We are scaling4good*ers

scaling4good consists of a team of professionals driven by shared purposes, values, and guiding principles. We bring together long-lasting expertise in scaling impact in different contexts and at the interface of various domains, allowing us to apply numerous methodologies into practical solutions.

 

Team

 

Anaïs Sägesser, Member of the Board, Co-President


Anaïs, co-founder of scaling4good, is passionate about engaging with others to regenerate ourselves, our relationships and our ecosystems. She thrives in accompanying groups of people in co-creative processes that address the connection to self, others, nature and the universe.  Next to societal transformation and systems change, she holds a specific interest in theories of change leading from personal transformation to community engagement and civic action, thus addressing social equity and systems change. Anaïs also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of td-net and the Advisory Board of re-source ZHdK. She also co-founded STRIDE – unSchool for Collaborative Leadership & Social Innovation, co-leads the World Ethic Forum,  acts as expert for Innosuisse and lecturer for societal transformation and transformative leadership at BFH as well as at other universities and institutions of higher education. Want to get in touch? Contact her here.

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Ruth Förster, Member of the Board, Co-President

For Ruth “feeling connected” to oneself, others, nature is crucial for being able to co-operate and integrate different ways of knowing for sustainable change. She is passionate about supporting individuals, groups and organizations to (re-) connect. In her work she combines systemic counselling and transformative learning approaches with creative body-centered, as well as nature-based ones. At the same time she brings in her strong analytical skills as a PHD environmental engineer (ETH Zurich) and former life cycle assessment analyst. Providing safe enough spaces for change experiments is one of her foci. She builds on more than 20 years expertise as trainer, facilitator and developer for unconventional, transformative and transdisciplinary learning settings and as coach, e.g. in collaborative leadership (ETH Zurich, Swissnex San Francisco, STRIDE). She is a long-term board member of the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (saguf) and leads its working group Education for Sustainable Development. scaling4good allows her to join energies in a team of like-minded, purpose driven change makers.
 
 
 
 

danielDaniel Zimmer, Member of the Board

Daniel, co-founder of scaling4good, is convinced that today’s priority is action and that we cannot wait any longer to implement the transitions required. Discourse is key to change the mind-set, but action needs to follow. His work on water and climate change at global level has also convinced him of two things: first, that all planetary threats are interdependent and need to be tackled jointly;  and second, that a good articulation between global and local issues and actions is key. He is also passionate about mobilizing a large diversity of people in a positive way in order to stimulate their consciousness and willingness to act.

Daniel also works with Climate-KIC as its Director of the Sustainable Land Use theme. He is dedicating time to contributing to the blog and case studies of scaling4good and he’s not involved in operational decision making. Want to get in touch? Contact him here.

Katrin Hauser

Katrin is driven by her fascination and love for nature and people. For her nature and social structures are both robust and fragile systems at the same time. She has an exploratory spirit for the inner architecture of systems and is passionate about finding new pathways for sustainable change. To stimulate and empower transformation processes she is combining her private industry and public sector experience whilst applying methods from natural sciences, personal and organisational psychology. Her approach is resource driven and she can look back to successful transformation projects on a societal, organisational and individual level. With scaling4good Katrin aims to contribute and jointly work towards a livable future for the generations to come. Katrin is also working as an independent consultant, project manager and coach.

Majka Baur

Majka is a social entrepreneur who co-founded and led the WeAct AG, an enterprise supporting companies to drive a change of organizational culture through bottom-up employee engagement. WeAct’s solutions are based on unique team challenges powered by a gamified platform and app. Majka is passionate about engaging people to co-create a positive future and believes that every person has the potential to play a critical role in transforming society. She wants to contribute to building a society that sustains itself within the capacity of the natural resources and is designed to improve people’s well-being and happiness. Majka’s main interest is the design of programs empowering people to connect with themselves and their environment while becoming active in shaping a bright future for society.

Salomon Billeter

Salomon is determined to provide a solid basis for sustainable action, having seen how small changes can make a large difference to complex dynamic systems. He has spent his professional life developing calculation methods to understand and influence such processes: first biochemical reactions, then charge transfers in microelectronics and recently economic, societal, and judicial processes affecting liability. Having grown up in a beautiful place with enough food and clean water, surrounded by caring people, he has a lot to be grateful for and to return. But how to move from a small scale to a potentially global scale? He has used a short sabbatical in 2016 to get the simulation modeling for sustainability started and made it his focus in 2018. Want to get in touch? Contact him here.

Nicola Blum

Nicola is trying to understand the world and its systemic interconnectedness. Passionate about complex systems and system change in the context of sustainable development, she currently teaches and researches at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. As pure knowing is effectles without doing, she invests herself in transdisciplinary, participatory processes that prototype new ways of doing, living, consuming and producing.

 

 

Kristin Bauer

Driven by the conviction that sustainable system change is only feasible with a shift from our dominant narratives, Kristin aims to challenge human-nature relationships and the growth paradigm with design. To this end, she creates future scenarios by producing miniature models and audiobooks, writing and illustrating corporate transformation manuals, and engaging stakeholders in biodiversity role-playing.

Kristin researches and practises at the intersection of design, futures and transformation research and specializes in research-through-design methods, passionately exploring how design can catalyse transformation processes. Thus, she constantly explores new formats to provide narratives and visuals that make abstract systems tangible and help people navigate in transforming environments. She first worked with scaling4good in 2019, developing the “Zukunftsböxli”, a biodiversity simulation game designed to spark discussions about the co-benefits of biodiversity in urban green spaces.

 

 

Regina Vogel

Regina is passionate about collectively co-creating systems that work for us instead of focusing on fixing systems that don’t. Her work as an independent leadership coach and facilitator is based on the core belief that personal and societal transformation go hand in hand. Everyone who is aware of their power to create the world they want to live in is a leader. And with that comes the responsibility to contribute to a world that is livable for all, including future generations and those in the southern hemisphere. It is her mission to spread that awareness and support leaders through individual coaching, group work facilitation and positive action based on tribe creation.
 
 
 
 

Noemi Scheurer

Noemi is passionate about creating spaces for collective learning, shared decision-making, and the weaving of new narratives. As a process designer and facilitator, she works at the intersection of participation, dialogue, and societal transformation. Drawing on Theory U and non-violent communication, she designs and accompanies processes in cultural mediation, democratic innovation, and participatory grantmaking. She currently co-leads the Kultur Komitee Winterthur and works independently on a range of projects and initiatives.

 
 
 
 

Diego Hangartner

Diego has dedicated over thirty years to external scientific research and internal meditative exploration of the mind and consciousness.  He started as a pharmacologist specializing in psychopharmacology and addiction, always interested in what constitutes a healthy mind and how to cultivate it.  He spent many years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in India, studying, translating and publishing several Tibetan works, and organizing several large events with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Europe. Diego was COO of Mind and Life Institute in the US and co-founder and director of Mind and Life Institute in Europe until 2015. Today, he continues his research and teaching with the Max Planck Institute, ETH (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich University and has founded the “Institute of Mental Balance and Universal Ethics” (IMBUE). Want to get in touch? Contact him here.

 

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