Speaking – Nicola Peel

Speaking to Inspire Others

With a fascinating life story and a solutions-based approach, my mission is to inspire others, to show people what we can achieve when we work together with the Natural World.

30 years in the environmental sector focussing on actions not words I suppose I can be called an expert!

Whether you are looking for a keynote speaker for your event, a Solutionist to run an idea by or someone to sit on a panel discussion, please contact me to discuss your requirements.

I am currently offering 3
standard presentations but can
adapt to the audience and requirements.

I am currently offering 3 standard presentations but can adapt to the audience and requirements.

BIOMIMICRY AND NATURES INTELLIGENCE

Billions of years of evolution and nature has worked out what works and what lasts. This awe-inspiring presentation shows examples of some of the ways nature can help us. From architecture to materials, the macro to the micro, we discuss natures designs, systems, and processes. How life builds using on-site resources without toxic chemicals, uses shape and form and intelligently replicates and communicates. We will look at some of the species’ business is learning from and how and what the future could look like.

AMAZON ADVENTURES AND A SOLUTIONISTS WORK

This presentation covers some of the work I have initiated and coordinated in the Ecuadorian Amazon over the past 20 years. From living deep in the jungle and traveling down the Amazon river to the impacts I discovered of the oil industry on the people and environment. These projects include building hundreds of family’s rainwater systems so they may drink clean water, bringing scientists together to study how fungi can clean up oil spills, building from plastic waste and initiating an agroforestry project to prevent deforestation.

THIS IS WHAT BIODIVERSITY LOOKS LIKE!

In Covid I was locked down in paradise for over 5 months in the Ecuadorean cloud forest. We often think of the Amazon as being super diverse but I discovered it is these hidden gems in the clouds that contain even more biodiversity. This is a stunning photographic journey of the Los Cedros Reserve, home to numerous critically endangered species, bears, mammals, felines and still largely unstudied with species still yet to be identified. Over 400 kinds of orchids, 800 species of moths, 300 kinds of birds and incalculable fungi. This presentation is a journey into that world.

Inspiring Business

Nicola Peel is a highly acclaimed international speaker on the challenges of environmental sustainability and the creation of grassroots solutions to problems left behind by global corporations.

Sharing her extensive experience in working collaboratively with the scientific, entrepreneurial and local communities around the world, Nicola brings to life the challenges of indigenous people living with the effects of global pollution, with wry humour and deep empathy expressed through practical solutions.

A lifetime spent exposing the effects of globalisation allows Nicola to reveal the true nature of the impact western culture is having on our precious planet, environment and people, but she also offers hope, positivity and workable solutions to our challenges in an increasingly person-centred world.

Nicola can bring expert knowledge to corporate conferences without confrontation, she can can help to expand awareness to the possibility of positive outcomes through new sciences like biomimicry, and can enthuse, entertain and inspire us all to work more creatively to achieve results that bring benefit to all.

“Your positive voice for the environment is so refreshing. Hearing your words is like breathing in the fresh cool air of an old growth red wood forest”

Diane Kellett

“Nicola’s presentation took us to places we had heard about, but had not always felt part of ….Nicola’s warm, factual, articulate description, illustrated so well by photographs, left a message of hope – hope for the future by communicating, supporting, modelling what already works well and last, but not least, Nicola left us valuing the importance of aspiring to nature’s solutions. Nicola is an inspiration herself.”

Jan Marsden - West Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes

“Nicola is a compelling, knowledgeable and stimulating presenter. She has the gift of inspiring people to take action with out recourse to guilt or censure. I look forward to working with her again – she makes a tangible difference to attitudes and actions.”

Stuart Mackenzie, CEO Maynard Leigh Associates

Inspiring Students

Are you looking for someone to come and speak to and engage with your students about the Amazon, Environmental issues or ecological design? Nicola has spent over 20 years facilitating a variety of projects in the Amazon. Her current talks also cover the field of biomimicry and closed loop systems. This shows exciting ways we can learn from Nature and teaches us how to vision another reality and move towards a more sustainable world. She can also cover climate justice, fashion and the future, corporate responsibility and ethics.

“Biomimicry should be taught in schools as a lesson. This is as important as Maths and English.”

2022 ~ Storrington Primary School

“It was really amazing to see the real life things that people actually use in the the Amazon – that was awesome” “The Amazon music really made it seem like you were in the jungle” “The children (and staff) found the slideshow and talk very interesting; it enhanced and brought to life the year 3 Amazon jungle topic work”

St Nicola and St Marys Primary School, Shoreham-by-Sea

“We were delighted to have Nicola address the whole school and talk in detail about her inspiring work and ethos. Through the variety and depth of her experience, and with her compelling delivery, she showed our students that they can use their passion and imagination to make a real difference. She got us thinking about our impact on the world and how we can find solutions through positive change.”