Rethinking design consultancies Co-operative as an impact business model

Event date: 15.Feb.2023 – 08:45
Event location: Wonderland Vallila

Melanie Wendland is a design strategist applying service design and design thinking in the social impact sector. In 2018 she co-founded Sonder Collective, where she acts as chairwoman of the board and leads complex design driven projects in global health. Sonder Collective has their Helsinki office at Wonderland Valilla.

Rethinking design consultancies Co-operative as an impact business model

In this talk I want to share how and why we have set up a co-operative as an international network of freelancers manage funds in a sustainable way around a social impact goal and our lessons learnt around

  • How to form an brand identity in a pluralist environment
  • How to govern in non hierarchical ways
  • How to manage funds in a sustainable way
  • How to drive impact as individuals within a network

https://www.sonderdesign.org/

Melanie Wendland

General Info:

This event will be held in English

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