Meet the DEAL Community

Tamworth

Junior Sustainability Consultant

Niterói, RJ

Seasoned professional with a strong background in operations management, process improvement, and project development. Possesses expertise in enhancing quality, reducing costs, improving service levels, and elevating customer satisfaction in large companies across the Telecom and Media industries, as well as in a biotech start-up. Passionate about family and genuinely curious about the future of next generations. I seek to understand and influence human behavior in all of my relationships, for a world with less judgment, more empathy, and more pursuit of happiness. Money is important, minimum infrastructure is also, but for me, community harmony is fundamental for complete happiness.

London

My name is Sara and I’m a climate social scientist, political activist, and science communicator focused on social-ecological resilience and the future of our planet and this is what brings me to the DEAL community. I’m very interested in understanding how frameworks are built to protect and safeguard people and the planet in a time like today.  Earlier, I’ve been associated with some remarkable organisations such as LSE Cities, Sanctuary Asia magazine, the Sanctuary Nature Foundation,  the World Resources Institute, Earth Day Network, among others.   In my past as a divemaster, I have worked to support several coral restoration projects across Asia-Pacific, until I realised those are band-aid fixes, unless overall emissions come down and policy around fossil fuel and corporate expansion shifts, there isn’t much hope for our reefs. And so I came back to land.  I’ve worked with the concepts of the Anthropocene, rewilding, community owned conservancies, citizen science and the climate system. I am interested in human behaviour, international governance, and social justice. I worry about environmental policy being geared towards constant resource exploitation through advances in technology, viewing natural resources from a purely economic activity linked to a GDP/trade statistics perspective. I also think about how human behaviour is shaped and influenced by its surroundings in the climate crisis.  I enjoy designing public awareness campaigns, speaking to people and communities, writing, illustrating and looking for creative ways that help the public learn about, fall in love with and protect our green-blue dot.  I write for and illustrate for Sanctuary Asia magazine and am always looking for knowledge translation writing projects and opportunities that can demystify earth science for the people.  I love reading/run/swim/cycling in no particular order punctuated by being a couch potato. I have a special affinity towards socialist literature + memes and fluffy creatures of the biosphere.

Wiltshire, England

Environmental land manager working for National Trust in Wiltshire. Enabling and steering the management of the Trusts land to restore nature, provide sustainable food and to benefit all. I believe that actions speak. I had not appreciated that Doughnut economics were rooted in Schumacher's vision that I was introduced to in school economics in the late 70's. It feels as though after a very long journey I have been having in the right direction all along. I just needed Kate's vision to bring it into focus.

Lisbon, Portugal

Louisville, CO

Wales

Leuven, Belgium

amsterdam

London

Susana is an ecopreneur, a thought leader innovator, a change-maker and a pioneer in the field of construction, circular economy and climate solutions. She is the Founder and CEO at ALDStone, a world leader in circular flooring systems facilitating construction decarbonisation. ALDStone offers a range of products which enable reusability and circularity of many types of tiles. These include tiles made of stone, carpet, vinyl and wood. In addition, surfaces such as laminate flooring are amongst numerous materials which are compatible for use with our products. We span the globe serving customers, from Europe to Japan & beyond. ALDStone’s mission is to efficiently provide our innovative underlay solutions to stakeholders for use in a variety of areas within the building sector. These include new developments and renovations of hotels, shops, stores, offices, housing, hospitals, schools and a multitude of other spaces. Together, we can have a positive impact on our economy, society & most importantly, on our environmental ecosystem. At ALDStone, we are committed to bringing transformation to the built environment sector by enabling other businesses to become fully circular. Together, we can meet mutual business, economic and environmental targets and benefits whilst closing the loop for the tiling sector. We work towards building long-term relationships with business and government. Both the Circular Economy & Cradle to Cradle principles are aligned with ours. We embrace our contribution with ethical design and services adaptations which bring benefits, not only to the economy, but to the health of our planet & wellbeing of society. Awarded & selected for most value within Top Advance Materials industry, Top Smart Building industry, Market Leading Smart Cities & Top Smart Home, Sustainable Build Innovators 2020, Connected Places Catapult Supporting the best SMEs innovating their way through COVID-19, CE Project of the Year '19, ReLondon Supporting Circular Business, 1st award EUtop50 Founder for CE product, Newable supporting Innovation Business & 1st ever DIFxCE100 Startup Day'18 by Ellen MacArthur Foundation. SDGs 3/8/9/11/12/13/15/17

United Kingdom

new york

A senior emerging markets strategist with 13 years of experience delivering profitable investments in financial markets for clients ranging from investment banks to sovereign wealth funds and hedge funds. Built a proprietary and impactful emerging markets research team for a global hedge fund to provide successful investments.   Worked in London, Singapore, and New York. Pivoted to Sustainability and went back to school to make it happen. Graduated from Columbia this summer with an M.S in Sustainability Management. 

1150 Wien

I am a certified psychological coach, trainer and consultant.  My expertise contains healthy work cultures, workability, authentic success and dynamic capabilities.  I support all persons and businesses, thriving for more than work surroundings that "fit".  I believe, everything has its own potency, and when you decide in which direction you send it, you will explore yet unexpected possibilities. Possibilities that will bring us to a healthy and sustainable future.  I am coming to this community through a collective of consultants. We founded recently in Vienna the "Future Business Consultants" and our vision and strategy is built upon the doughnut economy model. We are a collective of self employers, collaborating to rise awareness in businesses for the balance of living and support them to change their purpose, strategy and structure, so they set themselves in the doughnut. 

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Oxford, UK

london

Groningen, NL and Hong Kong

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I have ~10 years of professional experience in strategy, policy reform, and research across education and other sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Shama recently launched UpStudio Africa, a design and innovation studio for children in Tanzania aimed at nurturing and empowering the next generation of African entrepreneurs, scientists, innovators, designers, and creators starting at a very young age. She also serves as a board member for Ubongo Tanzania and Aga Khan Education Services Tanzania. Before launching UpStudio Africa, Shama was a Senior Project Manager at Dalberg Advisors where she co-led the Education to Employment as well as the Early Years Development practice areas globally. 

Stockport

Middlesbrough