Kāvya Raman
Kāvya Raman believes design is the use of power to shape what’s possible. She designs and facilitates spaces for change with organizations, movements, governments, and communities learning how to become good future ancestors. Her work focuses on shaping strategies, practices, and ways of working that help people and institutions cross thresholds with care, courage, and imagination. Over the past fifteen years, Kāvya has lived and worked across war zones and megacities including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Turkey, Jordan, Haiti, Egypt, Italy, and the United States, navigating cultures, languages, and ways of knowing, being, and belonging. Her experience spans social impact design, facilitation, coaching, organizational leadership, and program strategy with nonprofits, foundations, international organizations, and governments, including collaborations with The International Rescue Committee, The Gates Foundation, Oxfam International, Global Affairs Canada, and the U.S. Department of State. Her superpower is adaptation.
Tamara Christensen
Tamara Christensen is a strategic process designer and empathetic facilitator on a mission to reimagine how we work better together. With 20+ years of experience blending design thinking, creative problem solving, collaboration, and research,Tamara helps people and organizations build innovation capabilities while applying them to complex challenges. She works with a range of organizations from local businesses to universities to global Fortune 100 companies like Honeywell and 3M. Tamara is the founder of Idea Farm Co-op, a design thinking firm, and a co-founder of CoCreACT®, a transatlantic innovation consultancy specializing in helping leaders and teams thrive in ambiguity. She serves as an Expert-In-Residence with the University Design Institute (UDI) at Arizona State University where she uses co-design to advance transformation in higher education and she is also an international educator with Thunderbird School of Global Management Executive Education. Tamara has been described metaphorically as a glass of prosecco, a whirling dervish and a sharpie. Her books, Leading in Ambiguity: how to transform uncertainty into possibilities and F-ing Innovation: Why innovation is hard and what to do about it are available on Amazon.
Sabrina Prioli
Sabrina Prioli began her career in academia as a sociologist researcher, which led her to diverse locations beyond Italy, including the Latin American barriadas, the hidden malocas of the Amazon rainforest, the yellowed rancherìas of the La Guajira desert in Colombia, and the low enkang of East Africa. Throughout her career, she has played a pivotal role in developing PM&E plans for various self-implementing and partner projects while working for NGOs and governments across Latin America, Africa, and Europe. In Colombia, Sabrina founded “Hilo Sagrado,” an organization dedicated to preserving the culture and traditions of the indigenous people of Guajira, with a focus on strengthening the identity and social role of women. She possesses extensive experience and knowledge in areas such as protection, education, economic empowerment, and gender equality, which enable her to create appropriate indicators and PM&E tools. Sabrina takes great pleasure in training field staff on utilizing PM&E tools to gather evidence that supports social change and promotes greater transparency and accountability. In 2016, during a mission in Juba, South Sudan, she was among the victims of the “Terrain incident,” where she suffered multiple rapes and torture by government soldiers during a sudden outbreak of civil conflict. Following this traumatic experience, Sabrina faced significant challenges, including a lack of medical and psychosocial support, financial resources for healing, and legal assistance for justice. Struggling with the effects of PTSD, she found healing through EMDR therapy and coaching, which inspired her to become a professional coach herself. Sabrina’s approach, grounded in Co-Active and Positive Intelligence methodologies, empowers her clients—especially victims and survivors of sexual violence—to build strengths, foster healthy beliefs, and develop positive coping strategies, rather than merely addressing “negative” behaviors and beliefs. Her personal and professional experiences, along with her deep empathy for issues related to sexual violence and abuse, fuel her commitment to enhancing prevention measures, policies, procedures, and responses within NGOs and organizations dealing with incidents of sexual violence. In 2020, Sabrina published her first book, “Il viaggio della fenice,” with the English version titled “Rise up phoenix.” In 2024, she released her second book, “Non finisce mai,” which addresses the theme of permanent victimization after rape. For her dedicated advocacy on behalf of women victims of violence and abuse, she has received several accolades in Italy, including the “Woman Award 2021,” the “Solidarity Award National Award 2022,” and the “Country of Women Award 2022.
Virginia Cinquemani
Virginia Cinquemani is an accredited transformational coach, sustainability trainer and facilitator with over 20 years of experience in the sustainability field. She has trained thousands of sustainability professionals throughout her career and focused on soft skills training and coaching since founding her company, Green Gorilla, in 2018. In 2010 Virginia was co-author of the technical publication Integrating BREEAM Throughout the Design Process and, in 2020, she published SustainABLE: How to Find Success as a Sustainability Professional in a Rapidly Changing World and is currently writing a book on communication skills in sustainability.
Carlotta Cataldi
Carlotta Cataldi visually maps conversations, conferences, and strategic meetings in order to help groups better understand the essence of their work. Carlotta has a special skill for listening and synthesizing conversations and creating visuals to effectively communicate what is most important. In addition, her understanding of the structures of conversation allows her to support facilitators as they design and facilitate large and small group workshops. Carlotta holds an MSc. in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. Her mission is to support organizations and groups that want to make the world more sustainable and just for everyone, everywhere. She collaborates with universities, scientists, UN agencies, the World Health Organization, and countless nonprofit organizations from all over the world to help them simplify complex messages and bring them to larger audiences.
Uri Noy Meir
Uri Noy Meir was born in a small village near the sea of Galilee and is now based and lives in central Italy, on shores of Lake Trasimeno. He is well versed and experienced in facilitating with activating the untapped collective intelligence and dormant creativity in communities, organizations and multi-stakeholders eco-systems. Uri has trained with the world’s leading experts in Theatre of the Oppressed, Dragon Dreaming and Social Presencing Theatre, and uses them as trans-formative ingredients with which to empower communities and individuals in diverse settings and contexts. He believes the powers of the arts in growing and making visible our interconnectedness and support the well-being of people, organizations, and the world. Trained and mentored by Hector Aristizabal (ImaginAction.org) he dedicates his energy to bring the transformative power of the arts to turn “wounds” into “blessings”, and illuminate the “what is” and “what if” in communities, organizations and whole systems. Uri trained with the founder of Dragon Dreaming (dragondreaming.org), a holistic method for the implementation of creative, collaborative, sustainable projects, John Croft, and he is accompanying inspirational projects, social innovators and community leaders worldwide in applying it. As an Advanced Practitioner of Social Presencing Theatre, he participated in the inaugural Presencing Institute’s Social Field Research Summer School, and he is part of a global network of researchers sensing and iterating new pathways for awareness-based system change. Uri has a graduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Latin American studies.