About Us

jody turner | 

Jody Turner, Culture of Future, is an insight strategist and writer with a foundation in design communications. For sixteen years Turner has advised 200+ brands on project initiatives small, large, local and global in scope. Her specialty is innovating to the human experience. To date, her favorite work has been with sparks and honey, TrendWatching, IDEO, Starbucks, Nike, and Apple.

paola ferrari | 

Paola Ferrari’s platform developed by the non-profit she founded in a small village of Calabria, Italy (L’Accademia di Gagliato, nanogagliato.org) has received mention by UNESCO and is now replicated in several countries. Paola is among the founders of the Equality Moonshot, an initiative aimed to balance global wealth allocation as a requisite to achieve the SDGs.

carla de landri | 

Carla De Landri, Emmy-winning journalist, produced at ABC News for decades, and reported on the Gulf War, US political campaigns, the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. She and her team were the first to break the story about sexual assault at the US Air Force Academy and uncovered inhumane labor practices faced by women in clothing factories.

Since ABC, Carla has pursued a wider portfolio as a media consultant. For the PBS NewsHour she produced a story on vaping. She has also contributed her skills to Reading Partners, a national organization for children’s literacy. For impactmania, Carla is writing an occasional column on media and news. She also serves as a member of the jury for the impactmania students fellowships program.

pak schreurs | 

Pak Schreurs is a Director in Corporate Strategy at Evonik, one of the world’s largest specialty chemicals companies.

Prior, Pak worked in marketing and strategic partnerships for Procter & Gamble, Cisco Systems, Toyota, and Sony.

Throughout her career, she has been active in societal critical organizations including the South African-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Pak is a mentor to young professionals through the Exchangeables; impactmania; and her alumni network.

A graduate of CEMS Master’s in International Management from RSM Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, she has lived and worked in the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, the UK, and Germany, is fluent in Dutch, English, and German.

francesca milocco | 

Francesca Milocco, impactmania’s Program Manager and Community Liaison, was born and raised in Udine, Italy. After obtaining a master in Chemistry at the University of Trieste, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Groningen. Francesca’s research in the field of coordination chemistry and homogeneous catalysis with a focus on sustainable issues resulted in 5 publications in scientific journals and was presented in several international conferences. Francesca’s ambition to contribute to develop a more sustainable society by connecting people and projects within an international and interdisciplinary context brought her to join impactmania’s team.

pakley cheng | 

Pakley Cheng is a Marketing Communication professional specialized in (re)branding, communication and promotion of sustainable products and companies. She traded in her extensive commercial background maximizing the value of highly recognized brands to support positive social projects. In 2017, she founded the agency LMK. With LMK she takes on engaging community projects and spends her time mostly giving back to society through producing (inter)national projects to benefit vulnerable and underserved communities.