This month, we have an exciting lineup of masterclasses and workshops specifically designed to help your nature venture with real tactics & tools! Each week, an Ecopreneur takes the stage to share their success and setbacks.
If you’re into rewilding cities (or nature!), building successful nature-inspired products, developing grants that actually work, or exploring the latest in biodiversity tech, this is for you!
All masterclasses are live for one hour every Tuesday and are exclusive to Wildya+ members. Workshops are 45-min live sessions and open to all Wildya community members.
So, if you’re ready to grow your mission with insights from those who’ve been there, done that, join the Wildya+ community and unlock access to these weekly sessions.
Oh, and here’s a little bonus for you: enjoy a 10-day free trial of Wildya+!
Let’s dive in and meet our biodiversity heroes and their awesome topics!
July 1st – Urban rewilding: How Elise Van Middelem is rewilding cities with SUGi / Masterclass
📅 July 1
⏰ 6 – 7 pm CEST
What if your sidewalk could become a forest?
Elise Van Middelem is on a mission to rewild our cities one tiny pocket forest at a time. As the founder of SUGi, she turned an idea into over 240+ thriving forests across 52 cities with clients like Salesforce, Louis Vuitton, Moët, and DocuSign.
This is not just about trees. It’s about rethinking how we live, build, brand, and restore. All at once.
💡 Why it matters:
Most people live in cities.
Most biodiversity doesn’t.
Urban rewilding brings them back together. Improving health, cooling heat islands, restoring ecosystems, and rebuilding community.
But getting people to care (and companies to fund it) takes more than science. It takes strategy, branding, storytelling, and grit.
💪 What you will walk away with:
✅ How Elise turned a climate app into a global rewilding movement
✅ How pocket forests work and why they matter
✅ What it takes to build a loved brand that inspires action
✅ How to win over corporate partners without compromising your values
✅ How to fund and scale a biodiversity project globally
✅ Real-life lessons from 243 forests and counting
✅ And the chance to ask Elise your questions directly
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
- Rewilding cities
- Urban nature
- Impact entrepreneurship
- Branding & storytelling
- Nature-based solutions
- Biodiversity + business
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the masterclass:
Elise Van Middelem started in the art world and led brand projects for global names like Art Basel and Samsung. Then she took a leap into the soil.
She founded SUGi to reconnect people with nature in the most tangible, visible way possible: through planting forests in places you’d least expect.
Under her leadership, SUGi has become one of the world’s leading urban rewilding efforts, recognised by the World Economic Forum, UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, and many more.
🔗 Learn more about Elise
🔗 Learn more about Sugi
July 8th – Biomimicry Intro: How to build a better business by learning from Nature with Alistair Daynes / Masterclass
📅 July 8
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CEST
If you’re working to restore nature, why not take a few lessons from it?
That’s where biomimicry comes in. It’s the art and science of learning from the natural world to design better systems, products, and strategies. Whether you’re rethinking your business model or your packaging, nature has 3.8 billion years of R&D to inspire you.
In this session, Alistair Daynes, Managing Director of Learn Biomimicry and co-founder of ReWild Africa, will walk us through how ecopreneurs can apply biomimicry to build smarter, more sustainable, and more impactful ventures.
💡 Why it matters:
Nature has already solved many of the challenges we face. Think efficient energy use, waste-free systems, and resilient design.
Biomimicry helps us tap into that wisdom and design solutions that are not only more sustainable but often more elegant, efficient, and inspiring.
If you’re building for a better world, learning from nature can help you do it even better.
💪 What you will walk away with:
✅ What biomimicry actually is and how it works
✅ The core principles and patterns of nature you can use in your work
✅ How to apply these principles to your business, product, or strategy
✅ Real-world examples of biomimicry in action
✅ Why this mindset shift can help you innovate faster and more sustainably
✅ A chance to ask all your questions and get inspired by Alistair’s journey
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
- Nature-inspired innovation
- Ecopreneurship
- Systems thinking
- Sustainable product design
- Regenerative thinking
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the masterclass:
Alistair Daynes blends creativity, business, and ecology. He is the Managing Director of Learn Biomimicry, a platform helping people bring biomimicry into real-world practice.
He is also the co-founder of ReWild Africa, a film company telling powerful stories of nature restoration for clients like BBC, WWF, and Google Maps.
His work is rooted in the belief that we can build better by learning from nature.
🔗 Learn more about Alistair on LinkedIn
July 15th – The Bold Idea Blueprint: 5 strategic steps to define your climate-positive digital product with Olga Reimgen / Masterclass
📅 July 15
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CEST
You’ve got a bold idea. A climate-positive vision.
But how do you turn that spark into something real?
In this masterclass, Olga Reimgen will walk you through Big’s signature blueprint to design digital products that are rooted in systems thinking, built for people and planet, and ready to drive change.
Whether you’re building an app, a platform, a marketplace or a new tool for the regeneration movement. This session will help you connect the dots between business, design and sustainability.
💡 Why it matters:
There are tons of climate ideas out there. But only a few turn into real products that actually work and scale.
The best ones don’t just look good.
They solve real problems, for real people, with real impact.
This is your chance to learn how to do just that. From someone who’s helped launch dozens of nature-positive products.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ A step-by-step framework to design climate-positive digital products
✅ How to validate bold ideas without building for months
✅ Why systems thinking helps you build things that last
✅ What sustainability looks like in actual product features and UX
✅ Real-world examples from startups and corporates building for climate
✅ Space to ask Olga anything about digital strategy, UX, design or product building
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
- Product design, UX, systems thinking, sustainable innovation
- Building climate tech or digital tools for nature
- Making your bold ideas real (without wasting time or budget)
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the masterclass:
Olga Reimgen is the Co-Founder and Design Director at Big, where she helps impact-driven teams build digital products and climate-positive platforms that actually work.
She’s partnered with 50+ startups and future-shaping brands. From Tomorrow Bank to Landbanking Group. To create products that matter and deliver measurable change.
Olga brings a rare blend of entrepreneurial thinking, strategic design, and real sustainability know-how to the table. If you’re building something bold, you’ll want her toolkit in your corner.
🔗 Learn more about Olga on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Big at big.tc
July 16th – Nature Impact Scaling Workshop
📅 July 16
⏰ 5 – 5:45 pm CEST
How to grow your nature company or NGO revenue, visibility, traction, and impact.
Trump, Omnibus rollback, USAID cuts, corporate disinterest.
Not an easy time for us nature people right now.
Time to put the power back into our hands and focus on what we can control.
Join Oliver for a FREE hands-on 45-minute workshop where he’ll share the 4-part formula he uses to help nature founders scale their nature impact in these crazy times.
Mange “Love this Oli. This was all about us and not you which is really engaging. This is what we need to do when positioning our offers to our clients. Amazing discussion!”
Manon “Thanks to both of you, Oli and Michelle! LOTS of information in a very short time haha, but for sure many things I want to start tackling”
Marta “Thank you so much Wildya team, this was great- look forward to seeing future content.”
Ana “Thank you so much for this workshop, Oliver and Michelle. It was very insightful and engaging. Lots of things to think about.”
Andy “Thank you Oliver and Michelle, I learned a lot, and really enjoyed it as well.”
💡Why you should join:
- Designed for nature-focused NGOs & Businesses
- Understand where you are currently blocked & fix it
- Learn the system we used to help 20+ nature ventures grow their impact
- Build a roadmap to stop spinning & start scaling
- Get honest, real-world strategies (no hype, no fluff)
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ The Nature Impact Formula
✅ A self-assessment to identify your biggest scaling bottleneck
✅ 3 practical tips for each part of the formula you can apply right after the webinar
✅ Case examples of biodiversity ventures turning visibility into impact
✅ A chance to ask me your questions & challenges live
July 22nd – Decoding Soil Life: How eDNA can unlock biodiversity insights with Dr. Hannah Schragmann / Masterclass
📅 July 22
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CEST
You can’t protect what you don’t understand.
And right now, most of us have no idea what’s happening beneath our feet.
Soil is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. Yet it’s often overlooked, hard to measure, and treated like a black box.
That’s where environmental DNA (eDNA) comes in.
In this masterclass, Dr. Hannah Schragmann from Soilytix will guide us through the science, strategy, and practical use of eDNA for biodiversity monitoring. She’ll show how this technology can help ecopreneurs, farmers, and restoration leaders track progress, prove impact, and make better decisions.
💡 Why it matters:
Soil is home to over 25 percent of Earth’s biodiversity, and it plays a critical role in climate resilience, ecosystem health, and food production.
Without clear data on what’s living and changing in the soil, we risk losing these invisible foundations.
eDNA is emerging as a powerful and accessible tool to understand, restore, and regenerate ecosystems — and it’s already being used by farmers, NGOs, and nature businesses across the world.
💪 What you will walk away with:
✅ What environmental DNA is and how it works
✅ How eDNA is used to measure biodiversity in soil
✅ Why this matters for your restoration or land management efforts
✅ How Soilytix helps organizations monitor and report biodiversity
✅ What the future of scalable biodiversity MRV (monitoring, reporting, and verification) looks like
✅ Insights from Hannah’s journey from impact strategy to regenerative tech
✅ The chance to ask your own questions and get practical guidance
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
- Soil health
- Nature tech
- Ecosystem monitoring
- Biodiversity data
- MRV and regenerative land use
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the masterclass:
Dr. Hannah Schragmann is a leading voice at the intersection of biodiversity strategy, ethics, and innovation.
She holds a PhD in Economics focused on redefining productivity through a regenerative lens.
As Head of Biodiversity Strategy at Soilytix, she helps bring cutting-edge eDNA analysis to ecopreneurs, farmers, and conservationists.
With a background spanning renewable energy, forest protection, and global sustainability standards, she brings sharp insights and deep purpose to the field.
🔗 Learn more about Hannah on LinkedIn
July 29th – How to get corporates excited about your nature venture with Katie Neck / Masterclass
📅 July 29
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CEST
Got a mission-driven idea but struggle to get businesses on board?
You’re not alone. Many nature ventures are full of heart but can’t quite crack the corporate code.
This session is here to fix that.
Join Katie Neck, founder of Sustained Futures and former sustainability lead at McLaren F1, to learn what corporates actually care about and how to speak their language without selling out your values.
💡 Why it matters:
To scale your impact, you’ll likely need corporate allies.
But too many ecopreneurs pitch what they care about, not what companies need.
This masterclass helps you close that gap. With real tools, strategies, and lessons from someone who’s sat on both sides of the table.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ What corporates want from nature-based collaborations
✅ How to position your venture as a solution to their sustainability goals
✅ How to navigate first meetings, procurement, and value alignment
✅ Real examples of what works (and what doesn’t) when pitching your idea
✅ A better understanding of green skills gaps & how to help close them
✅ The confidence to connect your mission to their business outcomes
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
- Nature-based entrepreneurship
- Sustainability consulting
- Corporate engagement
- Green skills & education
- Building real-world solutions for real-world clients
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the masterclass:
Katie Neck is the founder of Sustained Futures, an award-winning social enterprise that has upskilled over 3,400 changemakers with practical green skills.
Before that, she helped McLaren F1 launch their first sustainability agenda and led corporate strategy projects at Capgemini Invent.
She’s been recognised by Barclays for Outstanding Entrepreneurship and is an Aspen Institute Fellow. All while building bridges between purpose-led people and the world of big business.
🔗 Learn more about Katie on LinkedIn
Interested in attending these events and starting to scale your nature mission? Join our Wild community now!
The recordings of the masterclasses & workshops will also be available afterwards for our Wildya+ members, in case you’re too busy rewilding nature!
See you there!
