- a Sustainability Entrepreneur and Global Knowledge Nomad who is Networking with Intention and Quality (COLIBRI)
Linköping Area, Sweden
- a Sustainability Entrepreneur and Global Knowledge Nomad who is Networking with Intention and Quality (COLIBRI)
Linköping Area, Sweden
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“There is a long way to go until the world is ‘Re:Loved’ as my personal vision reads – meaning a world where you meet your fellow human being with Love and Respect, and you can expect to be met with the same.
But even a thousand mile journey has to begin with one step, as Lao Tse suggests. Sustainopreneurship is such a step - a strong and powerful one; ‘Business with a Cause’.”
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OneLineBio: I am a Sustainopreneurial Facilitator and a Global Knowledge Nomad Networking with Intention and Quality, who runs five ventures; Ignition Communications, SLICE Services and Publishing, iÆREAS, SEEDS Innovation Fund and DJ Anders; with a daughter just turned one-and-a-half years old, and in a romantic love relationship (after a successful divorce)!
(Source http://www.andersabrahamsson.info)
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FIRSTLY,
My approach to networking: I am a Qualitative Intentional Networker.
My LinkedIn Trusted Network are those sharing my Intention, Values and Cause Orientation. I only add people I have a relationship history with from elsewhere, and where I find power I can recommend them safely (the core purpose of LinkedIn). I am a "COLIBRI": Cause-Oriented Linked In Buddy Referring Inter-networker - http://snurl.com/colibri-networking.
- My Intention: To RE:LOVE THE WORLD through Sustainopreneurship!
- My Action:
• Sustainopreneurship Facilitating,
• Qualitative Intentional Networking and
• Global Knowledge Nomadism
- My Business Projects:
• Ignition®
• SLICE Services and Publishing™
• SEEDS Innovation Fund
• DJ Anders
- My Research:
• Växjö University
• iÆREAS
- Community Moderation
• Sustainopreneur´s Café @ Ning
• Sustainopreneur´s Square @ Facebook
If you somewhat match my Wants/Haves at www.andersabrahamsson.info, and if we have common friends over at Facebook, drop me a reason to add me @ FB as a friend http://profile.to/andersabrahamsson.
Thanks for visiting!
Peace,
Anders
RE:LOVE THE WORLD!
Entrepreneurship>Creativity>Innovation>Organising>Networking>Branding>Investing for Sustainability, Speaker-Meeting&Event Facilitator-Open Space/World Café, On&Offline Design-ICT Platforms to Collaborate/Co-Create/Cross-edit/Communicate, Packaging for Offering, Turning Ideas to Action and Results
MUSIC: When words are not enough. Consuming all sorts of music since earliest days of Life. Distributing/DJ from mid-teens. Producer; aspiring. Passion: Joy of Life EDM - Electronic Dance Music.
(Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
July 2008 — Present (4 months)
I have gotten appointed as a lease holder for the business category Business Consulting > Social Enterprise over at Ki-work, the virtual work outsourcing platform - revolutionizing online work! On Ki-work you COLLABORATE with people you can trust, COMPETE to win work globally and CONTROL your online business. Ki-work in general works as my shopping window for my virtual services delivered through my freelance/consultancy brand SLICE Services and Publishing.
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• Profile: http://www.ki-work.com/ki-profile/andersabrahamsson
• Category Leadership: http://www.ki-work.com/ki-category/socialenterprise/
(Research industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Emerging from a need to organize and systematize research on sustainopreneurship beyond a list of crucial publishing finally defining the concept, and testing the definition's validation, I have taken the initiative to form an interim association on enactive research, education and application of sustainopreneurship - in short iÆREAS. Now, after the conceptual inception, a new stage is reached beyond the first full-fledged research loop making the concept valid and understood. This is made possible from the last two publications (see Master Thesis link at "Freelance Researcher" position at Växjö University). Private invitations of founding members will commence more systematically after some crucial publishing (subscribe to the association blog when the publishing is done). The project has been posted at the Ki-work platform.
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• Web: http://iaereas.weebly.com
• Blog: http://iareas.wordpress.com
• Ki-work project page: http://www.ki-work.com/ki-project/aereas
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
My formal senior studies led to an MSc BA, with Master Thesis subject "Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause: Conceptualizing Entrepreneurship for Sustainability". A direct sequel was a research paper presented at ISDRS, International Sustainable Development Research Society 13th Conference 10-12 June, 2007 in Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, outlining prospective further research on sustainopreneurship. These two publications will merge into one and will be published at Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) later this year. The conference article has undergone heavy editing and will be included as a book chapter in a book to be published Autumn 2008 from FSF as well.
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• Master thesis - "Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause: Conceptualizing Entrepreneurship for Sustainability":
http://www.diva-portal.org/vxu/abstract.xsql?dbid=1254
• Conference arranger website: www.isdrs.org
• Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research: www.fsf.se
(Music industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
I am a part of the DJ Agency Icon Management, promoting me Worldwide. Check my DJ Blog for gigs to come.
I am a part of a proud agency holding talents in DJing and producing such as Airbase (SE), Vast Vision (NL), Ben Alonzi & Steve Allen (UK), Kris O'Neil (DK), Tenishia (MT), JdotP (SE), as well as Swedish up-and-coming talents such as Fred Acler (SE). It is managed and founded by Jimmy Persson and situated in Örebro, Sweden.
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• Agency: http://www.icon-management.se
• http://www.djanders.info (start page/hub - blog, community etc)
• http://djanders.ning.com (currents - and my latest promo streamed and casted!)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
We will formalize a Ltd. company, Ignition Communications AB, a spinoff from On a Mission Sweden (the sustainability innovation incubator). I am responsible for research/branding/networking/business development - in short deep exploration. Together with a deepwide network of mentors/linked resources, a webshop opens when financed. Currently (July 08) we plan an event series in the name of YouFlow, to jointly manifest one corner of the brand Ignition - finding your innermost spirit and transform it into sustainable action with e. g. internet, (personal) branding and networking as leverage for your cause. The surplus finances the business with Sustainability Profile Clothing to empower Sustainopreneurs. I coordinate recruitment of key stakeholders.
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• Ignition Start page: http://ignitionwear2008.weebly.com
• Ignition Stakeholder Blog: http://ignitionwear.wordpress.com
• YouFlow Fundraising Event Blog: http://www.youflow.info
(Management Consulting industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years 1 month)
Service/Publish delivery for SUSTAINOPRENEURSHIP. Defined through my master thesis and research article: http://www.sustainopreneurship.info. I inspire others to be sustainopreneurs through SLICE™, with OAM/Ignition® story and others as inspirational storytelling. SLICE offers
- [S]ustainopreneurial
- [L]ecturing
- [I]nspiration
- [C]onsultancy
- [E]vents
• Services to meet needs through dialogue - see web.
• Publishes in various formats, mainly blogwise - see blogs.
• For a current projects mindmap, see - see link below.
• For the virtual freelancing, see my Ki-work Profile - see link below.
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• Web: http://www.slice.nu
• Blogs: http://www.sustainopreneurship.biz • http://blog.43tools.com
• Page: http://www.sustainopreneurship.info
• Current and Past Projects (sample): http://projects.slice.nu
• Ki-work Profile - current offerings: http://www.ki-work.com/ki-profile/andersabrahamsson
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2001 — Present (7 years 9 months)
One of the key driving forces of all my activities has been to increase the funds to get leverage, proliferation, diffusion and empowerment to Sustainability Innovations towards full-fledged Sustainability Enterprises, read full story in my Master Thesis (search Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com on 'sustainopreneurship'). The brand name has shifted through the years, but the basic idea is the same. Though, the understanding has deepened significantly around the challenges to establish sustainopreneurial ventures. SEEDS as an acronym stands for Strengthening of Health, Education, Entrepreneurship, Digital Unification and Sustainable Distributed Energy, and it is the main topic for my pending paper to be presented in India.
Financial means from all my ventures I participate in will fuel the SEEDS Innovation Fund, see website.
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• SEEDS Paper - India, Abstract | http://iaereas.weebly.com/publishing.html
• SEEDS Innovation Fund - website | www.seedsfund.com
(Research industry)
October 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 2 months)
I was a part of a network with ~15 Swedish researchers. Emerging meta-question is "local economy as a proactive solution for sustainable development".
I brought my core issue "Sustainablity Innovations" there, systematically scouting to fill the toolbox to solve problems related to poverty eradication and climate change - tools facilitating Strengthening of health, Entrepreneurship, Education, Digital unification and Sustainable distributed energy.
People first, then technology, then financial resources, in that order – i. e. micro-finance with a sustainability cause!
Three core concepts:
* Sustainability (Deep/Holistic)
* Innovation
* Entrepreneurship
I. e. - Sustainopreneurship.
My first research, defining sustainopreneurship, published through "Science for Sustainable Development", conference proceedings was published in September 2006.
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• Research | www.lokalekonomi.nu
• Proceedings | http://www.vhu.se
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
December 2004 — November 2006 (2 years)
I was an active contributor to Modo Fac Central - an innovative social enterprise with first piloting of a Drop In Café/Office for Empowerment of Disempowered in Edinburgh and initiated by Kerry Santo.
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)
I was an agent for eco6 - http://www.eco6.co.uk - for the Swedish Market; an event focusing SRI/CR, where the Investment Management/Financial Market issue of Socially Responsible Investment and its evident links to Corporate Responsibility upgrades its professionalism. At the Financial Hub of Zürich, Oct 9-10, 2006, internationally well-known keynotes made the general attraction.
I was primarily in this context to strengthen focus for the most Proactive SRI - investing in sustainable innovations and business ideas/models - Sustainability Venture Capital, and hosted a breakout session on this topic.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
August 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 2 months)
During this period I prepared and branded this concept and idea, but this idea has been retwisted, refocused and revamped to suit more research than networking needs through iÆREAS.
S*E*N*S*A means
[SUSTAINABILITY] * [ENTREPRENEURSHIP] * [NETWORKING] * [SUPPORT] * [ASSOCIATION]
This association had the intention and purpose to amplify and accelerate existing sustainopreneurial ventures in survival, emerging and developed economies globally in inter-local and multi-local activities. Instead of multiplying the works associated to the association, it was meant to have replications of good practices to be done, with culturally adapted franchises.
It was intended that the synergy and leverage that came from unifying the existing initiatives should increase the power of the associated processes by coming together and collectively and collaboratively share experiences and energy in a plus-sum game.
(Apparel & Fashion industry)
April 2005 — January 2006 (10 months)
After Brand Consultancy (see earlier position and endorsement below - Sustainablity Profile Clothings brand Ignition™), with CEO Rikard Jansson as the coordinator of the Sustainable Business build-up, with final step deciding the Logotype - designed by Johan Jonasson, Visualizer of Complexity - a new phase in the brand development was introduced in May, 2005.
I helped CEO Rikard Jansson in this phase with networking to strengthen the brand with content listing candidates for our first "brand holders" with first campaign clients to source from us.
It is an open transparent brand system where our true value is defined by every relation we tap into, thus the sensitivity in this process and linking in with first pioneer orders. Primary dialogue partner in support to CEO Rikard Jansson writing the business plan for external financing for the greater launch of the brand webshop during the course of 2006 when financing secured.
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Links - see Ignition Communications AB (CXO)
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year)
Former member of international branding think-tank, promoting humanity in business and ethical and transparent practices for the twenty-first century. The group names brands of the year based on social responsibility, termed Brands With a Conscience since 2004, to which I was a member of the BwaC 2006 committee (see press release at home page).
I attended first Winter Retreat in January 2005 in London. Medinge has its name after Medinge Säteri, with its owners hosting the "Davos of Branding" Summer Retreats in August every year, by co-founders Thomas Gad and Anette Rosencreutz, where I was attending August 2005.
Membership ended in December 2005 of reasons I might disclose when certain issues has been resolved internally within the group. Answers pending.
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• Medinge Group Homepage: http://www.medinge.org
• Beyond Branding - Book: http://www.beyond-branding.com
• Medinge Säteri: http://www.medinge.com
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2005 — October 2005 (9 months)
After winning the first year of SIFE Sweden 2004 - see Honours and awards section - the summer of 2005, not being a participant in the competition this year, I got the assignment to support and coach the Stockholm School of Economics as the winning team in Swedish SIFE competition that took place in June. This includes to prepare them for what to come when presenting their winning case for the SIFE World Cup in Toronto, this Fall - October 2005. The winning case was Rinkeby Business Lab - to support Young Entrepreneurs in a marginalized immigrant dense Stockholm suburb on the primary school level - where mentors come from Stockholm School of Economics. In short - a typical Social Entrepreneurship project. One of two Pro Bono assignments during 2005.
SIFE is an international Non-Profit organization with 1700+ universities in almost 50 nations worldwide represented.
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• Sweden | http://www.sife.se
• Int'l | http://www.sife.org
(Internet industry)
January 2005 — July 2005 (7 months)
Following an Idea fired up during the Medinge Winter Retreat (chaired by World Brand Expert Chris Macrae in January 2005) with Friends Ed Daniel and Lilly Evans, the DM community went live April, 2005, collecting proactive forces for sustainability.
E. g. microfinance is one example. It is an application of the concept Sustainability Innovation, where microfinance is an innovation for sustainability, with the sustainability problem it helps solving is poverty - with a list of maybe 15 core sustainability problems, e. g. climate change, illiteracy, health issues like hunger/water/obesity/HIV/AIDS all reinforcing poverty in vicious circles.
I seized the moderator job in July 2005, and site closed Jan 2006. This virtual community of practice failed to meet its goals, and I take the lessons of this to make it better out with ÆREAS build up. One of the core lessons is that the team operating it should not do it Pro Bono.
(Apparel & Fashion industry)
May 2004 — April 2005 (1 year)
In the last phase of the Research and Development process of the On a Mission Concept, finalized when I ended my chairmanship end of April, 2004, the intense work of launching our first campaign started, and finding both Brand Name and Logo Design. The result one year later is the Sustainablity Profile Clothings brand Ignition™, with CEO Rikard Jansson as the coordinator of the Sustainable Brand/Trade build-up.
I supported him with sustainability branding development.
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Links - see Ignition Communications AB (CXO)
(International Trade and Development industry)
June 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 11 months)
The 'D' period in the total 4&1/2 year R&D process - Development of On a Mission full concept defined, co-creating an event concept/resident DJ/A&R/online marketing (Club PuLS), co-developing Sustainable Trade - Direct Import of ecologically/economically/socially sustainable fashion/profilewear from Ugandan cotton locally value added, virtual/offline market research and focus grouping, field-testing ideas real-time; social network architect, format/graphical design/layout web/print, PR, copywriting, branding; building/maintaining/developing relations win-win-win-... ; representation in a diverse set of contexts/networks/communities; "tour manager" of Joseph Muwonge 'Swedish Anthropological Tour' Oct-Dec 2002 in an ongoing cross-mentoring of the cultural diversifications mutually sense-made. To name a few things what it took in the flow as a part of a team-based (magic) sustainopreneurial (ad)venture.
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• Concept Website: http://www.on-a-mission.se/english
(Music industry)
March 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 2 months)
I provided DJ Services, both as a resident for our co-founded club concept Club PuLS as a resident DJ, with A&R/Promotional Work there as well. PuLS was a part of On a Mission Events, and external DJ Services were a part of On a Mission Services. I play Joy of Life EDM, and I have been DJ'ing back and forth through the last 25+ years (where it was bedroom DJ'ing during nineties, and going public again March 2003 at release of Club Concept as the first branded offering from OAM Sweden). My DJ website is found at http://www.djanders.info. DJ Services now channeled through my agency since 2006 (see DJ Anders).
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• DJ Anders Startpage: http://www.djanders.info
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2001 — May 2002 (9 months)
The 'R' pt II in the R&D done in order to formulate the business concept of OAM later. Conducting a minor field study - scholarship from Swedish International Development Agency, Sida. Researching entrepreneurship and small business development, Kampala and rural areas, Uganda, through "enactive research". This means learning about both context and issue (entrepreneurship in developing country context) through taking out an own initiative in the context. Pre-study of OAM Uganda/Sweden, done together with the former Ugandan founder and Executive Director of OAM Uganda Ltd., back then field tutor, Joseph Muwonge.
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• PDF Report from Pilot Projects: http://www.on-a-mission.se/sife
(Management Consulting industry)
September 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 11 months)
Running a private-research based business with information brokerage, lecturing, advice and consultancy, regards factors driving relationship loyalty, and effects of high retention levels in key business relations. Focus areas TQM, environmental, social, ethical and working conditions management. Editor of a monthly PDF-based newsletter.
During this time a number of syncronistically appearing 'Sustainability Innovations' were identified, in what I name the 'R' pt I period in the total R&D process to what is now institutionalized as OAM Uganda/Sweden. The 'Ignition' of the whole process came Jan 5, 2000. The full story is found through my Master Thesis, googling at http://scholar.google.com on 'sustainopreneurship'.
Master of Science in Business Adminstration, Entrepreneurship and Business Development, 2000 — 2007
I had a prolonged field study to support the On a Mission Business Startup 2001-02, as well as starting the Swedish counterpart full-time when coming back as working chairman of the board 2002-04, and also co-develop the Brand Ignition™/® and concrete offering of the venture beyond the chairmanship - with activity as set above. Thus the "registration-only" status of my senior university studies most of the time, until the point where I used the OAM Concept, SEEDS Sustainability Investment Fund, SEEDS Magazine, Club PuLS, DJ Anders, S*E*N*S*A, Ignition™ and SLICE Brands as eight interlinked case studies for the Master Thesis published May 2007, getting my degree. The Business Plan and the recruitment of our first external client was the last part of the empirical material of the Thesis, preparing for the launch in 2007 now with end of formal studies.
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aBSc, Industrial Engineering and Management - Industrial/B2B Marketing and Strategy, 1989 — 1996
"aBSc" stands for "almost Bachelor of Science". I dropped out since it was too focused on "Big Business as Usual", and retrospectively my home really was set into "Small Business as Unusual - Thinking Big". In other words entrepreneurial rather than corporate.
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IDENTITY TAGGING: Creativity, Love, Entrepreneurship, Aikido, Sustainability, India, Peace, Integrity, Respect, Honesty, Prosperity, Sustainability Venture Capital, Växjö University, Global Knowledge Nomad, Social Constructionism, Action Speaks Louder Than Words, Music-DJ, On A Mission, Electronic Dance Music, Global Mindset, Sustainability Entrepreneurship Facilitator, Qualitative Intentional Networker, Sustainable Business Creation, High Spirit, Walk The Talk, Norrköping, Sustainopreneurship, Facilitation, Empathy, MSc BA, Senada, Nadine, Uganda, IQ-EQ-SQ, Tolerance, SLICE™, Anthropology, Unity, Re:Love the World!, Intuition, Openness, Ignition®, Multi/Inter-Local, Sweden, Innovation, Equality, Win-Win-Win
LinkedIn, XING/OpenBC (moderator of regional Swedish clubs), Sustainable Futures Foundation (moderator for Susainability Venture Capital group), CIWI, Modo Fac Central, MyLinkedInPowerForum, CSR Chicks, Brands With a Conscience Committee 2006 (see http://www.medinge.org), VHU - Föreningen Vetenskap för Hållbar Utveckling / The Swedish Research Association for Sustainable Development, International Sustainable Development Research Society, Tranceclubber, MondayBar, Ecademy, KM Board, Swedish Ecodemics Alumni, Växjö UN Association Alumni, ... [more to come if they support my intention fulfillment - plz notify me if you know one ;)]
* Swedish Student Champion - Social Entrepreneurship.
SIFE Sweden - Students in Free Enterprise. Winning team member, Växjö University. SIFE World Cup in Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.
First time Sweden was in this global competition founded 1975 in USA, now 1700 universities from ~50 countries. Taken to Sweden by Electrolux, Investor and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
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SIFE Report | www.on-a-mission.se/sife
SIFE Sweden | www.sife.se
SIFE Worldwide | www.sife.org
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* Scholarship - SIDA Financing Minor Field Study in Uganda
For Master Thesis work studying entrepreneurship and small business research in the developing country context. See empirical researcher above.
NB. It turned out to be a major field study... ;)
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* VIP 3 - Very Interesting Person @ Interesting.org
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Sweden's Leading Creativity Community/Business | www.interesting.org