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Licensing social business – the Specialisterne case
UNDPLublin Poland6th October 2011
Thorkil SonneAshoka Globalizer FellowFounder Specialisterne and Specialist People Foundation
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Strong Idea
Global Impact
Proven Case
Local Impact
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The Problem: People with autism do not ‘fit in’
Costly for the
individual
Risk of not being understood in the family Risk being bullied at school Risk dropping out of higher education Risk being rejected by the employers Risk a life in loneliness
Costly for business
community
Around 95% of people with ASD are unemployed Businesses miss out on loyal employees with a passion for details…
Costly for society
London School of Economics estimates the cost of autism to the UK society to be £28bn annually
In Glasgow, Scotland, a 4:1 social return on any public funding / investment is expected over a 5 year period…
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SPECIALIST PEOPLE
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Characteristics of people with autism
Low self-confidence Missing overview Missing filters = stress
sensitive Depressions Communicative
misunderstandings Problems with “Reading
the game” Little or no imagination of
your feelings or whereabouts
Passion for details Focused concentration Perseverance for repetitive
actions Pattern recognition Spot deviances in data,
information and systems Out of the box thinking Honest Courageous
Strengths Vulnerability
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Shift in the way value is created…Industrial value creation…fitting in is all important
Innovation based value creation…not fitting in is all important
Source: “Specialisterne - Its Broader Importance in 21st Century Management”,Speech at Specialist People Conference 2011by Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School / Copenhagen Business School
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Specialisterne For-profit social enterprise Owned by not-for-profit Specialist People Foundation Focus on high functioning people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Services Consulting within software management, testing, registration and data
logistics 5 month assessment and training 3 year youth education
People 20 people as staff 33 people with ASD as consultants 20 people (18+ years) with ASD as candidates 26 people (16 – 25 years) with ASD as students
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Customer Cases
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Changing the paradigm
Vision To make societies globally respect and accommodate
specialist people as worthy and valuable citizens
Mission To make specialist people feel wanted
and help them excel in the right roles
Values
Respect Accommodation Accessibility Clarity
Goal To enable one million jobs for specialist people
– people with a business potential who need special understanding and support
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Strategy for global impact
Academy
Organizational capacity building
International community building
SpecialisterneLicensees Corporate Partners
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Scaling with Licensees
Develop and prove
model
Document with Deloitte andlearn from
Glasgow pilot
Apply learning’s, develop
platform for growth
USA, Baltimore MD
as Pilot + Delaware,
New York & Minnesota
Proven concept, well defined and scalable model,
global community of
committed partners
2004 2010 2011 2012
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Planning model
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Thorkil SonneAshoka Globalizer FellowFounder Specialisterne Specialist People FoundationMobile:+45 2020 [email protected] www.specialistpeople.com
Together we can change the World
Questions?