Good Fortune

Writing about sustainable startups and interviewing Impact Founders to inspire your next impact project, startup, or side hustle. 

Good Fortune will help you:
🌱 Discover sustainable businesses
🧠 Learn from Impact Founders
🌍 Meet likeminded change makers

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Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne

Developing new products, services, and experiences for the innovation world.

Working with Industry, Government, and Individuals to better understand their world and design new solutions to make it a better one.

Senior Product Development Manager

Create Kaizen

I design tools, workshops, and learning programs for tech leaders to:
- Build innovative teams
- Improve creative collaboration
- Build human-centered organizations
- Create systems to navigate uncertainty
- Develop creative problem solving practices

Strategic Designer & Facilitator

Designit

- Lead discovery research, persona building, and journey mapping for transformation projects
- Designed and facilitated AI enablement workshops for exploration and implementation
- Partnered with BizDev to identify customer needs across partner orgs
- Implemented Design Thinking to tackle creative business transformation problems

Strategic Design Lead

NOBA

NOBA partners with companies to build and launch new products, services, or business models.

I supported digital, innovation, and marketing teams in different stages of the development and launch of new products:
- Defining the value propositions and business model for new products and services
- Testing and learning through business prototyping - building and launching an alpha version of the business, gathering metrics, and iterating with real customers
- Driving a soft market launch to start growing the customer base before scaling

Business Designer

NerdWallet

- Software development planning and visibility at all levels of management
- End to end quarterly planning for cross-functional pods
- Manage communication touchpoints between Product, Engineering, Design, Data
- Agile coaching for NerdWallet feature teams
- Program Management for Content Design team

NerdWallet is on a mission to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. We provide consumers with expert, personalized, and actionable guidance across a range of personal finance topics. Whether you’re shopping for a new credit card or mortgage, hoping to refinance a student loan, interested in learning more about investing, or just want to stay on top of your money, we do the homework for you, simplifying complex ideas so you have the information and tools you need to make the right decision for you.

Backed by IVP, RRE Ventures, iGlobe Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, among others, NerdWallet has been certified a Great Place to Work and named one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ 2020 by Fortune. We’ve been recognized for our stellar benefits, too, from world-class health, vision, and dental insurance to our matching 401(k) program to our generous time off and parental leave policies. 

Based in San Francisco, we have more than 400 passionate “Nerds” around the country, and we’re growing every day. Whether you’re committed to helping consumers or  excited about working for a profitable tech company or interested in growing professionally—or all of the above!—we’d love to hear from you. Check out our job openings here: http://www.nerdwallet.com/careers

Program Manager

- Project manager for Content Design team, creating graphics, illustrations, animations and editorial videos
- Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance
- Refine and streamline department processes to maintain efficiency and scalability in a fast growing startup environment
- Facilitate projects for a stakeholder team of 90 Content Strategists, Assigning Editors, Copy Editors, and Writers in team operations and communication
- Develop and oversee quantitative success metrics and key performance indicators for Content and Content Design teams
- Advise Content team on institutional knowledge, the fluid inner workings of startup company operations and their position in it

Content Operations and Project Management

Interscope Records

- Coordinated photo shoots and graphic design work for 100+ artist roster
- Oversaw and refined end to end project portals for photographers, stylists, graphic designers, etc.
- Created and resolved photography and art contracts for all creative services provided to Interscope artists
- Organized and facilitated all travel, setup and production operations  for Interscope directors, photographers, producers, and stylist  teams
- Refined organizational strategy, including artist archiving, scheduling, and soliciting promotional materials

Creative Marketing

Opus Bank

- Consulted high net-worth banking clientele, managing accounts $500k-$1mm in balances
- Spearheaded sales team who aquired $50mm in deposits since inception 10.17.2011
- Integral part of opening and growing de novo banking office
- Integrated new sales, appointment, and follow up pipelines for Opus Bank de novo offices
- Generated qualified large acquisition meetings for VP/Retail Banking Manager

Client Services

Want to build a business that makes money AND makes a difference?

I break down exactly how successful impact founders are doing it.

Through conversations with founders and detailed case studies, I uncover the strategies and tactics that actually work in social impact.

At Good Fortune, I'm creating:
🎙️ Deep-dive conversations with impact founders sharing their playbook
📧 Weekly newsletters breaking down successful impact businesses
🛠️ Free, actionable tools for bootstrapped teams (like our Tactic Cards)

Everything I make is designed to help you:
- Validate your impact business idea
- Find and connect with your first customers
- Grow sustainably while maximizing impact
- Navigate the unique challenges of social enterprise

Want actionable insights for your impact business?

→ Subscribe to my weekly newsletter
→ Download free Tactic Cards
→ Listen to the latest founder deep dives


A bit more about me and why I love doing this:
🏄 I've always been an "experience channel surfer" (look at my work history)
💭 I love finding the overlap between creativity, strategy, and impact
🙏 I want to create things that enable others to do their best work

Give me a follow 🔔 for free content and learnings shared daily, or reach out if you want to talk strategy and social innovation (whatever that means to you).

Jake Carroll

GroundInn

A one stop shop agency for business growth driven by community, grounded in the art of shared spaces. 

Our passion lies in helping good people with their businesses, building the right environments to sustain them and their growth plans. 

By December 2021, we opened our first space, Club 71 in Barcelona. 
By March 2021, it was at 100% occupancy. 
By June 2021, we opened our second location, The Pines in Santo Domingo.

But that is not our main core business. Communities are built one step at a time, one relationship at a time, so we start with the basics. GET ORGANIZED. GET IN TUNE. 


Oh, and we also offer tailor made services based on the stage of your organization. Learn more here. 


1) Shared spaces development
2) Community led Growth
3) Operating Community tools 
4) Community as a service

AWL Consultores

Community Director

Co-Liv

Director of Operations

Community Consultants Collective

Board Member

NASA International Space Apps Challenge

Co Organizer

Monapart

Community Design & Development Consultant

DoveVivo 

International Business Development Consultant

MonBuilding

MonBuilding is a tenant experience software (BtoBtoC) that aims to improve the well-being of buildings’ occupants. Available for both offices and residences, we focus on tenant’s satisfaction by offering a customizable experience centered around:
- better communication
- a fostered community
- the access to all their services in one place
We also provide anonymized data to building’s managers to enable them to better apprehend the use of their services and take relevant business decisions.

Head of Growth Spain & Italy

Communo

helping business lead with generosity, transparency and vulnerability. 
preparing for the future while taking care of today's realities, aligning amazing solutions for work to be done today with creative and competent humans. 
"future is already here - simply not evenly distributed" W. Gibson

Customer Experience Director 

WeWork

I helped build the fastest growing company with physical space of our decade WeWork by opening 7 new markets, overseeing 10,000+ business and leading 120+ people in the community teams.  

Sitting front row and being exposed to thousands of businesses operations from small to larger corporations, I also had the privilege of being backstage of what it takes to not only become a game changer but to also build at scale, fast and more importantly, the mistakes to avoid to go from a “nobody knows what you are doing” company to a $47 Billion valuation to a spectacular implement making it now still be valued at an impressive market value of $4 billion. 


+ Orchestrated and planned the opening of 5 locations in 4 new markets in the interval of 10 months: Johannesburg (2 locations,  avg. 2000+ members), Cape Town (1, avg. 900+ members), Abu Dhabi (1 location, 1400+ members) and Dubai (1 location, 1300+ members) locations.  
+ Led cross functional and cross-cultural teams of 35+, including on-boarding and support of 2 regional general managers.  
+ Selected among top 20 EMEA talent in company to attend one-week DataCult training (data analysis, visuals, coding 101) and won the WorkForce challenge “missing over $22M of revenue per year due to poor planning of our workforce needs.”   
+ Opened company’s first African locations under a new model structure of revenue share agreements with Redefine and our first Middle Eastern locations under management agreements with main stakeholders Mubadala and DWTC.

Managing Director | South Africa & UAE

+ Accountable for the overall performance of our markets, including buildings P&Ls (indicative revenue 28m + euros), key account renewals, our local teams and local partner relations (vendors, brokers, landlords)
+ Grew market footprint every 3 months from 1 location of 900+ members, to 6 locations, 10,000+ members, in 2 cities.  
+ Head recruiting, on-boarding, training, and management of a team of 40+ top talent in community, growth, RE and operations departments.  
+ Boosted brand awareness, official in market spokesperson, in charge of event Curation and business development.

Managing Director | Spain

Community Director | Canada

Senior Community Manager | Montreal

WeWork's mission is to create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living. 
WeWork is been building beautiful shared office spaces since 2010 all over the world. The idea is to build a community where you join as an individual, 'me', but where you become part of a greater 'we'. A place where we’re redefining success measured by personal fulfillment, not just the bottom line. Community is our catalyst. Focus on doing what you love, we will take care of the rest!

Associate Community Manager

Over the last decade, I have had the privilege of living and working in 6 different countries. 

In my time working for others,  I have gained the conviction that community plays a major role in defining how business is done and that there is an extreme amount of untapped value in transforming physical spaces to sustain those communities. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of what it entails to run a business that is conscious of this perspective, the communities they serve and the impacts it will have on all fields. 

With that in mind,  I launched my own community agency focused on real-life experiences and shared spaces: Grounded Innovation. As the name indicates, I am a fusionist. 

What do we do? simple, we help companies and people grow. 

But exactly, what do we do? 

- Help business to get organized
- Develop real estate projects
- Implement new tools and set you up for success
- Define and execute community-centric strategies
- Community management building top-performing teams

How do we do it?

- With passion and professionalism
- Transparently, as an extension of your team
- Community driven-always
- Understanding business cycles

If any of the above resonates with you, feel free to DM or contact me at marta@groundinn.world 

You can also book a free consultation, to share your challenge.

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