How coworking can be so much more than renting a desk

Bernie J Mitchel talks about the positive impact his business has on the world.

With rapacious businesses making the world much worse than it needs to be for the sole purpose of making extremely rich people even richer, more and more independent, autonomous businesses owners are doing all they can to make an impact in a different way.

In this interview Bernie explores how designing a coworking space that makes it easy for people to work together as a community with shared values is not only better for the owner of the space and the people who hire a desk but is also a benefit to the local neighbourhood. Bernie also talks about how independent coworking space owners support each other and help to spread the impact of their work even further.

Links to people and places mentioned in the interview:

Luma – a free event organising platform
London Coworking Assembly  Events, blog and podcast
Bernie J Mitchell on LinkedIn
Jon Alexander – Author of “Citizens: Why the key to fixing everything is all of us.”

For more interviews on how small, independent businesses make the world a better place see Impact Reports