Natalie Gilson

Balean's founders are engineers, not storytellers. To launch their ocean impact crowdfunding platform, they partnered with Pisces Oceans for narrative strategy, brand identity, and storytelling workshops spanning ten organizations across multiple continents.

Some of the most important work in ocean science happens where almost no one can see it: the seafloor. The BEcoME Project (Benthic Ecosystem Mapping & Engagement) was built to change that. Led by Dr. Katleen Robert at Memorial University and Dr. Craig Brown at Dalhousie University, and funded by the Ocean Frontier Institute through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, BEcoME set out to understand how benthic habitat shapes shifting species and biodiversity patterns in a changing ocean...

Pisces Oceans Co-CEOs Natalie Gilson and Melissa Weber share five hard-won lessons from their first year leading as equal partners. From redefining leadership for today's complexity, to using shared decision-making as a burnout antidote, to leading with ocean-focused purpose over profit, this is an honest reflection on what women-led, collaborative leadership looks like in practice. Built for the challenges of now, not the structures of the past.