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12/06/2026

In the first episode of the Regenerative edge, our Growth Director Moh Al-Haifi speaks with Jannik Kaiser, co-founder of Unity Effect, about the story behind the numbers.

Jannik shares how his journey into evaluation began with Fairtrade data, copying figures from PDFs into spreadsheets, and slowly realising that every metric ton of coffee, cocoa, or produce carried stories of people, places, labour, relationships, and change.

🦓 Together, Moh and Jannik explore what happens when impact measurement becomes more than reporting. What if evaluation could become a practice of listening? What if the numbers were not the end of the story, but the doorway into deeper understanding? 🌱

This conversation opens Season 1, Setting the Table, and begins our exploration of what it means to grow without extraction.

Created by Zebra Growth in collaboration with foundational partners Unity Effect and Tandem Innovation Group .

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Most values-led organisations are not short on conviction. They are often led by people who have chosen harder work on p...
09/06/2026

Most values-led organisations are not short on conviction. They are often led by people who have chosen harder work on purpose, trying to build organisations that do not simply grow faster, but grow with more care, accountability, usefulness, and responsibility. 🦓
You can believe deeply in transparency, and still not have clear information flows. You can believe in accountability, and still not have honest feedback mechanisms. You can believe in care, and still not have the capacity planning that makes care possible.
This is where the gap begins to open because values that are not translated into infrastructure are left to survive on goodwill, memory, and individual effort and under pressure that is not enough.

🌱 Values need mechanisms. They need governance, decision-making clarity, role clarity, compensation practices, accessibility commitments, team rhythms, ownership structures, and clear boundaries around what the organisation will and will not say yes to.

If you feel a your gap between your organisational values and how often those beliefs show up in reality, book a Clarity Call with one of our founders. We would love to help you make sense of where the drift is coming from, and what kind of responsible growth your organisation is actually ready to hold.
https://calendly.com/d/cw4v-cq8-w67/growth-resilience-clarity-call

05/06/2026

Is your content aligned to where your buyer is in their journey?

Most teams create for the moment of decision.
But in climate and nature-tech markets, most of the journey happens long before that.

The SPICED framework from Winning By Design gives you a way to diagnose where your buyer is in their thinking, not just their buying process.

🦓 This was discussed in our most recent session of Zebra Growth × Think Bambu’s Climate Tech Roundtable, in the context of how teams are actually working through this in practice. 🌱

We’re yet to set a date for the next one yet.

If there’s something you’ve been sitting with, or a tension you’d want a space like this to hold, you’re always welcome to book a conversation and share what’s on your mind.
https://calendly.com/d/cw4v-cq8-w67/growth-resilience-clarity-call?month=2026-04

And if you’d like join the conversation and hear more when it opens, you can sign up below.
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02/06/2026

Most brands are invisible at the awareness stage. Before the formal buying process even takes shape.Because most of what we create is built for people who are already close to buying.
The other 95%?

We’re not really speaking to them at all.

🦓 This was a talking point in our most recent session of Zebra Growth × Think Bambu’s Climate Tech Roundtable, grounded in how these journeys actually unfold. 🌱

We haven’t set a date for the next one yet.

If there’s something you’ve been sitting with, or a tension you’d want a space like this to hold, you’re always welcome to book a conversation and share what’s on your mind.
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Good organisations rarely lose their way in one dramatic moment. More often, it happens slowly, through one reasonable c...
29/05/2026

Good organisations rarely lose their way in one dramatic moment. More often, it happens slowly, through one reasonable compromise, one delayed decision, one exception that makes sense at the time, or one value that remains spoken but never quite becomes structure. 🦓

This is what makes organisational drift so difficult to notice while it is happening.Pressure to grow. Pressure to secure funding. Pressure to serve more people. Pressure to move faster. Pressure to say yes before the organisation has fully understood what that yes will ask of it.

A good organisation can be full of thoughtful, principled, values-led people and still drift.

Because drift is not always a failure of character. Often, it is a failure of intentional architecture.

🌱 Values need mechanisms. They need governance, decision-making clarity, accountability, ownership structures that reflect the purpose of the work, and ways of noticing when pressure starts to bend behaviour away from the mission.

Follow along as we continue exploring organisational drift in the coming weeks, especially the pressure so many values-led organisations feel to keep doing more. And if this is resonating with what you are experiencing in your own organisation, book a Clarity Call with one our founders. We would love to help you make sense of where the strain is coming from, and what kind of responsible growth your organisation is actually ready to hold.

https://calendly.com/d/cw4v-cq8-w67/growth-resilience-clarity-call

25/05/2026

85% of the buying journey happens before anyone contacts you. Which means most brands are invisible at the moment it actually matters.

In climate and nature-tech markets, decisions are shaped early, across multiple stakeholders, long before a conversation begins. 🦓

This was a core thread in our second session of Zebra Growth × Think Bambu’s Climate Tech Roundtable, a peer lead conversation grounded in what teams are actually navigating in these conditions. 🌱

If there’s something you’ve been sitting with, or a tension you’d want a space like this to hold, you’re always welcome to book a conversation and share what’s on your mind.
https://calendly.com/d/cw4v-cq8-w67/growth-resilience-clarity-call?month=2026-04

If you’d like to be part of it and hear more when it opens, you can sign up below.
https://survey.typeform.com/to/WXxoM9Ar

The world around most organisations has shifted faster than many organisations have been able to respond.The expectation...
21/05/2026

The world around most organisations has shifted faster than many organisations have been able to respond.

The expectations placed on values-led organisations are different now, yet many are still trying to grow using a map drawn for a different reality. Often, this shows up as a marketing problem, and the instinctive response is simply to add more activity. 🦓

But more activity does not help if the map itself is out of date.

Sometimes the most important step is admitting the map has changed.

If you resonate with moving away from the “more” mindset and want to grow more responsibly, book a Clarity Call and let’s begin unlearning the ideas that no longer serve your organisation or your impact. 🌱

07/05/2026

Finding it hard to stay visible to the right people?
It’s often less about reach, and more about alignment.

Alignment between what your buyers are trying to understand and what you're actually putting in front of them.

🦓 That was the starting point for our second session of Zebra Growth × Think Bambu’s Climate Tech Roundtable, a conversation grounded in real conditions, where buyers move carefully, decisions are shared, and trust builds long before anything becomes formal. 🌱

We haven’t set a date for the next one yet.

If there’s something you’ve been sitting with, or a tension you’d want a space like this to hold, you’re always welcome to book a conversation and share what’s on your mind.
https://calendly.com/d/cw4v-cq8-w67/growth-resilience-clarity-call?month=2026-04

And if you’d like to be part of it and hear more when it opens, you can sign up below.
https://survey.typeform.com/to/WXxoM9Ar

Joining us on Thursday for our Regenerative Monitoring and Evaluation Playground. Justin DeKoszmovszky brings over 25 ye...
28/04/2026

Joining us on Thursday for our Regenerative Monitoring and Evaluation Playground. Justin DeKoszmovszky brings over 25 years of experience working at the edges of what markets tend to value, in the places strategy often overlooks. Across his work, he has focused on externalities, fragile value chains, underserved communities, and the longer arcs of systemic change.

His practice is grounded in a simple but often underused idea. That diverse voices and real field experience are not just inputs, but essential ways of understanding what is actually happening.

Before Archipel&Co., Justin led sustainability strategy at SC Johnson, PUMA Group, and OVO Energy, working across circular economy, social innovation, and the realities of implementing change inside organisations.

🦓 In our Playground, Regenerative Monitoring and Evaluation for Post Growth, Decolonial Marketing, Justin brings a systems lens shaped by both strategy and lived practice. A perspective that helps us question what gets measured, what gets overlooked, and how value is defined. 🌱

This free Playground takes place this Thursday, April 30, as a live, shared conversation guided by Zebra Growth, with guest speakers including Jeni Miles, Fernanda Matsinhe, Jannik Kaiser, and Justin DeKoszmovszky.

The inbox grows. Deadlines loom closer. Communications require responses. Before you know it, the day is over, but you h...
25/04/2026

The inbox grows. Deadlines loom closer. Communications require responses. Before you know it, the day is over, but you haven't gone anywhere. 🦓🌱

Most organizations don't lack for energy. What they lack is room to breathe, leading to strategy only happening when things slow down. But they rarely do that.

What you’re seeing here aren’t output issues. They're clarity issues.

Clarity doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from stepping back long enough to see what actually matters now.

If this feels familiar, it might be worth taking a step back with us. Book a clarity call and let’s work through where you are and what needs to shift.

https://calendly.com/d/cw4v-cq8-w67/growth-resilience-clarity-call

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