Meet the DEAL Community

Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia

I describe myself as a continuous learner who has a passion for designing strategies to solve complex problems businesswise. However, I cannot stick only to the business side of things as our present has demonstrated that life and business are not as apart as I thought a few years ago. They are completely linked, and one relies on the other on a process that is constantly trying to find a clever (not always wise) way to help us, humans, perdure. For me, DEAL is HOPE, and it's giving us, humans, a new chance to make things right (and wise).

Auckland, New Zealand

Hi! I’m in NZ building a financial ecosystem that benefits women.

Austin, Texas, United States of America

I’m a therapist in Austin and enjoy yoga, hiking and dance.

Erfurt, Thüringen, Deutschland

Environmentalist & urbanist by passion, consultant, trainer/facilitator & researcher by profession and engineer by formation, Luciana is a dreamer, world citizen and life-long learner. Working with development / international cooperation for the past 14 year, her main interests are in support the implementation of global agendas localy and help urban stakeholders to develop integrated sustainable solutions

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Artist & municipal government employee

Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil

Architect, urban planner and landscaper

Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

As a 'consciousness' practitioner, writer, initiator of the Southwest Virginia Regenerative Ecoregion, and co-founding director of a 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation, Brian works in small group settings to envision, innovate, and subsequently design, community-based value and learning systems interrelating with others across "distributed networks".

Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Economist & teacher, walking In nature. Makes you think. Starting preliminary research in January 2021 on new economic theories and their alignment with natural laws.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

I co-founded a small networked business to provide practical support on governance across organisations, networks, communities and movements. Interested in how new and regenerative approaches to governance - issues of ownership, power, control, organising, (inter)dependence and decision-making in a variety of settings - can help support the foundations of a new economic system.

Middletown, Connecticut

Working in the realms of energy and sustainability; currently consulting for the small city of Middletown, Connecticut.

Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland, United Kingdom

Marilyn is the AQtivator of Integral City Meshworks and the author of the Integral City Book Series. With the Master Code of Care, she is reinventing the city as an evolutionary, complex adaptive “human hive”. Using Integral frameworks and biomimicry consciousness she is schooling a planet of Integral Cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs.

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Holistic Engineer, Doctorate in vibration energy harvesting using auxetic designs to maximise power output (ideal for monitoring infrastructure), Terminally self deprecating and trying to find work in renewable energy.

Cary, North Carolina, United States of America

A quantitative economist and data-driven transformation specialist with focus on data monetization strategies, I have consulted clients across 5 continents in last 20 years to define, deliver, measure and report the business impact of data. My primary focus has been on financial services and insurance, with additional exposure to healthcare, professional services and high-tech sectors.

Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand

I am a business performance coach, I help people focus on their most important challenges and opportunities, co-create the process to develop the best solutions, and implement these effectively. My Why - Positive impact on People, Planet, and Place (my 4Ps…) My How - Giving my crazy good energy to leaders and influencers who are doing this in their local context, through coaching with Empathy, Process, and Systems thinking and collaborating through Experience, Process, and Strategy - yes process is listed twice, it's that important! My What: I'm a lover, runner, and unapologetic non-conformer, and, noting the irony, a McKinsey Alumnus, MBA/MPP graduate, and Mechanical Engineer

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

I am a researcher focussing on environmental migration and a citizen aiming for transformation towards sustainable and just societies. Working and living in Vienna, Austria and in Bonn, Germany. I have worked on issues of urban governance and informality, digitalization and migration, and enviornmental change and livelihood loss. I am convinced that there can be no sustainability without environmental and climate justice - in the local and the global scales.

Stockholm, Sweden

I'm an academic, entrepreneurs and passionate with the UNSDGs, circular economy and circular innovation.  I'm the author of: The Colony of Innovative Startups: A Practical Guide for Policymakers and Corporate Leaders 

Southfields, London Borough of Wandsworth, England, United Kingdom

Thinking partner, executive coach, facilitator. Lydia is an executive coach working with companies, teams, communities and individuals to serve people and planet. Lydia uses a coaching approach to find the spark that we all have within us to contribute small or large steps to a sustainable world.

Southbourne, Dorset, UK

Geographer at large. Left academia to work with local folks to harness our shared knowledge to shape the places and communities we love for a more magical & just future on our planet.

Berlin, Deutschland

I am a possibilist with wide open senses for connections and constellations. I have a huge curiosity to learn and I love to share and transmit my learnings.  I am a sustainabilist who turned her long term private concern for sustaining global and local ecosystems and social justice into political climate activism in 2019.  Convinced of the benefits of systems thinking I am enthusiastic about the Doughnut Economy as a role model and communication tool for the social-ecological transformation we need.  I was lucky to meet a couple of likeminded Doughnauts to embark on the exciting journey to start the Donut Berlin Initiative.  Let's did it, Berlin!

Sebastopol, California, United States of America

On a moral mission to redesign the way we teach and think about economics, putting peace, prosperity, regeneration, and wellbeing first.

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Hi, this is Juan Sebastián, glocal citizen, human facing a transition from the mode of “To Have” to the mode of “To Be”. Systems thinker / Cultural creative / Changemaker and researcher in the realm of human organizations as living systems. My journey begins more than 18 years ago on the marketing and communication fields, lapse in which I came to grips with the common disconnect between the Being-Doing-Saying of companies set up by the traditional economic model. Over the last 8 years such realization has pushed me to recognize businesses as ‘living beings’ further than ‘brands’, and thus delving into the whole systems approach as an accomplishment to precisely grasp them as conversational, reflexive, and interdependent living entities. I'm working as Ecosocial OD Consultant at Jscinteractivo, endeavor conceived by me whereby I aim to consolidate the human organizations’ Ecobiopsychosocial (EBPS) Capital. Visit: https://us.jscinteractivo.com/blog

Selby, England, United Kingdom

I am the Co-ordinator for Fairtrade Yorkshire and run a small fair trade business. I was on the Board of BAFTS The UK Fair Trade Network from 2011 to 2017 and have spent summer 2020 as the public face of the campaign to Keep KitKat Fairtrade.

Livorno, Toscana, Italia

I am a business innovation architect preparing entrepreneurs to the future of business. And the future of business is inextricably linked to the environment this is why I fall in love of the Doughnut Economy. I believe the most successful companies in the future will be competing to be the best for the climate and for the people. In my opinion there is no Climate Change crisis, there is the problem of the extinction of the human race if we continue with this trend. The wording of Climate Change is fundamentally wrong, this is why it doesn't work and people don't get involved. We should start talking about the extinction of the human race, because this is the real problem. The world will continue to run even without the human race, no doubt about. I believe that what we eat and how we eat is such a powerful leverage to reduce the carbon foot print on the planet and to respect all its beautiful creatures.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Hello! I'm a Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University and the course leader for a brand new degree in Social Change. I'm passionate about learning from traditional ways of knowing and being in the world, along with re-imagining systems and social spaces to radically alter the way we live and work. I'm keen to connect with people who might want to work on joint projects with our students and/or share their knowledge with us.