‘Collaborative Advantage offers the perfect recipe for successful businesses that improve lives.’
- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Paul Skinner is a multi-award winning author, speaker, social entrepreneur and strategy consultant.
He is known for inspiring audiences with bold ideas drawn from his books and practical experience.
He challenges organisations to let go of legacy thinking and lead with purpose.
Paul is the author of Collaborative Advantage: How Collaboration Beats Competition as a Strategy for Success and The Purpose Upgrade: Change Your Business to Save the World. Change the World to Save Your Business.
He offers strategic consulting services through the Agency of the Future to support the growth of businesses, multi-stakeholder initiatives, governments and NGOs.
Paul founded the non-profit community MarketingKind, where purpose-driven marketers and business leaders come together to learn from one another, explore new ideas and use their skills to tackling pressing societal challenges.
And he regularly speaks on the themes of leadership in uncertain times, purposeful enterprise and creating Collaborative Advantage. And has delivered keynote addresses for organisations such as the United Nations, Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, Caledonia Investments, Aimia, RES Group, Save the Children and Sony.
‘The Purpose Upgrade is thoughtful, practical and inspiring. The private sector can and must play a key role in overcoming the significant challenges the world is facing. After all, as a business you cannot be successful – nor call yourself successful – in a society that fails. Impact and leadership come with responsibility, and this book offers must-have insights for leaders from across all industries.’
- Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM (2007–2020), Co-Chair Global Climate Adaptation Centers, Fortune World’s 50 Greatest Leaders (2018) and UN Humanitarian of the Year 2010
‘I often say that the biggest contribution an individual can make to changing the world is advocating for the policy they believe in. Paul Skinner has convinced me of another truth: “If you want to change the world, there may be no greater lever to pull than to find a solution to a problem and to deliver and scale that solution through meaningful enterprise.”’
- Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Northeastern University and author of Greenovation