About Us
Cascading is intent on seeing every business reach its unique potential as a force for life.
Cascading is a regenerative business firm helping leaders translate the wisdom living systems carry into strategic intelligence their business needs.
We support leaders in developing regenerative organizations, ones that naturally enable systemic health, abundance, and value.
With more than a decade of experience across industries, geographies, and scales, we have worked with leaders of grassroots initiatives, financial institutions, and multinational companies, co-creating a world where business becomes a genuine force for life.
Cascading’s Team
Cascading's team is comprised of passionate, experienced and Life-loving individuals.
Carolina Fernández-Jansink
Founding Principal
Twenty-five years ago Carolina stepped into the intersection of business and living systems, and never wanted to leave. The last 15 have been dedicated to helping leaders translate the wisdom living systems carry into business intelligence that enables systemic health, abundance, and value.
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Her path has been shaped by twenty-five years working across the full spectrum of how business relates to living systems — from conventional corporate environments to some of the most pioneering movements of our time: the first Sustainable Cities Initiative, SAM Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Triodos Bank, Biomimicry 3.8, Companies that Mimic Life, Corporate Ecology, Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Finance, Regenerative Education, Laudato Si', and the native wisdom the land she comes from carries.
She is the Founding Principal of Cascading.co and co-founding partner of DearWise.Earth, and serves on the Advisory Boards of Savory Foundation, Campo Garzón, Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional, Mycelium, and Net Positive.
She holds an MSc in Business from Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management, a BSc from Tecnológico de Monterrey, and is Biomimicry Certified by Biomimicry 3.8.
And where all of this is rooted: mother of two boys, wife, and dance professional. Together they belong to: the lush Appalachian Piedmont Forests, the crystalline Caribbean Bioregion, the majestic Sierra Madre Oriental, and the peaceful Atlantic Mixed Forests of Europe.
Bowie Yin Sum Kung
Life-centered Communicator
Hong Kong native and descendant of the Tenka peoples and Zhejiang Han tribe, Bowie Yin Sum Kung is a regenerative writer, passionate environmental educator and activist, and tenacious composter.
She promotes composting and agroecology with various local organizations and institutions in Costa Rica.
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At Cascading, Bowie is committed to centering Life in creating different forms of communication and relationships. In her work, she strives to reflect and connect deeply with Living systems, speaking to the Life in the reader.
Bowie holds a Certificate in Regenerative Entrepreneurship and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, and is currently pursuing her MS in Climate Change and Development from SOAS University of London.
Bowie grew up on volcanic islands in the Jian Nan Subtropical Forests (now known as Hong Kong) and is now grateful to live in traditional Huetar territory and the Rio Toyogres watershed in the Isthmian forest of Costa Rica, with her partner, Juan, and a dog, Sultan.
Rebecca Barbara MacKinnon
Rebecca is a creative from Cape Town, South Africa, who is dedicated to purposeful endeavors in design, biomimicry, and regeneration. Kind and welcoming, she is committed to bringing intention and care to all aspects of her work.
Life-centered Researcher & Designer
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At Cascading, Rebecca plays a vital role in planning, design implementation, and visual communication, infusing her projects with creativity and beauty. As a biomimicry professional and educator, Rebecca mentors aspiring professionals, manages communities, contributes to educational product development, and shares her expertise in systems-based biomimetic architecture design, advocating for living buildings that embrace biophilia and ecological performance standards.
Rebecca holds a MSc in Bio-inspired Innovation from Utrecht University, a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology from the University of Cape Town, Design Thinking Certificate from Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design, and is a Biomimicry Practitioner (Biomimicry Academy Germany).
Rebecca is a sister to four and an aunt to two, and connects to Place through ocean swims and sunrise hikes. She is part of the Berg watershed and Cape Floristic Region.
Ing. Ramón Fernández Gallegos ☨
As a visionary business leader, creative, father, and engineer, he was one of the original inspirations for Cascading. He lived with the conviction that true abundance and lasting solutions lie within wisdom that the natural world carries. The legacy of his vision and drive continues to guide Cascading’s journey.
Co-initiator
Cascading Advisors & Friends
We are truly inspired by the life and work of our Advisors & Friends, in the fields of Regeneration, Life-centered Design, Biomimicry, Arts and Finance. We are grateful for the support and friendship they have provided us with.
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Daniela Ibarra-Howell
Co-founder Savory Institue and CEO Savory Foundation
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Heidi Lender
Founder Campo Garzón
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Victoria Keziah
Sustainability Strategist
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Wilco van Heteren
Supervisor Asset Management at Autoriteit Financiële Markten & Former Research & Methodology Director, Sustainalytics Morningstar
Cascading Collaborators
Cascading is honored to walk alongside impactful businesses that are allies in transitioning toward business as a force for life.
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Dear Wise Earth
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Ingoin Strategy
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Nature Design Lab
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Regenerative Communities Network
Movements, Organizations & People we admire
With their approval, we humbly recognize here the loving pioneers & the movements they helped create and grow.
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Jay Bragdon
Author on the Emerging EcoRenaissance
General Partner at Conservest ManagementLife and Business
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Eduard Müller
President and Rector at Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional, UNESCO Chair for Biosphere Reserves, Natural and Mixed World Heritage Sites
Regenerative Education and Living Systems Learning
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Gregorio von Hildebrand
Founder of DearWise.Earth and PT Taman Bebek International
Indigenous Wisdom
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Jenny Andersson
Founder of Really Regenerative Centre CIC
Lighthouse and Confluence of Regenerative Practitioners
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John Fullerton
Founder and President of Capital Institute
Regenerative Economics
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Li An Phoa
Drinkable Rivers Initiator and Founder
Voice and Movement of Rivers
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Melina Ángel
Bioregional Regenerator & Biomimicry Professor at Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional
Living and Regenerative Systems advisor at BioStudioVoice of Latin America, Biology and Evolution of Life
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Thomas Steiner
Director at Fluxus Time
Associate at Sustainable Finance Lab, Utrecht University
Former Head of Corporate Identity, Triodos BankAnthroposophy and Finance
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Savory Institute
Facilitating the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands and the livelihoods of their inhabitants, through Holistic Management.
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Bioregional & Energy-based Money
Business Leaders & Stewards
Cascading works with Leaders like you - leaders who have a deep purpose and drive to act, to propose, to create something new, something better.
With you, we see a world where businesses become a force for life.
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Rijkswaterstaat
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Living Companies
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La Matriz, Pacífico Mexicano
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Fraai Biomimicry Architect
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Flux Capital
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S-Hub Norway
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Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional
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COBIOM
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Jönköping University
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Social Value Institute
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The Really Regenerative Center
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SVX
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Biomimicry NL
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Wolfram Blockchain Labs
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Lichen Labs
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Tecnológico de Monterrey, Centro del Agua
Bioregions we belong to
Although our work is global, we honor the places and mentors we call home, the bioregions and watersheds that sustain us.
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Appalachian Piedmont Forests
Atlanta, USA
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Sierra Madre Oriental
Monterrey, Mexico
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Atlantic Mixed Forests
The Netherlands
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Cape Floralistic Region
Cape Town, South Africa
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Isthmian Forests
Costa Rica
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Caribbean Bioregion
Florida, USA
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Featured cascade
Skógafoss, Iceland
*With the exception of the featured cascade image, all photographs featured throughout our publications are taken by members of our ecosystem, specially by Daniela Esponda, in bioregions we inhabit or visit.
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