Meet the DEAL Community

Hiroshima, Japan

I am a pharmacist and writer. I have mostly focused on medical writing but more recently have branched out into other types of writing as well as SEO. I discovered the degrowth movement this year through Jason Hickel's books and would love to get involved.

Stockholm, Sweden

Business Coach and Fractional CMO.  I work with educating founders and leaders to adjust to this new exponential era. Primarily interested in edtech, web3 and blockchain-focused startups.

Kansas City Metro Area

Kira Gould, Hon. AIA, LEED AP, is a writer, strategist, and convener dedicated to advancing design leadership and climate action. Through Kira Gould CONNECT, she provides strategic communications for leaders and firms working toward a regenerative future. She is a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030 and volunteers with the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, whose national leadership group she chaired (2007). Kira is the co-host of the Design the Future podcast with Lindsay Baker. She co-authored Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (2007) with the late architect and author Lance Hosey, 

Miami, FL (USA)

I am always seeking to contribute to more regenerative/sustainable, ethical, and eco-socially just world. Doughnut Economics excites and inspires me for its potential to transform cities!  My career journey has taken me into multiple sectors (technology, tourism, urban planning, academia, community non-profit, arts), but in all this work I have never strayed from my focus on socio-ecological justice. I am a hybrid cultural anthropologist / geographer who is building awareness of inclusive and regenerative tourism and placemaking in cities, with strategies focused on benefitting (versus exploiting) local communities (and the environment). I have a particular interest in addressing the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism.  As an aside, I've also conducted in-depth research on  Miami, Florida's Little Havana neighborhood, where I still offer (private) walking tours with a critical lens ...   

Merseyside

Since my childhood (many years ago) I was passionate about the environment and fairness in the world. Then I became an adult and got a job, and fortunately met someone who loves me, we got married and had a baby girl. Still married and in love with my wife. Baby girl is now 21! My employers seem ignorant of the devastation we face and I need support and guidance to give me any hope for my Babygirls future

Surrey

I recently founded ResponsibleRisk Ltd to drive improvements in #SustainableFinance adoption and outcomes, via better understanding, #data and #solutions.    Previously I was in the Global Banking Industry strategy team at Microsoft. I am also Contributing Editor with Finextra on Sustainable Finance and a member of the TNFD Forum and data Catalyst. Advisor to Earth Knowledge Inc; Credit Nature; Elastacloud, RTGS.Global and WWF My sector and functional focus:   Retail, Private, Investment, Wealth, Asset and Commercial Banking;  Sustainable Finance building on Open Banking and Digital Transformation Technology Focus:   Data and AI Specialties:   Sustainable Finance:  Evangelism, Consulting, Advisory

Amsterdam

I enabel curiosity, care and courage with the surprising power of Liberating Structures. Big fan of mystery, metaphor and magic[which I’d define as an intentional(agency) change(possibility) in perspective(orientation)]. Cofounder of Regens Unite! And source of Wise Crowds LSDAO. I frequent web3, open source and regenerative movements. Words I like are complexity, communication, chaordination, collaboration, agile, Amsterdam, cosmolocalism, commons, community (currency), value(s), Slow Thinking, practice, hypothesis, test, probe, explore, games, play, experience, story, paradox

Toulon

I am a Researcher and a Lecturer, PHD in Innovation Sociology. I am currently leading a research unit dedicated to technology design in the Anthropocene. One of our research field is the design of what we call "wright tech". Wright tech are neither High or Low tech. They are Technologies wich production and use are compatible with the preservation of a Safe and Just operating space for mankind.

Aarhus, Denmark

Social anthropologist, managing partner in a Strategic Design Studio and happy father of three. Searching for my way of contributing to the needed transformations in the world. Meaningful work derives from the search for solutions, processes and collaborations to let us all hand over a better world to our children than what we're looking at right now in 2023.      

Worcester, UK

I've always worked in industry, starting in a lab and working up through process development and project management to operations management. Throughout that journey of having a focus on objects and processes to a focus progressively involving more and more people and their futures, I've come to understand the power of pictures and ideas that are supported by good data and logical reasoning. Doughnut Economics brings many, if not all of my ideas into a wider space. I have a broad range of interests crossing from the arts to science and maybe a touch of philosophy too. I'm also very practical and prefer to be making something. Sitting still is not a natural state for me.

Willemstad

My passion lies in social and environmental development with a specific focus on the interlinkage between communities, civil society and sustainability. My goal is to contribute to the strategic development and implementation of changing initiatives that make a positive contribution to the lives of many. Furthermore, I am driven by helping others, particularly in situations of conflict within relationships, family and work-related challenges.

Scotland

#small business        #opera  

UK

Knaresborough

Lima, Peru

Biologist with a Master degree  in Protected Areas and Diplomas on Governance and Public Innovation, Leadership for Transformation and Natural Resource Management. Transdisciplinary professional with more than 14 years of work experience.  Respected experience in multilateral environmental agreements and cooperation for land area-based conservation measures, with a sustainable use and climate-smart view (mainly focused in ecosystem-based and community-based adaptation measures). Sound performance in project design and implementation (with knowledge in open standards for conservation), multi-country/multi-sector program management, capacity development, high level advisory, large event leadership, negotiation and stakeholder engagement. On-going career in biodiversity conservation, with recognized experience in conservation finance, policy strategy advice, protected areas and landscape conservation  at the national and regional levels. Volunteer in networks for women in conservation such as Women in Nature Network and the Latin America and Caribbean of Women in Conservation. With a broad taste for forming and maintaining working spaces for the creation of collective solutions to problems in complex systems.       

Amsterdam

I am an English lawyer, living and working in Amsterdam. Hoping to find a community with shared ideas and values from whom I can take inspiration.

Minehead, Somerset

I am the project coordinator for a small community-run charity in Minehead, West Somerset that works to improve socio-economic opportunities for the local community. We are exploring how we might implement Doughnut Economics principles in our community.

Coventry UK

I am a professionally qualified surveyor that recently reached retirement age. I have always been a busy person so am now stepping back from full time to part time working but looking to use the rest of my non family focused time to give some of my many years of life and work experience back to society. The biggest challenge facing us all, and particularly our grandchildren’s children is the future survival of our planet. Thus my focus is to find the best way I can use my experience to add value to that cause.

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France

I'm working towards a world in which business leaves more value than it takes, and puts positive impact before profit, in service of a just and liveable future for all. I work as an independent marketing consultant, organisation designer and change facilitator for leaders of social value, sustainable and impact-led organisations. I bring 25 years of real-world business experience, coupled with a profound understanding and authentic commitment to addressing the change that’s needed to secure a thriving future for life on Earth. I'm exploring the potential of marketing to play a key role in the transition to a regenerative future. What if collectively, as marketers, we could transform our industry into a fairer, kinder, more ethical and responsible place, which encourages sustainable behaviour change and nurtures well-being?

Stockholm

A senior communication and sustainability professional aiming at delivering impact at scale. Key areas of expertise include corporate communications, strategy development, business change, stakeholder engagement and sustainability reporting. Strive to contribute to positive change, sustainable business value and a better future for the next generation.

Lagos Nigeria

Antwerp

  I love helping people with any jewellery that needs repairing or gentle re-designing. My workshop can't handle a full melt-down-and-remodel kind of service but I'm happy to adjust or edit pieces that already exist, provide a quick re-polish, etc. I also occasionally do work on commission for friends and family, and am working on a way to expand that network locally as well as internationally in the most sustainable way.  In my part-time work as a teacher of jewellery history I plan to integrate as much visibility of the doughnut into the syllabus as possible (sustainable materials and techniques) to inspire my students to think 'inside the doughnut'.

Paris

Je dirige l'entreprise Tribaleo et accompagne les transformations durables des organisations et territoires par l'approche systémique et la coopération 🌍  👉 Diag systemique, mobilisation, co-construction, gouvernance... #Intelligence collective #ODD17 #Régénération

London

I an academic at the University of the Arts London. I am currently the Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Critical Practice in Fashion Media in which students study fashion media and communication from a critical, practice-based perspective. Students develop skills in critical writing, image-making, moving-image production, curation, socially engaged practice and strategy to work towards social, racial and climate justice. Fashion and fashion media education is brilliantly placed to nurture systems thinkers and has an important role to play in changing narratives about growth, sufficiency and potential ways to live a 'good life'.  I am a member of action group Fashion Act Now.