Circularity Sessions: Sustaining a Circular Business

How can you make circularity work for your business or organisation?

Whether you’re growing a product company, delivery services to citizens or other businesses, or running a community organisation, how do you make your business viable and have real positive impact?

The first session in the Circularity Sessions series focuses on connecting our community of circular economy pioneers with peers and experts so you can:

• Get clarity on how to make truly sustainable decisions

• Grow your business for greater impact

• Find support and wisdom from others who are on the same journey

In this session, we’ll hear from two inspiring founders sharing their stories of growing businesses focused on sustainable design, and how they’ve overcome the challenges encountered along the way. The speakers are:

• Jo Barnard, Founder, Morrama

• Emer Gilespie, Founder & Creative Director, Spark & Bell

What You’ll Learn

• Hard-won advice about how product companies can pivot or adapt how they make money or deliver value.

• Insights into trying new service models like repair, refill, subscription, leasing, or take-back.

• Overcoming the barriers to (e.g. pricing, logistics, customer understanding) in building circular products

• Understand how circularity can be a competitive advantage, and not just a cost.

• Get insight into the financial and organisational realities of growing a circular business.

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Why You Should Join

• Hear first-hand stories from founders and designers who can share their experiences of trying to make circularity happen in their own and in clients’ businesses.

• Make connections with experts and peers in the growing circular economy.

• Be a part of Brighton’s pioneering community of sustainability change-makers.

• Develop your skills, knowledge and confidence to act and have impact.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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