The SWoN Series Team
Our team brings together a wealth of expertise across various disciplines and geographies.
With thought leadership in sustainable business strategy, as well as experience in climate law, business psychology and building purpose-driven enterprises, our SWoN Team members collectively offer a what it takes to help translate SWoN into actionable business reality.
Our global presence across continents encourages a broad spectrum of perspectives from which to engage with complex sustainability issues.
Alice Kalro
SWoN Series Architect/Curator
Content Creator
Integration Facilitator
Elodie Guérin
Series Curriculum Co-Designer
Content Creator
Integration Facilitator
Marcela Scarpellini
Content Creator
Integration Facilitator
Melissa O’Mara
Content Creator
Integration Co-Facilitator
Claudia Gasparovic
Content Contributor
James Pittman
Content Contributor
Antony Upward
Content Contributor
Ffiona Devasabai
Series Curriculum Co-Designer
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We recognize the pivotal role that diversity and inclusiveness must play in defining and achieving Sustainability-as-the -World-Needs.
We are committed to fostering a SWoN community and SWoN Series team that reflect a mosaic of experiences, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds from across the globe - and we are mindful of and concerned about the current, unintended over-representation of privileged, white perspectives within our team and to some extent Core Content.
We are working to address this imbalance by seeking out and extending an open invitation to collaborate for individuals who resonate with our mission and theory of change.
About Alice Kalro
“I invite you, change-agents-in-the-making, to not wait for a permission to start changing the world,
and instead accelerate change by driving ‘guerilla’ systems interventions.”
Alice Kalro is an emerging global thought leader in transformational corporate sustainability, providing practical guidance on science- and ethics-aligned business transformations and urging business to take on a systemic leadership role in order to help secure a just and liveable future for all.
She has been leading business transformation programs and developing stakeholder-centric business strategies since 2014. Between 2022 and 2023 she headed the Corporate Sustainability consulting and technology solutions vertical at Goodera, serving both Fortune 500 and SME clients.
Alice has been a prominent Advocation Partner at r3.0, a global non-profit catalysing a systems change towards a regenerative and inclusive global economy. She has been working to trigger a reinvention of the sustainability consulting space towards science-aligned practices and systemic integrity.
In May 2023, Alice began conceptualising and growing arkH3 - a platform from which she and others could effectively deliver systemic leadership, transformational advisory and implementation support for organisations and groups of players interested in taking the necessary leap towards Business-as-the- World-Needs.
Alice has been the driving force behind conceptualising and bringing to life the Sustainability-as-the-World-Needs Training Series, which operationalises arkH3’s distinctive theory of change: mobilising business leaders and organisations for co-orchestration of systems change.
Alice holds a masters degree in International Relations and several sustainability qualifications from Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford universities, as well as a GRI certification. In January 2023 was among the first global cohort to be trained in the UN SDPI standard (the world’s first-ever end-to-end context-based reporting instrument), and has participated in the recently launched (re)biz degrowth program for business leaders.
Alice has led teams and worked with clients across five continents, and lived in Europe, China and India.
Where you can connect further:
Follow Alice on LinkedIn
Follow arkH3 on LinkedIn
Visit the arkH3 website
About Elodie Guérin
With a robust background in Strategic Talent Management and after 15 years in the technology industry, Elodie founded Impactarium, where she leverages her corporate acumen to empower business leaders to accelerate the radical systemic transformation that our world needs.
Her exposure to Executive Committee and Board members has provided invaluable insights into the high-stakes environment of corporate leadership, equipping her to adapt to the demands of top-level decision-making, leadership challenges, and organizational dynamics.
Specialized in C-suite Succession Management, Corporate Talent Strategy, and Leadership Development, Elodie supports companies in building a diverse and future-ready executive pipeline by identifying and developing the strategic skills and leadership capabilities essential for sustained business continuity. She also helps companies design organizational structures, cultures, and talent ecosystems that support their long-term business goals.
As an Executive Coach, Elodie provides safe spaces for leaders to widen their systemic awareness, explore with courage what needs to emerge, cultivate discernment, increase their response-ability, amplify their influence to rise to the occasion of what the world is asking of them now. Rooted in regenerative principles, these spaces are also designed to nurture them, strengthening their personal resilience and emotional competence.
As an active member of the Climate Coaching Alliance, Elodie leans towards eco-systemic approaches that prioritize the collective well-being of both People and Planet. She believes that leadership is about serving, cultivating net positive impact, generating shared value, and eliciting meaning beyond mere goal achievement.
About Marcela Scarpellini
Marcela Scarpellini is a Venezuelan born environmental lawyer who spent the last 8 years working as a sustainability consultant, death doula and yoga teacher. This intense working and learning period led her to take a break from formal employment to allow the insights gained during this time to settle. With the knowledge that in this pause what makes sense for her to pursue will emerge.
During her time working at right° and later at EY as a sustainability consultant she concentrated on using the power of the law and consumer awareness as a tool to encourage appropriate (corporate and personal) behaviours.
As a result of understanding the complexity of driving meaningful change, she co-created right.open, a transdisciplinary community to foster collaboration on science-based solutions for transitioning to a <2°C economy. In doing so she realised that mainstream strategies and solutions were not conducive to ensuring a liveable planet. Having to admit to the inadequacy of mainstream narratives, she started to expand her understanding by taking courses on societal collapse (Surviving The Future, Sterling College, USA) and on body based practices, as the cognitive dissonance experienced by her and many around evidenced the need for tools and places to tap into diverse ways of knowing. This led her to be part of and hold space of Listening Circles, which is one of the tools she believes has the potential to allow for complexity to be experienced and sat with.
Marcela is a qualified environmental lawyer (Venezuela) with an LLM in European Environmental Law from Stockholm University. She is also a certified yoga teacher and a death doula, trained by Sacred Circle UK. She is a writer and a public speaker and has spent the last 8 years holding space for nuance and honest and embodied conversation.
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About Melissa O'Mara
Melissa O’Mara is a Transformative Systems Change Coach & Consultant, and Founder at The Leaders Co-Lab. In her previous corporate leadership role as VP of Green Buildings + Smart Cities Catalyst at Schneider Electric, Melissa was leading the strategy and go-to-market approach for smart cities and smart, green buildings.
She has 38 years of experience focused on enabling leading-edge innovation and change initiatives, and specializes in working with leaders and teams who are leading change in engineering, manufacturing, construction and I/T firms. She excels at unleashing innovative thinking, cross-discipline teaming and brings significant industry expertise.
Melissa enables success through conscious leadership practices, mental fitness, and inner development - helping her clients transform their organizations from the inside out - growing themselves, their relationships, and their teams.
Before founding The Leaders Co-Lab in 2014, Melissa was a serial intrapeneur and innovator at Andersen Consulting, IBM and Schneider Electric.
About Ffiona Devasabai
Ffiona is a business leadership coach with a background in organisational psychology. She is the Founder of Galera Ltd, where she advises and coaches leaders striving to accelerate transitions towards sustainable business models. She spent 5 years working as a leadership strategy consultant and coach with global corporations, mainly across Europe, at YSC Consulting, as well as private equity investors.
In the earlier stages of her career, she concentrated on harnessing the power of social enterprise and community activism to drive social change. She co-designed and managed Wave Change at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland. This incubator program aimed to unite and nurture social entrepreneurs and activists who were spearheading social change initiatives in Ireland, amplifying their combined impact. She also piloted and developed Restorative Justice programs within Ireland's youth justice and education sectors, in collaboration with Peacebuilders Canada and Ashoka.
She is a qualified International Coaching Federation coach, trained in individual coaching and systemic team coaching. She is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic, her studies include a BA in European Social and Political Studies, with a specialisation in law from University College London, a Post Graduate Diploma in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck College (University College London) and a Certificate in Restorative Practises from the University of Ulster, Belfast.
About Claudia Gasparovic
Claudia is an environmental engineering expert and clean tech researcher with a public services background. As a Sustainability Consultant, she blends flow systems science and regenerative design to help initiatives reach their planet-positive potential.
In her work in the public sector in Brazil, she collaborated on the formulation of sanitation regulations and policies for social and environmental justice, as well as on strategic plans for water resources management as a member of the River Basin Committee.
In her academic trajectory, Claudia spent 8 years on the research, development, and design of clean technologies, working with innovative approaches such as Constructal Design. As a consultant, she employs this experience and sustainability expertise to help mission-driven initiatives, especially in Climate Tech, align their strategies with broader environmental considerations for planetary health. Recently, she developed a series of three reports for clean ammonia company Nium, in which the Planetary Boundaries Framework was employed to assess the technology’s impact.
Claudia holds a Doctorate in Environmental Engineering from the Federal University of Parana - Brazil. She is trained on several sustainability and regeneration approaches, including arkH3’s SWoN, a certification on Regenerative Development and Design by IDR (according to the method by Regenesis Group), Capital Institute's Introduction to Regenerative Economics and the UN SDPI standard (the first context-based sustainability reporting approach).
About James Pitmann
James is a ecological economist and green business consultant and more than three decades of experience in sustainability innovation. He is currently Director of Finance and Economics for MendWild, a consulting and analytics company focused on conservation science and finance, as well as Principal Consultant of Real Value Group working with executives and technical teams leading international client engagements in enterprise strategy development, decision support and sustainability risk mitigation.
In 2005, James co-founded Earth Economics, a leading international consultancy focused on applied ecological economics. He also taught for many years as an Expert Practitioner faculty member for the world’s first sustainable business MBA program, at Pinchot University, leading courses in micro-/macro-/eco-economics and system dynamics for business resilience design, and as an instructor for the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.
James holds a Master of Science with distinction in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh, a Master of Arts in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University Seattle, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Development and Applied Ecopsychology from Prescott College. He has also completed Certificates in Biodiversity Finance from the UNDP, Greenhouse Gas Accounting from the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, Advanced Corporate and Business Strategy from the Corporate Finance Institute, and Authentic Sustainability Assessment with Sustainable Development Performance Indicators from r3.0 in collaboration with the UN Research Institute for Social Development.
About Antony Upward
Antony believes we need a world where business no longer only attempts to do less harm, but instead sets as its goal the flourishing of human and all other life.
In his role as an academic, he is a Visiting Professor in the Business Model Innovation group at the Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning, Halmstad University, Sweden and a former adjunct Professor, at the Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.
As a practitioner, Antony is a Certified Management Consultant, Flourishing Enterprise Designer and member of the Systemic Design Association.
Antony originated the Flourishing Business Canvas through his research and practice, a fit-for-the-21st-century business modelling tool. This is now being used by 1000s organizations and individuals around the world, including EIT-Climate-KIC, Innovation Norway, the Centre for Social Innovation (Toronto), Georgian College, and three initiatives he helped to co-found Flourishing Startups, Enterprise Evolution and StrateGaia.
Antony holds a Masters of Environmental Studies in Business Model Design and Sustainability and a Graduate Diploma in Business and the Environment from York University. He has several increasingly well-cited papers about his research and practice, along with a recent book chapter on flourishing strategy design.
Antony was born in the UK and is a long-time settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada – located in the Lake Erie Lowlands ecoregion. He resides in the Wonscotonach/Don River watershed on territory covered by the Upper Canada Treaties, the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, the Métis, and today, the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.
Origins of the SWoN Series
This Foundational Series has been brought to life in collaboration between arkH3 and And Now What.
From their first meeting at the September 2022 r3.0 Conference in Amsterdam, Alice Kalro, Anne Billen and Neil Davidson quickly recognised they shared a calling to drive urgent transformational change, to address our planetary predicament. All self-identified and self-nominated change agents, they came from a position of yearning to channel frustration with the status quo and its relative impermeability into effective systems interventions.
In May 2023, astonished with the enthusiastic response her thought-leadership and the nascent Consulting Activism movement had been receiving, Alice recognised the opportunity for this collaborative ideation, co-creation and co-delivery of a series of trainings focused on hastening the emergence of What-the-World-Needs. It felt it was meant to be, an inevitable outcome of the sequence of events set in motion when the three had met several months earlier.
Post Cohort 1, Alice, Anne and Neil have amicably decided to pursue further systemic interventions on their separate pathways, with the SWoN Training Series remaining under arkH3 and Alice’s tutelage for its further, hopefully exciting, development.