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YOUR STRATEGY PARTNER FOR LEADING INCLUSIVE IMPACT
Margin Innovation helps companies to identify and implement opportunities for inclusive and transformative impact. Our Impact consulting practice offers deep, on the ground expertise in emerging and developing economies. Our team of senior consultants thrive at the intersection of profit and impact, and have led initiatives within major multinationals, including:
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OUR
SERVICES
Our expertise includes Value-chain innovation, Product/Service design for developing and emerging markets, Coaching/advisory for impact stewardship, and Strategic impact for marketing.
VALUE CHAIN INNOVATION
for sustainable social impact
PRODUCT/
SERVICE DESIGN
for developing / emerging markets
IMPACT + MARKETING
Visible impact that drives sales
COACHING & ADVISORY
for ESG & Impact stewardship
WHERE WE WORK
WHO WE ARE
We are a team of experts in strategic Design & Innovation for Impact. Each Designer and Strategist brings at least a decade of experience in this domain, as well as robust credentials working within complex settings, vulnerable communities, and fragile ecosystems. We are a woman-led team with roots in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
We celebrate diversity in all its forms, including culture, race, ethnicity, tribe, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, religion, political affiliation, age, and physical ability.
Bizhou is an architect turned researcher with over a decade of experience working on design, cultural insights, and innovation projects with multinational corporations and development organizations. She has worked on four continents with an extensive focus on Asia on topics spanning from spaces, sustainability, food behaviors, and clean cooking.
BIZHOU
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BIZHOU WANG
ESG & Cultural Lead
DUNCAN STEVENS
Duncan, is a South African research, UX and design professional with 15 years experience and training in industrial design, visual design and UX. As a co-founder of an open-source bio-design collective, he has led several contextually specific projects in South Africa for marginalised communities and research organisations. Duncan currently lives and works in Cape Town.
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DUNCAN
Director
ESG/Corporate Impact
MARIKO TAKEUCHI
Mariko has 19 years of experience designing programmes, services, products, and systems for NGOs, corporations, development agencies, governments, donors, and universities. She has worked across Africa and Asia on topics spanning agriculture, education, employment, energy, finance, gender, health, livelihoods, markets, SRH, sustainability, and WASH. She holds a MSc. Poverty Alleviation, Policy & Practice.
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Head of Design & CEO
MARIKO
Madeleine is a designer and implementer with 12 years of experience designing, deploying, and evaluating health communications, products, and services that meet the needs of diverse audiences in Africa and Asia. She has worked with governments, companies, INGOs, and funders on various health topics including SRHR, HIV/AIDS, VMMC, Menstrual Health, and infant and child health.
MADELEINE
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MADELEINE MOORE
Design Lead &
Strategic Advisor
ABDUL SEMAKULA
As former co-founder of a web agency serving over 1,500 SME customers in UAE and Europe, Abdul has consulted on web/software projects for government, INGOs, and corporations in Uganda. After questioning his role in the digital space, he has spent the last 4 years working in social innovation and is focused on applying design and systems thinking for social and environmental initiatives.
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ABDUL
Innovation &
Learning Manager
PRITHIKA MOHAN
Prithika brings in experience from behavioral science, product and industrial design, spanning Silicon Valley start-ups to universities, businesses and philanthropic organizations in the Global South. She utilizes systems-design, behaviourally-informed theories and intersectional approaches to design product, programs & strategies, focusing on gender, health & climate.
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PRITHIKA
Co-Director of Development
& Director of Operations
Nick is a community-centered design director and innovation strategist. His 10+ years of design experience spans across healthcare, banking, social impact, behavioral health, education, social service, insurance, as well as tech sectors. He has worked alongside corporations, INGO’s, non-profits, government, startups, foundations, and academic institutions.
NICK
NICK CHAN
Inclusive
Innovation Strategist
GUNES KOCABAG
Gunes is an anthropologist/designer with 14 years of global experience designing human-centred solutions and capacity building in complex stakeholder environments. She has worked with companies, governments, funders, and I/NGOs in humanitarian and development spaces on topics covering healthcare, disability, GBV, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, HR, climate adaptation among others.
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GUNES
Research/Design Lead
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
"The high-quality outputs were useful for problem-solving and designing of solutions. The crisp insights were crucial for convincing (key decision-makers) to open up their minds."
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