Corporate Innovators & Social Intrapreneurs: Make Change From Where You Are

Corporate changemakers work inside big business, often against the prevailing status quo, to innovate and deliver market solutions to some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Produced in partnership with The Skoll Foundation, Allianz and IDEO, SustainAbility’s new publication – The Social Intrapreneurs: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers – spotlights this new breed of leaders, drawing on wide-ranging research and interviews within twenty leading global businesses.

We hope you find the insights inspiring.

If you would like to learn more about our work in this area or if you have an intrapreneurial story of your own to tell, please contact Maggie Brenneke at brenneke@sustainability.com.

News Release: Make Change From Where You Are: Corporate “intrapreneurs” a force for positive change within business
LONDON, UK (April 17, 2008)

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SustainAbility and Social Entre- and Intrapreneurship
SustainAbility is involved in a three year project with The Skoll Foundation to build insight and competency in the field of social entrepreneurship and its intrapeneurial equivalent in business.

The Social Intrapreneurs: A Field Guide For Corporate Changemakers is the second in a series of publications. The first report, published in 2007 – Growing Opportunity: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Insoluble Problems – provided quantitative research and analysis into the arena of social enterprise.

Other SustainAbility publications of relevance include:

• The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change The World by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan


• Raising Our Game: Can We Sustain Globalisation analyses trends and scenarios for business seeking to tackle the ‘great divides’ facing society.