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THE OCTOPUS MOVEMENT

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We are building a global movement
of 1 billion nonlinear thinkers.

The Octopus Movement
2022

THINKING
FEELING

EXPLORING

We are here to drive acceptance and awareness of the awesome abilities of atypical thinkers. 
 

Check out our manifesto.

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Board of 
Inspiration

I have been in good company since the start of this movement on March 6, 2021. All the cuddo's to you who inspired me to do this. And thank you "My Octopus Teacher", what a beautiful documentary. 

Since then everything happened. 
We are growing very fast.
We are the oldest and the youngest.
We are in darkness and in light.
We are the largest and the smallest.
We are creation.


 

- Perry Knoppert

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Perry
Knoppert 
FOUNDER & CEO 
The Octopus Movement, Amsterdam
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Aka "Dr. Octopus", the specialist in nonlinear thinking. #thenonlineareffect

Christine
Charitonos 
Founder & CEO What Does Not, London
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Aka "Trouble", has dedicated most of her personal and professional life looking for out-of-the-box thinkers and those that don’t conform to normalcy. She also hates bios.

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Maxine
Cunningham 
Founder & CEO PickMyBrain.world, Vancouver 
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Aka "Musk Max", who is building the worlds first peer to peer knowledge marketplace and filling it with the worlds smartest and most interestingly weird people. Super Brain (more than 100 Brain dates).

Todd
Cherches 
Co-Founder & CEO
BigBlueGumball, New York 
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CEO. Executive Coach (MG100). Award-winning adjunct professor of leadership at NYU and Columbia University. TEDx speaker. Author of the book, “VisuaLeadership.”

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Eran
Thomson 
Joy Pusher and Entrepreneur Australia 
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Founder: Laugh-Masters Academy, PowerProv, Song Saga. Host of the One Word Suggestion podcast. Creative leader, writer and spreader of joy.

Claudia
Lieshout  
Principal Design Research at Philips Design, Eindhoven
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Claudia has spend already more then two decades on exploring the future and guiding businesses in responding to trends in the context of health.

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Sobhan 
Chowdhury  
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Founder, The Speakers Corner, Dhaka
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Sobhan is a full-time corporate professional who aspires to uphold public speaking for the youths also working towards sustainable environmental initiatives.

Hadeer Ahmed Ghareeb  
Clinical research associate
Dubai
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Hadeer Ghareeb's an Egyptian young woman currently living in UAE, that chose a different path, and decided to go wherever it takes to pursue her multiple passion. She is a clinical research associate, Game designer and social entrepreneur. She has an initiative named "Trash Into Toys" where she teaches kids how to make their dream toys out of trash.

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Mani Padmanabhan  
CFO
Hyderabad, India
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A multipotentialite in Finance - a specialist in all domains...Finance and people leader across all kinds of entities and managing people of great heterogeneity. Author of 'Decoding Risk Management - an introduction. CFO service provider, Faculty in B Schools, Advisor and Mentor'

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