Global reach, local expertise

We live and breathe our values and work to bring local expertise to our workshops, wherever they are.

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With over 30 facilitators and virtual producers spanning 6 continents and 27 countries (and speaking more than 25 languages!), we can help your needs on the ground, wherever your workshop will be.

At Inclusive Innovation, we aim to bring local expertise and cultural understanding to every project, with a special focus on the Global Majority. We won’t just moderate your meeting — we facilitate dynamic and interactive workshops where participants roll up their sleeves and dive in, driving meaningful, resilient impact together.

Our Values

Inclusive

We embrace inclusivity in all we do, fostering an environment where people are welcomed as they are, recognizing that it is within our differences that we are able to create the space to connect, create, innovate and grow.

Our Values

Interactive

Don’t expect your average workshop if you collaborate with us. Be prepared to roll your sleeves up and jump in. Whether it’s in-person, hybrid, or virtual, our workshops are highly interactive, engaging, and (most importantly) a lot of fun.

Our Values

Intentional

Working with our client’s objectives, we approach every project with a clear purpose. It serves as our guiding star, ensuring deliberate, unwavering commitment and purposeful spirit at every step.

Our Values

Imaginative

We harness our team’s unique perspectives and collective experience to unlock boundless imagination, blending existing resources with new possibilities to create something truly authentic.

Our Values

Invitational

Our workshops are filled with activities, each one launched with an invitation to participate. We're careful to engage people without making them uncomfortable or over-chaperoned.

Our Values

Invested

Each of our team members carries a deep commitment to our mission. We really care about collaboration, and it shows. Our clients value our consultation and our participants appreciate the love and care we show to include them in the process.

With over 30 facilitators and virtual producers spanning 6 continents and 27 countries (and speaking more than 25 languages!), we can help your needs on the ground, wherever your workshop will be.

At Inclusive Innovation, we aim to bring local expertise and cultural understanding to every project, with a special focus on the Global Majority. We won’t just moderate your meeting — we facilitate dynamic and interactive workshops where participants roll up their sleeves and dive in, driving meaningful, resilient impact together.

Our Team Around The World

Meet Our Team

Explore our team by region

Cesar D. Guerrero

Facilitator

Colombia

Spanish, English

Connie Nshemereirwe

Facilitator

Uganda

English, Runyakitara, Luganda

Ismet Mamnoon

Lead Facilitator & Culture Coach

United States

English, Urdu, Hindi

Binyam Sisay Mendisu

Facilitator

United Arab Emirates

English, Amharic

Vince Virat

Associate Facilitator

France

French, English

Puleng Makhoalibe

Facilitator

South Africa

English

Sasitorn Srisawadi

Facilitator

Thailand

Thai, English

Eshchar Mizrachi

Facilitator

South Africa

English, Hebrew

Alisa Govender

Facilitator & Producer

South Africa

English

Nick Drayton

Facilitator

Virgin Islands

English

Incredibly inspirational: the people behind Inclusive Innovation live their mindset for leadership and human collaboration. Their workshops are truly experiential. Their tailored process enables individuals and teams to live through their own aha moments. The facilitation team continuously guides with compassion towards new ways of co-creation and towards excellence. They are in service to each participant in the room. And lastly: their workshops deliver immediate results!

Ulrike Voett

Senior Project Manager, Robert-Bosch Stiftung GmbH

Your group was the most fun team of facilitators I’ve ever encountered!

Watumesa Agustina Tan

Associate Professor, Indonesia

Working with Inclusive Innovation is what made it possible for CLARE to run CLARExchange as an inclusive opportunity for a wide range of team members working on different projects to share and engage early in the program, and in a way that is mindful of our carbon footprint. We were so impressed with their motivated and positive responses to every challenge we brought to them!

Hayley Price-Kelly

Senior Program Officer IDRC

The experience during the week was transformative. The facilitators had a way of drawing potential you never knew existed from deep within you. I'll definitely be a better leader going forward.

Anonymous

Africa Science Leadership Programme Fellow

Having the facilitation and support of the Inclusive Innovation team allowed us to participate fully in the discussions and dynamics of the meeting. I greatly appreciated their flexibility and suggestions to adapt to our needs, both during the planning phase of the event and during the days of the meeting. They were three very effective and pleasant days under Izzi, Karina and Vincent’s guidance!

Anonymous

KIX Interhub Workshop

I realized how much I could grow over the course of 4 days… Your workshop was well designed at a pace that the level of pressure is ideal -- it was challenging but not impossible. You've made it clear how we could develop the facilitation skills with seamless activities in the workshop.

Anonymous

Training of Facilitators Program

Inclusive Innovation is developed as an initiative exploring the intersection of science and sustainability (with a core focus on the Global South) within US-based sister company Knowinnovation, specialists in accelerating scientific innovation.

12 team members from around the world came together in Barcelona for our first official team retreat.

The Birth of II

2016

The First II Team JAM

2017

2016

Our first ‘Innovation Lab’

2019

The Team Grows

Our first Innovation Lab takes place in Mexico focussed on transforming marginalized barrios in Guadalajara using technology to improve quality of life.

The 2019 saw the team nearly double in size as we built our capacity across the Global South. 21 people came together, learnt and laughed as we explored what our collective future might look like.

Inclusive Innovation is independently incorporated in Estonia.

With 120 workshops under our belt, we spent 6 months collaborating with, reflecting on and analyzing our client community. As a result, six distinct workshop offerings were launched, aimed at delivering real-world, concrete impact.

II, Officially

2016

Developing Our Offering

2024

2023

Strengthening Our Capacity

2024

Radical Collaboration

The 2023 II Team Jam saw 30 people join us from all across world. Together, we explored our values and mission and took the chance to meet new team members in person as we explored how best to collaborate and create impact moving forward.

In the face of extreme global environmental change, we are committed to fostering collaboration around the urgent dialogue required to grow deep-rooted and equitable global resilience. We welcome partners that want to collaborate, radically, together.

Our Journey

For nearly a decade, Inclusive Innovation has been paving the way to deploy urgent and inclusive collaboration methodologies in the field of sustainable development. However, our origins and expertise go back much further than that! Read more about our evolution (so far) below...