Meet the DEAL Community

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, Yvelines, 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, North Brabant, Netherlands

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".

Oxford

Researcher & facilitator based in Oxford, UK. Climate psychologist, board member of Climate Psychology Alliance.  Doctoral thesis on what it feels like to work on the climate crisis.  I offer psychological support to those facing the climate crisis, and facilitate climate cafés. I’m also a local climate activist with Low Carbon Oxford North. 

Hertford

My background is as a lawyer, academic and as a professional barrister. I was published by Oxford University Press on hardback at the age of 25. I have worked as a barrister engaged with business (money related) claims for 25 years. I'm 47 at the time of writing this (2022).  I studied law, accountancy and economics. I have become a bit bored or disillusioned of law, most especially jurisprudence as an academic concept since it is so often trumped in favour of practical pragmatism in any individual case.  I am a devotee of trying to find a way to bring progressive economic ideas into action to solve the world ills. My current hobby project is writing a reasonably light hearted book, hopefully amusing and accessible to an average non-academic reader, which can also (gently) introduce readers to new ideas cropping up around the world which lead to a fair balanced community. Spreading the word of Donut Economics through gently opening the world's eyes to a better way of living. 

Telford, UK

Cabinet member for Climate Change, Natural and Historic Environment and Cultural Services at Telford and Wrekin Council. 

Republic of Korea

COO of DSC LABEL Web 3 Builder

Zurich

Risk governance expert active in sustainable and digital investment management Adjunct professor finance ethics

Amsterdam

I've started a neighbourhood movement to connect people by using their wish for a clean and more connected neighbourhood as a starting point.  So far we've given free trashcans to shopkeepers, hold clean square parties, free fotoworkshops to explore the neighbourhood resulting in a photo exhibition on the square, neighbourhood parties to bring people together, and art from trash project, a project to bring awareness to the massive amounts of trash on the street and our biggest project; the painting of a grey, rundown and unsafe underpass with the help of more than hundred people.

Lajeado

Hello people, my name is Ana and I am a nature admirer. 

Amsterdam

Extending the life of ICT hardware

Netherlands

Circular economy and circular supply chain consultant

erding

Born at 320ppm http://sealevel.info/co2.html climate worried physicist turned product manager

La Paz, Bolivia

Research Associate, SDSN Bolivia

Belgium

Berlin, Germany

I’m a Berlin-based consultant that brings a wealth of experience in corporate affairs, organisational culture and   management,  and engagement strategies. My journey has taken me through co-founding and being active in a student business ethics network, several years in the space of global health and business impact model innovation within Big Pharma, experiencing first-hand the joys and challenges of being an intrapreneur and recently working at B Lab Switzerland (a local NGO, part of a global movement to use business as a force for good). Since September 2022, I have started pursuing a more entrepreneurial path as a consultant to be able to fully live my purpose and passion of encouraging people to be true to ourself, our values and take action to co-creating systemic change. I hold a Bachelor degree in International Cultural and Business Studies and a Master degree in Development Economics and Sustainability Management. Having lived, studied and worked in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Peru and Bolivia, I am experienced in intercultural communications and working in international teams and organisations. I am fluent in German, English, Spanish and French and have knowledge of Italian. My goal over the coming months is to complement my skill set with a coaching training and to continuously experiment, learn and grow jointly with the Gamechanger community so we can lead and embody the transition towards a healthier, more meaningful and   future.

Ukraine

My name is  Bohdan, I'm from Ukraine, writing to you as a part of our great live community) We are creating nature collaborative education for childrens, girls on own land. There is a small house, several creative workshops, horses for learning and a farm in few words..) Our education is alive, closely connected with nature and natural processes. Now we have many children, but there are not enough places and living conditions need improvement. So we began to reconstruct another house, as the House of Creativity, restored the source of water - the lake. But without your help, we cannot do anything now. Development requires financial support. I am ready to chat/talk with you, provide more specific information with a photo. I hope your heart is open to the new, unknown! :) Thank you, have a nice day!