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Jasmine Patterson
Menai Bridge
I am currently studying MSc Food Security and Natural Resources at CAT I'm interested in everything to do with the agri-food system in the UK and globally and strongly believe in the power of the Doughnut and the potential it has to bring humanity within planetary boundaries. In regards to the current food system I believe that alternative economics are key to creating a just and regenerative food system that supports stakeholders and participants at all levels, while also restoring and giving back to the natural world. Modern economic theory with its strong capitalist leanings and emphasis on globalisation does not work for the production, consumption and disposal of food, and we desparately need to create environments for alternative ways of thinking and being.
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Yukihiro Takano
Hyogo Prefecture
I'm Japanese University student and my major is economics. I'm a member of orchestra club and I like playing the Violine. I also like reading nobel. Nice to meet you!!
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michele de oliveira
Brazil
I am specialist in New Narratives that support the economic, environmental and social transition, with studies at Schumacher College (UK) and at Gaia Education. Besides studies in permaculture and mindfulness. For the last years, I have been working with projects in youth productivity inclusion and at the Climate Smart Institute building awareness to rural communities at the brazilian Cerrado.
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Lucy Williams
London, UK
I'm Lucy, learning designer, facilitator, systems change practitioner, and co-founder of The Slow Work Garden, a collective of learning designers, facilitators and practitioners dedicated to the design and living of 'slow work' – something we feel is essential to organisational, social and environmental wellbeing. At The Slow Work Garden, we're interested in how slowing down our lives and work and reconnecting our inner and outer worlds might help us to sit with the anxieties of our souls, work from a place of love rather than fear, and make better decisions for people and planet.
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Steph Thommen
U.K.
With 15 years in fast-paced SaaS startups, I’m used to grabbing the proverbial shovel every time it is and helping the business where it needs it most. I always learnt something in the process. I have a wide knowledge base, yet my speciality is assisting others in working together more effectively. No business runs smoothly, especially when scaling. To do so it doesn't need people, it needs teams truly working together. Looking back, all my roles can be summed up as ‘Team Troubleshooter.’ What I’ve seen is that when a startup scales, regardless of how great its culture is, it falls apart. The current systems and processes can't handle the workload and pace. It leads to disruptions and delays, just when the organization needs speed. I’m great at: --> Asking tough questions when people need to work through things. --> Seeing the systems. Your business is many systems interacting, I work out how. --> Making things work: I find lean solutions, break tasks down and get to work. I do this by connecting individually, building a picture of the system and working with the team to rebuild or improve. I've achieved this in every team I've worked with by fostering an environment where everyone thrives. Following two redundancies, I decided to assist startups on the cusp of scaling to improve their chances of success by sharing my skills. My purpose is to empower startups to scale by creating the foundation systems & processes that preserve the culture they are proud of. Drawing from 20 years of experience building highly effective teams for startups and corporate, I help you: ESTABLISH THE FOUNDATIONS OF YOUR CULTURE -> Design your best team and culture so that both your team and your business thrive -> Define the components of your culture: your core values, purpose and behaviours -> Design decision-making frameworks that keep you aligned with your mission -> Establish the foundation processes for an independent and innovative team EMBED YOUR CULTURE IN YOUR PEOPLE OPERATIONS -> Create a strategy and processes so that you deliver as you scale -> Optimise your operations and the value of your business by establishing processes in line with your values -> Build your People Operations, from recruitment to exit and everything in between -> Embed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into everything you do -> Define your employer's brand -> Debug cultural issues that are the results of rapid growth -> Upskill line managers so that they can build effective teams Book a call: https://calendly.com/your_journey/purposeful
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Lorena Vallejo
Turrialba, Costa Rica
I am an Environmental Engenier, I was educated in the "sustainable" movement, but now that I discovered the regenerative development, I am convinced that we need to change our practices and our vision from the "sustainable" to a regenerative vision in order to thrive as a whole comunity of living creatures. I work in a municipality in Costa Rica, and part of my time as a consultant too. I love the doughnut concept, and the integrality that it represent in order to be just and inclusive to the whole. Best regards DEAL Community,
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Pablo Jiménez Cabrera
Spain
I'm a former cook turned to researcher, working in Fundació Alícia, based in Spain. I work mainly in territory and heritage centered projects, and I'm interested in sustainable food systems and finding solutions to our actual food problems.
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bb yin
china
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Alexis Ruales
Quito, Ecuador
MSc Environment - University of Melbourne - Certified Expert Sustainable Finance - E&S Risk Management
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Ange Main
Northumberland
Thanks for having me. Im Angie , I live on the Northumberland coast , migrating a decade ago from Warks and a exhausting corporate career . I built three micro businesses making up financial and operational rules in that decade and now am looking to learn , connect and use new knowledge in my work and community. I am a coach and trustee too .
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Carlo Santarelli
Lisbon
After graduating in Engineering, I started working in a green economy fund (mainly managing deals involving GreenEnergy) and then landed in the world of strategy consultancy. During this last period, I developed the first start-up in the alcohol spirits world (Gingarby based in Milan), which convinced me to invest my time more in an entrepreneurial/adventurer career than a managerial/white-collar one. This gave me the push to open a second startup company in the plant-based industry located in Los Angeles. In all this, I am a great lover of art and nature, thanks to the education received from my mother and artist Beatrice Ercoli. I became passionate about plant-based for environmental reasons considering that seven years ago, while I was surfing in Indonesia, I found a wave of plastic, and I said to myself, "OMG, we are destroying our world, and all this mainly for consumerist and superficial purposes, I CANT' BE PART OF THIS." Plant-based is one of the solutions to the climate crisis (together with the increase in the use of public transport, energy savings in conjunction with the generation of energy from renewable sources, decreased rate of deforestation, and improvement of green buildings) and given that I love food, I love dairy-free GELATO (I don't digest ice cream with dairy products) and I love NATURE… I said to myself, "let's open Alokino Gelato & Co. 100% plant-based, NON-GMO, and Handcrafted." My everyday motivation is to be part of an entrepreneurial movement that is aware, humble, and in support of humanity and the environment. We have two homes, our bodies, and our land. We need to take care of them.
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Carlo Hein
Luxembourg
Entrepreneur and founder of a BCorp. Looking for tools to work with the local community.
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Neil Sellers
Bristol, UK
Career banker, now found my home in sustainable banking after many years in the mainstream.
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Anna-Marie Swan
Exeter, UK
Hello! I'm Anna-Marie, an organisational ecologist and embodied facilitator. I currently describe my work as being that of an organisational ecologist and embodied facilitator. After authoring the reimagined story of ecological organisations and the accompanying Ecological Organisations Framework in 2023, released under creative commons, a whole new world has opened up that I'm loving exploring: organisations as edge-less, of relationship, deeply relational, and firmly entangled in social systems, ecosystems, and planetary health. To evolve that work, I founded the Patreon-hosted Ecological Organisations Constellation. Here, we gather around the story of ecological organisations and look to mature it, ground it, evolve our understanding of it and relationship with it, and bring those learnings into wider commons. It's becoming a container for practical, lived experimentation, then integrating our discoveries into our individual and shared work. I write about my work and other things in the substack Cellular Rearranging and host and produce the podcast Generative Worlding. I initiated the first season of Facilitation Pods, now continuing as a commons under co-stewardship. In the pods, we are co-crafting an intimate space for self- and shared-enquiry about facilitation and how we change and are changed by the role, a space that's also become a peer supervision investigating our experiences.
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Florian Eckart
Hamburg
Me: Tri-lingual business graduate w/ 5+ years of international business experience in Brand Management & eCom. Major in marketing and data analytics. An entrepreneurial mind living by the growth mindset. Also me: Adventure-seeker at home in the mountains. Triathlete and footballer. Mentor for first-time academics and champion for educational justice. Avid reader and practitioner of all things mindfulness.
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Ken Novak
St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa USA
Ken Novak, Ph.D. is a public speaker, father of eight children, retired military officer, a hospice bereavement support chaplain and adjunct university professor. I do believe the future belongs to the storyteller, and donut economics is rewriting the narrative of our shared humanity. Currently, I am trying a new project with my business ethics students in seeing if they can help "advise" Mr. Tom Vazzo, CEO of Homeboys Inc. and author of The Homeboy Way, in considering how his desire for "Economic Equality Capitalism" (p.146) can be framed within the considerations of donut economics, especially with respect to the social foundation. Mr. Vazzo's "new way forward" includes a radical idea of putting "our best business minds to use in creating companies with huge employment returns as opposed to creating companies with huge financial returns as the priority" (p.149). That's bending the curve of growth toward people, and specific for Vazzo's consideration it means "invest[ing] in people who are just beginning to see life bloom before them." #socialjustice, ,
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Masafumi Takahashi
Leeds, United Kingdom
Currently, reading the sustainability and business MSc at the University of Leeds, UK. I strongly believe that the concept of Doughnuts Economics is critically beneficial for all levels of management of private companies to unleash their potential of products and services for positive commitment to global environmental issues.
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Merle Becker
Frankfurt (Germany) / Brussels (Belgium)
My Mission: To create sustainable visions for the future through facilitation, moderation and communication. By building a global community of future makers, walls are torn down and bridges are built - towards a socially just, sustainable future. I am an experienced TV and event host as well as a workshop facilitator with an academic background in Peace and Conflict Resolution. I do have my focus on complex future issues with a special interest in sustainability - in German, English and French.
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John Broomer
San Clemente, CA
I'm extremely passionate about democratising the workplace and beleive it to be the jumping off point to a fairer and more responible society.
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Justine Aldersey-Williams
Hoylake, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
I’m founder of the Northern England Fibreshed, helping rebuild local agroecological textile systems. My specialism is botanical dyes, I’m a producer of British Indigo from Organic Woad at Homegrown Colour Ltd and teach from my studio, The Wild Dyery. I grew, hand-spun, dyed and produced the U.K.’s first pair of jeans as an act of creative rebellion against fast fashion during my experiment and now speak from my personal experiences of traditional textile skills and the ‘field to fashion’ process. Each year I offer the seed to cloth initiation to those wishing to embody regenerative principles. Practicing the pre-industrial textiles skills that clothed humanity for 30,000 years, reconnects participants to the wisdom of plants and to a time before ecocide. Once empowered with the agency to grow their own cloth, a revaluing of planetary materials and human labour occurs that negates waste consumerism and sanctifies fashion.
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Maggie Cornelius
Cambridge, MA
I found DEAL through a colleague and was really taken by the ethos, message and action being taken. As a member of an Innovation Consulting firm focused on radical innovative change and brighter futures the DEAL Community is a no-brainer for my own personal interests and my work. #innovation #sustainability #womenled #empoweringwomen #climatechange #innovationdistricts #community #equity #diversity
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Leonie Bouget Le Bailly
Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
Architecture and urban planning graduate on a mission to challenge & shift current dominant paradigms of consumption and capitalism through urbanism, design and community organisation. Also interested in art, music, culture and more obscure theories of urbanism - previous research endeavors include; walking as a research method, assemblage theory and the night-time economy.
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Angelika Jochemczyk-Cherni
Tarnowskie Góry (Poland)
I would like to introduce myself. My name is Angelika Jochemczyk-Cherni and I come from Tarnowskie Góry (city in the South of Poland). I have been a German teacher since 2002 and I'm working in a secondary school in Zabrze. I'm passionate about teaching, learning foreign languages and travelling. My passion for learning languages began 35 years ago, when I visited my grandparents in Germany. I decided not only to learn the German language but also to study it for becoming a teacher. I really love my job and I could teach for hours and interact with my students. I like to build things. I use my classroom as a platform to make websites, write stories and create games that my students get to troubleshoot for me. My second passion is travelling. Travelling gives me my greatest stories, most cherished memories and countless irreplaceable learnings. It teaches me about myself and other people. The most important thing that gives me travelling is to teach about humanity and gives me an appreciation, understanding and respect for different points of view and ways of life. And for travelling and understanding people I needed to learn not only German but also English, Italian and Tunisian.
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Mick Cooper
Brighton
I am an author, trainer, and consultant in the field of counselling and psychotherapy: a Chartered Psychologist and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. My latest book explores the contribution that counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice can make to wider social progress and justice: Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Towards a Progressive Vision for Society (Bristol University, 2023). It references doughnut economics quite extensively as a progressive and sustainable socio-economic model towards which psychological theories (and practice) can helpfully contribute. My other books include Existential Therapies (2nd ed., Sage, 2017), Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2nd ed., Sage, 2018), and Integrating Counselling and Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy, and Social Change (Sage, 2019). My principal areas of research have been in shared decision-making/personalising therapy, and counselling for young people in schools.
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