Speaker Highlights

Adam Milgrom

Alexander Beiner

Berry Liberman

Danny Almagor

Adam Milgrom

Adam is a dedicated impact investor who has deep ties to philanthropy and social and environmental justice. Together with his siblings, he established Tripple, which has built a 100% Impact Portfolio that incorporates both investing and grant-making to use all forms of capital as a force for good.

Outside of Tripple, Adam holds a number of roles within the impact investing ecosystem including as a Director of Future Group, Director and IC member at Australian Communities Foundation, and Partner at Giant Leap.

Alexander Beiner

Alexander Beiner is one of the Executive Directors of Breaking Convention, Europe's longest-running conference on psychedelic medicine and culture. He is a journalist, facilitator and the author of The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world, and writes for Substack, The Bigger Picture.

His work focuses on the intersection of psychedelics and systems change, and he is an advisor to MINDS, a psychedelic non-profit investigating Psychedelic-assisted innovation and problem-solving for humanity's greatest challenges. He was also one of the founders of Rebel Wisdom, a popular alternative media platform that explored the cutting-edge of systems change and cultural sensemaking, that ran from 2017-2022. Alex is focused on bringing new ways of seeing and being from the margins of culture into the mainstream and does this mainly through writing and speaking engagements, and by creating transformative experiences that invite us to find ways to evolve and thrive in the chaotic times we live in.

Berry Liberman

Berry Liberman is a writer, podcaster and social philosopher who focuses on themes of leadership, storytelling, consciousness, economics, and human cultural evolution and connection.

Berry is the Creative Director of Small Giants Academy, a not-for-profit accelerator, education, and media initiative with a focus on leadership for a hopeful future.

Berry was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Australia’s beloved Dumbo Feather Magazine –now The Wisdom & Action Podcast – which platforms the world’s greatest leaders, thinkers, and action-takers of crucial systems intervention and change.

As a mother to three beautiful children, her work is in service to them and generations to come.

Danny Almagor

Danny Almagor is co-founder (with his wife Berry Liberman) and the Executive Chair of Small Giants, a family office, and Australia’s first B-Corporation dedicated to creating social and environmental change through business, education, and storytelling.

He is a genuine leader in the Impact space having been involved in the creation of over a dozen for-profit and non-profit organizations including Engineers Without Borders Australia, The Sociable Weaver Group, and Impact Club.

Danny was the inaugural Social Entrepreneur in Residence at RMIT and has been recognized through many awards including a Churchill Fellowship, the Hal Taussig B Corp award, and the Medal of the Order of Australia.

David Hetherington

David has substantial experience in research, policy, philanthropy, business start-up, and development. Prior to joining IIA, David spent six years as CEO of the Public Education Foundation, overseeing a fourfold growth in support for disadvantaged students. He was previously the founding Executive Director of progressive think tank Per Capita and has worked at the UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research and with LEK Consulting in Sydney, Munich, and Auckland.

David holds an MPA with Distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA with First Class Honours from UNSW. In 2022, he was named in Pro Bono’s Impact 25 list as one of Australia’s 25 most influential non-profit leaders.

Elisa Kang

"I am committed to transmitting unheard voices, for the sake of a world that nurtures all beings. I practice Whanaungatanga - Building relationships to deepen connections."

Elisa was one of the pioneer advisors in Southeast Asia to move client capital towards impact investing at the Swiss bank where she’d worked for 13 years. She also served three terms on the Board of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), a leading organization for gender equality advocacy in Singapore.

Outside her role as a trustee of Imaginal Seeds, you can find Elisa practicing permaculture with her children in their home in Aotearoa (NZ). She finds great joy in teaching her children about inter-being through the head, heart, and hand work in her garden and in her children’s school community.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, previously known as the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), and pioneer of the Localization movement.

Local Futures is a non-profit organization "dedicated to the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.

Megan Lambert

Megan is a mama, coach, and community builder focused on creating experiences for a deeper connection to the body, the feminine, and the earth. She believes we can regenerate our earth by building deeper connections, one relationship at a time.

She is a master-certified intimacy and relationship expert. She’s helped hundreds of people around the world experience more love, better intimacy, and deeper connections through her retreats, group programs, and private coaching. She is an active impact investor focused on climate change solutions.

Previously, she was a senior leadership consultant to Fortune 100 companies helping leaders find their deepest purpose and meaning. Now, she lives in Bali with her husband, her 3.5-year-old daughter, and 1-year-old son.

Pella Thiel

Pella Thiel is a maverick ecologist, part-time farmer, full-time activist and teacher in ecopsychology. She is the co-founder of Swedish hubs of international networks like Swedish Transition Network and End Ecocide Sweden and a knowledge expert in the UN Harmony with Nature programme.

Pella works with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels, from local resilience to international legal frameworks, and serves as one of the knowledge experts in the UN Harmony with Nature programmes. Pella was awarded the Swedish Martin Luther King Award in 2023 and the Environmental Hero of the year 2019.

Renee Bowker

Renee is a breath facilitator, retreat leader, and yoga teacher. Bringing together a variety of breathwork, energy, and meditation practices, Renee is passionate about helping people understand the physiology and energetics of the breath, to bring their body, mind, and spirit into alignment and find a more easeful flow in life.

Renee has another life in the world of corporate social impact, where she has spent many years bringing organizations together to collaborate for impact on complex social issues.

Unsu Lee

Unsu likes to describe himself as a community philosopher, someone who tries to see things from different perspectives without getting confused and who uses this ability to guide communities toward collective prosocial thinking.

He is interested in exploring pathways toward nonviolent, participatory, and postcapitalist futures. He has been in deep inquiry and practice with meditation, de-accumulation, degrowth, embodiment, sociocracy, nonviolent communication, and animist ways of being.

With his wife Elisa Kang, he recently co-founded the Imaginal Seeds Aotearoa Trust, whose purpose is to fund projects that serve the community of all life on Earth in a time of endings.

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