the derick who takes the stage
We change the world by changing the mind.
I talk about what I live: marketing for good, fundraising, humanized companies and the courage to realign a life. No stage formula — with story, method and poetry.
UNESCO-SOST · advisory board
I am a member of the advisory board of UNESCO-SOST's sustainability and creativity front (Transcriativa), where I hold the Connection lens: connecting with myself without undoing myself — and connecting people, businesses and territories from there.
Recent stages
ABCR Festival (2025) — Latin America's largest fundraising event, with more than a thousand fundraisers. I spoke about raising donations online and presented the manifesto "The world needs marketing."
EPICENTRO (2025) — in São Lourenço, I told the whole story: from the broken femur to positive chronic mindsets. It is the talk featured on my About page.
And the small stages too, which teach me just as much: seniors' community groups, conversation circles, community gatherings. A stage, to me, is anywhere with people willing to change their minds.
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