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biomimicry
Business Projects
Find out how our Biomimicry Practitioners
are using their skills to solve real challenges.
Not just box-ticking sustainability, but real transformative innovation.
You're talented. Nature is genius. Together, you're an unstoppable force for good.
Get a glimpse of a few Business projects by our Biomimicry Practitioner Programme members:
Explore more through these learner projects.
Click through some of our learners projects below, to see more of their work.
Biomimicry Coaching Cards
Learner: Nadezhda Belousova
Key words: Scale-up, startup, coaching, organisational lifecycle
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All layouts below copyright Nadezhda Belousova.
As a business consultant who specialises in helping start-ups and scale-ups to navigate their changes, Nadezhda is no stranger to the need for growth. 90% of businesses fail within their first year. Nature offers us strategies for strategic adaptations through different growth and change patterns. Nadezhda is the mastermind who is putting these together.
It all starts with understanding the context: 
And each context comes with its own functions:
For each function, there are a range of inspiring biological models with strategies for change and survival. 
Nadezhda went through the enormous task of synthesising all of these learnings, and built out a prototype of a set of coaching cards that she can use to help organisations navigate and adapt. 
She also put together an overview of the accompanying website. 
Sustainable Tourism
Learner: Esmeralda Tenorio
Key words: Carbon footprint, tourism, scale up, algorithm, social impact
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All layouts copyright Esmeralda Tenorio.
Esmeralda, the owner of her own tourism company, asked:
"How do we sustainably scale the business operations of a travel company for long-term success? Furthermore, how can the company minimize the negative social impact and carbon footprint of tourism?"
Her direction was to follow a holistic approach, understanding how impacts can be made on multiple fronts.
Inspired by protein synthesis, and how this effective process might help to encode other algorithms.
One of the main challenges was to lower travellers' carbon footprint, and for this, a lot of data ranking and organising was necessary.
Esmerelda looked at a number of different biological organisms, and the process of ecological succession was inspiration for understanding the impact of tourists in local communities.
Knowing that no business plan is ever going to success without co-operative relationships, Esmerelda incorporated this into her design.
Her next steps were to code this up and integrate the algorithm into her tourism service.
Collective leadership in times of uncertainty
Learner: Michèle Twomey
Key words: Group awareness, coherence
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All images and layouts copyright Michèle Twomey.
Michelle, a consultant to businesses, asked:
"How can leaders of SMEs nurture group awareness and coherence in order to lead collectively, co-create and share value?"
Her primary functions emerged as:
- Nurture morphogenic field awareness
- Nurture morphogenic field coherence
- Lead collectively: make decisions based on context & situation
- Co-create and share value
For more information on how she has synthesised her learnings from nature, please contact her directly.
Practitioner Programme testimonials
Our programme is transformational... but don't take our word for it! Here's what our learners had to say.
A great project makes
a great learning journey
The #1 question we get asked is: "How do I apply biomimicry?" and our answer is always: "Start with a project that you are passionate about".
But, finding the right project and challenge to work on can be tough. So we created the Biomimicry Project Playbook micro-course to guide you through this process, and empower you to make your Practitioner Programme a success.
This micro-course contains short videos,
a downloadable template workbook, and a pdf handbook. Everything you need to get you started on your journey.
Ready to become a Biomimicry practitioner?
This is where the magic starts:
Outside of your comfort zone, but within the realm of possibility.
Committing to investing in yourself can be difficult: time, money, having the courage to design things differently. BUT. You know, deep down, that this is where you need to be, and this is what you need to be doing.
You're talented. Nature is genius. Together, you're an unstoppable force for good.
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Are you interested in the Biomimicry Practitioner Programme but not yet ready to apply? No problem, I'm here to assist. Let's chat.
Still Curious? Explore other Biomimicry Practitioner Projects
Product Design Projects
You may be interested in: packaging, apparel, industrial design, etc.
Built Environment Projects
You may be interested in: architecture, civil engineering, construction, etc.
Biomaterials Projects
You may be interested in:
textile design, performance fabrics, packaging, etc.
Educator Projects
You may be interested in: teaching biomimicry, K12 education, tertiary, etc.
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