Nisha Faizal

Co-founder and lead facilitator of Ecocentric Transitions

“The idea is to create a world where we don’t have to be saving trees, but people want the trees saved because it fits a function they understand. So, that’s where we’re going. It sounds rather grand, but we have to start somewhere, and school children are a good place to start, right?”

Driven by a no-nonsense focus on empowering individuals and communities, Nisha Faizal is co-founder and lead facilitator of a social enterprise offering hands-on environmental education to students of all ages. With her partner Lymun Loo, both professionally trained engineers, she founded Ecocentric Transitions in 2010. Their organization builds hard and soft skills and facilitates collaboration in order to raise environmental empathy and transform behavior. Nisha offers consulting services, experiential activities and service learning on food security, sustainable living practices, environmental education and waste management. She is especially attentive to the sustainability of her facilitative efforts. She works from the initial moments of each partnership to set the groundwork for social impacts that will last long after she is gone.