321. Evolved Leadership: How a Tri-Sector Mindset Grows Your Impact Possibilities - Jens Molbak

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Sep 12

Written By Andie Murphy

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Overview

Meet J ens. This serial entrepreneur (and founder of Coinstar!) believes deeply in pulling together all sectors for impact. In fact, by adopting a tri-sector mindset, we're able to identify opportunities to innovate and solve problems by aligning resources and interests from private enterprise (businesses), the public sector (government), and social sectors (nonprofits). It's not a theory. He's already proving it at New Impact, and he's brought the playbook for nonprofits to lean into. Lucky you!🎉

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Defining the Tri-Sector and Whole of Society Approach
How innovators & business model creators united profit & purpose
Exploring tri-sector case studies
How nonprofits can apply these ideas today

Today’s Guest

Jens Molbak, Founder, New Impact + Founder and Former CEO, Coinstar

“There’s always this fight for like more money or more taxes or more funding, but if we could be smarter about how we repurpose and use the assets we already have, that can be really powerful.”

— Jens Molbak, Founder, New Impact

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Episode Highlights

Jen’s story (3:05)
The story of Coinstar (5:55)
Tri-sector model (11:10)
Mindsets that need to shift today (16:00)
An example of partnering across sectors (21:15)
Mindset shifts needed (22:00)
The reason New Impact exists and resources available (33:10)
Creating a database of impact organizations across all sectors (35:45)
Meaningful moments of philanthropy in Jens’ life (39:25)
Jen’s One Good Thing: How can you repurpose existing resources (45:00)

Powerful quotes

“We often like to say we're the innovators behind the innovators trying to help people scale and grow their organizations with more power and more impact.” -Jens

“There's always this fight for like more money or more taxes or more funding, but if we could be smarter about how we repurpose and use the assets we already have, that can be really powerful.” -Jens

“If we're going to actually create fundamental change at scale, we've got to do some of this foundational work and build the systems and the tools so we can accelerate change. “ -Jens

“We don't communicate. We don't share the lessons quickly enough. There's not a good enough network to leverage what we already know. If we can create that connective tissue, we can actually start to solve some of these problems faster.” -Jens

“There's a much bigger team out there who are working alongside of you that you may not be aware of.” -Jens

“Caring is at the core of what really makes change happen.” -Jens