Leslie Johnston is Executive Director at C&A Foundation and she has over 20 years of experience in management across multiple sectors including smallholder agribusiness entrepreneurship and corporate philanthropy.

In this episode she covers her vision and strategy to make fashion a force for good, the small department that has been developed at C&A Foundation looking at internal policies on diversity, equity and inclusion and how she reflects in her spare time whilst running.

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1:43: Leslie's current role and where it fits within C&A Foundation and how the C&A Foundation fits with the C&A Business

02:04: How C&A are working to transform the global fashion industry with philanthropy

03:04: The context of the global fashion industry as an industry that touches all of us, the challenges within it and the negative environmental impact of this industry

04:28: The systemic issues within the global fashion industry

05:05: Using philanthropy to tackle the issues within industries

06:00: How she put together for C&A Foundation, the first global vision, mission and strategy on making fashion a force for good and the challenges involved in creating these

8:00: The difficulty of using data to prove your hypotheses and getting the data to people who can do something with it

11:05: Recognising your strengths and weaknesses and recruiting people to help with your weaknesses

13:05: How Business Intelligence is helping the business

16:41: About Leslie's previous role with the COFRA Foundation

19:42: A particular example of someone who achieved their goals through this process

22:18: How Leslie got into working in philanthropy and the turning point to get here

27:54: Who has really influenced Leslie's career and why

32:19: Encouraging the diversity of women within business

35:01: How she manages her time to focus on her priorities and advice she'd give to people to get the most from their time

40:12: The advice she would offer to her teenage self

43:12: Her dream podcast guests

If you want to reach out to Leslie, you can connect with her through Twitter at https://twitter.com/johnston_l_

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