Daniel Truran
Passionate about connecting individuals to their integrity, creativity and ethics. Inspiring them into action by linking them to other like-minded doers and to their ideas.
| Headline: | Educator |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://ebbf.org - http://hubmadrid.com |
| Skills: | Business, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Investment, Italian, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Public speaking, Spanish, Viral marketing |
| Location: | Madrid, Spain |
| Groups: | BASES Social E-Challenge 2012, [INACTIVE] BASES Social E-Challenge 2010 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company |
| Tags: | csr, ebbf, ethical finance, meaningful work, people inspiring responsible business, responsible entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development, values based leadership |
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Passion
Passionate about connecting individuals to their integrity, creativity and ethics. Inspiring them into action by linking them to other like-minded doers and to their ideas. Help achieve and showing the success that ethical behaviours create in business. Promoting the evolution towards a world which will be organised, act and behave as one country. Where the creativity of the diversity of its citizens will enhance the wellbeing and prosperity of humankind.
Background
Following a career as Logistics and Marketing director at Exel plc. working in London, Sydney, Johannesburg and Milan, where he was the Winner of the Exel “Worldwide Innovation Award of the Year”, he has now created a new career, more in line with his values and objectives, linking individuals and creating innovative solutions in the field of ethical behaviours, responsible entrepreneurship and values-based business solutions.
Current Positions
Since then he has become Director General of the European Baha’i Business Forum (www.ebbf.org), Visiting Professor and Tutor on Social Entrepreneurship at Instituto Empresa (www.ie.edu) and at the EOI Business School (www.eoi.es/nw/Ingles/), Founding Member of The Hub Madrid (www.hubmadrid.com) Social Innovation Hub, board member of Spirit in Business (www.spiritinbusiness.org), Vice President of Humanica Social Ventures, a Director of Via3 (www.via3.net), Consulting on Ethical Communication at the European Ethical Team of Lush (www.lush.co.uk), Board of Trustees member of the Association for Spirit at Work (www.spiritatwork.org).
Current Activities
In his work he networks with a worldwide range of individuals and organisations, travelling globally, fluent in English, Spanish and Italian.
He has organised a number of international conferences linking worldwide leaders, social entrepreneurs and idealists in the UK, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, San Francisco and New York with Progressio, Spirit in Business and EBBF.
He also enjoys lecturing at conferences, MBA courses and universities on topics such as: “Innovations in Entrepreneurship: The Social Entrepreneur”, “Finding meaning for action at the top: spirituality as a competitive advantage for leaders”, “Innovative Financial Models for social economic development“, “Ethical Finance“, “Corporate Social Responsibility centred around the human being“.
His current home is Madrid, where he lives with his wife Cristina and children Giulia, Davide and Noemi.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | EBBF - European Baha'i Business Forum - ebbf.org |
| Position: | Director General |
| Employer: | Hub Madrid - http://the-hub.net |
| Position: | co-founder |
| Description: | http://hubmadrid.com |
| Employer: | Instituto Empresa Business School |
| Position: | Visiting Professor |
| Description: | http://ie.edu
Keynotes on web2.0 for social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, motivation and CSR in the workplace. |
| Employer: | EOI Business School - http://www.eoi.es/portal/en/ |
| Position: | Visiting Professor |
| Description: | Social entrepreneurship course - basic principles, how to measure social impact, how to set up a social enterprise business plan, how to use web2.0 social networks for a social enterprise to learn, share, promote, collaborate. |
Daniel's Startups (3)
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Opportunity Web 2.0
Helping you and your organization to make the most of the opportunities of social media and web 2.0 platforms to make you values-driven, transparent, trustworthy: successful !
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EBBF - European Bahai Business Forum
We contribute to a prosperous, sustainable and just civilization by promoting and applying ethical values, personal virtues and moral leadership in business and civil society
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Daniel's Contacts (3)
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Ian Chan
Student at Stanford University since Sept-2010 Live in Hong Kong S.A.R., China
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Dan Steketee
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .