Meet the DEAL Community

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Coventry, UK

Amuche is a global climate citizen who is passionate about deploying various artistic processes to speak to sustainability of the environment and promote practices to mitigate the adverse impacts of human activities on the environment. She has pioneered the sculpted basket project sculptedbasket.com @sculptedbasket to among other things educate about sustainable environmental concepts using socially engaged creative activities. She is a pioneer and 2021 Fellow of the prestigious Climate Parent Fellowship of the Parents for Future and Our Kids Climate.

South London

I'm a Community artist and researcher. I specialise in #intergenerational arts practice, and work across art forms, growing out of my theatre background. For the last 3 years I have been working on the theme of repair, looking at how we repair our stuff , ourselves and our communities #BreaksAndJoins and we always have the conversation that starts - 'not everything can be mended'. This has got me really interested in the importance of finding new systems - #repair is not always the right way forward.   I am always wanting to link the micro and the macro - find this work so helpful in thinking through this. http://www.suemayo.co.uk 

Northampton, UK

I have recently set up a sustainability and B Corp consultancy with the aim to guide and support businesses wanting to be more sustainable - either through the implementation of an ESG strategy, or through B Corp certification (and more). I also have a son who wants to take A level Economics and I am keen to change the curriculum! 

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Newly graduate form RMIT University under Bachelors of Fashion Enterprise I got interested in the DEAL community whilst doing research on textile sustainability.  I am quite passionate about the sustainability aspect of my industry and a strong believer that  things have to change in order for both lives and industries survive the next decades.     

Brighton, UK

Quaker. Wheelchair user. Worked as family doctor and medical educator (now retired).

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

A startup founder who is democratizing the way people learn and access finance.

Beloit, WI

Hello, I am an aspiring student of Sustainability looking to learn and broaden my perspective of the field.

Ottawa, Canada

Now retired, I spend my time trying to contribute to initiatives to re-make business and leave the world a better place. I have a fifty plus year career - about half in "corporate" rising to CFO and then President of a distribution business. I then spent the last half running my own consulting and professional development company. While I have a financial / accounting background my passion is people and the whole concept of organizational culture. I am involved in several volunteer capacities in lobby / influence groups. I have written a number of books on both culture and other topics. I am a father and grandfather. I was born and grew up (in terms of age) in the UK but am now a Canadian having been here almost fifty years.

Stockton on tees

I'm very much into permaculture. I designed and work with the rekalibrator as I find it such a useful tool to make the changes in this world for everyone to benefit.  Ask questions 

Cambridge

I am the founder of Circular Business Visions, a business consultancy which supports SME’s in making a transition to #net zero and #circular economy.  With free initial consultations, CBV finds out the goals of the company or organisation, makes an initial assessment of the business and produces ideas and sustainable solutions. Expertise includes #research, and sourcing and writing #grant applications, #project managing, scientific report writing, and finding innovative solutions for your business to become more circular and sustainable moving forward.  With many contacts across sectors, expertise also includes collaboration and finding new products made from #waste or surplus. Clients have included Kelp Crofting Ltd, who are a sustainable managed, seaweed farming business on the Isle of Skye, aiming to support sustainable horticulture by developing a naturally produced, organic biostimulant from their seaweed.  Work included identifying the biological actives of Alaria esculenta, identifying suitable laboratories for analysis of their products, sign-posting to a number of funding opportunities for further product development and R&D, and producing a 25 page scientific report. Current consultancy includes writing a DEFRA Farming Transformation Adding Value grant application for a farmer, and project managing the building of a net zero farm building with sustainable architechs.  Future work includes supporting a new company with the legislation required to set up a business to #sustainably deal with Category 1 waste coming out of Heathrow.  Previous roles include NIAB where I was Industry Liaison for the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub (www.innovationhubuk.co.uk)  primarily concerned with promoting a circular economy, sustainable values in horticulture, and finding solutions for reducing food surplus and waste, particularly valorisation. My work was customer focused; sourcing and supporting small businesses with sustainability and circular economic practices.  It included project management of two EU projects, DEFRA and WRAP contracts and focuses on business sustainability, throughout whole supply chains including an understanding of the science, politics and economics of what is happening and what change is needed. My role involved developing income opportunities, increasing sustainable business growth in the region and strategic partnerships between SME’s, industry, government, NGO’s and research, requiring knowledge of horticultural/agricultural natural resource management and corporate social/environmental responsibility.  I have co-written successful proposals to EU Interreg 2 Seas Hy4Dense, FoodWasteNet, DEFRA, BBSRC and WRAP Value from Food Waste.  Project management has included the above and EU Interreg BioBoost which has required my governance and familiarity with EU Interreg, IUK, WRAP compliance and reporting procedures over the last 5 years. I was also responsible for procuring and coordinating EU project audits with our FLC, writing and delivering project reports, yearly budgets and financial reporting, and sub-projects with SME partners such as green pesticides.  I have written a large inventory, Inventory for the Strategy, and Strategy document (published on www.bioboosteurope.com ) about the horticultural industry for our 3 regions, which included agricultural production and land use and focused on food surplus and waste.  I am a volunteer with Circular Brighton and Hove, and have supported the University of Sussex with with a Circular Economy Project by interviewing B&H, and Sussex businesses and stakeholders about their experiences around circular economy. The project aims to support further businesses in the B&H Sussex.  I am also a Director of the B&H Community Land Trust where I am helping with fundraising and membership.  I have recently joined CamDEAG and am involved with the City Portrait.   I'm a member of the Chesterton Allotment Society, support the community group and grow organically.  Over the years I've been involved with local schools supporting with gardening, reading, swimming and helped the Grove School achieve an International School Award Certificate.

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

DESIGNER OF STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT / Consultant, Professor and Speaker 🌎 For 10 years I’ve been supporting organizations to promote positive transformations for a better world.    

Stockholm, Sweden

I am an applied scientist, based at Stockholm Resilience Centre where I work with sustainability issues. I am on a mission to bring science closer to everyday life. Think of me as a bridge scientist. I was gifted with a highly logical brain which works excellently as a bullshit-meter and pattern-spotter. I learn, mash up and connect insights from physics, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, sustainability, food, nutrition, microbiome and health for the sake of finding the ways to improve our wellbeing and our prospects on this beautiful and precious planet.  No matter whether it is hiking in the Scottish highlands or cooking food from scratch, studying physics, conducting quantum experiments or watching David Attenborough documentaries, all of these leave me even more curious about and grateful for nature. I run, meditate and cook a lot. I believe that with food we can do a lot of good. My latest project is trail running and saving the house plants from wilting.

Madrid

"Technology is one of the biggest forces that’s driving change to our world. Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Mixed Realities, BioTech, NanoTech... My commitment is to understand them, spot signals of change and trends, help companies imagine their possible futures and make the preferred ones happen, always with a Human Centered approach with the goal of a positive high-impact." Innovation and Disruptive Technologies expert, with +15 years of experience developing and implementing innovation strategies and culture, and developing digital products with a strong focus on User Experience (UX), highlighting my experience at Inditex as Head of Innovation Projects. I'm currently focused on Futures Studies (Strategic Foresight, Moonshot Thinking, Design Futures...) and their application in business strategies to create a better world; on the ethical use of disruptive technologies with a social purpose such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain or Internet of Things; and on the study of the functioning of the brain (mental models, systemic thinking, learn to learn...) for the creation of methodologies, techniques and tools to develop skills for the future. Co-founder and CIO of Mindset (a consulting firm specializing in transforming companies through innovation and talent, with a futuristic vision) and Innuba (a social innovation consulting firm that helps companies design and launch products and services that have a positive impact). He is also co-author of the book "Upgrade: develop a future-proof profile", a guide that brings together in a very simple way the skills, frameworks and tools that any professional should incorporate for the complex and uncertain context in which we live. Co-founder and partner at Social Noise (digital creative agency) and Guud (live engagement platform), and also board member of several startups such as Usizy, Envita, Hoop Carpool, Ecodicta, Debuencafé & Qultu.org.  I also teach at digital and business schools such as Headspring, Instituto de Empresa, Digital Innovation Center or UXER; speaks at events such as TEDx, Mobile World Congress or South Summit, and mentors and invests through initiatives such as AngelClub, The Valley VC, Conector, IMPACT or Aticco Lab.

Dumaguete, Philippines

I’m an organizer, bridge-builder, and learner. As community organizer, I work with women in rural communities where issues of land tenure, scarcity of resources, and climate impacts are their everyday realities. I organize spaces to ensure their voices are at the center of defining solutions and development agendas impacting their life and future. As bridge-builder I connect cross-movement and intergenerational spaces to bolster solidarity, movement-organizing, intersectional analysis, and generate joint actions and agendas. As learner, I continue to engage in spaces to carry out discourses and reflections around regenerative economies bringing with me intersectional and feminist analysis.

Australia

Milton Keynes

CEO of YMCA Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire. Supporting young people to belong, contribute, and thrive.

Marly-le-Roi, Paris region, France

I'm a strategic communications and partnership building consultant based in France. I worked 20+ years for large ICT corporates spinning the Internet transformation pitch. During a Covid lockdown, I completed CISL's sustainable business course and since then am #teaching, advising start-ups, volunteering and supporting multi-stakeholder activities on climate action. I've developed content for #COPs, am a #Fresque du Climat #facilitator and a #multi-sector #partnership broker with the Partnership Brokers Association. I'm interested in tools and means that close the value-action gap and would like to use The Doughnut in my work. 

Nice, France

Hi! I'm a coach in interpersonal communication and leadership, a design thinking facilitator for sustainable innovations and a TEDx speaker.  I have helped a diversity of clients to impulse ecological change within organisations: in the last decades, I have facilitated boot camps with intrapreneurs, collaborative management with NGOs, co-creation sessions with French government agencies and taught entrepreneurship at business schools. When I discovered Doughnut Design for Business, I was amazed at how it was designed to spread and how efficient it could be to sow seeds of hope and possibilities worldwide.      

Hampshire, United Kingdom

Values Champion and Founder of SmallOutside.com;  Son, Husband, Father, Brother, Friend;  Self-proclaimed "Most Accessible Recluse";  A mere mortal striving hard to put a ding in the Universe! I am passionate about Sustainability and my company, SmallOutside.com, is focused on moving the needle forward on Sustainability through Business Model Innovation and Co-creation. Put simply, the focus is on creating a greater purpose and conscious thought among individuals and businesses, so that their actions are in harmony with our planet. As a company, we strive for business solutions that focus on triple-bottomline outcomes of People, Planet and Prosperity.

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

I am a Local Implementation lead for Lloyds Bank Foundation based in Telford  Our focus is on unlocking potential for people, communities and the borough itself.  The group comprises of organisations and local people who are working together to understand how to remove barriers and create opportunities for people of all ages to reach their full potential in life.   Listening to people living and working in Telford and Wrekin to understand what challenges they and their communities face, by hearing what matters we can start to make real change in the borough; change that is quick, adaptable and led by the people that it affects.   If I am not carrying out this exciting role, I am delivering training for Equality and Diversity UK, working with local authorities and a local university on meaningful engagement of people that services impact upon. 

Mierlo, Noordbrabant

In 2012 heb ik Enter Next Level opgericht. Vanuit een erg sterke drang om impactvol te werken aan de wereld van morgen. Ik geloof in een toekomst waarin gemeenschappen op een evenwichtigere manier met elkaar samenleven. Energie en duurzaamheid zijn daar sleutels voor. Ik heb samen met diverse bedrijven, gemeenten, andere overheden en zorgorganisaties vele duurzaamheidstrajecten tot een goed einde mogen brengen. Daar word ik oprecht gelukkig van. Ik doe dat nu samen met mijn collega's en onze partners. Ik sta iedere ochtend weer met een grote glimlach naast mijn bed.  Ik werk voor mijn kinderen en werk graag aan een wereld die volop in verandering is en veel nieuwe mogelijkheden en hoop geeft. Wil je ook graag glimlachen als het jouw duurzaamheidsambities betreft? Bel of mail me dan gerust eens! Ik ben benieuwd naar jouw ambities en droom! 

East Bay, California

I'm a globally-minded tech exec committed to modeling, developing, and amplifying socially conscious leadership.      

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Retired Registered Nurse, former programmer, wilderness lover, volunteer teacher in developing countries for #health and English.  In 2013 I was expecting to teach some #economics in English to some refugees from Burma in Thailand, and I came across ethical or #"green economics".