The Explorers Club Fieldbook is created for anyone bold enough to explore systemic investing. It’s written for our entire ecosystem: impact investors and institutions, wealth owners and peers, current and future Explorers, and the many allies who share our belief that change must be built together.
The spirit of this Fieldbook is learning by doing. Because systemic change is never the work of one author or one community — it is co-written by many. This is your Fieldbook too. More chapters will follow. Not just by us, but maybe also by you.
An intro: who we are, what we do, projects, dots and more
Systemic Infrastructure
Systemic Mindset
Embracing complexity with new tools
There Is No Such Thing as a Portfolio
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« Back to our fieldbook There is no such thing as a fishThat's a real statement from biology. "Fish" is a catch-all label that bundles together creatures with almost nothing in common. A starfish and a salmon share less evolutionary history than a...
« Back to our fieldbook Each Explorer walked their own path to this club. Maybe there was a project that wouldn't leave them alone. A relationship with someone doing work that seemed important. A topic that has become a passion. It’s rare that...
« Back to our fieldbook Making the invisible visible — the heatmapsInvesting to catalyse systemic transformation is a complex task. If we want to navigate forward then we need some way to see where we’re at and decide where we want to go. Is there a...
« Back to our fieldbook The patterns reflect where our network currently sits. But regenerative agriculture, bioregional governance, community-owned enterprise, alternative ownership all exist across the Global South too, often with deeper roots and...
« Back to our fieldbook The way that we understand conventional portfolio management is that it’s necessary, but not sufficient. The rigour and discipline are needed. Practices around vetting and pipeline development are useful. Modeling different...
« Back to our fieldbook But where are we headed? We tend to think about the portfolio's development in three horizons. This isn’t a project plan per se, it’s more of a direction of travel.Horizon 1 (now → 12 months): Populate the heatmaps with...
« Back to our fieldbook Behind the heatmaps sits a simple organizing question that runs through everything we do: as we follow our interests and relationships, are we embodying a shift from wealth-as-preservation to wealth-as-stewardship? This...
« Back to our fieldbook Practitioner tools, templates, and worked examples to accompany the main chapter. These are not prescriptions — they're starting points. Take what's useful, adapt what isn't, and let us know what you find.Annex A - Iceberg ×...