Punk Strategists — no polished slides

plays: the physicist who starts things

Was: Doctor of science, ~~sensible~~. Founded Factor-X, a climate strategy consultancy for companies and public bodies across Europe.
Then: Co-ran Usitoo (why buy a drill when you can just use one), rallied a coalition of regenerative businesses, now heats buildings with local wood through Coopeos and UltraLocal.
Also: Costed out a food social security system for Belgium and a zero-long-term-unemployment scheme, because somebody had to do the maths.

Claims he doesn't need much sleep. Will use the extra hours to redesign your business model.

plays: the recovering BCG consultant

Was: Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. ~~Wore the suit.~~ Then wrote a PhD on why systems lock out the good ideas.
Then: Senior adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Led the Territoires Zéro Chômeur project at Actiris. Oxfam-Magasins du Monde. Guest professor at ICHEC.
Also: Cited a couple of thousand times on agroecology, lock-in and economic democracy. Calls it "militance en costume".

Once suggested the state should guarantee employment as a last resort. He called that a bit of positive radicality. He meant it.

plays: the aeronautical engineer who went off-course on purpose

Was: European marketing manager at Caterpillar and Toyota. Strategy director at Minale. Chief People Officer and exec committee at Noshaq, with 400+ companies in the portfolio. ~~Very polished.~~
Then: The fool on the hill. Perspectivist. Co-founded Socks & The City, a systemic-intervention collective. Founded don8. Co-developed the Sparks method.
Also: Photographs decaying public infrastructure. Diagnoses organisations the same way.

Will listen for two hours, then say the one sentence you were hoping nobody would say.

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