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SUSTAINABILITY PROVOCATEUR | DESIGNER | SOCIOLOGIST | SYSTEMS THINKER | UNEP CHAMPION OF THE EARTH LEYLA ACAROGLU 0 Home Bio Clients Keynotes Initiatives Press Projects Writing Live Workshops ONLINE CLASSES Contact Store Back Handbooks Toolkits CookBook Swivel to Sustainability Guidebook HomeBioClientsKeynotesInitiativesPressProjectsWritingLive Workshops LEYLA ACAROGLU ONLINE CLASSESContact Store Handbooks Toolkits CookBook Swivel to Sustainability Guidebook 0 Take a live workshop with Leyla DR. LEYLA ACAROGLU CHALLENGES PEOPLE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT HOW THE WORLD WORKS. An award-winning designer, sustainability provocateur, social scientist and entrepreneur, Leyla Acarglu (PhD) developed the Disruptive Design Method and creates educational experiences, toolkits, and social enterprises that help design a sustainable, circular and regenerative future. She's a mainstage TED speaker, LinkedIn Changemaker and was named UNEP Champion of the Earth in 2016 for her work in advancing science and innovation for sustainability. Leyla leads presentations around the world on activating positive social and environmental change through systems interventions. She is the founder of the UnSchool of Disruptive Design, Disrupt Design, the CO Project Farm and Swivel Skills, an enterprise-level green skills development platform. Leyla is a sought-after facilitator and keynote speaker known for highly engaging, interactive, inspirational and humorous talks on activating positive change by design. Book Leyla for a talk or Workshop -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEYLA IS A LINKEDIN CHANGEMAKER & INSTRUCTOR! How the economy is transforming from Sustainability as an Innovation Opportunity by Leyla Acaroglu The LinkedIn Changemaker TV add, 2021 Take Leyla's LinkedIn Learning course now > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > “People like Leyla Acaroglu are so important to driving this change. Leyla is > a 2016 UN Environment Champion of the Earth for science and innovation. Leyla > inspires and helps people to equip themselves with agency, tools, and > knowledge they need to shape the world and transform our lifestyles.” — Erik Solheim, Former Executive Director UNEP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GET LEYLA’S LATEST PUBLICATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAINSTAGE TED & TEDX TALKS Leyla’s 2013 Mainstage TED Talk, Longbeach, California Leyla’s 2014 TEDx Talk on Rethinking Sustainability, Melbourne, Australia Leyla’s 2019 TEDx Talk on Valuing Invisible things, Lisbon, Portugal Leyla's TED Profile -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening Keynote, Conference of World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado, 2019 Leyla’s interview on PBS SciTech Now Talks at Google, London, 2016 Explore more of Leyla's Talks & Keynotes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TESTIMONIALS Testimonials Sir Jonathon Porritt, Founder, Forum for the Future "I really loved Leyla's presentation – she is such a powerful advocate for new ways of thinking about the world and its resources – very inspirational." Trish Hyde, CEO, Australian Packaging Covenant "Wow. Awesome. Amazing. Leyla is a synapse - with her energy, passion, knowledge and humour, she ignites every neuron in the audience, and frees people to think and design sustainably." Brock Macdonald, CEO, Recycling Council of British Columbia "Leyla Acaroglu is an amazing speaker, and her concept of using environmental folklore to simplify and explain complex systems is brilliant. She engages even the most cynical to her thought-provoking conclusion that design and innovation can lead to a more sustainable future.” Alejandro Buvinic, Director, ProChile "Leyla's first visit to Chile was in the frame of LAB4+, an iconic event of innovation of the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico). Her way of thinking makes the public very engaged and explores new ideas into internationalization of innovation." Barbara Fowler, SustPack 2016 Conference Organizer "Leyla Acaroglu's keynote set the tone for the rest of the day on how packaging can be regenerative and have a central role in the fight against food waste, in educating the consumer and in changing behavior to a more environmentally conscious one. She was an outstanding speaker and brought great energy and content to open the day." Jason Kimberley, Founder, Cool Australia “Leyla has an infectious ability and passion for seeing better ways of doing things and finding ways to do it. No challenge is too great for this solutionary!" Lewis Patterson, CEO, Latitude Inc, - Innovation & Sustainability Conference 2017 , South Korea "If you want people jumping out of their seats or (in one case at least) and coming close to tears, then you call Leyla. With Innovation & Sustainability 2017 we wanted engagement and inspiration – which is what we got. Our audience was primarily Korean and this proved no barrier to Leyla delivering her inspiration and insights. I look forward to the next time we are able to work together.” Melissa Kanerva, Design Forum Finland “Leyla was an absolutely magical speaker at the Design <3 Circular Economy event in Helsinki! She inspired and empowered the participants to start exploring circular design, disruptive design and systems thinking. Thank you, Leyla, for making change!” Simon Caspersen, Director of Communications, SPACE10 "Leyla did a super engaging talk at Made in Space that the audience really loved - she is a visionary, progressive thinker that, in an optimistic and constructive way, can address some of the big challenges we face as a human race and still leave a room uplifted and filled with hope." Request Leyla to ignite change at your next conference, event or workshop -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leyla on Australian ABC TV show, Q&A, May 2018 Leyla gives the closing keynote at the Zero Waste Conference, Vancouver, November, 2018 About the CO Project Living Learning Lab, 2019 Leyla’s opening keynote for The Conference in Malmo, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEDIA COVERAGE Press Explore more media coverage > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening Keynote at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s C100 Conference, July, 2017 > “It was a pleasure working with Leyla on our opening session for our 2017 > Annual Summit. Drawing from Leyla’s experience in working with groups, we were > able to be creative on how we structured the session, engaging the audience in > a participatory way whilst also sharing her insights and integrity of thinking > about the role of design in systemic change. We look forward to continuing to > work with her and the team on how circular design can create more regenerative > and restorative systems in the world we create.” — Jules Hayward - Education Lead Ellen MacArthur Foundation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACHIEVEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS Over the last two decades, Leyla has developed a range of projects and incentives to help activate positive social and environmental change, by design. Her work as been awarded several notable acknowledgments, including being named 2016 Champion of the Earth by the UN Environment Program. She has developed a range of award-winning creative projects and founded Disrupt Design, The UnSchool of Disruptive Design and the CO Project Living Learning Lab in Portugal. As a social entrepreneur, she is dedicated to finding unique and creative ways of making change through education, industry and activation projects. UNEP CHAMPION OF THE EARTH AWARD In 2016, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) named Leyla Acaroglu Champion of the Earth for her pioneering work in science and innovation for sustainability and social change. Read more about the UN Award -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE UNSCHOOL OF DISRUPTIVE DESIGN In her constant quest to explore how to activate creative change-makers equipped with the tools to design for a positive planet, Leyla founded the award-winning UnSchool of Disruptive Design in 2014. The UnSchool is an experimental learning lab for purpose-driven creative rebels and change-makers; it runs programs around the world teaching the Disruptive Design Method. Go to the UnSchool Site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DISRUPTIVE DESIGN METHOD After years of exploring creative change-making, Leyla developed the Disruptive Design Method for activating positive social and environmental change. It combines systems thinking, sustainability sciences and design thinking for positive impacts on the planet. Learn the disruptive design method -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE PROJECTS Leyla has designed many award-winning activation toolkits for helping others make a positive impact on the planet. She has written several handbooks and creative provocations through her unique approach to cognitive experience design. Check ouT all OF her creative projects -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ANATOMY OF ACTION Created by Leyla and her team, The Anatomy of Action is a free sustainable living toolkit born out of a partnership project between the United Nations Environment Program and The UnSchool of Disruptive Design to define and communicate the most positively impactful actions any one of us can take to add to the global movement around sustainable lifestyles and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Go to the anatomy of action website -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CIRCULAR CLASSROOM The Circular Classroom is a free, trilingual (English, Finnish + Swedish) educational resource for students and teachers alike. It is designed to integrate circular thinking into high school classrooms, all packaged up in a fun, beautiful mixed media format. The Circular Classroom Curriculum offers tools to learn how to redesign products and services so that they are more sustainable, equitable, and effective at meeting our human needs without creating negative consequences for the planet. download the tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > “Leyla did a super engaging talk at Made in Space that the audience really > loved - she is a visionary, progressive thinker that in an optimistic and > constructive way can address some of the big challenges we face as a human > race and still leave a room uplifted and filled with hope. ” — Simon Caspersen, Made in Space, Copenhagen contact leya's team -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HANDBOOKS Design Systems Change Handbook (Digital Download) $15.00 Add To Cart Circular Systems Design Handbook (Digital Download) $15.00 Add To Cart Disruptive Design Method Handbook (Digital Download) $15.00 Add To Cart Make Change Handbook (Digital Download) $15.00 Add To Cart Personal Sustainability Standards Disruptive Design Method The UnSchool Swivel Skills Disrupt Design Contact SUBSCRIBE Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. 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