Building Better Businesses #005 - "Governance for Grownups"

​In this occasional series we talk about the inner workings of for profit / for good businesses: we surface common challenges and pitfalls across the various elements of a business, and talk with experts about how to address them. 

​Up next: "Governance for Grownups"

​As if building a business that combines profit and purpose wasn’t hard enough, its governance is often even harder. So how do you create a governance model that works for you, your stakeholders and any shareholders you might have? And how do you ensure that the governance model evolves as your organisation does? Join me as I talk with Cameron Burgess of Uncompromise about avoiding governance pitfalls, and developing a governance practice that aligns everyone’s interests.

​Cameron Burgess has 30 years of experience as a systems entrepreneur, systems designer and management consultant to world positive ventures. A polymath of impact, Cameron has worked with 500+ impact organisations in 45 countries, and is responsible for launching a number of groundbreaking social and environmental ventures at the intersection of society, economy and technology. In addition to his role as principal at Uncompromise, Cameron is co-founder & CEO at Armillaria, where he leads on product strategy and partnership development for their flagship products The Innovation Exchange and NeedsList; and co-founder and Executive Director at Holo Ventures, a venture studio building on the Holochain protocol. Cameron is also a prolific writer; lead author of “From Billions to Trillions”, “A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats” and writes about the relationships between impact entrepreneurship, impact finance, and impact tech in a number of venues