Impact Days 2025

12–13 May 2025 | Vienna, Austria

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Lisa Hiery

Co-CEO Yunus Social Business GmbH

Yunus Social Business

Munich, Germany

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At Yunus Social Business (YSB) we believe that doing good makes business sense for every organization.

My organisation

Yunus Social Business believes in the power of business to end poverty. We were founded by Peace Nobel Laureate Prof. Yunus and Saskia Bruysten to expand the success of social business from Bangladesh around the world. Our Philanthropic Venture Funds grow local social businesses that provide employment, education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy to over 13 million people in East Africa, Latin America & India. We turn donations into investments in social businesses, which we reinvest over and over again, multiplying the impact each time. Our long-term, patient loans and hands-on growth support are delivered by our team of local professionals, allowing our social businesses to flourish. Our Corporate Initiatives have guided multinationals (incl. Danone, Veolia, McCain, MAN, Tata) to apply their core competencies to some of the greatest human challenges. “A charity dollar has one life, a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again”
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About me

Hi, I’m Lisa, Co-CEO at Yunus Social Business Gmbh. I believe that it is every organization’s job to contribute to a desirable future for everyone.

I’m a political journalist by training and an innovator by heart. I took my first professional steps in storytelling, consulting and digital innovation. I started off my path in impact by creating campaigns for a better future and then craved to turn from a teller into a doer. I’ve built the German government‘s leading startup collaboration initiative, de:hub, then became a corporate social innovator, creating a global impact accelerator for social entrepreneurs in mobility and transport. Having built my first-ever social innovation practice in a corporate I transitioned to entrepreneurship, as a solo entrepreneur and then a member of YSB. Here I’ve built multiple global intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship initiatives and partnerships with sector partners, corporates and philanthropic entities - all for the sake of making business a force for good. Today I am proud to lead an incredible team of change makers from both my home office in Munich and the various project locations we operate in.

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Speaker sessions (1)

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

12:40 - 13:30