Serving Sound Globally with Audra Renyi
“What drove me is to help others, to have a transformative impact on their lives… For-profits and non-profits: these are just two different ways to get to the same goal.”
- Audra Renyi
When your entrepreneurial success stems from your passion, there is no limit to the change you can make in the world!
Audra Renyi runs two thriving companies, one a non-profit and the other for-profit. As the executive director of World Wide Hearing and the founder of EarAccess Inc., Audra is on a mission to increase the accessibility and affordability of hearing care in areas of great need, and create lasting, impactful change in those communities.
Audra is the first guest on the Road to Seven to have been named a Heroine of Health at the WHO World Health Assembly and have won the 2017 Governor-General’s Innovation Award!
Press play to learn how Audra brings a little business into her non-profit, and infuses her for-profit business with a social mission.
In this episode of the Road to Seven podcast, you’ll discover:
The biggest challenge Audra has faced as a disruptor in her sector
What Audra considers when choosing new markets to move into
The critical, under-served period during which children should be screened for hearing loss
About Audra Renyi: Audra Renyi is the executive director of World Wide Hearing and the founder of EarAccess Inc. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and with Doctors Without Borders in Chad and Rwanda. She was a business consultant in microfinance in Kenya, served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund, and was a Director of Development for Canada World Youth.
Highlights:
00:01 Intro
02:18 Meet Audra Renyi
05:28 Audra’s journey
06:48 Bringing business into non-profit
08:26 Bringing social responsibility into for-profit
11:05 Government collaborations
11:39 Microfinancing
14:05 Biggest challenges
16:16 SheEO & digital shift
17:47 Choosing markets
20:01 Balancing two companies
21:13 What she knows now
22:16 What’s next?
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