Adam Lusby

Adam has spent the past decade dedicated to exploring the intersections of innovation, technology, and the idea of a regenerative circular economy. He enjoys creating engaging workshops that challenge participants to acquire and apply new knowledge through hands-on experiences. As a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter Business School, Adam serves as academic lead on two cutting-edge innovation spaces, the Skydeck and the CQ, where participants can experience the power of innovation and entrepreneurship first-hand. Adam co-founded InnoPlay, which leverages the power of play and design to drive innovation in education and beyond, and Regenovate, a new type of agency that helps organisations build their capacity for regenerative growth. 

Chris Grantham

Chris is a founder of Regenovate, a new breed of agency created to help organisations build their capacity for regenerative growth. They help individuals and teams develop their vision, key value indicators, design muscles and mindset through immersive ‘design sprints’ that combine natural world inspiration, model building and future visualisation.

He as formerly Circular Economy Executive Director at IDEO, where he led IDEO's consultancy business in the circular economy and worked with organisations like, H&M, IKEA, VF Corps, Solvay, SAP and Danone on their circular economy strategy, organisational transformation and product innovation. As well as working with individual companies, Chris’s work has involved adapting IDEO’s collaborative design methodology (CoLab) for circular economy innovation across industry value chains and the development of a close partnership with The Ellen MacArthur Foundation including creating The Circular Design Guide which has been used by over half a million users in over 150 countries.

Kate Simpson

Dr Kate Simpson is the Director of the Systemcraft Institute and lead author on Systemcraft: an applied approach to making systems change happen; and she is also former Managing Director of Wasafiri.  As Managing Director she led Wasafiri’s growth from an ambitious start up into a flourishing business; she also pioneered the development of Wasafiri’s ‘adaptive operating model’ drawing heavily on the principles of self-management. As a consultant she works with a wide range of public private and not for profit organisations and is focused on creating collective solutions to complex problems. She brings an expertise in leadership, organisational and people development and designing systemic change interventions. Across her career she has worked in over 15 countries and with a range of global organisations including Swiss Re, Barclays, World Economic Forum, FCDO, Sony, FAO, The Forward Institute and HelpAge International amongst many others.

Kate’s career has encompassed international development, environmental management, academia and corporate organisational development. Through this work she has woven together a commitment to creating cross-sector collaborations for social change; she is an expert in asking “what if...” and helping clients to try new ways of doing and thinking. She holds a PhD in social geography from Newcastle University, is an accredited Executive Coach, ultra-runner and occasional blogger.

Niki Wallace

Niki is a designer, writer and educator with a background in communication design, interaction design, service design, and design for transitions. Their research focuses on design’s contributions to transitions towards social, racial and climate justice, with a particular interest in the complex collaborative design engagements that facilitate these transitions. In 2019 Niki founded Net Zero Lab to address the everyday challenges posed by transitions, and is currently contributing to UAL’s transition towards regenerative systems through UAL’s Climate Emergency Action Group. Niki is attentive to the social aspects of transitions and collaboration. This sensitivity to the principles of relationality, co-operation and communication, and to the redistribution of power in co-creation processes, all inform their approach.