Indira Kartallozi | Sasin School of Management

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Work Experience

Founder and Director – Sustainability Leadership Kosova (SLK) – September 2018 – Current SLK was founded by a collaborative work of local and international experts who have a passion and a vision to ‘make Kosova a global example of a society that is sustainable, healthy, fair and prosperous’. SLK actions and activities will be tailored to the system’s change. We will aim to achieve the highest level of change that will create a high impact and shared values across: Economy: We strive towards a zero-waste economy. SLK activities and actions will promote and empower sustainable business trends and transformational leadership; Society: We prioritize the wellbeing of every human being, our actions will focus on creating a healthy and fair society, promoting choice and opportunities for all; & Environment: We love our planet. Our activities and actions will promote responsibility for the protection of all living creatures and our biodiversity.
Director – Kaleidoscope Futures Lab – March 2017 – Current Kaleidoscope Futures is a Cambridge-based think-tank and media company focused on creating a better and brighter future – one that is safe, smart, shared, sustainable and satisfying. Through courses, research, publications, and films, Kaleidoscope promotes the creation of future-fitness and integrated value, led by its directors, Prof. Dr. Wayne Visser and Indira Kartallozi. Kaleidoscope Futures also owns SSR International, a global institute for sustainability and social responsibility professionals, and Migrant Entrepreneurs International, which promotes and supports the positive social and economic role of migrants around the world.
Founder & Director – Chrysalis Family Futures (Merged with Kaleidoscope Futures) – July 2012 – March 2017 The team consists of a network of diverse experts who share the same vision and objectives around protecting and empowering of the human and socio-economic rights of vulnerable and marginalized families. Chrysalis works in partnership with charities, NGOs, universities, private companies, and businesses, providing consultancy on capacity building and project development. It provides training, workshops, and seminars on a range of issues that affect the human and socio-economic rights of marginalized and complex needs families. And it offers group therapy and life skills training to families affected by multiple forms of deprivation.
Welfare Rights and Housing Advisor – Haringey Migrant Support Centre – September 2012 – September 2015 In this role, I support HMSC drop in with the welfare rights and housing advice surgery, working with vulnerable migrant women and children, providing welfare rights and housing advice. The work involves assessing the destitution of women and children, especially those with unregulated immigration status and those who have no recourse to public funds. I advocate on the client’s behalf and carry out referrals under Section 17 of The Children Act 1989.
Senior Advice Worker – CARIS Haringey – November 1999 – July 2012 My role at CARIS included provision of welfare rights, housing and immigration advice (Level 1 OISC) to homeless families and families living in temporary accommodation, and migrant and asylum-seeking families. I was responsible for the supervision of other team members, file revision and ensuring delivery of efficient advice and case-work as set by the standards of the Community Legal Services (Quality Mark) and Office of Immigration Service Commissioner (OISC Level 1). My other tasks included the organization’s strategic planning, development and fundraising projects. I also devised and delivered various workshops, training, and presentations to community organizations and statutory service bodies.

Work experience – self-employment

Independent Assessor – Business Sustainability Management Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership – September 2018 – Current
Freelance Legal Rights Advisor – Freedom from Torture – June 2015 – Current
Interim Senior Caseworker – Baobab Centre for Young Survivors Living in Exile – July 2015 – October 2015
Pre-2015
- Interpreter, Translator, and Proofreader
- Project Support Worker (Part-time)
- Refugee Action

Research & Publications

Speaking, Seminars, Conferences and Workshops

SEKA 2.0 – Social Enterprise Kosova – expert faciliator, 12 – week program working with 15 NGOs and new startups helping their transition from donor dependent to financial sustainability, Kosovo, March – June 2019;
Migration, Business and Human Rights – Hot seat discussion, key contributor Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, CISL, Cambridge, February 2018;
SDG1 No Poverty and SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing, workshop expert facilitator, SociSDG, Riga, Latvia, January 2019;
SEKA 1.0 – Social Enterprise Kosova – Expert facilitator, Kosovo, 12 – Week program ended November 2018;
Social Enterprise Conference, keynote speaker, Kosovo, November 2018;
‘Closing the Loop’ – film premiere screening, keynote and panel discussion, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates, December 2018;
SDG5 Gender Equality and SDG10 Reduced Inequalities, workshop expert facilitator keynote, SociSDG, Matera, Italy, November 2018;
Young Diaspora Matters, Key note on Transformative Leadership and Change, Women for Peace and Participation, London, October 2018;
7Arte – Business strategy building – independent contractor, Kosovo, May-June 2018;
SDG12 and SDG2, Responsible consumption and production, Zero Hunger – expert facilitator, SociSDG, Zagreb, May 2018;
SDG11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, expert facilitator, Berlin, February 2018;
Diaspora School Kosova – 5-day change-makers bootcamp, expert mentor, Kosovo, October 2017;
‘Migration: The Overblown Crisis and Overlooked Opportunity’ – Diversity, inclusion and procurement workshop, Accenture & Barilla, Parma, Italy, September 2017;
‘Migration: The Overblown Crisis and Overlooked Opportunity’ – UN Global Impact and Impacto, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2017;
‘Sustainability & Social Innovation: Growing Effective Change-makers’ – UN Global Impact and Impacto, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2017;
‘Next Global Practices in Innovative Disruptions’ – League of Corporate Foundations CSR Expo 2017, Manila Philippines, July 2017;
‘Business’ Response to Refugee Crisis’ – Guest contributor to the master’s program at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability and Leadership, January 2017;
The SERA’s Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2016 – Lagos Nigeria, November 2016;
‘Emerging Leaders Dialogue Asia 2016’ – Expert workshop facilitator, Kuala Lumpur October 2016;
‘Reviving the hope of future leaders – sustainability, leadership and social enterprise’, Peje, Kosova, 18 – 25 July 2016;
‘Sustainability leadership and social responsibility’ – Environmental Secretariat, Quito, Ecuador, June 2016
‘Sustainable Frontiers: Unlocking Change through Transformational Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement and Integrated Value’, Monterrey Tecnologico, Guadalajara, Mexico, May 2016;
‘Building Partnerships for a sustainable future – business leadership as a catalyst for development’ – The SERAs CSR awards, Nigeria, Nov 2015;
‘The role of social enterprise and innovation in sustainable development’ – 1st Azerbaijan Conference on Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, Caspian Event Organisers, Baku, Azerbaijan, 15 October 2015;
‘Coca Cola Annual Stakeholders Forum’ – Coca-Cola, Milan, Italy, 8-9 October 2014;
‘Welfare reform and austerity impacts’ – Asylum Help, Oxford, UK, 6 October 2015;
‘Social entrepreneurship’ workshop – Chickpea Sisters & Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, London, UK, 10 September 2015;
‘Creating Integrated Value’ workshop – City Developments Limited, Singapore, 27 August 2015;
‘Migration and Human Trafficking’, Eritrea: Business Ethics, Migration and Trafficking – Panel Discussion, Solicitors International Human Rights Group, London, UK, 18 June 2015;
‘Unlocking Human Power: The role of social entrepreneurship in promoting human rights, gender equality and child protection’ – Conference and Workshops, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 18 – 25 April 2015;
‘International Women’s Day’ – conference, London, 6 March 2015;
‘Glocal Finance’ Launch Forum – Hexagon Group, UK, 23–27 March 2015;
‘Responsible Glocal Finances Forum’ – Hexagon Group, Ecuador, 8-14 December 2014;
‘Philosophy and culture of social responsibility’ international conference – Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia, November 2014;
‘The Power of Unreasonable Women’ – Hungarian Business Leaders Forum, 4 November 2014.
‘Coca Cola Annual Stakeholders Forum’ – Coca-Cola, Budapest, Hungary, 3 November 2014;
‘Social entrepreneurship’ workshop – Evelyn Oldfield Unit, London, UK, November 2014;
‘Austerity and legal aid: Impact on the vulnerable’ workshop – REDRESS, London, UK, October 2014;
‘The Supporting Women’s Project’ annual conference – Evelyn Oldfield Unit, London, UK, July 2014;
‘Violence Against Refugee Women’ – Evelyn Oldfield Unit, UK, May 2014;
‘Welfare Reforms – an overview’ – Voluntary Action Camden, UK, April 2014;
‘Women and her role in diaspora’ – International Women’s Day, UK, March 2014;
‘Housing and Human Rights – Western Cape Government, study tour, South Africa, February 2014;
‘Current Issues of Forced Migration – European Context’, University of East London, UK, February 2014;
‘21st Century London Outcasts’ Seminar: Report on Austerity and its Impact on Refugee Families Living in London’, Centre For Social Justice and Change, University of East London, February 2014;
‘Asylum and Refugee Support: Best practices in supporting refugees and asylum seekers’ – Work in Progress Association, Venice, Italy, November 2013;
‘Trauma and Refugee Integration’, Human Rights Consortium and School of Advanced Studies, UK, December 2001;

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