Seven Positive

02/07/2019

After over six years doing what we love; tackling deep rooted social and environmental issues, Seven Positive has now merged with Impact Boom, where our passion of working to help people create positive futures will continue.

Thanks for all of your support of Seven Positive over the years! Please join us on the Impact Boom page!

30/04/2018

It's been an intense start for the year here with a variety of exciting projects underway (hence why this page has been so quiet!).

We've been developing a global community of changemakers at Impact Boom (www.impactboom.org) - come join us! You'll find a tonne of resources to turn your ideas into positive impact.

Impact Boom has been running the Elevate+ Accelerator Program for 25 of Brisbane's top, emerging social entrepreneurs and we'd love you to come to BRISBANE POWERHOUSE on May 31 for a celebration, networking and pitch night where you can meet an amazing community of purpose-driven people. Elevate+ is proudly supported by Brisbane City Council.

Beyond this, we've been running an array of workshops and consulting with purpose-lead clients on HCD/Design thinking, lecturing at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and Griffith University and continuing our school programs at Pimpama State Secondary College.

We'll look forward to hearing about YOUR news, collaborating and certainly value having face-to-face time with you instead of online... :-)

We invite you to join us in celebrating Brisbane's social enterprise & innovation community for a lively evening of networking and pitches from Brisbane's top, emerging impact entrepreneurs. An amazing batch of 25 highly passionate and driven founders, representing 14 different social enterprises wi...

10/07/2017

Brisbane friends -> On Tuesday, 18 July, join CQUniversity Australia's Social Innovation team and local change leaders, for a lively public panel session on how we can all make a difference, and how social innovation can drive the process.

Titled Create Good. Transform the World. How? Start with Breakfast, the useful networking event will start with breakfast and coffee from 7.15am, before attendees settle in to consider social innovation from every angle.

Speakers include Chad Renando of Fire Station 101, Dr Olav Muurlink (chair of Co-operation in Development, one of the largest educational NGOs in Bangladesh, and a Senior Lecturer) and Seven Positive Director Tom Allen (who also leads Impact Boom). The event will be moderated by Dr Linda De George-Walker.

We hope to see you there.

Changing the world starts with breakfast at CQUni Brisbane Want to get inspired about social innovation, but don’t know where to begin? At CQUniversity Brisbane, you can start with breakfast! On Tuesday, 18 July, join CQUni’s Social Innovation team, and local change leaders, for a lively public pane...

16/06/2017

Are you creating impact? It's easy to have ideas, but how do you actually turn them into reality?

At the start of the year we launched Impact Boom - a social impact blog & podcast designed to help you create positive impact. Since launching, we've grown the team internationally and have interviewed over 35 global leaders who provide YOU with the insights and inspiration to turn your ideas into reality.

If you work in social enterprise, social innovation, business, design, education or simply enjoy doing good in this world, like the page and stay updated... there is plenty of fresh content coming!

Social Impact Blog & Podcast | Where Great Leaders, Changemakers & Social Innovators Share The Latest Ideas, Initiatives, Insights & Inspiration To Help You Create Positive Social Impact.

15/06/2017

How do you create the problem statement you need to find a solution to your business problem?

Unfortunately, there is no ideal problem statement. Instead, the most consistently creative people and groups are ones that find many different ways to describe the problem being solved. We ask people to “think outside the box,” but we should be asking people to find more descriptions of the box.

An interesting article from Art Markman. Read more here ->

The key to creativity is to stimulate your memory.

30/05/2017

is on this Saturday 3rd June at The Edge, SLQ in Brisbane. There'll be workshops, conversation panels, demonstrations, exhibitors and keynote presentations from industry makers and entrepreneurs.

You can meet the team behind www.fix-ed.org.au, as well as a host of other interesting school and industry initiatives.

More info on the website -> http://bit.ly/2rz3X50

29/05/2017

We're proud to be providing knowledge & content on design led innovation for the Queensland Government's upcoming Assistive Devices Hackathons in regional cities.

The Hackathons will each be a two-and-a-half-day intensive making marathon held in Mackay, Toowoomba and Townsville between July and August 2017. People with a disability - and a well-identified need - will work with a team of makers, mentored by a manufacturing industry expert, to develop a prototype that meets their needs.

Check out the website for more details -> http://bit.ly/2rMcL7k
More info can also be found here -> Growing Regional Queensland.

18/05/2017

How might we re-design our systems to reduce the UNACCEPTABLE amount of waste we produce each year?

Check out ABC iview's new War On Waste series. Some eye-opening facts and a very informative program ->

cc: Food Connect Foundation Ellen MacArthur Foundation Impact Boom

Craig Reucassel is on a mission to uncover how much waste we produce as a nation and learn what we can about it. In tonight's episode he focuses on food waste as a staggering amount ends up in landfill every year.

17/04/2017

This Wednesday, please join us for drinks with our friends from the Queensland Social Enterprise Council at Fishburners Brisbane!

Tom Allen of Seven Positive + Impact Boom will give a short talk on design thinking & social enterprise, you'll hear from Caroline Sanz of TDi and there's a good chance you'll meet a good bunch of purpose-driven people.

See you there!

QSEC, with colleagues in the startup eco-system present social enterprise drinks at Fishburners (the Capital, Queen St Mall). Meet people from across sectors working for social impact and hear Tom Allen

23/03/2017

Interested in using design to change people's lives? If so, you may like the new BBC series called 'The Big Life Fix'.

There are striking similarities between the series and the new school-led social enterprise 'Fix-ed' we launched earlier this year with Pimpama State Secondary College.

What happens when you combine Human Centred Design, Social Entrepreneurship and Repair in a high school program that aims to help disadvantaged people in the community?
Find out more here -> www.fix-ed.org.au

The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve - Episode 1 The team of inventors are challenged to come up with solutions for three very different problems. They attempt ...

26/02/2017

We've had a blast over the last couple of weeks working with South Korean teams from KAIST IP-CEO at the Global Entrepreneurship Workshop with Griffith University. The teams have been working hard on developing their business models and using design thinking to take their ideas to the next level.

It's always a pleasure to work with such passionate people who are focussed on creating a better world. Special thanks to Beck Davis who put this together and invited us in for another successful year.