Consulting & Learning for circular
businesses

Helping you work out the kinks in starting, growing, and scaling your sustainable business. Integrating circularity so there is no mess to clean up later. We help bring your genius to the forefront with consulting, training, workshops, & courses.

Consulting & Learning for Circular Businesses

Helping you work out the kinks in starting, growing, and scaling your sustainable business. Integrating circularity into your business so there is no mess to clean up later. We help bring your genius to the forefront with consulting, training, workshops, & courses. 

Our services

Consulting and Learning For Circular Businesses

Business Consulting

Tackle challenging areas in circular practices. Our offers support businesses by softening the circularity + business learning curve and implementation for better impact and healthy profit. We work on designing waste out of your business, regeneration, sourcing circular materials and more. 

Training & Learning

Our signature interactive programs get you applying what you learn right away in bite-sized, short time frames— making learning actionable, and easy to fit into your busy schedules. We also create courses, training programs, and workshops for universities, organizations, and business teams.

Circular Material Selection

Get assistance in researching, prototyping, and finding circular materials. We will connect you with material designers, suppliers and help you match your business needs to what is available on the market feasibly – particularly if you are looking to replace plastic in your business. 

 

If I can carry out my day-to-day leaving a positive impact on my surrounding environment and society why would I choose not to? The idea came from here! However, we know that there are obstacles that can make our decisions harder and sometimes simply not feasible. Through WNS I aim to help make these decisions for businesses and the public easier and more realistic!  The basic principle is to always move closer to creating products, services, and business models that are simply superior to the unsustainable options available on the market. How do I do that? By insuring that we are creating and supporting businesses that: 

Deliver on their value proposition. It is not enough to identify a need that people have, it is crucial to deliver products and services that fulfill it. At the end of the day a business is an exchange of value for money (in most cases), however value is now changing for most people as it becomes central that we create positive impact. 

Are financially feasible: It is not enough to create amazing products and services if the clients we create them for can not afford them or if delivering this value to customers means that we cannot survive and flourish financially. Sustainable is also ensuring viable livelihoods of business owners and employees.

Are always working towards becoming more circular and sustainable. A business is made up of systems that work together, creating systems can be a lengthy and difficult process. Steadily moving towards our sustainability goals and clearly communicating how and why with all stakeholders is something I value.      

I hope that WNS can assist and support you on your sustainability journey. 

Lara M. Founder of WNS

 

DEsigning out plastic

A big part of the work we do is to find ways to completely stop the need for plastic use in businesses. We do that through changing business models, finding-testing-implementing new materials, and developing the overall offer a business has. Materiom is one of our favorite resources for new regenerative materials.

Meet the team &Guests

Our team is always growing and changing as our search for the most relevant topics to teach and coach on grows. So, stay on the look out for new faces and materials! Here are some of our past and current instructors. 

Take action

Wear the “less plastic” badge, or share your opinion on product sustainability here! The goal of this campaign is to help companies and consumers become more sustainable by opening several channels for co-creation and action.  Keep reading to learn how you can use this campaign as a consumer, a small business, or a corporation to facilitate making your positive impact. 

Our Blog

Exploring circular economy and regenerative business practices with a real focus on replacing and eliminating plastics through changing business models and material design. Check out our selection of blog posts and quick reads as well as videos.

What Learners& Clients Say

I'm taking the Impact Business Course and the learning has been incredible. Lara, in addition to mastering the subject, is a natural teacher and is concerned at all times with answering questions, clarifying points and showing how it is simpler than we imagine to build a sustainable path in business.."
Vânia Xavier de Oliveira
Sustainability Marketer
“Thank you for conducting such an excellent session on reducing plastic use. It was perfect for inspiring us to think and act on cutting down plastic. Your presentation was very informative and based on solid facts, making it truly impactful and motivating. Great job!”
"I run the finance department at my company and I have recently included exports as a goal for 2021. Taking a look at all the steps that will be involved was very eye opening for my business plan."
Selcen G Akkoc
CFO and Owner, Wholesale shelving systems