Stakeholders with an *actual* stake
Who do we help?
Ethical Fields specialises in regenerative, distributive and local development. We work with:
- Enterprises
- Regional economic bodies
- Communities
- Landholders
- Governments
Specialties
- Cultivation of New Enterprises
- Growth and Funding for Co-ownership
Cultivate
Identify and promote new enterprises
Pre-Formation work includes helping groups go through Forming, Organising, Funding and Operating. To this end we provide:
- Feats of Co-operation
- Futures Workshops
- Market Demand Testing
- Education and Courses
- Prototyping / Proof Of Concept-ing
Consult
Co-create with stakeholders
Consulting for us is about Co-creation. We bring to stakeholders experience they may lack, curiosity, connections, useful insights, actionable reports and a sense of humour. Our services include:
- Futures and Anticipatory Design
- Reports
- Enterprise Assessments
- Economic Neighbourhood Assessments
- Feasibility Studies
Co-Own
The bridge between capital and regional communities
Stakeholders with an actual stake is about aligning interests between stakeholders at several levels: cultural, business model, structural, financial and capital instrument level. To assist assist via:
- Stakeholder engagement
- Identify and network with investors
- Capital raising design
- Capital structures and instrument selection
- Deal Management
Our Clients
Our clients represent the community from where they come. They have a genuine desire to create resilience, meaningful work and prosperity in their community. It doesn’t matter if you’re Big or Small. It doesn’t matter if your just starting out or a “pillar of the community”. We can help.
The bridge between capital and regional communities
Councils are key stakeholders in the “Economic Neighbourhood” and may catalyse or retard Community Wealth Building through policy settings.
Farmers are a key stakeholder for the regeneration of ecology. We assist farmers to get a better deal through cooperation and co-ownership.
We help stakeholders get an actual stake and align the enterprise goals with the stakeholders needs
We assist on the “Founder Journey” from start to exit and with everything that comes in between.
Our Team
Rohan Clarke
Cultivator
Cultivator: Capital Stack
Drawing on 20 years experience in investment banking, and 10 years in community development, Rohan helps develop clear value propositions, strategic communication, and aligned funding structures.
Meaghan Burkett
Cultivator
Cultivator: Policy Transition
Meaghan is a policy, governance and regulatory strategist and program leader with over twenty years experience across sustainability, environment, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, new economy and transition portfolios.
Cameron Neil
Director
Cultivator: Social Enterprise Finance
Serial Social Entrepreneur and Impact Investment Professional currently engaged with Red Hat Impact and Common Code..
Dr. Ben Wills
Cultivator
Cultivator: Digital Innovation and Food System Innovation
Dr. Ben Wills is a Business School academic at Federation University. His research, teaching and consultancy focuses on the development of sustainable and transparent food systems via social enterprise, multi-stakeholder business models and digital innovation.
Dr. Jose Ramos
Director
Cultivator: Green Industrial Transition
Dr. Jose Ramos is a world leader in foresight, P2P, Futures, Thought Leadership and Green Industry Transition. Jose publishes extensively and is creator of management practices like mutant futures, anticipatory governance and work on cosmo-localisation.
Andrew Ward (Wardy)
Director
Cultivator: Entrepreneur Lens
Andrew (Wardy) is experienced in crowd-sourced funding, incubator design and commercial strategy.
Jeff Cooper
Cultivator
Cultivator: Customer Centricity
Using customer-centricity principles, Jeff has a particular passion and pedigree for transforming established businesses across financial services, aged care, healthcare, property, FMCG, professional services, and in B2B and B2C.
Moira Were (AM)
Cultivator
Cultivator: Gender Lens
Moira has extensive strategic and operational experience in the not-for-profit sector and in government at state, regional, national and international levels.
Gareth Priday
Director
Cultivator: Ecosystem Development
Gareth Priday brings 'Living Labs" to place-based communities helping them via design thinking work out practical ways to develop. Gareth is also a skilled foresighter and facilitator.