Tessa Wernink

Tessa Wernink is a business activist, coach and social entrepreneur.  She supports and emboldens professionals to confidently organise and take positive action around climate action and social justice within their workplaces. To this end, she recently co-founded the Undercover Activist - a learning hub for employee-led change.  

She is co-founder of Fairphone, a pioneering enterprise in the social-impact space. The example set by Fairphone - turning a campaign for fairer electronics into an impact-driven business model - inspired her to create a platform for other social entrepreneurs around the world. The podcast series What If We Get It Right? features mission-driven leaders who are using their business models to drive sustainable change in areas like gender equality, inclusive education, renewable energy and other global goals.

Born in Hong Kong, Tessa has lived and worked in Japan, China, England and Israel. She studied English Literature and International Development in Amsterdam and has since trained in journalism, deep democracy, non-violent communications and is a THNK Creative Leadership alumni. She now lives in Amsterdam with her British husband and three sons.