NICOLE BASTIEN (natural person):
Advocate. Advisor. Leader.
Future Economy Architect.
Woman of The People.
People have given me many labels over the years. Each one reflects a facet of my being. I wouldn’t call them “branding,” yet they speak for themselves.
The way I see myself, though: Unapologetically Human.
My Work in this World
A few years ago, I made a decisive shift: Beyond supporting leaders and policymakers in actualizing their meaningful impact, I committed to actively practicing the messy, upfront transformational work required for an economy in service to humanity myself.
To realize this vision, I transitioned all my business activities into the CO-LAB for Future Economics. And with that, establishing a non-profit structure that sustains my work beyond the CO-LAB, e.g, What Matters and my Fine Advisory. This is my approach to translating my vision of a future economy into something real, rooted, and constantly evolving.
Each of the CO-LAB initiatives acts as a portal for transformation, enabling those who work with me to step into their next iteration.
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CO-LAB for Future Economics
RESEARCH
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
EXECUTION CONSULTING
& TRANSFORMATION SERVICESThink-and-do tank co-creating new frameworks for business, capital, investment, and governance in service to humanity and our planet.
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What Matters
COMMUNITY ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT
BIOREGIONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
& CONSULTINGA global movement developing bioregions through regenerative community economy development, currently active in South Africa and Kenya.
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Fine Advisory
WORKING FROM THE FUTURE
IMPACT RIPPLE STRATEGY
MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
STORIES & COMMUNICATIONStrategy, communication, and visionary support for entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders ready to transform vision into impact. Business meets consciousness.
My Offer:
Space for Transformation
In my advisory work, I don’t just sell services, or hand out blueprints, or apply frameworks — though I am fluent in a bazillion of them and love structure and tangible results.
However, what I offer is S∙P∙A∙C∙E.
Space to challenge your thinking, your assumptions, your self-perception.
Space to challenge what’s missing.
To reveal what’s already alive but unseen.
To sit with what you sense and already deeply know, but fear to speak it out loud and bring it to the world. I am here to remind you of your destiny.
I bring the learning from my lived experience. My clarity, intuition, and the ability to transcend energy into precise language. That’s what opens the way forward.
People leave conversations with me saying:
"I’ve never talked about this with anyone before."
"I’ve never seen it this way."
"Now, it finally makes sense."
That’s what happens here, at my Fine Advisory. And in the CO-LAB for Future Economics and through my What Matters Initiative, I translate my vision of a future economy into something real, rooted, and evolving.
I create openings for transition and transformation, so that communities, organizations, and people can grow into their next iteration.
I am driven by people, their stories, dreams, aspirations, and visions, and by the possibility of impactful transformation.
I am here to co-create prosperous economies that serve us: humanity and nature.
My work goes deep and I take things apart — not to break them, but to remember what’s been forgotten, to reconnect what was always meant to move together, and to make space for what’s next.
I work where the ground is shifting — where systems reach their edge, where leaders outgrow their stories, where capital seeks meaning, and investment longs for true impact.
Some call my work strategy & communication.
Others call it visionary support.
I call it seeing what’s already there before the world catches up and making it happen.
Each single part of my work is a fragment. Together, they are a shift in motion and my contribution to a more regenerative economy; an economy that benefits people and our planet.
Who Finds
and Works
With Me
People find me when their old answers stop working, and the next step hasn’t revealed itself yet. I don’t pitch. I don’t convince people to live or work a certain way. I don’t prove right or wrong.
I offer new perspectives and transformative ways forward to
Visionaries standing at the threshold of something bigger—ready to turn what they see into tangible impact.
Investors who know capital is more than money—and want to transform both their understanding and practice of investment.
Leaders who sense the shift before others do—and want to embody future leadership, grounded in consciousness.
Creators, connectors, and system architects who move between worlds—and want to advocate for a regenerative future with greater influence.