thumbnail image

 

 

  • Career Portfolio
  • About Courtney 
    • Vision and Philosophy
    • Snapshot Bio
    • Affiliation and Alumni Networks
    • Awards and Distinctions
  • What Others Say 
    • Endorsements
  • …  
    • Career Portfolio
    • About Courtney 
      • Vision and Philosophy
      • Snapshot Bio
      • Affiliation and Alumni Networks
      • Awards and Distinctions
    • What Others Say 
      • Endorsements
  •  
  • Say Hello

     

     

    • Career Portfolio
    • About Courtney 
      • Vision and Philosophy
      • Snapshot Bio
      • Affiliation and Alumni Networks
      • Awards and Distinctions
    • What Others Say 
      • Endorsements
    • …  
      • Career Portfolio
      • About Courtney 
        • Vision and Philosophy
        • Snapshot Bio
        • Affiliation and Alumni Networks
        • Awards and Distinctions
      • What Others Say 
        • Endorsements
  •  
  • Say Hello
    • 15 years of Experience Across 70+ Countries Focused on Sustainability, Climate and Partnerships

      all things #climateinnovation #climatetech #techforgood #sustainability #circulareconomy #cleanenergytransition #systemschange #sustainabledevelopment #systemicdesign #regenerativedesign

    • WORKING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM

      welcome to a snapshot portfolio
      you can see what I have been up to -
      spanning all continents, across the past 15 years

      See More
    • SELECTED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, SPEAKING

      More on medium here

      'Inclusive Innovation'
      Print and ebook available now

      Innovation offers potential: to cure diseases, to better connect people, and to make the way we live and work more efficient and enjoyable. At the same time, innovation can fuel inequality, decimate livelihoods, and harm mental health. This book contends that inclusive innovation - innovation motivated by environmental and social aims - is able to uplift the benefits of innovation while reducing its harms. You can see more about the backend of our research here inclusiveinnovation.io. November 2022.

       

      Note, no payment nor any financial gain from the proceeds of this book go to myself or other coauthors. This has been a volunteer endeavor as a fully academic book published by Routledge Press. We would like to thank our advisory review group of nearly 30 incredible practitioners and thought leaders whom are noted in the opening acknowledgements section as well.

      Inclusive Innovation Event Hosted by the RSA
      The RSA (Royal Society of Arts)

      In this session, as one of the speakers, we elaborated on the book's core thesis: how can we uplift the benefits of innovation while reducing its potential harms? The talk also featured 3 incredible changemakers around the globe making inclusive innovation the centre of their practice and whom we featured in the stories on our book and site inclusiveinnovation.io . Livestreamed January 2023.

      How do we leverage digitalization to accelerate ecosystem collaborations for a green, resilient and just transition?
      Oxford Climate Tech Initiative and Envisioning.io

      How does an #ecosystem overcome information asymmetries, enable new collaborations, and facilitate capacity building for academics, researchers, and other practitioners in the #climate #tech space? That's what we are digging into with a prototype development launch June 2022. More here.

      Inclusive Work and the Platform Economy
      FemLab.Co

      Honored to join the 'Vision Panel' for the *Inclusive Work and the Platform Economy* virtual symposium hosted by Payal Arora and the FemLab.Co. Here I spoke on the topic of inclusive Innovation including grassroots to government approaches to systems change. April 2022.

      The future of #ClimateTech collaboration and systems change
      Oxford Climate Tech Initiative and Skoll World Forum

      Honored to host and moderate the opening lightning panel before our team facilitated the live systems mapping workshop. This session was held at the Skoll World Forum, and led by the Oxford Climate Tech Initiative , in partnership with On Deck’s Build for Climate. With nearly 400 people joining live learned from leading voices, including speakers from the Nigeria Climate Innovation Center, SDG x Near Future Lab, Acumen, LowerCarbon and more. April 2022.

      How do we source transformational climate innovations? What we are learning as we experiment
      UNICEF Office of Innovation

      In this post you'll find an overview of our shared data and open-data collaboration quest through the lens and work of the UNICEF Office of Innovation's Climate Innovation Landscape Assessment, an initiative I was able to develop as a senior consultant. November 2021.

      From Climate Emergency to Climate Asset: Leveraging Transition System Dynamics and the Circular Economy
      G20 Dossier, Italian Institute for International Political Science

      How do we transition from the dominant status quo, an extractive political economy, towards a #regenerative, #circular system? Here are some ideas. November 2020.

      The Nature of Cities Festival: How to ignite open innovation at the community level? Insights from the Circular Design Lab
      The Nature of Cities Festival

      In this session, we share the latest trajectories and insights gleaned from three years of experimenting towards systems change at a grassroots level- from work on waste management, to plastics, to air pollution and more. February 2021.

      Ministry of Change? why a third space matters in transformation work
      UNDP Regional Innovation Center, Asia Pacific

      What we have been discovering as we experiment with our innovation learning communities and practitioner spaces focused on systems change. December 2020.

      Navigating the New Abnormal in the Asia Pacific- from Signals, Scans, to the Spaces in Between
      UNDP Regional Innovation Center, Asia Pacific

      In this post we share (pandemic induced) observations and spaces to watch, a nod to that which is mainstreaming, plus a few provocations that could carry interesting implications. June 2020.

      Circular Design Lab: Systems Innovation Case Study
      Systems Innovation

      In this session, I share more about the Circular Design Lab journey and how our collective has taken concepts from systems theory and put them into practice on the ground in Thailand. October 2020.

      Bringing Systemic Design to Communities with
      the Circular Design Lab
      Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) Symposium

      In this session, we share more about the mechanics behind our theory of systemic change, and the 2020 clean air futures campaign that was born from our systemic design field based workshops. October 2020.

      Designing for Fairer Futures Panel
      The RSA (Royal Society of Arts)

      In this session, as a panelist, I was invited to share more about the social and environmental justice work I have been coleading from grassroots to government in Thailand since 2019. Livestreamed April 2021.

    • CONNECTING THE DOTS

      After nearly a decade in Asia, you can now find me based in Paris, yet active world wide. More @cocosavie and project reflections on medium.com/@courtneysavie. Looking for more details? You can see the snapshot bio here.

    • VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP ROLES

      Colead

      oxclimate.tech

      We are developing a new platform initiative housed at Oxford Saïd Business School - OxCT exists to help close the knowledge, partnership, and resource gaps to accelerate the green and just transition towards net zero and build resilience while promoting relevant climate-tech solutions where they are needed the most. I am coleading this initiative as a volunteer and we have just launched at the Skoll World Forum recently.

      Cofounder

      circulardesignlab.org

      The Circular Design Lab is a self-organized, citizen-driven project focused on prototyping and delivering solutions to humanity's big challenges - using systemic design, circular economy and design principles. We are a 100% volunteer and community driven social innovation platform focused on building systems responses to complex challenges including Air Pollution, Plastics Pollution, Sustainable Food and Waste Systems, and Unsustainable Fast Fashion. Although we run on social and idea capital we are grateful for support from MIT, RSA and partnerships with TCDC, The Incubation Network.

      Cofounder

      inclusiveinnovation.io

      Last year we crowdsourced and captured the latest emerging trends and examples and personal stories related to inclusive innovation. Some of our labs ran primarily through network collaborations and gleaned points of view from across the spectrum and diverse ecosystems. In this sense- we learned from individuals working on the ground, in academia, intermediary organizations and among government. If you weren't able to join the lab series, either way you can learn more and get involved - you can join our LinkedIn Community of Practice here.

      Clean Air National Policy and Education Activist, Campaign Cofounder

      right2cleanair.com

      From August-December 2020 we hosted a "digital roadshow" - a series of online sessions with the authors of the Blue Paper, yet also those working in the space from a creative angle. We heard from entrepreneurs, artists, musicians and others from international organizations. More below. All recordings and summaries are below. The goal was to raise awareness and gain more citizen signatures to support establishment of the first Clean Air Act of it's kind in Thailand. The legislation is now under review with Parliament after receiving over 25,000 citizen signatures.

      Governance Steering Committee

      Member

       

       

      Across 2022 I have the fortune to serve on the steering committee of the SOIF NGFP network which operates world wide with a focus on futures and foresight. Our group of representatives are building process and prototypes of decentralized decision making structures with inclusivity and equity at the heart of our focus areas.

      MIT International Development Design Summit, Thailand

      Colead

      iddssisaket.org

      In 2017 we hosted, thanks to USAID funding, IDDS Sisaket which brought together six communities within the Raitong Organics Farm network in Sisaket Province. The summit was supported by the creation of an additional 50 staff jobs. Together, participants, organizers, and communities listened, learned, shared, discovered, co-created, and prototyped solutions to six critical challenge areas of sustainable development in Sisaket, Thailand.

    • LOOKING FOR MORE?

      About Courtney

      • Snapshot Bio
      • Vision and Philosophy 
      • Affiliation and Alumni Networks
      • Awards and Distinctions

      Work Highlights

      • What I've Done
      • What Others Say

    About Courtney

    What I've Done

    What I Do

    Network and Endorsements

    (c) 2023 All Rights Reserved

    Cookie Use
    We use cookies to ensure a smooth browsing experience. By continuing we assume you accept the use of cookies.
    Learn More