Finding the words
The Steps Collective - This Thursday
Hello there
As you will know, this Thursday (25th January) we will be hosting our first event at The RSA on John Adam Street in London.
In-person tickets can be booked here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/show-the-easy-place-to-start-tickets-792986823937?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
If you wish to join us on Zoom, please follow this link. If you are asked for a passcode, it is 718074.
Thanks to our speakers, Liz Hosmer and Roland Harwood, whose bios you can find at the bottom of this email.
Meanwhile, in preparation, we've been trying to find the right words to commence the session.
Inspired by things like the IFF's introduction script for hosts, we wanted to compose something to set the tone for this session and future ones, and that could also be used by others who want to run their own versions of sessions like these.
Here we go then, our first version...
STEPS: Show The Easy Place to Start
It is often mentioned, even by the most experienced travellers in the regenerative space, that they are continually finding their way. If we are to follow, we must look for their footprints, and consider where we might place our own first steps.
Today, we are here to share stories about how regenerative journeys began. Taking action is easier when you see and hear how others started. These stories will start in the early stages, with people alive to the unfolding environment around them.
Hearing about the first steps of others can be a vital part of our own, but we will not walk alone. We help each other take these first steps towards a regenerative future, not as experts, but as parents, neighbours, colleagues and citizens.
Our stories are all different. To travel with efficiency and resilience, we must learn what works for others, and find a balance for ourselves between them. There is no single answer to guide you, but many questions to orientate by.
We want to help people shape a regenerative design for life. Navigating with uncertainty, switching between action and inspiration; moving before we think too much, and yet thinking before we go too far.
Nobody can be certain what is around the next bend or over the next peak. Hold on to your considerate, open and thoughtful outlook in our time together. There are many paths up the same mountain.
See you on Thursday.
Cheers
John, Lizzie, Andy & Rob
Liz Hosmer
Liz is an advisor, consultant, and fractional COO who uses her general management and operational knowledge to help early stage and small to medium businesses move faster. She has a focus on mission-led organisations, in particular food and agriculture. Liz is currently working with Zinc as a Visiting Fellow, as well as leading the operational and strategic elements of a project with Topup Truck and Innovate UK to overhaul the zero waste mobile refill business model.
Liz spent two years as a fractional COO at Wildfarmed, a regenerative food brand, and previously led Retail for Farmdrop, an online retailer offering home delivery of groceries that are fresh, fair to farmers, and sustainably produced. Prior to Farmdrop she spent ten years in leadership roles at Amazon UK.
Roland Harwood
Roland Harwood is a compulsive connector of people and ideas. As CEO of Liminal, he is helping to activate the Climate Tech Supercluster. He is also the Community Lead at Milestone, Trustee of the Participatory Cities Foundation, and author of the On The Edge book and podcast.
Previously he co-founded and led 100%Open, the award-winning open innovation agency that worked in 25+ countries with the likes of LEGO, UBS, Ford and Unilever. It spun out from the charitable foundation Nesta, where his team supported the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation with Tim Berners-Lee. Graduating with a PhD in Physics, having studied with Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs, he am also a failed astronaut, a TV and film music composer for Sony, and a proud and exhausted dad of three children.