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DOUGHNUT DESIGN FOR BUSINESS WORKSHOPS TO REIMAGINE BUSINESS FOR A SAFE AND FAIR FUTURE

“This is the story of what happens when business meets the Doughnut, a vision of human prosperity in the 21st century.” — Kate Raworth, economist and author of Doughnut Economics.
🎤 Upcoming EventTom Foster, founder of EcoProsper Consulting and certified Doughnut Design for Business (DDFB) practitioner, will be presenting and facilitating a DDFB workshop at the 2025 Social Impact Summit, held 2–3 July in Sydney.📍 Part of the “Profit & Purpose” stream, the session will explore how businesses can align strategy with social and ecological boundaries.👉 See the full speaker lineup
Join us at the Summit — or get in touch to learn more about how a Doughut Design For Business workshop can support your organisation’s purpose-driven goals.

EXPLORE organisational strategy within Ecological Limits

As businesses navigate a future shaped by climate disruption, resource constraints, and shifting social expectations, the imperative to operate within the planet’s ecological boundaries is becoming a core strategic challenge.
The Doughnut Economics framework offers more than alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - it provides a clear, systems-based lens to help organisations rethink value, navigate complexity, and respond to uncertainty in a rapidly changing world.
Uncertainty often breeds anxiety, leading to short-term thinking and suboptimal decisions. So how can your organisation stay focused, adaptive, and resilient through change?
EcoProsper Consulting’s Doughnut Design for Business workshops bring clarity and a fresh strategic lens. Grounded in the methodology developed by economist Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics Action Lab - and based on her internationally recognised Doughnut Economics model - these sessions support teams to align with social and ecological realities, reduce risk, and build confidence in the face of future challenges.
Whether you’re a for-profit enterprise or a mission-driven organisation, these workshops help leaders explore what it means to operate regeneratively and distributively – and to reimagine business as a force for long-term wellbeing.
* Images courtesy of Doughnut Economics Action Lab
The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. Credit: Kate Raworth and Christian Guthier. CC-BY-SA 4.0

UNDERSTANDING the Doughnut Economics framework

Doughnut Economics offers a bold and practical vision for 21st-century prosperity - one in which human wellbeing is achieved within ecological limits. It challenges organisations to move beyond extractive, business-as-usual models toward regenerative and distributive ways of operating.
At the heart of the model are two concentric rings:
  • A social foundation: Informed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this inner ring ensures everyone has access to life’s essentials - such as food, education, healthcare, housing, and political voice.
  • An ecological ceiling: Defined by the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s Planetary boundaries framework, this outer ring identifies nine critical Earth-system thresholds, including climate, biodiversity, land use, and freshwater. It is an increasingly adopted science-based model - broader than climate alone - guiding organisations to operate within the limits that sustain life on Earth.
The space between these two rings forms the Doughnut: a safe and just space where humanity - and business - can thrive.
First introduced by economist Kate Raworth in a 2012 Oxfam discussion paper, the Doughnut gained global attention through her 2017 book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Since then, it has influenced city governments, corporate boardrooms, faith leaders, and grassroots movements, inspiring a global shift toward new economic paradigms.
EcoProsper Consulting helps translate these ideas into action. Our facilitated sessions use Doughnut Economics Action Lab’s Doughnut Design for Business tool - a strategic workshop method developed specifically for organisations. This includes not only the private sector, but also purpose-led enterprises and not-for-profit organisations looking to explore organisational strategy within planetary boundaries.

About our DOUGHNUT DESIGN FOR BUSINESS workshops

  • Are you ready to transform your business using Doughnut Economics? Our workshops are tailored for leaders of for-profit enterprise or a mission-driven organisation who are:

  • Eager to turn Doughnut Economics from theory into practical application.
  • Ambitious and curious innovators looking to reimagine regenerative, distributive, and sustainable business practices.
  • Empowered to influence the deep design of businesses, whether from within or from an external standpoint.
Led by Certified Expertise for Lasting ImpactEach Doughnut Design for Business workshop is led by Tom Foster, a certified Doughnut Design For Business practitioner, confirmed by Doughnut Economics Action Lab. With this certification, we ensure that the insights and tools shared in our workshops are grounded in the latest and most trusted practices of Doughnut Economics, reinforcing our commitment to delivering high-quality, transformative experiences.
What does OUR workshop involve?
We offer a comprehensive core tool workshop lasting 5 hours, alongside a shorter 2-hour taster workshop. Hands-on activities and group exercises to promote collaboration and allow participants to apply Doughnut Economics principles directly to real-world business challenges. Our workshops can be delivered on-premise or online, ensuring accessibility for every business.
What MAKES THIS TOOL UNIQUE?
  • The Doughnut Design for Business tool is:
  • The only authorised method for businesses to engage effectively with Doughnut Economics.
  • Deeply transformative, context-specific applicable to any business.
  • A pragmatic approach that fosters diverse, context-specific designs to help businesses overcome real barriers to sustainable action.
  • Intuitive and accessible allowing for flexibility without prescribing specific designs or models.

Why EcoProsper?

We bring a systems lens, cross-sector experience, and up-to-date economic thinking to help organisations engage meaningfully with the Doughnut framework. These sessions are ideal for teams wanting to build resilience, reduce overwhelm, and align strategy with the real-world conditions shaping the decades ahead.

ENQUIRE NOW ABOUT DOUGHNUT DESIGN FOR BUSINESS WORKSHOPS

Ready to reimagine business for a safe and fair future operating within planetary boundaries? Get in touch to explore how Doughnut Design for Business can help your organisation align purpose and practice with the needs of people and planet - and chart a path toward thriving in the 21st century.
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