Laura François

About

I believe building cultures of change is essential to meeting the challenges of our time, especially those rooted in climate and systemic crisis. As the Director and Co-Founder of Awe Exchange, I’ve surfaced Systems Feeling, an approach that helps people and organizations emotionally engage with complexity, bridge siloed thinking, and co-create the conditions for collective, grounded action. My work focuses on translating systems change into lived experience—connecting what happens on the ground with the broader coalitions, strategies, and relationships that make transformation possible. Over the past decade, I’ve led initiatives that operate across sectors and scales, from co-founding The Spaceship, an entrepreneurship program supporting first-time founders in building impact-driven businesses, to launching Artisan & Fox, a social enterprise connecting rural artisans to global markets through transparent and ethical supply chains. I’ve supported early-stage innovations through incubators like Fashion for Good, and partnered with governments, nonprofits, and businesses to develop initiatives rooted in long-term impact. Alongside this, I co-founded ANEWKIND, a Southeast Asian collec

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