Colin Downie

Better business expert
Colin Downie

Passionate about empowering people from disadvantaged backgrounds through business, Colin has specialist skills in international development, delivering strategies and impact to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), micro-finance, social business and sustainable supply chains.

Colin is a founding employee of the WildHearts Group, where his extensive experience and skills in entrepreneurialism, sales and business development has helped build the organisation from zero customers into a multi-million pound business now delivering social impact across 40 countries.

The WildHearts Group delivers office consumables, business services, document management and purpose-driven talent development programmes to companies such as Nestlé, SAP, Barclays and Zurich. All its social and environmental initiatives are supported by the profits and activities from WildHearts’ businesses.

WildHearts Group has been recognised as one of the Top 100 businesses globally delivering against the UNSDGs, been given Super Pioneer status by Deloitte, Babson College’s prestigious Social Innovation Award, and the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award.

Watch Colin speaking at the Social Enterprise Summit in Hong Kong here.

 

Colin Downie