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Speaker on social and regenerative entrepreneurship

Founder at Hemptex®

Netherlands

About

I speak at events and in classrooms about social and regenerative entrepreneurship, and what it actually takes to build a business that way.

Not the polished version. I talk about the messy part: what happens when your values meet a pricing decision, an investor conversation, or a supplier who doesn't work the way you'd hoped. I've been in that spot with start-ups in this field and I think people learn more from the honest version than from another success story.

Depending on the audience, I can go a few directions. For students, it's often about what this field really looks like from the inside and whether it's for them. For event audiences, it tends to be about the trade-offs between purpose and profit, and how to communicate what you stand for without it turning into greenwashing. For founders and teams, it's more practical: how others have handled the same decisions you're facing now.

I'm comfortable with a keynote, a guest lecture, a panel, or a more interactive workshop where people bring their own questions. Group size doesn't matter much to me, though I like it when there's room for discussion rather than just talking at people for an hour.

If you're organising something and this sounds like a fit, get in touch and tell me who your audience is. We can shape it from there.

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