Meet the DEAL Community

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Having lived and worked in Australia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America, I have nurtured the flexibility and ability to catalyse diversity into strategic strength. I love to question and apply holistic thinking in understanding problems and finding a way forward. I have been involved in entrepreneurship most of my life, and I see innovation as central to transforming our world to be ready for the challenges of tomorrow. In the last several years I have embarked an a new chapter of designing and delivering engaging entrepreneurship and international business courses at leading tertiary education institutions. Strong leadership and good governance are key to sustainable change, which is why I completed the Company Directors Course and became a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Lima

I am an architect, substitute teacher and master in Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Building.  Enthusiast of nature and reforestation

Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

I am a parent committed to a change in the economic model, I seek to contribute to this transformation and leave a possible world for future generations. I have a background as a mechanical engineer and business administrator. I have held management positions in the insurance sector and in recent years I have been an entrepreneur.

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Time to Think Certified Coach and Facilitator‌ ‌of‌ ‌learning‌ ‌processes‌ ‌and‌ ‌participatory‌ ‌leadership‌ ‌with‌ ‌training‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌u.lab (MITx),‌ ‌Sociocracy,‌ ‌Non‌ ‌Violent‌ ‌Communication, Oasis Game, Germinar ‌and the Art‌ ‌of‌ ‌Hosting‌.‌

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

My background is in personal finance and organizational development. I'm a Regenerative Futures Designer looking through the living systems lens of life. I'm developing interdisciplinary learning labs for leaders of the future. Labs are topical learning pods of 12ish people with diverse views. We are learning to see systemically to transform entrenched systems. We create the conditions for constructive innovation. We are learning and acting in partnership with social, ecological, economic, and worldviews to heal and thrive . I partner with collaborators working intentionally on seeing the whole by using a systems approach for designing healthy communities and environmental outcomes for people and our planet. The doughnut is a great transformative tool!

Bray, Leinster, Ireland

A visual artist with a strong line in comics. Long-term project I Am a Forest upholds an ethic of interdependence across generations, cultures, species. This project has developed from tree and wildflower propagation workshops to music-making collaborative pieces.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

A researcher in climate change and business, aspiring to make a difference through practice-based research. Humans are capable of a lot more. We have truly not evolved and the proof lies in how we have treated the planet that's home to us. Real evolution will come when we have learned to co-exist in harmony. Its simple and yet we end up making things so complex. Things I care about- the business of climate change, girl child education, menstrual and sexual hygiene, animal welfare and mental well-being

Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Our goal is to network with projects and business startups to bring together funding, investment, and expertise including resources using the circular economic model. (Doughnut Economics)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

I'm an architect turned futurist turned strategic designer, leading an action-research team at Space&Matter in Amsterdam. We focus on making the shift towards democratic and ecologically sustainable cities happen by designing prototypes, probes and alternative models to ingrained thinking in the built environment. We favour action but we think first. Get in touch for collaborations on projects, workshops and talks!

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Dutch & South African Co-Founder sustainavistas.org community of sustainability professionals | Sustainability | Creative Networker | Business Development & Partnerships |Technology for Good | Coaching & Mentoring Startups | Business for Biodiversity & Regeneration -Working with MeerBomen.nu (MoreTreesNow.eco) and StichtingMeergroen.nl to promote Grassroots Community Tree planting  & urban Regen across  Europe and the globe. 

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/sdsl-en/

Redange-sur-Attert, Redange, Luxembourg

Mycelium est une organisation œuvrant dans le diagnostic partagé et la facilitation de processus collectifs auprès des communes et autres institutions publiques.

Barcelona, Catalunya, España

I'm a researcher, artist, and campaigner, from Russia-UK-Argentina. Passionate about well-being, systems thinking, historical memory, climate justice, feminism, poetry, anti-racism, relational thinking, and regenerative development.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

My current focus is on inspiring leaders to act on the courage of their convictions in defense of the living planet and those who inhabit it. I guide companies on regenerative futures at Solvable 🌏🔥, write biweekly essays on consciousness during the climate emergency in The Understory ✍, and build community over dinners with Now What 🍽.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

I'm IT Director for International NGO WaterAid.org

Ilkeston, England, United Kingdom

Hi, I am a Environmental Protection Officer at South Derbyshire District Council and support the Collective for Climate Action

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I play many roles. I am a civil engineer, entrepreneur, social education leader and artist. And there is one distinct link that connects me to all these roles, the desire to do it the circular way.

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America

I'm a wildlife ecologist by training, and the current Senior Conservation Data Scientist at a U.S. non-profit organization called Defenders of Wildlife. I work with a team focused on improving wildlife conservation through innovative uses of science, technology, and policy. In my current role, I lead the teams' use of remote sensing and geospatial data, and AI to conduct analyses and develop tools that can make wildlife conservation more efficient and effective. For some time now, I have been haunted by the sense that any efforts to conserve biodiversity, protect the environment, and combat climate change are fundamentally inhibited by the design of global economic systems. Convinced that conservation of any kind is ultimately limited by economic design, I now want to learn more about the theory, tools, and data that economists use to evaluate alternative models. I hope to find a way to contribute to the effort to shift local and national economic systems into the doughnut.

Paso de los Libres, Corrientes, Argentina

Me especializo en el desarrollo de empresas y ciudades en la región de las triple fronteras del Mercosur. Hace más de 20 años planificamos y/o ejecutamos y/o auditamos empresas y ciudades, dentro de una visión de desarrollo desde adentro hacia afuera y sostenible.

I am a mother of three, live in the Finger Lakes region of NYS and am a volunteer in our local Mothers Out Front (citizens' environmental advocacy group) chapter.

Bogotá, Distrito Capital de Bogotá, Colombia

I am a seasoned engineer dedicated to developing power generation projects under different technologies. I am in search of a hope for the humanity.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

I'm a political economist and strategic analyst with broad international experience in digital transformation, electronic media, international banking, and foundation work, For the last twenty years or so I've been devoted to leveraging ICT to accelerate social, economic and political development. My current professional interests: promoting thought, communication, and action across three areas: innovation, sufficiency, and sustainability.

Penang, Malaysia

Hello there. I wear many hats, worked on various roles and have a lot of interests! Some few hats that are in the spirit of DEAL: - decentralised  : I have experience in facilitating processes in the spirit of , a and governance framework used by around the world. - philosophical : basically using various enquiry techniques to evoke philosophical points of discussion. - wiki-building : currently working on a passion project that serves to curate human skills, tools and frameworks (like this one but more towards understanding our shared humanity) that would serve as a knowledge so that people (with an internet connection) can use these tools for personal and collective flourishing.  

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Livelihoods Economist turned Organisation Development coach and team-builder, improvising life in this new madness. Now side-tracked to focusing on returning public health medicine to its rightful place: in the patient's interest.