Designing Sustainable Business Models

➡️ About the workshop:

During this workshop we will discover and practice hands-on how entrepreneurs and businesses, including not-for-profit organisations, can design a business model engineered to impact society, environment, and economy, sustainably. By applying methodologies coming from System Thinking, System Innovation, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Post Growth and the Circular Economy, we will acquire very tangible tools to create businesses that can foster sustainability while producing a prosperous economy.

➡️ For whom:

Are you business driven or entrepreneurial and you wonder how you can create or contribute to a flourishing economy while also impacting positively society and the environment, without lies and greenwashing, but honestly and for the long term?

Or are you an activist, an agent of social change, interested in how to create strong initiatives, cleverly designed to maximize impact and change behaviours?

Then this workshop is for you! 

➡️ Preparation

No preparation is required to attend this workshop. We welcome participants who have a business idea in mind, or the dream of an organisation that can impact positive change: we will form workgroups to brainstorm your idea and help you design the business canvas that will make it socially, environmentally and financially sustainable.

Be ready for some hands-on, highly interactive, work!

➡️ About the host:

Maria Grazia Testa - CEO of Ecologies - Systems Thinker, SDG and ESG Strategist, Educator and Transitions Leader 

Maria Grazia Testa is an expert in systemic approaches that enhance compassionate cognitive and behavioural responses. She helps private, public and non-governmental organisations accelerate and intensify their sustainable impact, embracing complexity, and a human centric approach.

She has been running operations in 6 continents, driving transitions for multinationals worldwide, and leading global programmes affecting ecology, people and economy,  in collaboration with the United Nations, the European Commission, local institutions, businesses and civil society. 

To her professional, environmental and societal commitment, she brings expertise in engineering, the circular economy, organisational design, social sciences, and creativity, supporting evolutionary transitions and transformations that reconcile people and planet.

Her favourite quote is from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso:

“We live very close together, so our prime purpose, in life, is to help others.”