I am director and founder of the eco-centric investment office , which directs capital on behalf of nature and shifts worldviews towards interconnection with all life. Current areas of investment and research include regenerative agriculture, bioeconomies, earth jurisprudence, ecosystem restoration, ecological pedagogy, consciousness change, and scientific research that illuminates life’s relational processes. More at www.naiatrust.com.
I am currently a board member at the Crowther Lab, and co-directed SEED Biocomplexity at the Crowther Lab at ETH University in Zurich, developing the world’s most comprehensive assessment of biodiversity for any location on the planet. Our goal is to steer financial and political systems into a holistic relationship with the living world and embed the true value of nature into the economy.
As a writer, photographer and wilderness guide, I bring people into direct contact with nature. In my role as an Associate at Leaders’ Quest and through the company I founded in Mexico, Atlas Unbound (now in hibernation), I develop and lead multi-day immersive learning journeys for global corporations and decision-makers. These journeys embody the thesis that we learn most rapidly and durably through direct experience, and that visceral connection is a remedy to our systemic alienation from the world.
As a means to inspire a greater number of people to learn and participate in these areas, I started the podcast and open-source database Lifeworlds. Here, I ask “How can we learn to see the world through the eyes and mind of nature? How do we better serve the earth and other humans when we inhabit multiple perspectives?”
I am trained in methodologies such as Theory U, Art of Hosting, 3 Horizons, The Work that Reconnects, Outward Bound, Unschool Design, EGP, IDEO Storytelling, as well as being a Regenesis Regenerative Practitioner and Biomimicry Institute alumni.
In summary: My life’s work centers on bringing human society into harmony with the Earth, through approaches that emphasize large-scale regeneration, consciousness shifts, and the intelligent redesign of systems that enchant us to beauty.
This website is a portfolio of my creative soul, a collection of my work and other things I come across that inspire me to keep creating, writing, and being. For my professional landing page, please redirect yourself here.
If you are interested in talking please reach out at
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MEDIA AND PODCASTS
- Talk at DLD Munich exploring how we can integrate the scientific and the intuitive to align with the true nature of our planetary ecology as a living, symbiotic organism.
- On the Next Economy Now podcast on investing in nature, as well as Naia Trust’s strategy and approach, dilemmas and challenges…
- With my friend Nate Hagens, speaking to “Biodiversity, Beauty and Being”: the relationship between climate and biodiversity, how we build emotional resilience for the times to come, grief, metacrisis, rewilding, monetizing of nature, biocredits, LifeWorlds podcast, animism, connecting to land, art, and other advice… https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/106-alexa-firmenich
- On Ma Earth ‘The Regeneration Will be Funded’ with Matthew Monahan… animism, investing, biodiversity measurement, framings of being human, MRV, and spirituality of ecology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lur6ArB_s68
- On the New Wholstand podcast: https://podcast.regenerativemarktwirtschaft.org/episode/alexa-firmenich
- How I think about deep ecology principles and investing in nature https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trashtalk-studio/id1543259405?i=1000556179500 and https://open.spotify.com/episode/0y0NxflKBLFxahBuBLs1WX?si=786a99e897f64ec2&nd=1











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