Labs

B Lab is a not-for-profit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. B Lab creates standards, policies, tools, and programs that shift the behaviour, culture, and structural underpinnings of capitalism. B Lab mobilises the B Corp community towards collective action to address society’s most critical challenges.

Small Giants was the first B Corp in Australia, and SGA Labs proudly incubated the B Lab project to the point at which it could be spun out as a stand-alone non-profit organisation.

Regen Melbourne is an engine for ambitious collaboration in service to our city. Founded in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, Regen Melbourne is now powered by an alliance of more than 200 organisations and provides a backbone function for wildly ambitious collaborative projects.

SGA Labs co-founded and incubated Regen Melbourne until it spun out as an independent non-profit organisation in early 2024.

The School of Life is a passionate group of people on a mission to bring about healing, growth, calm and self-understanding. With ideas derived from psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, art and culture, The School of Life is here to teach people how life can be lived and what can make it truly worthwhile, effective and fulfilling.

SGA Labs founded and incubated the first School of Life campus outside of London as a pop-up experiment in 2013. In 2014, The School of Life Australia opened its doors and ran in Melbourne and Sydney until its closure due to COVID-19 in 2020.

Think West was a once-off philosophy and culture festival held in Melbourne’s inner-west in spring 2016. With a gathering of prominent thinkers, local actors, and the general public, close to 50 events were hosted across two weeks.

SGA Labs and The School of Life created and hosted Think West.

Impact Safaris are transformational travel experiences into leadership for a hopeful future. Participants travel together to destinations around the world to explore principles of the next economy.

SGA Labs founded and incubated Impact Safari before it became an active education program within SGA.

Impact Club is Australia’s first impact investing network created for wholesale investors who want to deploy capital to create positive social and environmental impact.

SGA Labs founded and incubated Impact Club as a way to gather and direct a powerful network of capital holders towards a thriving society within planetary boundaries.

Plan C (formerly Resilient Byron) is a community-led initiative to build connection, resilience, and regenerative capacities of Northern Rivers communities in the face of future disasters and crises.

SGA Labs co-founded and incubated Plan C.

The Community Well was an experiment that facilitated individuals to invest financial capital in their local community. The Community Well was established in the Northern Rivers and sets criteria for all of its lending that are aligned with positive social and environmental impact, as well as a mandate to lend locally.

SGA Labs co-founded and incubated The Community Well until the experiment ended in 2021.

The Next Economy Strategy Team (NEST) was a project developed during COVID-19 as a way of convening our alliance of friends and partners during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, and to explore opportunities for rapid transformation in the midst of major disruption. Three major NESTs were facilitated, with more than 100 people, across three themes: Sustainable Cities & Resilient Communities, Clean Energy & Healthy Ecosystems, and Jobs, Business & Finance. Nine collaborative micro-projects were established and facilitated as a result of these NESTs.

SGA Labs founded and hosted the NEST program.