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Dr. Leyla Acaroglu helps leaders embed circular economy strategies that future-proof their businesses for a sustainable world.

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Leyla inspires and helps people to equip themselves with agency, tools, and knowledge they need to shape the world and transform our lifestyles.

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  • Empower your teams with proven strategies to embed circular economy principles that drive innovation, profitability, and measurable sustainability impact.
  • Gain practical tools from the Disruptive Design Method to rethink systems, solve complex challenges, and future-proof your organization.
  • Award-winning founder of the UnSchool of Disruptive Design, empowering thousands to lead impactful change worldwide.

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Driving Circular Economy Transformation

Ignite transformative change with UN Champion of the Earth and TED speaker Dr. Leyla Acaroglu. As a global authority on sustainability, circular economy, and disruptive design, she equips organizations to rethink outdated systems, unlock innovation, and lead with purpose. Her keynotes inspire actionable strategies that drive lasting environmental and business impact. Book her to empower your teams today.

Keynote Speaker Leyla Acaroglu is an award-winning sustainability and circular economy expert renowned for transforming how organizations approach innovation, design, and environmental responsibility. As the creator of the Disruptive Design Method and founder of the UnSchool of Disruptive Design, she equips business leaders with actionable strategies to rethink outdated systems and drive meaningful change.

Named a United Nations Champion of the Earth for her groundbreaking work in advancing science and innovation, Leyla has helped hundreds of companies embed sustainability into their core operations. Her mainstage TED Talk has inspired global audiences to adopt circular economy principles that not only benefit the planet but also unlock new opportunities for growth and profitability.

When you book Leyla Acaroglu for your event, you bring in a proven changemaker who combines real-world experience with a compelling ability to engage and motivate audiences. Her keynotes are tailored to empower teams to break silos, embrace systems thinking, and implement innovative solutions that future-proof their businesses.

If your organization is seeking a powerful catalyst for transformation, Keynote Speaker Leyla Acaroglu delivers the insights and tools to make sustainability a competitive advantage. Book Leyla Acaroglu for your event to inspire actionable change and lead your industry toward a regenerative future.

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Leyla inspires and helps people to equip themselves with agency, tools, and knowledge they need to shape the world and transform our lifestyles.

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Leyla Acaroglu is an amazing speaker, and her concept of using environmental folklore to simplify and explain complex systems is brilliant. She engages even the most cynical to her thought-provoking conclusion that design and innovation can lead to a more sustainable future.

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Keynotes

Keynote by Leyla Acaroglu:

Advancing the Circular Economy

Creating a circular economy requires new ways of doing business and delivering value into the economy, drawing deeply from the technical framework provided in the new ISO standings for the circular economy.

As we transform all aspects of how we live and work, design and build, consume and move, there are multiple ways that individuals, companies and governments can participate in this great redesign for a sustainable future. Providing either a synopsis or a deep dive into the technical aspects of the circular economy, Leyla can tailor this talk to ensure that the audience is educated and motivated to be involved in the global transformation. Topics include sustainable design, life cycle thinking, circular business strategies and examples of circular business solutions.

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Designing for Circular Sustainability

This talk shows how to go beyond the obvious to transform products and services to fit within the circular economy. 

Through a three-dimensional framework, Leyla shows companies and designers how to advance their sustainability journey through the operational, product and experiential impacts of what they do, providing practical tools and actions for understanding impacts, advancing sustainability and leveraging transformative change. 

In-depth explanations of eco-design, life cycle thinking, circular business strategies, sustainable supply chains or environmental policy are provided based on the audience demographics and length of talk.

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Keynote by Leyla Acaroglu:

The Hidden Impacts of Tech & AI

With such rapid technological and cultural changes underway, this talk challenges the audience to consider the role of bias, environmental impacts and social ramifications of our new technology. How can we harness the power of tech to design and create the conditions for positive change instead of wasting more resources?

From dark patterning to implicit bias and the rapid ecological impact of AI, the tech sector is known for creating entirely new ways of directing and even manipulating users whilst obscuring the negative impacts. So, how can data and AI be used for good? This talk explores ways to tackle creative challenges and opportunities head-on through the power of positively disruptive technology, UX/UI, products, and AI. While also exploring some of the dangers to ensure that we use technology for the greater good.

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Keynote by Leyla Acaroglu:

The Secret to Solving Complex Problems: Systems Thinking

Systems thinking is a tool for understanding the complexity that exists in the world around us. From business systems to natural ones, we are constantly interacting with and creating systems at play—but most people think in reductive, siloed ways, making it very hard to design solutions that work with the interconnected, interdependent systems around us.

This talk explores the macro and micro systems at play, shares systems dynamics, and introduces mapping and intervention techniques that help people design effective interventions to transform systems and ensure that we work within complexity rather than against it.

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Keynote by Leyla Acaroglu:

Nature-Positive Design Solutions

The entire economy is fueled by resources extracted from nature, and it’s the linear system of production and waste that we are seeking to solve with more circular, regenerative ways of creating value in the economy.

Decoupling is one of the ways that businesses can build capital growth whilst reducing natural resource inputs.

The suite of nature-positive laws, design solutions, and technical opportunities will become more relevant as more policies come online to value nature, and more natural systems require regeneration.

This talk shows you what's happening and why you should take a nature-positive approach.

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Keynote by Leyla Acaroglu:

Reframing Sustainability

Consumer and regulatory demands ensure that products and services are designed in more sustainable ways. For too long, sustainability has been seen as a ‘nice-to-have’ or add-on option, although the landscape has changed significantly to require companies to take full accountability for the impacts of their actions. This talk introduces different sustainability movements in detail, such as ESG, the UN Sustainable

Development Goals and the circular economy, while also adding in the technical and practical aspects for advancing business and ensuring success. In this inspirational and motivational talk, Leyla challenges the audience to think differently about what sustainability can mean for them in work and life, and shares how to embrace the changes we need to bring about a more equitable and sustainable future.

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