Change Maker: Turn Your Passion for Health and Fitness into a Powerful Purpose and a Wildly Successful Career

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John Berardi, PhD is a Canadian-American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Precision Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition coaching, education, and software company. We make a unique contribution to UON’s dedication to Social Impact by supporting and inspiring students to develop as forward-thinking graduates, capable of making a positive social, environmental and economic difference. But only if you’re willing to think differently about who you are, why you’re here, how you can make a great living, and how you can make a real difference.

His lessons are very valuable to anyone who is working to building their career in health and fitness or someone like myself who has been in this industry for many years. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. We love how transparent and driven they are in making tiny (and big) changes for people, animals and the planet. His mission is to get world-changing science out of the lab and into products that change the world. When they are aiming transformational change, change makers make sure there are some quick wins for the people involved, as well as the long term vision and benefits.Pierre is the Co-CEO and Co-founder at Notpla, developing sustainable seaweed and plant-based alternatives to traditional packaging materials that disappear naturally, giving consumers the convenience of single-use, without the plastic waste. The programme will also encourage ‘reverse mentoring’ in which the participants will be encouraged to bring their skills and knowledge, as the next generation, to help the managers, directors and executives understand new thinking and approaches to work, both culturally and professionally. Graeme is part the leadership team at CPI (High Vale Manufacturing Catapult) enabling the UK’s ecosystem of academics, SMEs and large companies to de-risk the development and scale-up of their complex, high value healthtech, sustainable materials and formulated products. Our National Lottery funded Change Makers programme, which aimed to increase the diversity of senior leaders within England’s arts and cultural sector, is just one of the ways we’ve been working towards making this happen.

To summarize, Simon Sinek says that organizations and people often start with what they want to do, and then think about how they’re going to do it, instead of actually starting with why. This year, the changemaker team attended the 29th EVA conference in the prestigious Armourers Hall in the City of London. Whether you’re new to the industry and looking for a head-start, or you’re already an expert but need a fresh approach, consider this your go-to career guide. That said, change maker values are usually consistent with being responsible and accountable, open and transparent, doing the right thing and working collaboratively.

He started his career as a packaging engineer for L’Oréal in the daytime and hacking 3D printers in his living room at night. John has a unique way of breaking down lofty concepts like 'passion' and 'purpose' and transforming them into real, actionable steps and daily practices . Following the success of our first automotive event in collaboration with Arvato, it seemed only right to partner up again this year.