of the Futuremakers initiative, which targets the creation and sustenance of 140,000 jobs by

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00:27:07

Mariam Omar on stitching a sustainable future

Steward Leadership: Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit ·

2025/06/10

Mariam Omar, Group Head of Corporate Communications at Brandix, delves into the company's remarkable journey from a textile trading firm to a global leader in sustainable apparel manufacturing. Joining Brandix in 2020, Mariam brings a unique perspective, blending her background in mechanical engineering and social enterprise with a passion for innovation and social impact. She guided the company's holistic approach to sustainability, focusing on environmental stewardship, social

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00:28:43

Dr. Harald Link on 150 Years of Compassionate Capitalism

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2025/05/13

What's the secret to lasting 150 years in business? In this inspiring episode, Rajeev Peshawaria sits down with Dr. Harald Link, Chairman of B.Grimm, to uncover the formula behind the company’s remarkable journey. From its humble beginnings bringing European medicines to Thailand, B.Grimm has reinvented and evolved into a powerhouse across energy, real estate, and pharmaceuticals—without ever compromising its core values. Dr. Link shares his commitment to compassion leadership, and how he prizes it

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00:29:04

Filipa Ricciardi on clean energy and innovation

Steward Leadership: Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit ·

2025/04/24

Why would an investment banker leave Wall Street to join a renewable energy company? For Filipa Ricciardi, Executive Director at EDP Renewables APAC, the answer lies in purpose.In this third episode of our Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit podcast, Rajeev Peshawaria sits down with Filipa Ricciardi, Executive Director of EDP Renewables APAC, to explore how businesses can lead the clean energy transition without compromising on profit. They unpack how EDP, already 95% green, is driving innovation

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00:31:52

Stephen Cave on making AI work for us, not against us

Steward Leadership: Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit ·

2025/04/01

Dr Stephen Cave, Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at Cambridge University sits down with Rajeev to discuss the intersection of technology, ethics and leadership. Exposing the dual nature of AI, Dr Stephen emphasises both its opportunities and challenges, sharing how we can best leverage the technology for the greater good. Through a discussion of the ethical implications of AI, the history of intelligence as a tool for justifying dominance, and the societal impacts of life

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00:39:46

Dr. Kiran Bedi on state stewardship and using...

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2025/02/20

Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO of Stewardship Asia Centre, and Neil Humphreys, author and journalist, kick off the first episode of Stewardship Asia Centre's new series Steward Leadership: Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit. Inspired by his book Sustainable Sustainability, Rajeev shares thought-provoking ideas on how to balance profitability with social and environmental responsibility.Rajeev and Neil interview Dr. Kiran Bedi, former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, a formidable trailblazer who shares her

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