Meet the DEAL Community

United Kingdom

My name is Laura Franco Henao, I have a background in economics and international development and I work in the learning and education team at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation where I manage one of our learning and communication projects: the circular economy show. The show is a 30-45 minutes live discussion and debate with external guests around how we can move from a linear ‘take-make-waste’ economy towards a circular economy.

Leuven, Vlaanderen, Belgium

Experienced business consultant, helping companies accelerate sustainability transitions by supporting • implement best practices aligned with CSRD, EU Taxonomy and TCFD • ESG Reporting & Performance evaluation • Integrate ESG Strategy & Action plan within overall business strategy • As B Leader, guiding companies in their B Corp certification journey • climate awareness and training

Ámsterdam, Noord-Holland, Países Bajos

I am a Colombian living in Amsterdam. I arrived in the Netherlands in 2020 to fulfill a dream of continuing to develop myself as a skilled professional in the sustainability and climate fields. I am passionate about sustainability, and love to apply my experience and knowledge to make a positive difference in society and the environment.

San Rafael, California, United States of America

I promote systems thinking in Marin County, as well as a systems thinking approach to local adoption and adaptation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As well as having completed a Green MBA and a PhD in mythological studies, I am also a graduate of the Four Seasons permaculture design certificate year-long course at Commonweal in Bolinas, a graduate of the Capra Course, and a follower of Theory U. I'm also enthuiastic about the Collective Impact model and the Omidyar group's "Systems Practice" systems mapping process. And, I'm a practicing mystic.

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

I am a musician with a business degree who is very interested in Economics and sees the future as brighter with a decentralized finance system. I’m also the Executive Director for a non-profit called GreenSeeds Music Society which creates environmentally themed multimedia for youth. We're based in Richmond and have a strong network in the arts and film industry across the lower mainland. My influences come from training by the David Suzuki Foundation, Natural Step Canada and Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. As part of this, I am currently a Captain of the new Richmond Climate Hub and Communications Captain of the existing Vancouver Climate Hub. These hubs work to unite civil society, business, government, and citizens.

Lugano, Ticino, Svizzera

Leonardo Conte graduated in Economics at UCSC (Italy) and USI (Switzerland). He is now PhD student in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at the University of Lugano and lecturer of International Business Economics at Franklin University Switzerland. He lived abroad in Australia, the UK and the US, where he was Junior Research Fellow of the Harvard Policy and Institutional Research Project. Since 2017, he founded the local association Rethinking Economics Lugano and the national network Rethinking Economics Switzerland. Last but not least, he is pursuing interdisciplinary research on the performativity of Behavioural Economics and the impact of Nudging practices on consumers.

Kraków, województwo małopolskie, Polska

Facilitator and educator of circular change - working with companies and designers through creative workshops.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Managing director Anne Veck Limited, award winning hairdressing business, championing sustainable and ethical business in our industry. Member steering group UK Business & Biodiversity Forum . Lifelong interest in wildlife & nature, currently involved in rewilding in Portugal.

Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sverige

Educational business developer with a focus on social sustainability, social entrepreneurship.

Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

I am an engineer working with different topics of the "new normal", especially around ecosystem service & natural capital accounting

Global Nomad

Founder of Global Fashion Exchange, a circular focused approach to the fashion industry that combines sharing and circular economy, innovation, and Education into a global, collaborative action platform platrom.

Stevns, Region Sjælland, Denmark

Are currently looking for collaborative minded people with interest in making educational material on this subject, target age 13-16 year olds. Innovative creative, education consultant, tree huger and life loving human here to learn more on news ways of the world and help other do the same - always interested in new collaboration and ideas, so feel free to reach out

Berlin, Germany

Industrial Engineer, Systems Thinker, Musician, Nature-loving Human. 🌻 Studying Economics and Renewable Energy Technologies I realized, the world's ecosystems and lots of human social institutions are hanging in the balance. The economy is already desperately out of balance. There are already technical as well as social innovations that offer solutions but it's the people who are not yet ready for the major changes we need to conduct as society. What we need is a mind shift and Doughnut Economics provides a strong communication tool. ⚖️ Creating a City Portrait of Berlin for my Master's thesis with Doughnut4Berlin. 📝

Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Working in health care management, I am especially interested in sustainable community care and a couple of years ago started a grass roots health cooperative in Oegstgeest The Netherlands (www.langerzelfstandiglevenoegstgeest.nl). We are working on neighbourhood communities that take care of eachother and housing projects where seniors can grow old together.

Les Houches, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Teacher in economics and management, I am committed to resilience in the Mont Blanc valley

London Borough of Haringey, England, United Kingdom

Australian fine art photographer based in London.

Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Entrepreneur, technologist and instructor. I am the author of the economy of meaning.

London

London based business owner and lover of Doughnut Econ, ethical finance and cool sustainable ideas. Founder of a supply chain business called Do It Properly (doitproperly.co), GHG Protocol qualified, working to become a member of the IEMA

Mesa, Arizona, United States of America

Hello, I am fortunate to be able to serve in the capacity of Business Development Manager for ASU LightWorks®. ASU LightWorks®, an initiative which spans the entirety of Arizona State University, is deeply focused on advancing sustainable development in clean energy and economy wide decarbonization. Done by cultivating dynamic relationships and leveraging research assets across the university ecosystem, creating transdisciplinary teams to take on some of the world's grandest challenges. I am also a proud graduate of ASU School of Sustainability, earning a BA in Sustainability focused on sustainable urban dynamics. Prior to earning my degree I had a 20+ year career in the commercial and residential building trades sector, where I experienced many roles from laborer, to tradesman and eventually senior leadership. This combination of experiences (among others) have enabled me to develop a unique lens from which to observe sustainability challenges, often offering new perspectives.

Östersund, Jämtlands län, Sverige

My interest for economy begun once I realised how extremely important it is in the quest for environmental and social sustainability who are my two biggest passions. Now I study a master in environmental science at Mid Sweden University where my focus is on conflicts of aims within sustainability. Besides that I work as a youth coach with asylum-seekers that have come without parents to Sweden. I am soon finished with my degree and I am looking for what I should take on after that. All I know for sure is that I want to work to promote positive change in the world. I find the Doughnut economy insipiring and all the initiatives that are taken gives me hope for the future!

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Founder of Unstitution and an inspiration strategist, I hold the inherent tensions of hard science and messy humanness. Embracing a partial witnessing orientation, I share 30+ years of integrative transdisciplinary transcontextual experience. Engaging and researching widely to nourish what's unfolding, I bring ideas and concepts to ground in ways that might relate, resonate and inspire meaningfully.  Unstitution is patterned as a collaborative commons, supporting living-learning lab initiatives, addressing entangled systemic meta-poly-perma realities. Together, through deep ongoing inquiry, we're uncovering life-affirming ways of working and living, reframing most everything: 💥 Diagnosing recursive life-diminishing patterns 💥 Co-cultivating enabling contexts and field conditions 💥 Unblocking portals that might allow transformative phase shift birth Working from the interstitial space between sectors, disciplines, networks, cultures, generations, genders - all the artificial divides - we're illuminating deep-rooted domination-oppression patterns and barriers that insidiously persist despite good intentions. Life diminishing patterns, spanning hundreds of years and accelerated through industrialized modernity have become hard-wired. Deep subject! Working and co-learning with people anywhere in the world, we're re-patterning as we live into an unknowable future, guided by some hard red lines. Uncomfortable questions routinely bypassed for all kinds of reasons keep us on transitional treadmills that prevent real transformation and block expression and life-affirming regenerative functions. Living in the world as it is and wading between wor(l)ds, letting go of the degenerative, dysfunctional ways we've been imprinted, Inviting us all to unstitutionalize what fails to serve life, asking: 💥 What is ours to STOP DOING? 💥 What is ours to DO VERY DIFFERENTLY? 💥 What is NOT OURS to drive, (en)force and grip? Honouring gifts differing, we bring and let go of experience, skills, framing/scaffolding, methodologies and tools - attuning to contexts and cultures. We cherish what has always been, trampled by dominator patterns and buried and  invisibilized under layers, that became normalized - the way it is.  We were never separate, yet the experience and harms of separateness are very real!   Wading through deep shi(f)t, this work is reflective, retrospective, present-centred, facing one another and  forward-facing - humbling ongoing (un)learning for all. Our regularly updated Unstitution articles published on Medium are fractal-like glimpses into the unstitutional ethos. Co-catalytic springboards, they invite deeper excavation, integrative learning and meta-relational attunement. They reflect a sample of the ways we’re co-adapting and contributing. 

Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

I'm a singer, producer, and sustainable marketer from Canada and Colombia looking for optimal happiness and optimal ecological footprint for my family, the World, and me.

New York, United States of America

Working to democratize money itself. I'm interested in alternative and community currencies, mutual credit, UBI, inclusive & decentralized tech and governance systems. The monetary systems we use are a powerful force shaping our economy. We need to reexamine and rebuild our basic monetary infrastructure to create a fair and sustainable economy.

Germany

Circular Economy strategist tapping the power of circular economy business models