Economist | author | speaker | researcher | lecturer | advisor.
Economy as a sanctuary for all life.
“As we are debunking the myth of normal,
the emergence of a new economy is our healing response to
a deeply fragmented world.”
author | uneconomist | therapist
Reflection on who we are is a gift to ourselves.
Expression of who we are is our gift to the world.
A new reality is lived into being.





THRIVE fundamentals for a new economy.
Kees Klomp and Shinta Oosterwaal consult unconventional economic thinkers such as Kate Raworth, Charles Eisenstein, John Elkington Clair Brown, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Daniel Christian Wahl, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Mark Anielski, Hunter L. Lovins, Vandana Shiva, Carol Anne Hilton, and many more to offer readers the fundamentals for a new economy.
Fundamentals that focus not on the growth of prosperity but the well-being of our world. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking the fundamental economic perspectives that will make the world thrive.
Publisher: Business Contact

Anders Verder
Dit boek is geschreven na jarenlang nadenken over het economisch systeem: hoe kan het beter, anders, met meer betekenis worden ingericht? Het is het resultaat van andere inzichten, opruiende ideeën, onbegaanbare paden, halsstarrig volhouden dat het anders kan, inspirerende aha-momenten en regelrechte eureka-gedachten. Hoe zou het verder gaan met deze wereld, die zo maakbaar leek voor de coronacrisis?
Met bijdragen van Jeroen Smit (inleiding) | Geert Degrande | Savitri Groag | Michael van Loenen | An Kramer | Martijn Raaijmakers | Ann Maes | Hans Stegeman | Arjan Broers | Geanne van Arkel | Stephan Ummelen | Anne Griet Brader | Ynzo van Zanten | Mischa Verheijden | Linda Modderkolk en Jur Koksma | Ralph Zebregs | Elke Leyman | Pieter Spinder | Shinta Oosterwaal | Martin Schuurman | Ilja Werkhoven | Kees Klomp | Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker | Ron van Es (eindredacteur) | Jan Bommerez (nawoord)
Uitgever: Studio Kers

The existential dimension of transitions
“To further (economic) transitions in society as professionals we need a more fundamental and more complete understanding of the existential dimension of transitions. We need to integrate the idea of human consciousness as a driving force for change, and intervene in ways that mobilize the creative capital of people”.
Shinta uses interventions aimed at deep personal growth in relation to organizational development to invoke a new coprorate culture that gives a new direction to the role of business as a vehicle of value for people and society. Enabling her clients to move from business as usual in a conventional economy to business unusual in an ecosystem of regeneration.
WHATNOW.earth
A global community of business leaders, scientists, creative agents and social entrepreneurs is rising. They stand at the frontier of a new world as a bold community of practice. It’s their daily business to work on the re-envisioning and building of our society, our economy and our businesses around new values, awakening conscious leadership, social innovation and human flourishing. I am interviewing 21 of these forward thinkers, see-ers and doers during the Corona crisis to ask them: WHAT is manifesting NOW on EARTH? Take some time to share the space with professionals letting you in on their perspectives of the future.

My work finds its way into the world through projects such as my books Anders Verder (Dutch), Thrive – Fundamentals for a new economy (available autumn 2021) and Handbook Purpose economy (Dutch, available end 2021); my interviews as founder of WHATNOW.earth, 21 interviews with business leaders, scientists, creatives, and social entrepeneurs at the frontier of a new world; my lectures and reserach at School for Change & Avans university of applied science, and through advisory work with companies ready to embrace business unusual.