Meet the DEAL Community

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I spent 20 years working in the large corporate environment before turning my focus to the social enterprise and impact sector. I've built a career around designing and implementing growth strategies and enterprise development that enable businesses to get to the next level. As someone who has has worked in a growth-at-all-costs environment and who now works to create a thriving community, my goal is to generate change in the property industry. This industry is the single largest contributor to political parties in Australia, and my aim is to create system level change through market influence and policy change, by demonstrating the mutual value that an equitable built environment can generate for the economy, the environment and for society.

London

Hello, I'm a creative director and founder of creative agency, Beautiful Normal. I specialise in brand strategy and rollout, campaign development, digital product development and design thinking. I believe that brands, businesses and organisations need to be the champions of positive change, leading the way in sustainability and making decisions that benefit people and the planet.

Kristiansand, Agder, Norway

I work as a local councillor for the Green Party in Kristiansand, southern Norway. Currently writing a book about the repair business. This sector of the economy create jobs and minimizes the use of the earth's resources. How can we create a system where reuse and repair is the norm?

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Massage Therapist, Pain Geek and Homeless Healthcare Administrator. I have long been interested in a more accurate and just form of economic theory and was hugely inspired by kate's book. I want to do more to address inequity and climate justice and am hoping DEAL will help enable me to connect with others and projects that share these goals.

Chippenham, England, United Kingdom

I am director of a small UK Chocolate company - Lick the Spoon Chocolates. We put sustainability at the heart of business and have based it around the UN Sustainable Development goals for 2030. Since 2013 we have tried to not grow our business but evolve it such that every part of our supply chain and the chocolates we produce are sustainable. We source our chocolate under a scheme named Raisetrade that keeps more of the value in the country of origin by producing a finished product in both Madagascar and Colombia. Our packaging is plastic free and 75% produced locally in Wiltshire. All of our heating and cooling is through heat pumps and we use 100% renewable electricity. But of course it's not perfect and we're constantly working to try and improve. Since the IPCC 1.5 degree report was published in 2018 i've redoubled my efforts both in activism, particularly lobbying both town and county councils as well as our MP. I've also worked on our neighbourhood plan economy group

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Geographer and environmental scientist working on food systems foresight.

Metro Manila, Philippines

Samantha is a Southeast Asian design strategist for decolonial sustainability and regeneration.  Her work is in decolonising the futuring industries, with a precise, targeted approach to disarming, disabling and dismantling colonial designs, perspectives, and systems.  This is often through decolonisation-centred Global South-prioritised anti-oppression dialogue, leadership and intervention design. www.possiblefutures.earth | www.urbandoughnut.asia 

London Borough of Southwark, England, United Kingdom

Founder of the UK's leading responsible real estate organisation, igloo Regeneration, the UK's first B Corps.

Tel Aviv, מחוז תל אביב, Israel

Originally from La Paz Bolivia, I am currently working as project coordinator for Global Entrepreneurship Network in Tel Aviv, Israel. I hold an MSc in Development Management from LSE, and have experience in data analysis, project design and implementation, and partnership building for leading global organizations.

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige

I am looking for partners, friends and allies in this transformative change. I am committed to work for a better world for people and planet, businesses and society by creating change. My specialties are consumer behaviour and consumer insight and how to transform that into strategy and development for a sustainable future.

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Clinical lead for haemodialysis @NewcastleHosps and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer @UniofNewcastle . Green Nephrology. Co-founder of Trust Green Gym.

Mexico City, Estado de México, Mexico

Landscape Architect by the University of Sheffield, UK. Specialised in nature-based solutions. Skilled in biodiversity, wildlife conservation, green infrastructure, and resilient cities. Ph.D. Candidate on Civil-Environmental Engineering program at UNLV, U.S. My current work focuses upon resilient and regenerative narratives of food, energy, and water NEXUS. Currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada.

York, England, United Kingdom

I work in climate change communications and policy at the University of Leeds in the UK. I'm involved with two funded projects: the Place-Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) and the UK Climate Resilience Programme. My work is very action-oriented and includes trialling a new collaborative form of governance involving place-based partnerships, bringing together the public, private and civic sectors. I'm very involved in sustainability where I live, too, and am a member of One Planet York as well as York Environment Forum and York Green Party.

Maleny, Queensland, Australia

Passionate Design Consultant with 3+ years of experience advising clients and coordinating projects towards more sustainable buildings and communities. Currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Urban Development and Design to be able to integrate my professional experiences with better community design outcomes.

Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Private Equity Fund Manager and profesional windsurfer. I studied Industrial Engineer I've been working for more than 9 years in the financial industry. Many years structuring Project Finance projects in Latin America (mainly in Colombia) and in the last 3 years I have been managing a private equity fund. I got to a point in my life were I realized that accumulating money is not my real driver. I am in the process of making a change and I am looking for the right path to do it. I think this project puts togheter a lot of the things that i have thought for years and I definetly want to be part of it.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Organizational anthropologist who is inspired by how different people can do great things together to make positive impact

Shipley, England, United Kingdom

Founder of Street Space, a social enterprise working with people to reimagine their streets and spaces to make them feel safer, bring joy and social connection. 

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hi my name is Darryl.  Donut Economics was the first economic book I read and it has had a profound direction of my work.  In the last few years I have spent a lot of time reading about ecological economics, wellbeing economics, and the history of economics in the West. It has also influenced my career choices. I  am currently coming to co-leading the nationwide Social Action Inquiry Scotland, commissioned by seven philanthropic organisations dedicated to supporting civil society in Scotland. I am keen to share some of this learning as they dovetail into Nurturing Human Nature and Designing to Distribute.

Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Architect, LEED certified, PhD in Environmental Psychology, former teacher and corporate architect

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I am a recent graduate from the Ivey Business School MBA program in Canada with a passion for sustainable finance. I am currently working as the Executive MBA Program Assistant towards launching the world's first Chief Value Officer EMBA at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France.

Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

I am the cofounder of BothOfUs a social impact company working to bring positive social and environmental change. Using the skills of technology, design and illustration we support companies working towards the SDGs. I am also a business innovation and impact consultant. I use the tools of permaculture, circular economy and biomimicry to drive innovation, build resilience and align companies with the SDGs. I am studying a Postgraduate certificate in innovation, enterprise and circular economy. My aim is to bring together circular economy, permaculture and biomimicry to accelerate positive social and environmental impact and encourage new perspective thinking.

Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland

Ergonomist with high interest for product design in the office environment. Owner of refurbishing company.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

I'm interested in thinking in new ways about economics, system-change and how to get the tools that actually help businesses transform to better models that are needed for inclusive and sustainable society.

Presteigne, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

Mum, wife, global and local citizen, critical thinker, was a co-founder and a volunteer at Transition in Kings, joiner of the dots, catalyst.  Now experimenting with veg growing in Wales.