Circular Earth
Founder and Director of Circular Earth, a boutique circularity consultancy supporting businesses to move ahead of the curve.
About Rachel
Grounded circularity, built from real fashion industry experience.
Rachel Sheila Kan is a changemaker, speaker, author, educator and business developer in the circular and regenerative domain of fashion.
Her work is focused on defining the future of circularity in fashion and beyond, with an inter-industry approach that connects design, business, education, innovation and collaboration.
Rachel comes from two decades of design, product development, project management and design management practice, alongside lecturing in sustainability, ethics and business development.
Across her work she puts realism and actualisation at the centre: not just theory, but reality. That is exactly why she belongs in the Real Circularity Summit room.
Her work
Founder, co-founder, educator and ecosystem builder.
Rachel’s projects connect people and businesses to the practical transition work needed for circular futures.
Real Circularity
Co-founder of Real Circularity, focused on education, business systems, new economics, training, coaching and innovation application.
The Ecosystem Incubator
Founder of a collaborative ecosystem created to bring micro-businesses and professionals together from seed to store.
“True innovation occurs when things are put together for the first time that had been separate.”
Quoted on RSKan.com from Arthur Koestler and John Smythies. It is a useful lens for Rachel’s work: collaboration, systems thinking and making circularity practical.
At the Summit
Rachel helps bring the real into Real Circularity.
As one of the hosts, Rachel brings lived experience from fashion, consultancy, education, ecosystem building and circular business development.
Direct conversation
Rachel’s work is collaborative by nature, making her a strong host for roundtables and grounded summit dialogue.
Practical transition
Her consulting and education work is focused on helping businesses move from sustainability language into applied change.
Fashion systems
She connects product, design, supply chain, business development and ecosystem collaboration across the fashion space.