Earth Company Speaking Requests

[Purpose]

Professional development, awareness raising, informative seminars

[Themes]

Intro to SDGs, case studies to sustainable solutions, encoruaging eco-shifts

[Past Speaking Events]

  • 2020, "Current Status of Social Ecosystem in Asia" to SIGMAXYZ Co., Ltd.
  • 2022, "Balancing Profit and Impact" at the TBN Asia Conference 2023
  • 2022, "Forefront of SDGs and What Companies Need to Do in the Future" to Pasona Panasonic Business Service Co., Ltd.
  • 2023, "Becoming non-extractive inhabitants of the Earth" at the Inspir8 Leaders talks, AVPN Conference 2023

[Purpose]

Lectures, integrated learning, inquiry-based learning

[Themes]

Intro to SDGs, current global issues - how to get involved - and what needs to be done

[Past Speaking Events]

  • 2022, Panelist on "Humanism in Business" to IPMI Business School Indonesia
  • 2023, Speaking on "The Intersection of Sustainability and Tourism" to National University of Singapore
  • 2023, Speaking on "What is Social Entrepreneurship and Becoming a Socio-Entrepreneur" to Stenden University students
  • 2023, Speaking on "Impact Management" to Stenden University students

[Purpose]

Focused group discussion, informational hearings

[Themes]

Intro to SDGs, case studies to sustainable solutions, encoruaging eco-shifts

[Past Speaking Events]

  • "Social Impact Assessment Training and Basic Course for Reviewing Local Government Projects", for Japan prefectural and city council members
  • "The world was in a state of emergency even before COVID-19", for Japan prefectural assembly members and city assembly members
  • "Eco-shift and work style reform of administrative facilities" for Japanese administrative staff
For Corporates and Professionals

[Purpose]

Professional development, awareness raising, informative seminars

[Themes]

Intro to SDGs, case studies to sustainable solutions, encoruaging eco-shifts

[Past Speaking Events]

  • 2020, "Current Status of Social Ecosystem in Asia" to SIGMAXYZ Co., Ltd.
  • 2022, "Balancing Profit and Impact" at the TBN Asia Conference 2023
  • 2022, "Forefront of SDGs and What Companies Need to Do in the Future" to Pasona Panasonic Business Service Co., Ltd.
  • 2023, "Becoming non-extractive inhabitants of the Earth" at the Inspir8 Leaders talks, AVPN Conference 2023
For Schools and Educational Institutions

[Purpose]

Lectures, integrated learning, inquiry-based learning

[Themes]

Intro to SDGs, current global issues - how to get involved - and what needs to be done

[Past Speaking Events]

  • 2022, Panelist on "Humanism in Business" to IPMI Business School Indonesia
  • 2023, Speaking on "The Intersection of Sustainability and Tourism" to National University of Singapore
  • 2023, Speaking on "What is Social Entrepreneurship and Becoming a Socio-Entrepreneur" to Stenden University students
  • 2023, Speaking on "Impact Management" to Stenden University students
For Government Agencies

[Purpose]

Focused group discussion, informational hearings

[Themes]

Intro to SDGs, case studies to sustainable solutions, encoruaging eco-shifts

[Past Speaking Events]

  • "Social Impact Assessment Training and Basic Course for Reviewing Local Government Projects", for Japan prefectural and city council members
  • "The world was in a state of emergency even before COVID-19", for Japan prefectural assembly members and city assembly members
  • "Eco-shift and work style reform of administrative facilities" for Japanese administrative staff

Aska Hamakawa

Since leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant, Aska's career revolved around disaster relief and climate change in the Pacific Islands and Japan working for various NGOs as well as an academic institution. In 2014, with the aim to create a regenerative future we can pass on to next generations, Aska and her husband founded Earth Company, a social accelerator that nurtures and supports paradigm-shifting changemakers in Asia Pacific. So far, they have supported 21 projects in 8 countries impacting 2.7 million lives. In 2019, she and her husband launched a progressively conscious eco hotel, Mana Earthly Paradise, in Ubud.

Awards & Recognitions:

  • Aska has two BAs from Boston University and an MA from the University of Hawaii.
  • Certificate in Marketing Strategy from Cornell University
  • Awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award in 2014,
  • Featured by the Newsweek as "Women of the Future" in 2018 and "100 Japanese Respected by the World" in 2021,
  • Selected as Asia 21 Young Leaders Class of 2022.

Tomo Hamakawa

Tomo is a seasoned development professional having lived and worked in various corners of the world from the Tibetan plateau, Indian drylands, Indonesian tropics, to Japanese metropolises. He has extensive field experience working for international and local development NGOs across Asia and Africa, including Kopernik, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the World Bank. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Global Leadership Program at the University of Tokyo.

Awards & Recognitions:

  • BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard College
  • A Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School
  • Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellow (2008) and Innovation Fellow (2020) at the East-West Center
  • Awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award in 2014,
OTHER SPEAKERS

Earth Company Staff

Our staff, who have diverse backgrounds and are working on SDGs through Earth Company's activities, are able to provide easy-to-understand examples of Earth Company's activities, case studies from around the world, and provide background to the world's pressing issues.

Speaking Themes

  • Connecting the world to our future
  • Scaling regenerative action: why sustainability is not enough
  • Significance of creating more sustainable tourism in Bali
DeAndre Saroinsong
Communications Manager
Yulfitri Pramatatya (Tya)
Impact Academy Manager
So Shimada
Program Officer
OTHER SPEAKERS

Impact Heroes

You can hear directly from our Impact Heroes who are at the forefront of change in the Asia-Pacific region. Hear the stories of those who are devoting their lives towards regenerative futures, making transformative changes to the communities they serve, while also for nurturing and preparing the future generations.

  • Contact us to inquire on Impact Heroes availability
  • Lectures, presentations by Impact Heroes will be done in English

Publication theme

  • Being at the forefront of developmental effort in the Asia-Pacific region

Robin Lim

Holding on to the belief that "world peace begins with saving one baby, one mother, one family" Robin Lim founded the Bumi Sehat Foundation—a nonprofit organization that provides free maternity care for pregnant women, mothers and their babies, plus healthcare for all those in need.

To date, her clinic have birthed over 9,000 babies, has trained and inspireed more than 6,000 midwives and nurses each year, with over 300,000 people have benefitted from Bumi Sehat’s services to date.

Wai Wai Nu

Wai Wai and all her family were wrongfully arrested and became political prisoners. During those years in prison, she met and lived with many girls and women who were incarcerated for different reasons, most of which were crimes driven out of social injustice and extreme poverty. Seeing firsthand the challenges and realities of these women, she became convinced to change the country once freed. When she was finally freed at the age of 25, Wai Wai being a Rohingya herself decided to establish an educational institution for ethnic minorities. She believes that education has the unique power to open doors to freedom, peace and social equality and help build trust between people.

Bella Ghalos

Bella was sold by her biological father for US$5. She was engaged in the East Timor liberation as a child soldier. She had endured all kinds of abuse, until she was able to seek asylum in Canda where she contributed to her country's independence through advocacy. Decades of conflict have left half of the population of Timor-Leste in extreme poverty. Bella founded the Leublora Green School and Green Village to transform Timor-Leste’s underprivileged children into the next generation of green leaders, and revitalize the local economy. She is the sustainability, women's, and youth advisor to Timor-Leste's president, and stands as a beacon of change for a wide variety of social issues.

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

Kathy is a Marshallese writer, poet, journalist, climate change activist, and teaches at the College of the Marshall Islands. During college, Kathy began to write poetry and perform, inspired by the Bay Area’s social justice scene. Since receiving her masters degree in Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai’i in Manoa, Kathy has represented the Marshalls at the Poetry Parnassus Festival in London in 2012, and opened the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014 with a performance of a poem to her daughter. Kathy now dedicates herself to empowering future generations of Pacific Islanders to not only survive but also thrive in the impending world of unpredictable, irreversible shifts due to climate change.

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