Meet the DEAL Community

china

Quito, Ecuador

MSc Environment - University of Melbourne - Certified Expert Sustainable Finance - E&S Risk Management

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 . 

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.

Luxembourg

Entrepreneur and founder of a BCorp. Looking for tools to work with the local community.

Bristol, UK

Career banker, now found my home in sustainable banking after many years in the mainstream.    

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.

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.

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,  ,  

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.

Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

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.

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.

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.

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 

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.

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. 

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. 

Rocklin, Ca

Hello All, poli sci undergrad now going for MBA to become an economist (12 years and 3 kids later). I see Doughnut Economics as a lifelong call to push through new thinking to the masses. Let’s do this!

Portugal

North Curry, Somerset, UK

Vicar of the Athelney Benefice

Chicago, IL

Sheffield

I'm a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University with a passion for Employee ownership (EO). I see the doughnut and EO as a fantastic partnership.

I was introduced to DE during Kate Raworth's lecture at THNK.  I'm keen to cooperate on innovative projects and make a difference.

Quesnel, British Columbia. Canada

      Fitting in to the framework of “normal” has never been my goal. I’ve always tried to think outside of the box.      As a child I questioned things that just seemed wrong. Like growth. I used to say “Why do prices keep going up?  If everything stayed the same, we wouldn’t need growth. Everyone would be happy”. I actually remember talking to my parents about that around age 11. Naive little boy.       I wear many hats today. Farmer. Food processor. Public servant. Writer. Plus more. I grow garlic and make honey garlic hot sauces and seasonings under my farm name Oddball Garlic Co.       Agriculture has been industrialized to the detriment of the environment. I’m working “with” nature to replicate natural principles, to create a cycle of stages to feed successive organisms as material breaks down. No more plowing and tilling.     In a forest, dead material drops to the floor and feeds a self fertilizing system that’s gone on since the beginning of time. There is no waste. Only nutrients.