The Regenerative Marketing Institute is at the forefront of regenerative marketing – advancing the Common Good – by promoting regenerative practices that focus on creating long-term value for communities, ecosystems, and businesses. We offer actionable frameworks and expertise to help organizations lead in this new era.
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As a collective made up of independent thinkers, academics, and practitioners, we bring together community leaders, business executives, non-profit and institutional experts, along with regeneration thought-leaders, professionals, and practitioners, to:
- Promote the regeneration of the Common Good
- Learn about emerging practices in regeneration
- Establish a research agenda to discover and promote regenerative impact
- Develop a practical, regeneration framework for use by communities and institutions
- Interview regenerative marketing leaders and explore the challenges they face
- Examine and understand the specific factors that contribute to improving the effectiveness of regeneration strategy and execution
- Develop recommendations for creating and sustaining a regenerative shift within your organization
- Foster discussion of lessons learned from the field
- Analyze and comment on news related to regeneration
- Create a framework for measuring regeneration performance criteria
- Promote and nurture a worldwide community of regenerative professionals
We also help communities and organizations on the journey to becoming truly regenerative. Regenerative leadership is markedly different from previous models of leadership. Learn more >>
Our initiatives, including our signature Common Home event, unite a global network of leaders committed to regenerative practices. By engaging with us, organizations can implement strategies that reflect regenerative values, deepen customer trust, and foster meaningful community engagement. We offer access to research, case studies, and tools that demonstrate how regeneration leads to positive, measurable outcomes for both businesses and society.
Founders
Christian Sarkar, Co-Founder [LinkedIn]
Christian is an author, artist, and activist. He is the principal author of Regeneration: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World (May 2023, co-authored with Philip Kotler and Enrico Foglia); Wicked Problems: What can we do in this Time of Collapse? (March 2025, co-authored with Philip Kotler); Losing Our Democracy (August 2020, co-authored with Philip Kotler); Brand Activism: From Purpose to Action (November 2018, co-authored with Philip Kotler); and Inclusivity: Will America Find Its Soul Again? (September 2012, co-authored with Michael Gordon).
He is involved in numerous public-education projects, including The Wicked7 Project, ActivistBrands.com, FIXCapitalism.com, and the $300 House Project. In 2021, Christian was named to the Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers primarily for his work on brand activism.
Christian is also the co-founder (with Philip Kotler) and editor of The Marketing Journal – introducing new insights and next practices in the world of marketing.
Over the past twenty years, he has been the head 0f Double Loop Marketing.
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Enrico Foglia, Co-Founder [LinkedIn]
Enrico is a consultant, marketer, and speaker, based in Rome. He is a co-founder of the Regenerative Marketing Institute, and the former managing director of Kotler Impact, Europe.
He is on the Advisory board of Assoholding, and together with the Regenerative Marketing Institute, cofounded Common Home – an independent organization guided by the values inherent in the civil economy and regenerative thinking.
A mechanical engineer with a passion for marketing, Foglia has worked with several leading multinational companies such GM, Bristol Myers Squibb, Procter& Gamble, L’Oréal, Augusta Westland, PosteItaliane and many others.
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Philip Kotler, Co-Founder [LinkedIn]
Prof. Philip Kotler is considered one of the great business thinkers of our time. Known as “The Father of Modern Marketing,” he has distinguished himself on many levels. He is an innovative thought leader, a revered educator, an accomplished author of over 100 books, well-traveled speaker, social activist, and trusted consultant to the world’s most recognized corporate brands.
Kotler is Professor Emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the author of Marketing Management (1967), now in its 16th edition and considered to be the definitive treatment of the discipline. His latest thinking covers topics such as regenerative marketing, brand activism, confronting capitalism, democracy in decline, and advancing the Common Good.
He is also the co-founder of The Wicked7 Project, a research project dedicated to mapping the world’s most urgent problems.
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The Team
Jef Teugels [Regenerative Relationships and Learning Director] [LinkedIn]
Jef works from three core convictions: that the world will only re-become — and remain — sustainable through responsible human action; that sustainability is a desired state achieved and maintained through regeneration — deliberate, intergenerational value creation for the Common Good; and that responsible consumption and production require Critical Systems Thinking, practiced by design, not by default.
His work centers on Responsible Customer Culture — a deliberate design of beliefs, behaviors, and environments that help customers reach their aspirations responsibly, across the product lifecycle, while advancing a regenerative economy.
A decades-long international career has taken Jef across sectors, guiding leaders and marketers to connect purpose with practice, and ethics with execution. An educator, artist, and strategist, he operates at the intersection of systems thinking, sustainability-oriented innovation, and human relationality, seeing marketing not as an accessory, but as a core reason enterprises exist — equal to innovation. His art practice, pairing painting with poetry, sharpens his thinking on curiosity, courage, and the creative mindsets that fuel true innovation.
As Regenerative Relationships and Learning Director at RMI, Jef designs learning experiences that equip organizations to act regeneratively, foster responsible customer relationships, and create lasting value.
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Aloisa Moncada di Paternó, Community Builder [LinkedIn]
Aloisa is a consultant, broker, project manager, and ecosystem builder – working across the Mediterranean to develop regenerative projects and learning experiences.
Aloisa is vice president of Palermo Mediterranean Gateway, and a co-founder of QuatroPuntoZero in Palermo, Sicily – a project which aims to enhance local cultural heritage through the activation of an artistic-artisanal learning ecosystem capable of generating new micro-enterprises, while forging social ties in the historic center of Palermo and its adjacent neighborhoods. Moncada is also part of the management team of Moncada Yachts, the oldest yacht broker in Italy.
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Francesco Bellina [Community Bridge-Builder]
Francesco Bellina is an artist and photojournalist based in Palermo, Sicily. His work focuses primarily on contemporary socio-political issues, with a particular emphasis on the topic of migration. He attended the Faculty of Law in Palermo while simultaneously dedicating himself to photography. His work has been published in The Financial Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, Paris Match, Le Monde, Internazionale, L’Espresso, The Washington Post, among others.
He often collaborates with NGOs and is a contributor to UNHCR, WHO, and other institutions.
He is also the Head of Communications and External Relations for the Consulate of Ghana in Sicily. His community-centric activities takes him across the Global South – with a focus on North and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Barbara Dal Corso [Cultural Regeneration]
Barbara is an expert at cultural regeneration. She is the co-founder and CEO of artficial, the world’s first rights-based technological platform for the digitization, distribution, and archival of the cultural heritage of humanity – specifically sculptural works of art – and their production in artclones with high-quality 3D printing technologies.
Barbara is a media-executive, television producer, and cultural event orchestrator with deep experience in the arts. In 2008, in collaboration with the Municipality of Rome, she produced and developed the first video guide of the City of Rome on Apple and Sony PSP platforms.
Previously, as a television producer she developed and launched a series of television programs for Rai, Mediaset, and TMC networks, with numerous awards including a Golden Telegatto for Art in Television for the program “Grandi Mostre Live” (Rai 1). She was also the producer and author of “Arthea: the new language of Art” – 52 episodes on Rai 3, in collaboration with FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano).
Dal Corso also created and produced numerous major events: from 1993 to 2000-Partita del Cuore, Italian National Singers; from 1996 to 2000 concert events by Luciano Pavarotti; 1995 – Celebration at the Sala Nervi in the Vatican of the commemorative concert event for the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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James Godfrey-Faussett [Forest Regeneration & Restoration] [LinkedIn]
James is the founder of Healing Earth Project with a mission to restore and reforest some of the world’s toughest landscapes – especially the drylands that continually fascinate and challenge me and often are forgotten about. With 29 years of horticultural, landscaping and garden design experience, he integrates organic and biodynamic methods to design and implement practical, local solutions to help our planet and heal precious forest ecosystems.
He is a strong proponent of nature itself – as it holds the answers we seek. By partnering with local communities, learning from indigenous and traditional methods, and adding a little innovation, we can regenerate environments others see as hopeless. Above all, he values listening—to people, to the land and to Mother Earth herself.
His prior work as lead forester for SUGi established pocket forests as a vehicle to protect and build biodiversity, climate resilience and wellbeing in communities.
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Aryssa Roos Yoon [Regenerative Marketer] [LinkedIn]
Aryssa is a regenerative marketer and designer dedicated to creating experiences and strategies that generate lasting value for people, communities, and the planet. With a background in graphic design from Florence, Italy, she combines creativity, technology, and cultural insight to craft marketing solutions that are ethical, sustainable, and impact-driven. Her fluency in multiple languages and extensive global experience allow her to approach challenges with a broad, inclusive perspective.
Aryssa’s professional journey spans regenerative business projects, digital marketing, and interdisciplinary collaborations. She has contributed to our Regenerative Marketing Institute, and explored ways brands can align purpose with systemic impact. Her work with the Wicked7 Project deepened her expertise in addressing complex societal and environmental challenges through strategic communication.
Aryssa has co-authored publications such as Ethics and AI: Policies for Governance and Regulation and studies on nature, gender, and social inequality. She brings this research-informed perspective to every project, helping organizations implement regenerative strategies that honor both people and the planet.
Based in the United States, Aryssa continues to guide brands in building meaningful connections, cultivating sustainable practices, and fostering regenerative impact across communities and industries.
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Strategic Advisers
John Seely Brown (JSB) [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Until 2020 JSB was the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte’s Center for the Edge. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a position he held until June 2000. In his more than two decades at PARC, Brown transformed the organization into a truly multidisciplinary research center at the creative edge of applied technology and design, integrating social sciences and arts into the traditional physics and computer science research and expanding the role of corporate research to include topics such as the management of radical innovation, organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, and nano-technologies.
He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include digital youth culture, digital media, and the application of technology to fundamentally rethink the nature of work and institutional architectures in order to enable deep learning across organizational boundaries – in brief, to design for emergence in a constantly changing world.
As visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC), he facilitated collaboration between the schools for communication and media and the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). He is also a co-founder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).
Brown has authored several influential books including The Social Life of Information, The Only Sustainable Edge, The Power of Pull, A New Culture of Learning, and most recently – the Design Unbound series co-authored with Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He serves on numerous boards of directors. He has been awarded ten honorary degrees from institutions including Brown University, the London Business School, and the University of Michigan.
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Daniel Erasmus [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Daniel is a full member of the Club of Rome, the creator of ClimateGPT / CEO at Erasmus.AI – a planetary scale AI for sense-making, and CEO at The Digital Thinking Network (The DTN). As director of the DTN, Daniel leads a consulting firm that specialises in scenario thinking, transformation processes and licenses early warning systems to organisations interested in looking ahead. Daniel has worked with a range of private and public sector clients as Nokia, Rabobank, the city of Rotterdam, the Rijksgebouwendienst, Schlumberger, Sanoma, Telenor and Vodafone.
Daniel pioneered the use of scenarios to facilitate deep dialogue about the emerging information society. He has facilitated more than a 100 scenario sets resulting in a three year’s project and conference series “the future of digital civilisation in 2030+” hosted in Margaux, France.
Strategic initiatives resulting from DTN scenarios have brough clients some € 400 million in additional valuation. The DTN scenarios have anticipated the global financial crisis in as early as in 2006, a $70+ oil price when it was $23, the founding of the European constitution, shifts to online and mobile television viewing, the dotcom boom and crash, delay in 3G, the dominance of WiFi, the failure of WAP and the success of SMS.
In addition to the consulting work, Daniel is a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and a fellow at The Rotterdam School of Management. As a lecturer he has taught scenario thinking to more than a 1000 executives and post graduate MBA students at companies and business schools world wide.
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Paola Ricotti [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Paola is an accomplished event producer and creative strategist in the luxury and fashion industries, with a career spanning over three decades. After starting her professional journey in international cinema in Paris, she moved to Milan and immersed herself in the worlds of fashion and high-end luxury. She has orchestrated major events for iconic brands such as Armani, Bvlgari, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Maserati, and Pirelli, overseeing everything from concept development to global execution.
Her commitment to social impact is evident in her pioneering industry-charitable initiatives. In 1997, she created and produced the photography book Fashion and Jewelry United in the Fight Against AIDS, in collaboration with Bvlgari, using fashion as a platform for advocacy. She also organized fundraising dinners for the Amfar Foundation during the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, connecting with international celebrities to support AIDS research and humanitarian efforts.
Between 2002 and 2008, Paola expanded her expertise to India, launching Vogue India, managing store openings, high-profile events, and large-scale experiences for European designers and Condé Nast. Her hallmark event was a weekend at the Royal Palace of Jodhpur, blending luxury, culture, and international artistry, attended by global stars and fashion luminaries. She also spearheaded the worldwide promotional tour for Belvedere Vodka under LVMH, showcasing her ability to merge brand storytelling with unforgettable experiences.
Paola’s portfolio also includes exclusive events in Rome, such as the presentation of Cartier’s Pieces Uniques collection and the launch of the Louis Vuitton boutique in Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina. Her collaboration with Olivier Massart led to the creation of the international department at La Mode en Images in Paris. Today, she continues to shape the global luxury landscape with her visionary approach to events, creative strategy, and cross-cultural experiences, earning recognition as one of the foremost producers in her field.
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Tony Ulwick [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Tony is the pioneer of Jobs-to-be-Done Theory and Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI), a strategy and innovation process that increases the innovation success rate five-fold. Tony founded the innovation consultancy Strategyn in 1991 and has worked with over one-third of the Fortune 100, helping them generate billions of dollar in revenue growth.
Tony has been granted 12 patents related to various aspects of the ODI process. Tony is the author of the original Jobs-to-be-Done book, What Customers Want (2005, McGraw Hill), and articles published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. His work is cited in hundreds of publications. Tony’s counterintuitive views as an innovation thought leader have changed the way academics and executives alike think about growth, strategy, and innovation.
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David Sehyeon Baek [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
David is a cross-border strategist, investor relations lead, and cybersecurity consultant with a proven record of USD 37.5 million raised for technology companies since 2018. His work centers on fundraising, market entry, and M&A for high-tech, deep-tech, biotech, sustainability tech, and digital content firms, with active coverage of Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong (and selective engagements in North America, Europe, and the Middle East).
David advises executives and public agencies on threat intelligence, digital forensics, and integrated defense (EDR/NDR/XDR), partnering with cybersecurity vendors across Korea, the EU, the United States, Japan, and ASEAN.
He also serves as an Advisor to the Asian Marketing Federation (AMF) based in Indonesia, an advisory executive for more than ten technology startups across Asia, and a Deal Sourcing Associate for CGS International Securities. He has delivered training for ministries, briefed law-enforcement and enterprise teams, and spoken to large professional audiences throughout the region. Previously, he served at the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) in Tokyo as Senior Program Officer, Head of Policy & Analysis, and Lead Industry & Service Officer, collaborating with policymakers in 20 Asian countries. Earlier, he was an Adjunct Professor and also led international marketing and cooperation at GCCEI, welcoming and briefing heads of state and senior officials from over 80 countries.
A co-author of The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Futurenomics, David contributes columns and thought leadership on startups, productivity, innovation, strategies, and cybersecurity.
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Nino Lo Bianco [Strategic Adviser]
Nino was born in Torino and is the co-founder and former President of BIP.
He grew up in Sicily and left during the 70s with a Law degree and a MBA from ISIDA Business School, looking for a new job. In 1973 he founded Telos Management Consultants as Managing Director, later acquired by Deloitte Consulting Italy.
During the years 1996-2003 he has been CEO of Deloitte Italy, then European CEO, then Senior Global Partner participating to the strategy worldwide planning.
Over the years Lo Bianco has gained a great deal of experience in Management Consulting at the highest levels in Manufacturing, Public Services and Public Administration sectors.
In 2003, together with his partners, he founded Bip taking the position of President and Chief Executive Officer.
He has been President of the Italian ASSCO (Association of Consulting Companies) and Vice-President of the FITA (Italian Federation of Industries and Professional Services and Advanced Services).
He has been a professor of Management for a number of business schools, and visiting professor in several teaching programs in Italy and abroad, including INSEAD Fontainebleau, IESE Barcelona and ISIDA. Among his more important activities are projects for companies such as IRI (Institute for Industrial Reconstruction), ENI (National Hydrocarbons Corporation), Fiat, Telecom Italia, Iveco, Pirelli, Finmeccanica, RCS (Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), Fondiaria, and Government Departments such as the Italian Home Office, Defence and Foreign Ministries.
He is the author of a book entitled “I wanted to be a consultant: half a century of Italian capitalism seen from inside” of Il Sole24ore in 2009 and in 2020 RCS published his new book “Here to dare.”
He is also a Grand Officer of the Republic, and in 2019 received the Ambrogino d’Oro from the City of Milan.
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Rajendra Srivastava [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Prof. Raj Srivastava is the former Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation. He comes with an experience of over 30 years as an academic and administrator. He has held several tenured faculty and administrative positions throughout his career. Before joining ISB, he served as Provost and Deputy President of Academic Affairs at Singapore Management University.
His research interests include marketing strategy, marketing metrics, and brand/customer Management. His current work focuses on business model innovations, especially in services, B2B, technology, and emerging markets. He is best known globally for his work on measuring the impact of market-facing business processes (innovation, supply-chain, and customer management) that create value for customers, and the value of market-based assets (customers, channels, brands, and value networks). He is also recognised for his work in competitive market structures and brand equity/strategic brand management. His latest research and teaching interests include strategic performance management, marketing accountability, and driving growth and shareholder value.
Raj is a highly cited scholar with work published in leading marketing journals. He is also the recipient of several awards and honours. He has been actively involved in setting up several new postgraduate and doctoral programmes as well as research centres and initiatives in close collaboration with industry. He has also been involved in consulting and senior management training with global MNCs and brings a unique blend of experiences integrating academic and business perspectives from both the West and the East.
He is a committed advocate of cross-functional integration in the management of business processes and has championed interdisciplinary research and academic programmes. He has nurtured multi-disciplinary areas of excellence in financial markets, innovation, and business analytics.
Prior to joining Singapore Management University, he held distinguished research chairs and senior management positions at the University of Texas at Austin and Emory University in Atlanta.
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Stuart Hart [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Stuart is Professor in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. He also serves as the Steven Grossman Distinguished Fellow and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Innovation MBA Program at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business and the Samuel C. Johnson Chair Emeritus in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management Emeritus at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management. He has held chaired faculty positions at the University of Vermont (Grossman School of Business), Cornell University (Johnson School of Management), and the University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler Business School), where he launched the Center for Sustainable Enterprise. Hart was also a business school faculty member and founding director of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute Dual Masters Program.
Stu is one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. He has published more than 100 papers and authored or edited seven books with over 50,000 Google Scholar citations. His article Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in the Harvard Business Review for 1997 and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, Hart also wrote the pathbreaking 2002 article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which provided the first articulation of how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world. With Ted London, Hart is also the author of the book, Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid. His best-selling book, Capitalism at the Crossroads, published in 2005 was selected by Cambridge University as one of the top 50 books on sustainability of all-time; the third edition of the book was published in 2010. Hart’s new book, Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future was published by Stanford Business Books in 2024.
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Mikkel Christian Larsen [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Mikkel is a consultant and debater around Regenerative communications and leadership, and a long-time Lecturer at Copenhagen Business School in Sustainable Communications & Creativity.
As the managing director of Minds & Mountains, his passions and work lie at the intersection of human re-connection with nature, and Regenerative Marketing & Leadership. He conducts seminars, retreats, and consultancy focused on regenerative leadership, marketing & tourism, from his eco-lodge in the Spanish Pyrenees.
Mikkel’s career spans 30 years as a marketing & communications consultant, where he held positions such as Chief Transformation Officer at WPP/GroupM/Mediacom Denmark, and Good Growth Ambassador at Mindshare Denmark.
Relevant Projects:
- Developer of Sustainable Brands/Copenhagen Denmark. A large mindset study of respective Danish
managers and Danish citizens sustainable mindset, in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School. - Nordic Advertised Emissions: Calculating the carbon emissions related to marketing in the Nordics.
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Victoria Hurth [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Victoria works globally at the intersect of academia and hands-on business to help companies transition to be drivers of long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability). This includes advising executives across a wide range of sectors on the intersect between purpose, sustainability, ESG and reporting and how to lead the transformative change needed.
Her new book – BeyondProfit: Purpose-Driven Leadership for a Wellbeing Economy is co-authored with Ben Renshaw and Lorenzo Fioramonti. (FT review here.)
Among other achievements she co-led the 5-year development of the first global ISO standard in Governance of Organizations (ISO 37000:2021), was Technical Author for the first national standard in Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808:2022) and advised the UN on the methodology for SDG 12.6.1 (sustainability reporting). As a Fellow of University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Victoria is engaged in a range of executive and academic leadership programmes.
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Mrinmoy Chakraborty [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Mrinmoy is Founding CEO, SOLiD Inspire. He also serves as Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer at Al Dabbagh Group , Saudi Arabia. He has 23+ years of track record in building and leading global digital technology businesses in Korea, India, the US, and the UK.
Mrinmoy’s business expertise ranges from software, semiconductor, communications and media-tech. Mrinmoy had prior leadership roles at Cypress Semiconductor, Xchanging, and Onmobile and at Boston-based startup, Senaya, as a co-founder.
An eternal student, Mrinmoy holds master’s degree in business management from Stanford Business School as a Sloan Fellow, a post graduate degree (Gold medalist) in industrial management from Indian Institute of Management , Mumbai (NITIE ) and a BE (ECE) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Mrinmoy is currently pursing a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) from Warwick Business School. His research is on developing Strategy Agents for driving agile digital transformation. Mrinmoy holds 23 US patents and 1 Korean IoT patent.
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Rachele Gabellini [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Rachele is a lawyer, mediator, and distinguished lecturer, recognized for her expertise in negotiation, mediation, and human interaction. She began her professional journey at Baker & McKenzie in Rome and London, where she gained extensive experience in complex litigation, international contracts, and conflict resolution. Since 2009, she has served at ADR Center as Mediator, Trainer, and Human Interaction Designer, further advancing her skills through training at JAMS New York. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration and ADR from Queen Mary University of London and a certification in Negotiation and Leadership from Harvard Law School, where she later contributed as Teaching Assistant.
For over 15 years, she has taught at the intersection of law and economics—initially in law faculties and, more recently, in economics—covering civil and commercial mediation, basic, advanced, and cross-cultural negotiation, international contract law, and human interaction, with a strong focus on developing emotional intelligence. Her academic appointments include LUISS Guido Carli University, LUISS Business School, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Bergamo, Temple University Rome, and 24ORE Business School.
Beyond academia, Rachele designs and delivers training programs for multinational corporations, including Leonardo Company, General Electrics, Ing Direct, NTT data and Enel, equipping executives and professionals with negotiation and conflict-management skills tailored to complex global environments.
She is also part of the project “It’s not to get, it’s together” of the Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma, which introduces negotiation into primary schools and was awarded the Druckman Prize for Negotiation Innovation 2025.
Rachele has also been part of Performance Strategies – Negotiation Forum as Master of Ceremony and is co-author of seminal works, including Il ruolo dell’avvocato in mediazione (Giuffrè), NegoziAzione – Il manuale dell’interazione umana (Giuffrè), and NegotiAction – Negotiation Essentials (McGraw-Hill, 2024).
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Jamshed Dubash [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Jamshed is a global executive focused on creating new business opportunities in the enterprise IoT/M2M market space by integrating wireless ‘edge’ sensors, big data, and advanced analytics to help companies increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs. Jamshed has successfully managed large multinational projects demanding strong leadership, interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills and has extensive entrepreneurial experience in building technology startups, developing and executing business plans to capitalize on significant market opportunities.
Areas of expertise include: Pharma/Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Consumer Product Goods (CPG), and Retail markets; Fortune 100 Tier 1 customers; Cold Chain, Supply Chain, Real Time Visibility, Logistics, Asset Tracking applications; and M2M/IoT, RFID, Sensor, Wireless, and Semiconductor technologies. Jamshed has 18 published patents and multiple pending patents in RFID/IoT/M2M/sensors and wireless tracking technologies and applications.
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Peruvemba Sundaram Ravi [Strategic Adviser]
Ravi is a tenured faculty member at the Lazaridis School of Business in Waterloo, Canada. He has degrees in engineering, business and math and has done research and taught courses in operations and supply chain management and management science.
He runs the Einwechter Centre for Supply Chain Management, an industry-funded research centre that focuses on supply chain management-related issues.
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Simone Cicero [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Simone is a designer, writer, and entrepreneur focused on open business models, ecosystemic organizations, and platforms. He has partnered with emergent, self-managed startups as well as large institutions—including Fortune 500s and the UN—to explore new approaches to product and service design and to develop organizing theories fit for the 21st century.
As CEO of Boundaryless, he created the Platform Design Toolkit in 2013—the first fully Creative Commons methodology for platform and ecosystem thinking, followed by the 3EO Toolkit in 2019, bringing platform thinking to the organization. His work has established a foundation that has empowered thousands of practitioners globally. This and related contributions led to his inclusion in the Thinkers50 Radar class of 2020. His current work helps organizations clarify portfolios and interfaces, design modular structures, and build platforms that enable entrepreneurial teams and measurable outcomes.
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David Hinds [Strategic Adviser]
David “Dread” is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of Steel Pulse, one of the most influential British reggae bands of all time. Born in Birmingham, England, to Jamaican parents, Hinds grew up immersed in the cultural tensions and creative energies of the UK’s Black diaspora. This experience would shape both his music and his lifelong commitment to social justice.
In 1975, Hinds helped form Steel Pulse in the Handsworth district—a community marked by racial inequality but rich in musical innovation. Under his artistic leadership, the band quickly became known for its powerful blend of roots reggae, visionary lyricism, and outspoken activism. Steel Pulse’s 1978 debut album, Handsworth Revolution, is regarded as a landmark in reggae history, fusing political consciousness with a distinctly British point of view.
Across a career spanning five decades, Hinds has guided Steel Pulse to global acclaim, including a Grammy Award for Babylon the Bandit and multiple nominations. His songs confront issues such as racism, police violence, corruption, and human rights, while also celebrating resilience, Afro-Caribbean identity, and spiritual uplift.
David Hinds remains the band’s driving force—a charismatic performer, storyteller, and activist who uses music as a platform for truth-telling and change. His influence continues to shape reggae’s global legacy and inspire audiences committed to justice, unity, and liberation.
His passion to create a more just and regenerative world is reflected in his lyrics and his commitment to projects like Hold On (4 Haiti) – a solar electrification project with SELF and PIH, the Wicked7 Project (see Only One World [Wicked Problems]), and concerts for the UN and Amnesty International.
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John Hagel III [Strategic Adviser][LinkedIn]
John has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley as a management consultant, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Throughout his career, John has worked with leaders of large institutions around the world. After retiring as a partner from Deloitte, he published a new book, The Journey Beyond Fear.
While at Deloitte, John was the founder and chairman of the global research center – the Deloitte Center for the Edge. Before joining Deloitte, John was a Principal at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in their Strategy Practice and helped to open their Silicon Valley office, as well as launching their e-commerce practice in the early 1990’s. John has served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups.
John has served as the chair of a Global Future Council at the World Economic Forum, he has organized and hosted many roundtables at the Aspen Institute, and he is also a faculty member at Singularity University. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems.
In addition to his most recent book, John has published seven other books, including the best selling business books, The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box, and The Only Sustainable Edge. He is widely published and quoted in major business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as general media like the New York Times, NBC and BBC. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and institutions, including the World Economic Forum and Business Week.
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Hiroko Osaka [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Hiroko is a market-entry strategist and bridge-builder who helps innovation-driven companies grow in ways that serve the common good, not just the bottom line. As Founder and Principal Consultant of BlueCiel LLC in Chicago and in Tokyo, she specializes in intellectual property, technology, and innovation sectors, guiding global companies as they enter the Japanese market and build businesses designed for long-term societal value.
Over the past decade, Hiroko has led end-to-end Japan strategies for clients whose technologies enable smarter, fairer, and more sustainable economies—for example, a patent analytics company whose tools help organizations steer investment toward genuinely valuable, future-shaping inventions. Her work has included rigorous market research, organization and talent design, and brand-building campaigns that earned trust from over 200 major Japanese corporations and helped establish her client as a leading voice in intellectual property thought leadership.
Before founding BlueCiel, Hiroko spent a decade at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where she served as Kellogg’s Ambassador to Asia and as Associate Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation and the Center for Market Leadership. There she co-created global executive programs for global companies—helping senior leaders rethink growth, innovation, and market leadership through a lens that increasingly includes societal impact and responsibility.
Centered in Japan and the United States, and through activities across Asia and Europe, Hiroko has consistently operated at the intersection of business strategy, cross-border collaboration, and responsible innovation. She brings deep cultural understanding, a trusted network within Japanese corporate, government, and media circles, and a conviction that stronger brands are defined by their contribution to shared prosperity and resilience—understood as regeneration and the pursuit of the Common Good.
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Douglas K. Smith [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Doug is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading management thinkers and advisers, having contributed to performance results, innovation, strategy and change in scores of organizations across more than fifty industries in all three sectors: private, government and non-profit.
Over the past several decades, Doug has done work with leading organizations in more than sixty industries across the private, non-profit and government sectors. He is an innovator, author, teacher, advisor, lawyer and inventor concerned with competitive performance, innovation, strategy, and change.
A former co-leader of McKinsey & Company’s worldwide organization performance practice, Doug’s books include On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We In An Age Of Me; Fumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, The First Personal Computer; The Wisdom of Teams; Taking Charge of Change; Make Success Measurable; The Discipline of Teams; and, Sources Of The African Past. Doug’s work was cited in the book High Impact Consulting for having the highest impact of all consultants reviewed.
He is the architect of many leading field-wide change programs, including NeighborWorks America’s Achieving Excellence in Community Development; the Columbia School of Journalism’s Sulzberger Program; and the Vinson Institute’s Executive Leadership program for Georgia state government leaders.
He received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Guido Palazzo [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Guido Palazzo is a professor of business ethics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. His research analyzes the conditions and causes of corporate scandal.
His latest work is Dark Patterns: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals, an instant classic in the field of organizational ethics. Co-authored with Ulrich Hoffrage, it examines ethical failures in organizations. Each scandal comes with thousands of pages of court documents, whistle blower reports, articles, and reports of investigative journalists. Sifting through all these documents and speaking with people involved in the scandals as victims, perpetrators or bystanders, Palazzo and Hoffrage found disturbing, repeating patterns that explains moral failure in organizations.
Guido has worked with numerous boards and executive teams of multinational corporations in Europe, the USA and Asia on ethics and sustainability related challenges.
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Vittorio Cerulli [Strategic Adviser] [LinkedIn]
Vittorio’s work lies at the intersection of corporate purpose, business innovation and social change. Vittorio is the founder and learning director of Purpose House, a think tank of sustainability, research and strategy experts whose mission is to advance understanding and practice of purpose-led business by distilling learning, sharing evidence, and supporting organizations that seek to create positive impact.
Alongside Purpose House, Vittorio has served as the Challenge Director at Business Fights Poverty, a business-led collaboration network focused on social impact, where he provided companies access to new insights and guidance on purpose by publishing intelligence from relevant peers, practitioners, experts, and investors.
Before his role at Purpose House, Vittorio led global insights and innovation teams at Unilever. Within this role, he spearheaded a task force responsible for defining levers and solutions to support the development of sustainable purposes for Unilever’s food brands across various countries, including Thailand, Mexico, and the UK.
In addition to his professional endeavors, Vittorio received the German KSG scholarship from the Karl Schlecht Foundation, which enabled him to conduct academic research in the Department of Corporate Sustainability Management and complete his doctorate at the University of Nuremberg in collaboration with the business ethics think tank WCGE.
He has recently been appointed Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, where he continues his research on corporate purpose, studying how organizations and managers navigate deep human and organizational transformation.
Alongside his academic work, Vittorio contributes to the development of the first international standard on Purpose Driven Organizations (ISO 37011).
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