Why get on a boat with strangers when you’re an investor?
Finance

Davina MacPhail

Founder & CEONaturally Connected

Why get on a boat with strangers when you’re an investor?

11:15·10 August 2026

Because it gets you out of your normal routine and you can build real trust through shared experience.

Davina MacPhail worked in finance, focusing on positive impact of all sorts. But she was frustrated by the seemingly unbreakable silos the work, the people, the projects were in.

So she moved out and created a concept to foster collaboration, trust, creativity and connection within the impact finance and investment community. And working on the principle that all connection relies to some extent on our most foundational connection – to our planet – Davina built nature into every encounter.

So Naturally Connected started business in 2025.

Find out more and hear tales of whales in my conversation with Davina MacPhail.

Vanessa C. Stone
impact.info journalist
Published on 10 August 2026
Photo credit — Naturally Connected