E203 - Tessa Clarke: What YOU can do to save the world
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This is the second episode of our new Leadership Series, sponsored by PwC, in which we will be diving deep into what it really takes to be a CEO.
Tessa Clarke is the co-founder and CEO of Olio, the free app that connects users with unwanted food (from households or local businesses) with neighbours living nearby who would like it. Tessa is driven by purpose, aiming to reduce food waste and tackle climate change. She shares with Jake and Damian why Olio was created, how to build a brand and stay resilient in the face of challenge and set backs. She also reveals her key recruitment tips.
They discuss what can be done at an individual level to care for the environment and why we should be sharing, rather than discarding.
Thank you to PwC for sponsoring this special CEO Series. PwC’s purpose is to build trust and solve important problems, and their global strategy - The New Equation - is bringing this to life for their clients, people and society. By combining technology with human ingenuity, passion and experience, PwC works with organisations to deliver more intelligent, sustained outcomes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome along to episode two of our leadership series in association with |
| 0:06.1 | PWC. We're really excited to partner with PWC once again to bring you conversations with |
| 0:11.7 | people who've done incredible things, who know incredible things and have so many lessons |
| 0:16.8 | for you for your life. Today we welcome someone who is not only a leader but they are a leader |
| 0:21.9 | with purpose. We welcome to high performance the founder of Oliot Tessa Clark. Now this |
| 0:26.8 | is such a purposed driven conversation because Tessa is going to share with you the story |
| 0:32.6 | of how the Oliot app was created. An app that is all about us doing everything we can |
| 0:37.2 | for the environment, about sharing, about less waste, about caring for the most precious |
| 0:41.7 | resource we have, which is the planet. But she also talks about how to build a brand, |
| 0:46.7 | how to remain resilient in the face of setbacks and notbacks. And in fact, she goes a really |
| 0:51.4 | cool tip about what she does when she's recruiting. And since this, actually on the high |
| 0:56.2 | performance team, we've been recruiting new members for our business and we've used |
| 1:00.7 | the tip that Tessa gave us for getting the right kind of people into the business. So have |
| 1:05.6 | a listen and I'm sure you'll learn plenty. As always, these conversations are designed |
| 1:11.1 | to teach you as much as possible. So take it out and learn some great lessons from the |
| 1:15.8 | founder of Oliot Tessa Clark on episode two of our high performance PWC leadership series. |
| 1:24.2 | Thank you very much for joining us on high performance. Thank you for having me. What |
| 1:31.9 | is your definition of high performance? Well, I think there are all sorts of metrics |
| 1:38.2 | and frameworks and stuff about high performance, but what I listen to is my guts and how high |
| 1:43.3 | performance feels. And I think for me, it's like sort of true love. You know it when you |
| 1:47.8 | see it, right? And you know it when you feel it. So for me, high performance is when individuals |
| 1:54.0 | are really fulfilling their full potential. And when you look at a team, the whole is |
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