develop green talent

I help you to build the core competences - values, skills, attitudes and knowledge - with your teams, stakeholders and communities, to enable them as the green talent imagining, designing and implementing solutions for a just transition to regenerative, flourishing futures​.
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • ​Futures Literacy
  • In-Person Training
  • E-Learning Content​
  • Workshop Design/Facilitation
  • Core Competence Frameworks
Every job is now a green job. Every competence needs to be aligned with generating solutions. To fill the green talent gap, it's time to train a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs to lead the transition to green and circular economy.
  • Build climate and sustainability knowledge.
  • Disrupt myths and misconceptions around climate and sustainability.
  • Build core green competencies around long-term thinking, design thinking for nature-centric solutions, systems-thinking and collaboration.
  • Embed futures literacy with all of your stakeholders. 
  • Empower employees and suppliers as intrapreneurs creating new value.
  • Do the 'greening' of roles that enable employees and local community members to transition to the green economy. 
Working with you to develop essential green skills through
CURRICULUM
Develop best practice Entrepreneurial Education stand-alone and integrated curriculum ​to build entrepreneurial competencies in schools, incubators and accelerators.

PITCH TRAINING
Design and facilitate pitch training, supporting start-ups from problem to pitch.
FORESIGHT FOR IMPACT
Clarify impact using strategic foresight tools to enable powerful conversations with funders and potential customers. 
EXPERT PANEL MEMBER
Serve as an expert panel member, listening to pitches and providing constructive feedback.
CORE COMPETENCIES FRAMEWORK
Use global best practice research, creating a core competencies framework to guide start-ups and innovation teams through their entrepreneurial journey. 
"It’s been such a pleasure working with you Elaine.
You are an absolute force of nature and your ethos and outlook on life is very inspiring." 
​Social Innovator, UK

Entrepreneurship Education

I help you to capacity-build the core competencies needed as intra and entrepreneurs to bring green solutions into every workplace, enterprise and community.

CASE STUDY: GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK GENEVA

Empowering students as start-up entrepreneurs in the Concours de la Meilleure Idee

CASE STUDY: WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACCELERATOR

Empowering women to develop digital green solutions by creating an e-learning for UN ITU as part of the Women's Entrepreneurship Accelerator sponsored by Mary Kay Global.
CASE STUDY: ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM, LESOTHO
Helping Lesotho’s National Curriculum
Development Centre (NCDC) 
to develop a pipeline
​of young entrepreneurs 
​through Entrepreneurial Education
"I felt your facilitation and the journey you took us on was more then that.
​I felt that you shared your life experience and passed on your valuable lessons learned. 
I felt that your workshop had so much ‘Herzensblut’ as it said in German. ​
Herz - Heart + Blut - Blood ==> so much passion, compassion, commitment and enthusiasm!" 
Spring Programme 2019 Participant, Capacity Zurich

CASE STUDY: SUPPORTING MIGRANT AND REFUGEE ENTREPRENEURS

Helping Capacity Zurich's start-up entrepreneurs build resilience for their entrepreneurial journeys

CASE STUDY: IHEID AND EQUALS-EU INNOVATION CAMP

Empowering women to start their journeys as entrepreneurs through this Innovation Camp in Geneva
Empowering youth as problem-solvers ​taking action for the planet
Training that gives young people agency in their lives and communities
by enabling them to explore the problems that they are in-love with solving, encouraging imagination and instilling belief in their capacity as problem-solvers, regardless of academic ability. ​
  • Increasing wellbeing and self-efficacy.
  • Building essential competencies as problem-solvers.
  • Creating dynamic collaborations together.
  • Raising their voices on climate issues. 
  • Showing up as values-based young leaders.
  • Learning to overcome failure.
  • Generating a pipeline of projects as solutions. 
Futures Wonder Labs empower young people to explore and find their belief in their future power, as problem-solvers for themselves, their communities and the planet.
These interactive, learning-by-doing workshops are a fusion of futures literacy and entrepreneurial education, with a mission to empower young people to believe that they can take action.

Exploring futures around problems that they are in-love with, enables young people to build essential competencies around self-efficacy, ethical and sustainable thinking, mobilizing others and perseverance: increasing positive emotions which contribute to wellbeing, as well as a sense of agency in their capacity to create solutions.
CASE STUDY: UNCTAD START-UP FOR SDGs PITCH COMPETITION
Empowering start-up entrepreneurs to pitch their solutions at the UN in partnership with UNCTAD
CASE STUDY: INNOVATION CAMP, GENEVA YOUTH CALL
​Supporting the Geneva Youth Call
co-founders and team to launch the 1st World Youth Assembly ​in Geneva in 2022

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CASE STUDY: RAISING YOUTH VOICES THROUGH A FUTURES WONDER LAB, CHESHIRE EAST LIBRARIES
Empowering young people to value their imagination, generate innovative ideas with their creativity, and feel activated as local climate change problem-solvers.
CASE STUDY: EPFL INNOVATION PARK
Exploring how to go fast and far
​as entrepreneurs from EPFL Innovation Park in Lausanne.

CASE STUDY: RAISING YOUTH VOICES, UNCTAD EMPRETEC WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS 2018

Encouraging entrepreneurial spirit
in young people to be problem-solvers for the planet, 
as part of the UNCTAD Empretec
​Women In Business Awards 
"From the very first interaction I had with Elaine, two things were clear: she knew what she was talking about and she had what it takes to help my students raise the game.
Elaine was easily reachable and extremely proactive, which meant that she already had a strong sense of what we were trying to achieve before she had even set the foot in our school.
Sharing the core values of our school as well as deeply connecting with her target audience, Elaine led our students to go beyond what I thought them capable of, embracing and making their own the notions of 'value proposition', 'value chain structure', 'profitability model' as well as 'social, ecological and leadership awareness'.
​Suddenly the UN Sustainable Development Goals were no longer an element you needed to refer to at some point in your presentation but a clear call to action that resonated in all the students' decisions...'
Aurelia Thompson-McNicol, College Alpin Beau Soleil 
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 "I liked this because I was able to express my creativity. It was also very interactive, fun and the same time I learned a lot. It taught me how to create ideas from a starting point which helped me in other subjects. I recommend it to students and young business people because it helps you to create ideas, think more creatively and use visual maps to think more efficiently."
Yr 8 student, St George's International School of Switzerland
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