Business strategy with a circular mindset.
Good for the planet and good for business.
We work with businesses to unearth the problems worth solving, and empower them with tools and strategies to create genuine innovation and change.
Our Circular by Design methodology builds capability and unlocks a way of thinking that empowers and activates change.
It does this by using systems thinking to understand not only the cause but also the opportunity for redesign.
This is innovation next frontier.
So how do we make the shift to a more regenerative, low carbon economy?
By making a mindset shift with our Circular by Design methodology – unlocking circular thinking and empowering innovation to activate real change.
Bringing science, technology and sustainability together in new ways to radically redesign business for the circular economy.
Inspiring, yet practical steps to get your businesses closer to a circular future state. Leveraging and learning from solutions that already exist, ready to be actioned by your business.
We explore six circular methods with your team.
“Holding a circular design day with Circularity was not only an excellent leadership team exercise but a great reminder of the principles ecostore was founded on. Working with Louise we were able to take a step back, assess our current status and look at ways to innovate and improve. A great facilitator with excellent knowledge of the circular economy and the various ways to approach problems or opportunities from a circular perspective. I have no doubt that the spark created from this day will help shift ecostore into its next innovation. Thank you to Louise and the team at Circularity!””
Projects.
You are ready to redesign your business to be circular and discover what a regenerative and resilient future looks like.
Let our circular innovation partners and design strategists guide you towards extraordinary, innovative outcomes. Our circular projects tackle your biggest challenges, embeds circular thinking in your organisation, connects you to solutions that exist and creates them when they don’t - for the benefit of your business, customers, communities and stakeholders.
This could be designing out waste, the creation of a new brand or product, the exploration of a regeneration project or a new technology solution.
For ecostore the project was a new product development pipeline for the next five years and a closed loop system for their packaging.
For Architectural Profiles Limited it was to design new packaging solutions and business models for their Aluminium windows and doors across 12 different manufacturing companies.
There is $2 trillion dollars globally to be unlocked by transitioning to a circular economy.
What does a circular future look like for you?
We undertake five rolling projects a year and operate at a 4 month minimum to deliver the outcomes you seek.
Workshops.
You have the opportunity to bring your organisation, industry or community together to solve a challenge and plan for a new future.
This could be a workshop on tackling the challenges of waste, pollution or carbon, an introduction to circular economy, a masterclass on closed loop systems, regenerative behaviours, or circular business models. Our facilitators design and deliver immersive experiences that defy convention and demand engagement. You decide with them time is right, and we make the most of it.
Interested in joining XLabs?
If you are looking to explore circular thinking and unlock solutions alongside experts, communities and partners in a fast paced, design sprint style -join us at XLabs. This is our annual collaborative workshop series. Our program delivers a creating space for more imaginative innovation, more tangible progress and more collaborative collusions.
You bring your challenges and we bring a proven program to solve them together.
Your place or ours.
Register for the inaugural Auckland event -outside of Auckland?
We can bring XLabs to you business, industry or city.
Advisory.
You know you need to explore a different future, but the moment isn't quite right to embark on a project.
You might like to understand and scope the opportunity with someone who knows the drill and has the knowledge and access to solutions and experts.
Our advisory projects provide an assessment report, fortnightly coaching, and curated content led by a senior circular strategist.
It is designed to arm you with the right information to ignite your journey towards a circular version of your organisation, industry, business or brand.
Consider it the DIY version with a coach to support you.
We undertake up to 10 of these per year and these can include a circular economy assessment report, field work or simply mapping your system to understand its impacts.
The launch of XLabs - New Zealand’s first circular economy lab
After a year of planning, we launched XLabs on the 27th Feb 2020.
18 Teams - 50 collaborators - 12 circular ideas -300 pitch viewers
A circular design sprint designed to support businesses with practical and inspirational guidance for shifting their business towards circular flows and innovation pathways. This video showcases the energy, intention and design of the lab to create more collaborative collisions, more imaginative innovation and more tangible progress.