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Reading, Reading, England, United Kingdom

25 years of experience in global engineering, consultancy and SME leadership, most recently playing a role in the leadership of an SME consultancy. Triple-accredited Positive Psychology Coach and founder of a coaching and consultancy business aligned with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, deeply committed to creating meaningful, values-driven impact. Top strengths: humour, curiosity and social intelligence. Away from work you’ll find me coaching both a girls' and boys' youth football team - or hitting the trails and hills.

Fenwick, East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

I am an expert in sustainability and have a PhD in Education for Sustainability. I have 15 years of experience working with businesses and organisations, helping them understand what a low carbon economy, a resilient community, localising food systems or zero waste means for them. Importantly, I can assist in turning these concepts into action at any level through facilitation and strategic planning. My expertise in material recovery means that I can analyse and advise businesses and manufacturers on how to reduce or eliminate waste to landfill. I have worked with a number of large food processors, and am assisting District and City Council to develop strategic action plans for waste management. I have completed numerous waste audits and given advice to councils to reduce waste to landfill. I project manages urban recycling / resilience projects, and I conducts baseline foodshed and food system analysis for districts or regions to look at how food flows into or out of their community.

Mundelein, Illinois, United States

Continuous Improvement Leader | Relentlessly Pursuing Improvements that Benefit Organizations and Humans | Co-Founder of Human CI Practicing Continuous Improvement to drive impactful results and adapt with agility to evolving market and regulatory conditions creates a competitive advantage that stands the test of time. Working in both the manufacturing and financial industries, I’ve designed, installed, and maintained improvement systems that deliver results and support a thriving improvement culture. I am at my best when I can pursue impactful results for my organizations while also improving the real-life experiences of fellow employees and customers. I am a natural people developer and coach with experience working at all leadership levels within an organization to ensure they support improvement culture as a priority. I Co-Founded Human CI, a think tank established to bring humanity into the way we define value and make decisions, because I wanted to be part of creating a brighter future for all humans. I hope to use my expertise in continuous improvement in service of others, and I believe being a part of the DEAL community will help connect me to opportunities that allow me to do just that.

Singapore

Keen on adopting doughnut economics as part of an early advisory startup focusing on small to medium enterprises’ digitalization journeys. The coexistence of technology and sustainability should not be determined by previous economic models of growth and compliance. And it seems that this confluence warrants a new way of thinking about sustainable digitalization journeys.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hello, I am from India. I read ‘Small is Beautiful’ by EF Schumacher in 1996. Deeply influenced by it, I was searching for a meaningful professional career. In 1997, I found that and joined an organisation, which was far ahead of its time, a sort of social engineering experiment. A listed company, with the ratio of highest wage to the lowest wage at 1:5 !! It rebelled against the stock market, made huge social impact (20,000 construction workers with fixed wages and medical benefits - something unheard then and now in India). And a cult brand in the housing industry (which was then not an organised market). Moderate salaries, simple life styles. The company started in 1978, while I discovered them in 1997. But it all came crashing down by 2003, and I was left penniless (at age of 35). Since 2004, I was back at a regular corporate job, and rebuilt my life. But at personal level continued my life and lifestyle in line with my values. An attempt to make a sense of world is my constant state of being, and that dictates what I read. I read Doughnut Economics and finished it in two days - the last two days.  I am keen to understand where will this take us and be part of it.

York, England, United Kingdom

Independent advisor, creator and consultant with a focus on AI. I founded AI for the rest of us with the goal of helping people improve their AI fluency. If we can't understand each other when we talk about AI, we can't make good decisions about this technology!  I'm here to share what I learn about sustainable, responsible AI. In particular I'd like to talk about the impact of job losses driven by AI adoption, and how we can help individuals and business plan for this. I would like to help non-technical people understand the options of greener, more sustainable AI solutions. 

Rochester, New York, United States

I am a Business Banker. I help people grow and develop their businesses for freedom and independence. I started out as a commodities trader at the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago after graduating with a degree in Economics. Have been in Banking through 5 decades of Banking Crisis's of one kind or another.  I learn and grow ad am excited about the Doughnut Theory and Renegade Economics. I want to share these concepts with all the small business development agencies I do lectures and presentations to in my city. "A rising tide lifts all ships"

Stockholm, Sweden

I work at the Olof Palme International Center, the Swedish labour movement's international solidarity organisation. My main focus is a Just Transition and workers' rights, and I see doughnut economy as a powerful way to steer towards these goals. I'm very interested in hearing about and creating more opportunities for trade unions and the wider labour movement to discuss how to align their struggle for a better life for workers with what the planetary crisis demands of us. How do we distribute resources so that everyone can achieve wellbeing and human rights - live within the donut?  relief etc.    

History teacher who realises how little young people are taught about economics and how much economics governs their lives.  Wondering if we could change that.  #teaching #education  

An exploration of personal doughnuts, what are they and how could they work?

Downscaling the global concept of the Doughnut to turn it into a tool for transformative action in the City of Amsterdam

How communities are initiating the Doughnut. What’s similar, what’s different, and how might other cities “start well"?

Changemakers in Berlin, Brussels, and Cambridge shared their experiences bringing the Doughnut ‘City Portrait’ to life

As part of the “Brussels Donut” project, we downscale the donut at 4 levels, from macro to nano.

The Regen Melbourne network is proud to launch the report: Towards a Regenerative Melbourne

Juhi Shareef of Moonshot:City and Teina Boasa-Dean collaborated to reimagine the Doughnut from a Māori worldview

The London Doughnut Coalition (LDEC) has published its first City Portrait

How collective working is underpinning the emerging Devon Doughnut

Exploring methods to introduce the Doughnut with Devon, Guildford and Milton Keynes

An earlier methodological guide for downscaling the Doughnut to the city (newer version available)

An interactive visualisation (with video and slides) to explore Doughnuts for nearly 150 countries since the early 1990s

DEAL’s guide to redesigning businesses through Doughnut Economics - Core workshop

Examples of Doughnut Data Portraits (or City Portraits) created by local governments, communities, and/or researchers.

PDF and JPEG formats for printing and use in presentations

A workshop tool to evaluate strategies through the City Portrait’s ‘4 lenses’

Fully editable Doughnut ppt template.

What does it take for business to help bring humanity into the Doughnut?

An introduction to each of the 21 social and ecological dimensions of the Doughnut

Seven short animations to introduce the Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist