We are Design Thinking facilitators and Sustainability specialists.
Andrew Purnell
Andrew is a sustainability specialist with broad experience in community development, environmental management and biodiversity conservation.
In partnership with Ulrich and other specialists, has facilitated Design Thinking workshops in multiple industries in Africa where his focus is on using design thinking processes and tools for strategic planning and developing sustainability strategies.
He is pioneering Life Centered Design facilitation through immersive wilderness & cultural experiences drawing from his early-career experiences of living in remote rural villages implementing community-based sport for development programmes and his time as a nature guide at big-five game reserves.
Andrew has fulfilled Leadership positions in medium-sized organisations where he has headed up marketing, innovation, business development and business unit leadership roles. He is a creative visionary with an entrepreneurial spirit he has co-founded three companies focussing on Emerging Market Economics, Sustainable Finance for Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture.
Ulrich Meyer-Hollings
Ulrich is an experienced strategic innovation, human-centered design, corporate venturing and organisational strategy specialist with a proven track record of more than 20 years across multiple industries, NGOs and geographies.
Having worked at the intersections of Corporate, NGO and Management Consulting contexts, he is familiar with creating enabling spaces for inclusive innovation, human-centered design and new business development within diverse settings.
Coupled with his experience as a Founder, he is a hands-on, entrepreneurial, pioneering and agile innovation & design advisor with practical exposure to both established and emerging markets.
For the last 10 years Ulrich has been actively building home-grown, human-centered design and innovation ecosystems by developing talent pools across the African continent and mentoring emerging inclusive innovation teams.
Through his association with the Institute for Futures Research at Stellenbosch University Business School he has built up a comprehensive innovation coaching and mentoring practice.
Ulrich has the ability to energise and galvanise crossdisciplinary teams to create truly ground-breaking outcomes. He is also a thought leader and public speaker with a passion for people-centric innovation.