HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE A MAVERICK?

“Somebody who has an idea and a vision, and the determination to see it through.”

MIKE’S BIO

Mike Dickson is the Founder and CEO of Rainmaker Foundation, a collaborative charity launched in January 2012. Rainmaker’s aims are to ‘inspire generosity’ – and ‘to create a world where what matters most is what we do for others’. The Foundation connects philanthropists and change-makers – ‘Rainmakers’ – to inspirational causes in the UK and globally.  Rainmaker also advises companies on developing effective partnerships with charities, which inspire employees and help to create a more intelligent business. Clients include businesses in Private Equity, hedge funds, retail, banking and airlines.

Mike is the author of the thought leadership book on generosity called Please Take One: One Step Towards A More Generous Life, which was launched at Ted Global to inspire a global movement to encourage generosity.

Mike co-founded the successful children’s charity Whizz-Kidz, which provides mobility equipment for disabled children. Whizz-Kidz is now the largest UK supplier of paediatric mobility aids outside the NHS, and has raised over £75 million to provide equipment for more than 7,500 children and young people.

WHY MIKE WAS INTERVIEWED

I had read Mike’s book Please Take One years ago and had met him when I wanted advise about how to set up a children’s charity. I knew Mike went into companies not to show them how to make money, but to show them how to give it away. Now that’s someone who thinks differently and I approached Mike for an interview. Mike is one of those salt of the earth people who is genuinely humble and a privilege to know.