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Chris Grantham

Circular Economy & Regenerative Innovation Strategist

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Chris Grantham

I thrive on guiding teams and organizations through evolving paradigms. Over the past decade, my focus has been on refining innovators' intuitions and instincts for regeneration and shared value creation. I find joy in witnessing people discover new connections and envision novel possibilities for their personal and organizational growth in the climate era.

PASSIONS

Areas I'm passionate about

As creative leaders with a shared commitment to quality, collaboration, and creativity, we're proud to pursue out most meaningful work and deliver the best every time.

The circular economy could account for approx 50% mitigation in GHGs

Portfolio

Regenerative Innovation Strategy and Capacity Building advisory for innovative team building, business solutions, organisations and new ventures.

Engaging with leaders, facilitating immersive workshops and crafting strategic opportunity narratives that help businesses to innovate, grow sustainably and address the organisational barriers to doing so. Superpowers around applying living system principles, playing/building to think, developing new leadership mindsets and behaviours and regenerative economics.

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Work in Focus

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Driving a circular design movement
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IKEA

Driving a circular design movement

♻️Circular Economy
Capability Builder
Change Catalyser
Collaborating with the Circular Design Leaders Group at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the initiative facilitated 'learning by doing' design sprints with corporate partners. Focusing on innovating organizational systems and capacity building, the effort expanded design processes, tools, and mindsets needed for a successful transition to a circular and regenerative model, addressing the 'linear (economy) lock-in' challenge. Contributions were also made to design research publications, such as 'An Adaptive Strategy For Circular Design' and 'The Circular Design For Fashion Book'. A notable accomplishment was leading circular design at IDEO to create The Circular Design Guide, showcasing design and creativity's role in transitioning to a circular economy. The guide has been utilized by over half a million users across 150 countries.
Designing and facilitating The Sustainability Leadership Laboratories at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
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UEA Gov

Designing and facilitating The Sustainability Leadership Laboratories at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

♻️Circular Economy
🏕️Sustainable Cities
We devised a design sprint to take participants through a process of imagining themselves and their organisations fully participating in a circular and regenerative economy. We created experiences that immersed participants in living system principles and helped them build models of new business ecosystems and new organisational conditions in order to develop their regenerative innovation muscles.

Values & Ethos

I believe in Neol because the talent and business models needed to create impactful system change aren't found in the mainstream.

Chris Grantham
Chris Grantham
Circular Economy & Regenerative Innovation Strategist