Leaving a Legacy

People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without
meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the
leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s
even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is
about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating
positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy.
How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy
statement? And how about increasing your impact? Will you choose for scaling
up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by
the impact point of view and discover how you can increase the impact of your
organization too. This book reveals strategies of a diversity of
organizations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge
institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in increasing their
social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organization you are spending
your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or
ecologically.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kaat Peeters is an impact maker with a track record in associations as well as
governmental institutes. Kaat established a European network and was
responsible, as manager, to develop two newly founded associations in the
cultural field into solid organizations. Meanwhile, Kaat ran a shop in Persian
and Arabic interior objects and a Bed&Breakfast.; In 2013, Kaat established
the ‘Sociale Innovatiefabriek’, a Belgian based accelerator that stimulates
and facilitates social innovation and social entrepreneurship counting an
amazing community of more than 500 innovators.
Nowadays, Kaat is lecturer social innovation at the University College
‘Erasmushogeschool’ and with her  consulting organisation ‘Impact Projects’,
Kaat supports impact organisations with their growth strategies. As hands-on
Board of Directors member of cultural associations and social enterprises,
making impact is always of paramount importance in her work.
Impact has become the baseline of both her personal and professional life.

Omar Mohout, currently Entrepreneurship Fellow at Sirris, is a former
technology entrepreneur, a widely published technology author, C-level advisor
to high growth startups as well as Fortune 500 companies and Professor of
Entrepreneurship at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Management School,
ULB and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.
He is Co-chair of the Circle Of Growth; Community host for Corporate Venturing
Europe; Organizer of the Growth Hacking Meetup, Co-founder of the #BeTech
Community and keeps track of European funding and scaleups on
scaleups.sirris.be.