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146 Dave Ford: From Media Executive to Media Entrepreneur
Manage episode 350020255 series 2448157
My next guest is Dave Ford. He is the Founder of the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network.
In 2021 the OPLN launched the Global Treaty Dialogues, a global virtual summit series engineered to build capacity and understanding around a Global Plastics Treaty. Participants include one hundred forty organizations from 34 countries across the vast plastic stakeholder spectrum.
We talked about:
(05:14) Why getting fired as a media executive was the best thing that happened to him
(12:14) How ayahuasca helped him find healing with his pains with past relationship and job
(26:07) How wildlife expedition helped him fall in love with nature
(47:33) Why plastic corporations want to solve the plastic crisis
(49:32) What are the best metrics to measure corporate efforts to solve environmental challenges
(55:06) How is he able to put different stakeholders of the plastic crisis in the same room
(58:44) How he found his niche? What is the core offer of the OPLN?
(63:30) What is his success metric of the OPLN?
(69:09) What's his advice to the younger Dave who is at the crossroads of quitting corporate and starting his first business
🔥 To activate, express, and amplify your purpose, go to: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN
200 episodes
Manage episode 350020255 series 2448157
My next guest is Dave Ford. He is the Founder of the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network.
In 2021 the OPLN launched the Global Treaty Dialogues, a global virtual summit series engineered to build capacity and understanding around a Global Plastics Treaty. Participants include one hundred forty organizations from 34 countries across the vast plastic stakeholder spectrum.
We talked about:
(05:14) Why getting fired as a media executive was the best thing that happened to him
(12:14) How ayahuasca helped him find healing with his pains with past relationship and job
(26:07) How wildlife expedition helped him fall in love with nature
(47:33) Why plastic corporations want to solve the plastic crisis
(49:32) What are the best metrics to measure corporate efforts to solve environmental challenges
(55:06) How is he able to put different stakeholders of the plastic crisis in the same room
(58:44) How he found his niche? What is the core offer of the OPLN?
(63:30) What is his success metric of the OPLN?
(69:09) What's his advice to the younger Dave who is at the crossroads of quitting corporate and starting his first business
🔥 To activate, express, and amplify your purpose, go to: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN
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