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Paul Estey on the TechTO stage

Paul Estey

Co-founder, Public Inc

MarketingTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2017

Paul Estey co-founded Public Inc in 2008 with Phillip Haid — a Toronto social impact agency and certified B Corporation working with brands, non-profits and government. He took the TechTO HealthTO stage in July 2017 to ask why office life produces so little physical activity, and who in the health technology community should fix it.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Paul

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What did Paul Estey speak about at TechTO?

Workplace health and wellness, at HealthTO in July 2017: why a normal office day produces so little movement, why nothing in it rewards being active, and why the proliferation of devices and apps has not changed that. His framing was that this is a partnership problem for the health technology community rather than an HR budget line. This page carries no pull quotes because the archive's automatic transcript of the talk is too garbled to quote accurately.

What is Public Inc?

A Toronto social impact agency he co-founded in 2008 with Phillip Haid, both of them out of the non-profit sector, on the argument that purpose belongs on the business agenda rather than in a side budget. It builds impact campaigns and partnerships for corporate and non-profit clients, is a certified B Corporation, and keeps an office in New York.

What is Paul Estey doing now?

Not established. This page does not publish from LinkedIn or contact-data aggregators. Sources disagree on the title he held at Public Inc — co-founder and COO in some accounts, chief innovation officer in others — so this page records only that he co-founded it.

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