Happy New Year (in advance) ecopreneurs! 2026 is knocking, and it’s already asking for wild adventures! 🎉
This month, we’ve lined up wild masterclasses, workshops, and as a little New Year treat, new types of events to help you grow your nature venture! Each week, an ecopreneur will be here to share their journey, wins, lessons, even the messy bits, and guide you along the way.
If you’re into understanding what nature buyers actually want, getting support while building your nature venture, improving your attention/conversion or creating products with purpose, improving your presentations to secure fundings, finding new business ideas to protect nature, learning about the Nature Impact Scaling formula, or treating nature as an asset class, all for the wild, these events are made for you!
You spoke, we listened: most January masterclasses are now happening at 1pm CET, with just one special evening session this month at 8pm. ⏰
Masterclasses are live for one hour every Tuesday, exclusive to Wildya Premium members. Coffee sessions are 30 minutes, Builder’s Circle 45 minutes, both exclusive to our Premium members.
But no worries, we also have free events!
So, if you’re ready to take your biodiversity mission further with advice from those who’ve been there, done that, hop on Wildya Ecopreneur Community (no credit card required).
Oh, and here’s a little bonus for you: enjoy a 10-day free trial of the Ecopreneur Community! 🎁
Ready to meet the biodiversity heroes and dive into their wild topics?
January 6th – From Brutality to Beauty: How Mulberry Mongoose Turns Poachers’ Traps into Powerful Products with Kate Wilson / Masterclass
📅 January 6
⏰ 1 – 2 pm CET
Can a snare trap become a symbol of hope?
In the South Luangwa Valley of Zambia, Kate Wilson and her team at Mulberry Mongoose are doing just that. Transforming brutal remnants of poaching into beautiful jewellery that funds conservation and empowers rural communities.
This masterclass takes you deep into the story of how a London recruiter moved to the African bush and built a thriving social enterprise that has raised over $173,000 for wildlife protection. While employing local artisans and turning harm into healing.
💡 Why it matters:
Too often, we separate conservation from commerce. But Mulberry Mongoose shows how a product, made well and sold with purpose, can directly protect biodiversity and create meaningful livelihoods.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ How to turn a powerful mission into a viable product
✅ The beauty & challenges to build a business in rural Africa
✅ How to transform ‘brutal’ materials into something deeply meaningful
✅ Lessons from 13+ years growing a social enterprise rooted in place
✅ How to connect storytelling, product design, and impact in one offer
✅ Insights on scaling mission-led e-commerce
✅ A moment to meet Kate & ask her all your questions
🙋 For you if you’re into:
→ Creating physical products with purpose
→ Blending conservation & craft
→ Building businesses that empower local communities
→ Ethical supply chains & meaningful storytelling
→ Running social enterprises in remote settings
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Kate Wilson is the founder of Mulberry Mongoose, an award-winning jewellery brand based in the Zambian bush. Her team, made up of 80% women born and raised in rural Zambia, handcrafts jewellery using snare wire removed from poaching traps. Each piece tells a story of transformation. Of turning brutality into beauty, and commerce into conservation.
Mulberry Mongoose has been featured in National Geographic, The Washington Post, British Vogue, and was nominated for The Earthshot Prize in 2022 and 2023.
🔗 Connect with Kate on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Mulberry Mongoose
January 7th – Builder’s Circle / Session
📅 January 7
⏰ 8 – 8:45 pm CET
Ever feel like you’re building your eco-project with 12 tabs open, 3 ideas half-written… and zero clue which one to tackle first?
Yep. Same here.
That’s where the Builder’s Circle comes in.
A chill monthly meet-up where we show up, check in, and help each other get unstuck.
No pressure.
No big speeches.
Just real people building real things for nature.
🔎 Check in on your project
What are you working on right now?
What’s moving?
What’s stuck?
Say it out loud. It already feels lighter.
🤝 Build together
Everyone in the circle gets it.
We swap ideas, share what’s worked for us, talk through blockers, and remind each other we’re not building alone.
Real breakthroughs happen here.
🚀 Leave with your clear next action
Not a 12-point plan.
Not a “rebuild your whole strategy” moment.
Just one clear action you’ll take this week, with the group cheering you on.
🙋 For you if you’re into:
→ Building or growing a nature or impact venture
→ Moving from “I don’t know where to start” to “Okay, I can do this”
→ Getting support from people walking a similar path
→ Finding clarity without spending hours overthinking
→ Keeping momentum on your project, even when life gets loud
→ Being part of a community that actually cares about your progress
You bring your project. We’ll bring the support.
January 13th – The Most Mispriced Asset on Earth: How the Coconut Can Reshape Nature Capital with Matthew Ross / Masterclass
📅 January 13
⏰ 8 – 9 pm CET
We met Matthew Ross at TEDxBoston this year and were instantly hooked. His talk wasn’t just smart, it shook the way we think about nature, wealth, and how we build for the future.
So we had to bring him in.
Matthew has spent the last 15 years living and building systems where most only theorise. From remote villages in Indonesia to tribal lands in the Philippines, he has turned degraded land and overlooked crops into thriving investment portfolios rooted in biology and indigenous knowledge.
This masterclass will explore what it really means to treat nature as an asset class. Using the global coconut crisis as a powerful, overlooked example.
💡 Why it matters:
70% of global coconut trees are now “senile” and failing to fruit. A system that feeds, hydrates, and employs millions is on the verge of collapse.
But hidden in this crisis is one of the biggest untapped opportunities in natural capital today.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ How coconuts became the most mispriced biological asset on Earth
✅ What makes a “Tree of Life” more valuable than a financial instrument
✅ How Matthew turned tribal land into a multi-revenue ecosystem
✅ Why most nature investments fail & how to think differently
✅ What sovereign wealth architecture means in a regenerative world
✅ What ecopreneurs can learn from coconut, land, & timing
✅ A rare look into the unseen systems where real value is created
✅ A moment to meet Matthew & ask all your questions
🙋 For you if you’re into:
→ Building nature ventures backed by real assets
→ Investing beyond spreadsheets & short-termism
→ Learning from sovereign systems & tribal economies
→ Regenerative thinking meets financial strategy
→ Redefining wealth through land, biology & time
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Matthew Ross is the Chief Nature Officer of Indo Eden, where he builds sovereign systems that turn land into living portfolios. With 15+ years of deep field experience, he’s worked where markets fail and value is invisible.
His writing in The Natural Capital Trader and his TEDx talk on the coconut are shaking up how people understand nature, risk, and capital.
🔗 Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn
🔗 Read The Natural Capital Trader
🔗 Work with Matthew
January 14th – Attention/Conversion Coffee with Oliver / Session
📅 January 14
⏰ 8 – 8:30 pm CET
You want to grow your project but… don’t really know how to get people to care?
Got something in your attention or conversion that isn’t clicking?
A message that’s not landing?
An audience you’re struggling to reach?
A conversion step that feels confusing or flat?
That’s what Attention/Conversion Coffee with Oliver is for.
A chill 30-minute session with Oliver where you can ask your questions, talk through your blockers, and walk away with clarity, fast.
🚨 Only 5 spots, so everyone gets real time and real support. Make sure to RSVP!
🙋 For you if you’re into:
→ Getting more eyes on your nature or impact venture
→ Understanding why your message isn’t converting
→ Improving your attention, storytelling, or clarity
→ Finding simple ways to make people care
→ Getting quick, honest feedback from someone who gets it
Bring your attention + conversion challenges.
Oliver will help you unblock them.
January 15th – Wild Idea into Action Gathering / Free Event
📅 January 15
⏰ 8 – 9 pm CET
Last month +300 ecopreneurs wanted our free Wild Idea Finder
Let’s all meet to talk about the next steps.
Last month was wild. When we launched the Free AI tool to help folks coming up with nature NGO/companies we didn’t expect so many people to be interested.
Yet the idea is only the 1st step. Now let’s take the second.
💪 We will host a free event to:
- Give you the opportunity to share the idea you came up with
- Find potential co-founders, collaborators or supporters
- Oliver, founder of Wildya, will share some useful actions you can take next
+ it holds us all accountable to pursue all these wild ideas & actually take action.
+200 people who want to get into action mode & build a wilder world.
Now that gives us hope!
January 20th – Power of Slides: How to Connect Deeply When Presenting for Investment and Impact with Illiya Vjestica / Masterclass
📅 January 20
⏰ 1 – 2 pm CET
The challenge: Great environmental ideas often struggle to secure the funding and support they deserve.
You’ve got the research, the passion, the proven impact. But when it comes to presenting to investors or stakeholders?
Something gets lost between your heart and their decision to act.
The solution: After 13+ years designing for Nobel Prize scientists, TED speakers, and Fortune 500 leaders, Illiya Vjestica discovered the secret isn’t just better design — it’s deeper connection.
💪 What you’ll discover:
✅ Why facts alone don’t move investors (and what does)
✅ The Heart Method™ for creating presentations that resonate emotionally
✅ How to structure your story so funders feel your mission, not just understand it
✅ The #1 mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching
✅ Building authentic presence that connects deeper with your audience on stage or in boardroom
✅ How to visualise better slides that communicate your mission authentic
✅ A moment to meet Illiya & ask all your questions
🙋Perfect for:
Environmental leaders, conservation entrepreneurs, and nature-based founders ready to present with deeper impact and secure the investment their mission deserves.
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Illiya Vjestica has helped speakers and organisations tell their story with impact visually to communicate their mission, secure funding and inspire change. Now he shows them how to communicate with heart so heads will listen.
🔗 Connect with Illiya on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore The Presentation Designer
January 22nd – Product Coffee with Michelle / Session
📅 January 22
⏰ 8 – 8:30 pm CET
You want to build a product but… feel a bit lost in the process?
Got something in your Product that isn’t clicking?
A feature you’re not sure how to shape?
A flow that just doesn’t feel right?
A direction you’re unsure about?
Bring it to Product Coffee with Michelle.
A chill 30-minute session with Michelle (co-founder & head of product) where you can ask your Product questions, talk through your blockers, and walk away with clarity, fast.
🚨 Only 5 spots, so everyone gets real time and real support. Make sure to RSVP!
🙋 For you if you’re into:
→ Building a nature or impact product
→ Getting quick answers instead of staying stuck for days
→ Asking that Product question you keep postponing
→ Making progress without overthinking everything
→ Learning from others facing the same Product challenges
Bring your Product problems.
Michelle will help you unblock them.
January 27th – What Nature Buyers Actually Want: Lessons from 700 Companies with Oliver Bolton / Masterclass
📅 January 27
⏰ 1 – 2 pm CET
You’ve probably seen his nature posts on LinkedIn.
Now’s your chance to go behind the scenes.
Oliver Bolton, the CEO & Co-founder of Earthly, has built one of the world’s most trusted platforms for investing in nature. Backed by over 700 companies (from Deloitte to Activision), Earthly helps businesses contribute to climate and biodiversity solutions through high-quality nature-based projects. All rigorously assessed across carbon, biodiversity, and social impact.
In this exclusive masterclass, Oliver joins Wildya to share the lessons behind scaling a purpose-led platform and why investing in nature needs a new level of transparency, science, and storytelling.
Plus: he’ll reveal a powerful new feature Earthly is launching, for the first time, live.
💡 Why it matters:
Founders and NGOs working in nature need better ways to fund, finance, and measure their impact. Earthly offers a blueprint for how to do this at scale. Without cutting corners or compromising on integrity.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ What makes a credible nature-based project investors actually trust
✅ How to design assessment frameworks that build long-term credibility
✅ Lessons from scaling Earthly to 700+ clients & winning global awards
✅ Why he is betting on LinkedIn & Youtube as marketing channels
✅ Where the market is going & how to stand out in a crowded space
✅ The power of storytelling, dashboards & transparency in funding nature
✅ When and how to partner with corporates (& how to filter the greenwashers)
✅ A sneak peek at Earthly’s newest launch, shared live for the first time
✅ A moment to meet Oliver & ask all your questions
🙋 For you if you’re into:
→ Raising funding or support for your nature-based project
→ Creating products or platforms to scale nature restoration
→ Working at the intersection of carbon, biodiversity, and livelihoods
→ Learning how to partner with purpose-led businesses
→ Building tech-enabled solutions for climate and nature
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Oliver Bolton is the CEO & co-founder of Earthly, a nature-tech company on a mission to restore over 1% of the planet by 2030. After two successful ventures in health and wellness, he turned his focus to nature, building Earthly into one of the most trusted platforms for climate-conscious businesses.
He’s also the host of Wilding Earth, a new Youtube exploring regenerative business and climate innovation.
🔗 Connect with Oliver on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Earthly
🔗 Watch Wilding Earth
January 28th – Nature Impact Scaling Workshop / Free Event
📅 January 28
⏰ 8 – 9 pm CET
How to grow your nature venture’s 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 we use to help nature founders scale their nature impact in these crazy times.
✅ 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 Oliver your questions & challenges live
Interested in attending these events and starting to scale your nature mission? Join our Wildya Ecopreneur Community now and benefit from a 10-day free trial (no credit card required)!
The recordings of the masterclasses & workshops will also be available afterwards for our Wildya Premium members, in case you’re too busy rewilding nature!
So ready to join the Wildya Ecopreneur Community?
