About me
I believe humanity is at a critical turning point and we need to learn how to grow “planetary communities” to help regenerate the Earth. My life is dedicated to help make this evolutionary leap.
I first learned about the power of planetary communities through AIESEC - the world’s largest student organization focused on developing leadership potential in young people. I was president of the local chapter at my university and became fascinated with how the global network kept evolving over 50+ years in a self-organizing way.
This experience led me to start a PhD on the question of how global networks evolve as partly movement, business and community. My research object was Impact Hub - a fast-growing network of coworking spaces dedicated to radical collaboration for the SDGs - and I quickly fell in love with the community. Consequently, I co-founded Impact Hub Zürich and joined the global leadership team to guide the network’s transition towards a distributed organization with 100+ spaces across the world.
Having learned what it takes to cultivate an ever-emergent, globally networked community, I started working as a facilitator to help other impact-driven networks such as WWF, the Responsible Leaders Network and the League of Intrapreneurs operate more as a community and interweave across the planet. I became part of the Value Web and deepened my facilitation skills with Theory U as well as Social Presencing Theater to lead transformative processes.
Today, I focus on the question of what makes a community truly regenerative, drawing inspiration from indigenous wisdom as well as highly experimental communities such as Burning Man, Enspiral and Tamera. I recently co-founded Together Institute to explore this question together with fellow community weavers and have been running a series of virtual learning journeys to share our insights.
To regenerate myself, I practice yoga and free dance forms such as 5Rhythms and contact improvisation.
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