About Intrinsic Spring
Better Lives, Better Business, Better World.
In the Intrinsic Spring Blog and the Intrinsic Earth Network, we collaborate to provide the knowledge, means and understanding to impact and improve our one and only world.
THIS IS INTRINSIC SPRING
Intrinsic Spring (IS) is the voice for a collaboration of peoples that locates and drives high-impact innovations for Better Lives and Better Business. With members drawn from around the world, Intrinsic Spring is a unifying and informative force within the global transformations that are setting new standards for the Good-Life, Business Success and Sustainable Development.
Intrinsic Spring is open to all.
It is led by Frank Birkin and Zeng-Wei Yuan & supported by friends and colleagues
We all draw from the spring
Intrinsic Spring is underpinned by three principles:
New Knowledge
There is a new foundation for knowledge underlying everyday experience & now identified by science – it is a joined up world
Goals and practices need updating in this new Reality
New Values
Our Values define us & create the world we occupy – as Knowledge changes so do Values
Major Global Institutions are driving a Multi-value Transformation
in Businesses, Development and Everyday Life
New Opportunities
When Knowledge and Values change
Worldwide there will be winners and Losers
We see Change as Opportunity to support your Personal and Business Transformations
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INTRINSIC SPRING FOUNDING MEMBERS
Dr. Wei Zhang
张薇
Researcher
Finance & Economics
Dr. Yiren Wu
吴祎仁
Teaching Associate
Sustainable Marketing
University of Sheffield
Frank Birkin
Emeritus Professor
Accounting for Sustainability
University Sheffield
Dr Olga Cam,
Environmental Accounting
& Sustainability Education,
Sheffield University, UK.
Natalia Welch,
Entrepreneur,
CEO Pura Panela
& Loro Crisps
Sheffield, UK.
Professor Zeng-Wei Yuan
President Lishu Institute of Ecology,
Nanjing University, China.
Jane (Liu Zhen),
Counsellor,
Beijing, China.
Nick Birkinshaw,
CEO Habitat Works,
Habitat management, wetland
creation & aquatic ecology,
Sheffield, UK.
Dr Mónica Ramos-Mejía,
Sustainability Innovation,
Pontificia Universidad
Javeriana, Bogota,
Colombia.
Dr Ann-Christine Frandsen,
Multiple-Value Accounting,
University of Birmingham,
UK.
Dr Collins Makunda,
Built Environment &
Design, University of
Nairobi, Kenya
Lily Tu,
Financial Consultant,
Shanghai,
China.
Maria Maria-Teresa Speziale,
Management Accounting
& the Collaborative City,
Bologna, Italy.
Dr Veronica Broomes,
Sustainability Consultant & Entrepreneur,
Sheffield, UK.
Michael McGrath,
Director Stena Mettal,
Gothenburg,
Sweden.
Andressa Schröder,
Arts, Aesthetics &
Cultural Sustainability,
Berlin, Germany.
Dr Lien Monkhouse,
Ethical Marketing &
Vietnamese Cultural
Sustainability,
University of Sheffield,
UK.
Dr Madlen Sobkowiak,
Social & Environmental
Accounting, Ocean
Stewardship, University of
Birmingham, UK.
Jingjing Yu,
Multi-Value Accounting
and Education,
Zhongkai University,
Guangzhou, China.
Dr Tamara Oakes,
Collaborative Business
Models,
University of Twente,
Netherlands.
Dr Hua Chen,
Sustainable
Development,
Nanjing University,
China.
Dr Fan Mingyue, Social
Media & Business
Intelligence, Jiangsu
University, China.
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